There's a reason why thousands of people visit Dorset Minnesota each year. The decor of "The Restaurant Capital of the World" is small-town friendly, streets are lined with boardwalks, casual porch swings and flower baskets. The shops are filled with special items, from artistically-crafted pottery and lamps to unique decor and antiques, that turn houses into homes. Whether in a casual or slightly formal setting, the restaurants serve the perfect meal around tables of happy friends and families that makes the trip to Dorset a must-do event.

Have 'A Taste of Dorset'

Be sure to attend the annual 'A Taste of Dorset' which is held the first Sunday of August. Walk the main street of Dorset for all kinds of food, entertainment, games and socializing in a town square-like atmosphere. Food is served from 11:00 AM until 3:00 PM. Shuttle rides available on Hwy. 226. See you there

All Roads lead to Dorset !!!

Bruce Wizik donates a defibrillator to Dorset. An amazing person who has needed the device and lived to tell us about it.  Located at the Dorset General Store in the summer season and at the Church in the winter.  The AED was presented to the Dorset Business Association May of 2012.  THANK YOU BRUCE !!!

Join Companeros, Sister Wolf Books or Dorset General Store and show the world you are a 'friend'

DORSET MAYOR 2011/2012

Kari Anderson

All it took was one lucky ballot for 20-year-old Kari
 Anderson to become the mayor of Dorset last summer. And that
 ballot was one of the first to be cast in the annual
 election.
 When Kari and mother Rhonda went to Companeros shortly
 after the 2010 election, “my mom told me that I should
 vote for myself for the next year's Taste because it was my
 birthday and would be good luck," she said.
 During the summer her mom cast a few more ballots in
 Kari’s name, but at Taste of Dorset “when my name was
 drawn, it was written in my handwriting,” she said.
 “I had only voted for myself that one time, so it was my
 lucky birthday ballot that won me the office.”
 While the mayor’s title has not brought her much fame,
 Kari, who works summers at Companeros and is a student at
 Minnesota State University-Moorhead the rest of the year,
 the office “definitely makes it easier for my professors
 and classmates to remember who I am,” she said.
 “I'm hoping that it will make me look good when I try to
 get a job someday.”
 During her one year term that will be over this summer she
 hasn’t made any big proclamations, “but there have been
 talks about building the Vikings a new stadium within the
 city limits, so we may have to expand our parking
 slightly.”
 As mayor she received a fistful of gift certificates
 redeemable at Dorset businesses, but she’s had time to
 only to have her photo taken at Professor Nils.
 . “I didn't get a raise, but the gift certificate I got
 for Companeros is kind of like a bonus,” she said.
 Kari, who lives on Potato Lake, is a Spanish Education
 major and will going to Spain to study abroad in Valencia
 until July, so she won’t be around Dorset much this summer
 to perform any mayoral duties, whatever they may be, but
 she’s enjoyed the title while she can.
 “I've got my key to the city hanging on my wall at my
 house in Moorhead, so when people don't believe me that I'm
 the mayor I have proof,” she said.
 “It's always fun to run into people who know where Dorset
 is because I usually get a pretty funny reaction when I tell
 them that I'm the mayor.”
 And that funny reaction is what it should be, because,
 after all, the Dorset’s mayor office is just one big joke.
 So vote early, or late, on your birthday, or not, for an
 office that’s all about luck.
 

 

Dorset Selects Mayor !!!!

The whole work force from Dorset 2009  Not too bad from a town with the population of 22.  Visit us soon ! It's amazing that the extended family of employees is greater than the population.

Contact individual businesses on the Businesses of Dorset page.