It’s being dubbed the Main Street shuffle.

The Dunedin Smokehouse reopens today after taking the past four days to move onto the main drag downtown, snugly between the Living Room and Flanagan’s Irish Pub, formerly where the Angry Pirate once lived.

“Some people will find us that never knew we were there before,” owner René Johnson said of the Smokehouse's new 471 Main Street location.

Between August 2009 and April 2011 (less than two years), the Johnsons opened and moved two family restaurants out of 680 Main St, where Main Street and Skinner Boulevard meet at the eastern edge of the downtown business sector.

“It’s a sentimental thing to move from there,” owner René Johnson said. “But the timing was right.”

Johnson and her husband John originally opened The Living Room at 680 Main St in August 2009 and moved to their current downtown location at 487 Main St in September 2010. Two months later in November 2010, daughter Sarah Johnson opened the popular barbecue sports bar at Mom and Dad’s original Main Street nook.

Then sometime in January 2011, René Johnson noticed a vacancy at the former Angry Pirate. She said she was disappointed to see the business leave.

“It made the whole corner bright and active,” she said.

She waited three months before mentioning to her family the possibility of moving into the Angry Pirate (“We’d just opened the Smokehouse,” she explained.).

So, within 28 days and with a lot of help, Sarah Johnson and her team — led by Front House Manager Melissa DePaul, Executive Chef Tony Bruno and Pit Master Rick Knapik — moved forward — or, right next door, at 471 Main St.

Sarah Johnson said people have always commented on how quickly they’re able to move. Normally, she can say it's all with the help of her father.

“We’ve always really enjoyed having our dad here,” Sarah Johnson said. However, this time, John Johnson was out of town on business. Dan Mohr, of Serendipity Café stepped in to help.

“He’s was like my surrogate dad during this time,” she said. “We couldn’t have done it without him. ... We call him ‘Handy Dan.’”

So what’s the plan for the old space?

René Johnson said she has no plans to open a business there, but that the location has garnered much interest. She said the new business would compliment downtown Dunedin businesses and that based on the interest, "[It will be] a place I’d like to go.” She expects a more solid idea within the next few weeks.

Features you’ll notice at the new location:

• Three flatscreens televisions, visible from almost any vantage point, and two smaller ones behind the bar,
• A much larger bar area,
• Ability for indoor entertainment,
• Family-style dining options (for parties of six or more),
• Cornhole,
• Almost 50 percent more indoor seating,
• Larger patio space, and
• New menu specials.

Want to go?

The restaurant opens at its regular time (11 a.m.). Wendy Barmore provides music starting at 7 p.m.

New weekly specials:

• Monday: "Recession Mondays" $7 combos (Pabst Blue Ribbon, pulled pork and a Twinkie)
• Tuesday: Two-Dollar Tuesdays ($2 sliders, $2 Pabst Blue Ribbon and $2 wings — set of four)
• Wednesday: Trivia Night with drink specials
• Thursday: Reggae and Rum Night with rum specials and a reggae band
• Friday and Saturday: Live entertainment