Downtown+ Dunedin. Two merchants from Edinburgh showed up in 1885, renamed the settlement after their hometown (Gaelic for "fort on the hill"), and 140 years later the Scottish identity still runs the place. The Highland Games have been going for 57 years. The Blue Jays have trained here since 1977. And downtown still keeps corporate signage out by city policy.
The livestock ban from 1899 is also still on the books. Dunedin was incorporated specifically to stop pigs from running through town. They solved the pig problem. They kept everything else.
What is Downtown+?
Dunedin's local businesses post their own listings here. Menus, hours, specials, events. Not scraped from review sites. Not pulled from some aggregator that last updated six months ago.
The Scottish pub on Main Street? Their hours are current because they set them. The cafe on the Pinellas Trail that closes early some weekdays? That's in here too. If you've ever driven across town for a restaurant that turned out to be closed, this fixes that.
What's Here
Dunedin has too many good restaurants in too small an area for anyone to keep track. The same goes for the shops, the events, the seasonal specials. Here's how it's organized.
Business Profiles. The Scottish pubs, the trail cafes, the waterfront seafood spots, the boutiques on Main Street. Who runs them, what they serve, whether they're open right now.
Events. Highland Games, Blue Jays spring training, the weekly farmers market, Burns Night suppers in January. Posted by the people organizing them.
Deals. Game-day specials during spring training. Trail rider discounts. Highland Games weekend promotions. The kind of offers you'd normally hear about because your neighbor works at the brewery.
News. Community updates from the businesses and organizations that operate here.
Products. Buy from Dunedin shops online. Shipping, pickup, or digital.
Restaurant Roulette. Can't decide between the scotch egg at the pub or grouper at the marina? Tell us what sounds good. We'll pick.
The Short Version
Most Florida towns are interchangeable. Strip malls, chain restaurants, the same five franchises in every plaza. Dunedin went the other direction on purpose. The city banned commercial signage downtown and never reversed it.
What that created, over decades, is a Main Street where every business is locally owned and the Gulf is visible from one end. The Pinellas Trail cuts through the middle. Cyclists treat it like a highway between restaurants. One side of Main has a pub pouring single malts. The other side has the water. No corporate logos in between.
Fifty-seven years of Highland Games. A ballpark close enough to walk to from dinner. A trail that connects you to communities across Pinellas County without starting a car.
That's what's here. This is how you find it.
Start Here
Looking around?
- Browse Dunedin businesses and professionals
- Check what's coming up. Baseball to bagpipes
- See current deals
- Read community news
Own a business?
- Create a free profile and show up where your customers are already looking
- Post events, run promotions, talk to your community directly