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ghcharters · Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2010 12:51 pm Post subject: Is Biddles Bucket gone??

We drove by there yesterday and they appear to be closed and the sign is gone! Any idea what's happening?

CTinCT · Joined: 06 Nov 2004 Posts: 1174 Location: CT and Sanibel

Yup, heard they were forced out (some kind of dispute with the Bailey family, dating back to Hurricane Charley). It's a real shame - Andy and Brenda are such nice folks.

stefne65 · Joined: 01 Jul 2005 Posts: 518 Location: Illinois

why can't anyone seem to stay there very long? Crying or Very sad

CShells · Joined: 26 Nov 2009 Posts: 18 Location: SW sub. of Chicago

I'm sorry to hear that, we were there last Nov. and it seemed busy. I loved their Frogmore Stew. OK somebody has to put the Stew on their menu.

Sandilicious · Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2010 11:48 am Post subject:

That's sad! I heard it was a fun place and had great food. Sad

luvSanibel · Joined: 11 Apr 2009 Posts: 64 Location: Sanibel Island

it was our neighborhood's fav place for happy hour ~ still have a few wooden nickles left.

tracj007 · Joined: 19 Feb 2009 Posts: 158 Location: Virginia

When I went in December it looked liked it was closed everytime we went by it and I wanted to take the kids their. So when we went for Spring Break, we went into the parking lot and it's obviously closed. We saw a dumpster with some guys throwing stuff in it from the inside the building. Hubby and I guessed that they were remodeling it. I had no idea that they are gone...gone....that's a real bummer. We were looking forward to trying the place out.

Does anyone know if they will reopen somewhere else on the island maybe or did they just throw in the towel all together?

luvSanibel · Joined: 11 Apr 2009 Posts: 64 Location: Sanibel Island

a new restaurant will be opening there very soon

o2binsanibel · Joined: 24 Oct 2005 Posts: 135 Location: Poquoson, VA

Biddles Bucket had become one of our favorites, they had GREAT Crunchy Grouper sandwiches and platters and they were great to visit, very friendly and homey....if you know what I mean!!

They were somewhat different than the rest...offered new and different things...very resonably priced too!

They will be missed! Confused

If you hear of them opening up somewhere else post it so we can go there!!

ChiTownHustle · Joined: 26 Feb 2010 Posts: 10

My fiancee and I were bummed when we read this post about Biddles being closed. Last year we had SO much fun there. It was a great place to have some drinks, enjoy good food (we mostly had bar food but it was very very good). One night we went in and the crowd was not too big with maybe 5 other customers, a singer on stage, and the staff. We had such a great time as a group that somehow the idea came out that we needed something to remember the night. The result: we bought a Biddles shirt and the customers and staff all wrote something fun on it. Still have the shirt and glad I do, now. Still have some of those wooden nickels too...lol. Such a fun, cozy place. Will be missed.

Kim · Posted: Fri Apr 16, 2010 6:14 pm Post subject:

Scott H · Posted: Sun Apr 18, 2010 10:02 pm Post subject:

Colleen · Joined: 03 Dec 2004 Posts: 25 Location: St. Paul

It was "Coconut Grove" several years ago! That building has had so many incarnations. BTW, I'm trying to remember what was in Doc Ford's location before it became Doc's? The Timbers was there several years ago, but then what was it?

CTinCT · Joined: 06 Nov 2004 Posts: 1174 Location: CT and Sanibel

Answer is on page 1 in this great four page thread:
http://forum.bestofsanibelcaptiva.com/viewtopic.php?t=4331

luvSanibel · Joined: 11 Apr 2009 Posts: 64 Location: Sanibel Island

Wisconsin Scout · Joined: 18 Dec 2007 Posts: 78 Location: Wisconsin

We never ate at Biddle's Bucket, but that's probably because we had such bad experiences at the previous renditions of restaurants on that spot. I had some of the worst corned beef on a St. Pat's Day that I could ever imagine there ... and that was when it was the Seafood Factory. That was the last time we went there.

It'd be nice if a decent place would function there. Sounds like there is that possibility.

I looked back at the thread provided by the link and was pleased to see mention of Timmy's Nook. That place was so cool. As I recall, the restrooms had a curtain ... and that was maybe about it ... but the sandwiches were great and they had absolutely the best key lime pie. Captiva was much more rustic then--and that was in the early 90s. I'd love to have seen it in the 60s, 70s, 80s.

The Green Flash is nowhere near what Timmy's was. His really was a hole in the wall, but so cool. I heard back then he sold his hold in the wall for over a million ... but then, you hear a lot on a small island.

Does anyone remember when there was a Mucky Duck on Ft. Myers Beach? We used to stay at the Pink Shell back when it was the kind of place we liked (no water parks, etc.) ... and there was, in fact, a Mucky on FMB. I think Victor was there, too.

I will never forget our very first meal in Lee County. It was at Snug Harbor ... back in about 1990. We thought that was just the coolest place in the world.

Ah ... memories ...

luvSanibel · Joined: 11 Apr 2009 Posts: 64 Location: Sanibel Island

Scout ~ bad news about Snug Harbor ... it is gone also.

James · Posted: Thu Apr 22, 2010 3:04 pm Post subject:

Doc Ford's was the Island House. I am probably one of the few people that liked it better then.

sandcastles · Joined: 12 Dec 2004 Posts: 51 Location: Indiana

Wasn't it also a Comedy Club for a while before the Island House?

Kim · Posted: Fri Apr 23, 2010 3:59 am Post subject:

Scott H · Posted: Tue May 18, 2010 8:33 pm Post subject: