Art Smart Coffee and Gallery

Art Smart Coffee and Gallery combines two things under one roof on Bayshore Boulevard in Dunedin: a working coffee bar and a display space for fine art. The business is best known locally for its coffee program specifically, having been recognized as serving the best iced coffee in Tampa Bay in a Tampa Bay Magazine reader poll, a specific, sourced claim rather than a general marketing statement. Whether the art gallery side or the coffee side is the larger driver of the business day to day is not entirely clear from available sources, but the shop’s own branding puts both in its name and treats them as a paired identity rather than a coffee shop that happens to hang some art on the wall as decoration.

Its hours run Wednesday through Sunday, 10 in the morning to 5 in the afternoon, with the shop closed Monday and Tuesday, a schedule more typical of a boutique cafe or gallery than a standard daily coffee shop that would usually stay open seven days a week to catch commuter traffic. That closed schedule on the first two weekdays suggests a business built around weekend and midweek leisure visitors, tourists exploring the Bayshore corridor, and regulars rather than a high volume commuter cafe.

Bayshore Boulevard runs along Dunedin’s western edge close to the Gulf, a stretch of the city that mixes residential streets with small commercial pockets, somewhat removed from the denser downtown gallery cluster along Main Street and Broadway. That location gives Art Smart a slightly different customer base than the downtown galleries, likely drawing more from nearby residents and beach bound visitors passing along Bayshore than from the concentrated foot traffic of the Main Street shopping district.

Because the business pairs food and beverage service with art display, it sits in a slightly different spot than a pure gallery when it comes to categorization, and specific detail about which artists are shown, how the art rotates, or whether pieces are for sale was not independently confirmed through available sources. What is documented is the coffee recognition, the specific address and hours, and its consistent listing as an art gallery business in local directories, which together support treating it as a genuine combination coffee and gallery space rather than either a pure cafe or a pure gallery.

For visitors interested in Dunedin’s independent coffee scene as much as its art scene, Art Smart offers a way to take in both in one stop, and its off peak weekday closures make Wednesday through Sunday the reliable window for a visit.