Best Restaurants: What Dunedin is Saying

Dunedin has lots of great places for dining! Here's the places Dunedin residents are saying are their favorites.

With so many guests in town for Spring Training and a break from the northern winter, we asked Dunedin Patch Facebook fans, which restaurants are their favorites in town. Here's what they told us: Do you agree with these picks Dunedin? Share some love for your favorites by leaving a complimentary review in the Dunedin Patch dining directory and help them get even more customers! Subscribe to the Dunedin Patch newsletter to have local news delivered to your email each day. Sign up here.

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Meet the Moms & Pops

For New Owners of Dunedin Smokehouse, Living Room, Opportunity Knocked Twice

Philip and Tammy Renaud are the new proprietors of both the Dunedin Smokehouse and The Living Room in downtown Dunedin.

Opportunity knocked twice for Philip Renaud and wife Tammy. The couple recently acquired The Living Room and The Dunedin Smokehouse restaurants on Main Street in downtown Dunedin. Renaud has worked for the last 12 years in the Boston area as a wine consultant and restaurant designer specializing in custom wine cellars. He said a few years ago he and his wife started looking to acquire their own restaurant. The couple's dream was to find "a small place near the water on Florida’s west coast," where he could feature some of his special recipes and share his love of good wine. The couple started their search along the Sunshine State’s Gulf coast, looking at places from Clearwater to Fort Myers. Fate had bigger ideas. In October, he was able …

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Best Happy Hour: Vote For Your Favorite!

Who do you think has the best happy hour in town? Vote in our poll!

Summer is here, and everybody's looking for something new to do. What better time to revisit the best local hot spots in Dunedin? Until July 8, we collected nominations for Readers' Choice 2012 in 25 categories, from who has the best happy hour in town to which zoo is the best in the Tampa Bay area. Voting begins July 23 and runs until 11:59 p.m. on Aug. 17. The following poll comes from nominations made by Dunedin Patch users and a few of our suggestions, which include: Don't forget to vote for your other favorites in the other 24 categories!

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Spoto’s Shines a Spotlight on New Electronic Menus

The upscale steak joint recently added illuminated menus at its Main Street location.

You left your glasses at home and now in the dim lighting of the restaurant, you can't read the menu. Well, Jimmy Stewart, owner of Jimmy’s Spoto’s The Steak Joint, has come up with an innovative solution. He recently added 100 electronically illuminated menus at his Main Street establishment.  “People open them up and go, 'Wow. I can read them without my glasses.' Or they wait for their dinner partner to open them so they can watch the expression on their face,” he said.  The menus cost roughly $65 apiece and take about an hour to charge completely.  Stewart received his shipment of 100 units about a month ago, and he says he hasn’t regretted the decision, despite the potential pitfalls of giving expensive electronic equipment to his …

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