Now Open: Dunedin Chefs Take Over Breakfast, Brunch at Beso Del Sol

Chefs John Lewis and Debbie Mcgriffin took over breakfast and Sunday brunch services at Beso Del Sol and the Marker 8 Tiki Bar on Friday.

Breakfast and brunch are now served. Dunedin chefs Debbie Mcgriffin and John Lewis opened for breakfast and brunch services at Beso Del Sol Resort and food at Marker 8 Tiki Bar. The culinary duo also said that their new space in the venue room at Beso Del Sol allows them to offer catering for private events, such as wedding receptions, parties or special occassions for up to 100 people. John Lewis reported that they'd be brining back some signature dishes from their former downtown restaurant La Maison Gourmet (once at 471 Main Street, where The Dunedin Smokehouse now serves), as well as introducing some new ones. Breakfast services are Monday through Saturday from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. Sunday brunch is 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. What's on the menu? …

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Good Food, Good Deeds Served All Day at Marguerite's Cafe

Marguerite Allison provides more than a good meal at her Dunedin restaurant and catering business. She serves up heaping helping of support for people rebuilding their lives.

Marguerite Allison is known for her caring, but straight-forward, no-nonsense approach to life. It's become the hallmark of how Allison runs Marguerite’s Cafe & Catering and how she has come to embrace her employees. She seems perfectly equipped for what has become a calling: helping people touched by alcohol or drug addiction to rebuild clean, sober lives. Allison mixes a structured and supportive working environment with a pinch of tough love. It's a combination in which her employees thrive. “It’s not something I advertise, but yes God sends me people,” Allison humbly reveals.  Allison knows from experience that to be successful you have to work hard. The single mother who raised six kids, including three step children and one foster …

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24-Hour Diner Comes to Main Street

Greg Smeader has been in the restaurant business since he was 10 years old, and he believes an all-night diner can succeed in Dunedin.

To say the restaurant business is in Greg Smeader’s blood would be an understatement.  The Michigan native has been working in the industry since he was 10. He's done everything from washing dishes to cooking and baking in his family’s restaurant back home.  When he was 18, he moved to California and opened a pizza company, and after settling in Florida in 1989, he went on to take a job as the food and beverage director for a Las Vegas casino that had five restaurants under its roof. His sister also owns the popular Dunedin breakfast joint Brenda’s on the Causeway. So Smeader knows what he’s talking about when he says a 24-hour diner can succeed in Dunedin, and he hopes his recently opened Our Place Restaurant can fill a void he feels is …

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Vote Best of Dunedin: Favorite Breakfast 'Dive'

Have a favorite spot to grab a bite to eat for breakfast that doesn't require a dress code? Let us know your pick for the best breakfast joint in town.

As your mom used to say, breakfast is the most important meal of the day.  That being said, we got to thinking what some of the best dive breakfast spots in Dunedin are, places a little off the beaten path, where you don't have to put on your Sunday best and use a linen napkin to wipe the egg yolk off your T-shirt. Which breakfast dive spot do you think is best? Here's a rundown of some local favorites. Brenda's on the Causeway. Perhaps the gold standard when it comes to simple yet filling breakfasts in the area, Brenda's has been serving its signature dishes like corned beef hash and blueberry pancakes at affordable prices to causeway visitors for almost 20 years. Dunedin Bagels & Deli. A wise man once said breakfast was built on a bagel…

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1:27 pm on Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Cathy - Ann and Donnie are genius! They buy their seafood in DUNEDIN at Jensen Brothers! They buy local wherever they can!   more ›