Tuesday
Oyster night
Gulf oysters at $1.50 each from open until they run out, plus $5 Highland mules. It gets loud in the best way.
Tuesdays · 4pm until sold out
Our story
A Dunedin kitchen with a little Scotland in it.
Callum grew up outside Inverness and came to Dunedin for the Highland Games one spring. He stayed for the water, and for Marisol, who had been cooking in kitchens from Ybor to Pass-a-Grille since she was seventeen. They opened Thistle & Tide in the spring of 2019 in an old storefront on Main Street with fifty-eight seats and one rule: if it didn’t come from the Gulf this week, it doesn’t go on the board.
Most mornings Marisol is on the phone with the boats by 6am. What they’re landing decides what we’re cooking. The rest of the menu is the stuff we like to eat on a night off: smoked mullet spread, a cold Cuban-spiced beer, and the sticky toffee pudding Callum’s gran would have approved of.
Callum & Marisol ReidOwners. Usually somewhere between the pass and the patio.
6amCall to the boats in Tarpon Springs and Madeira Beach, every morning we’re open.
DailyThe chalkboard changes with the catch. Some nights the hogfish is gone by 7:30.
58 seatsInside, at the bar and on the patio. Small enough that we remember your order.