Mad Hatter Restaurant

11/07/2024

Any of you remember our iconic stained glass windows? An amazing local artist, Dori Novak, recently recreated the windows as art prints for us. They are beautiful! 🤩 We plan to have them hanging up in the future home of the Mad Hatter. You can purchase your own prints on her website at
https://dorinovak.com/artwork/alice-in-wonderland/

https://dorinovak.com/artwork/white-rabbit/

07/04/2024

Mad Hatter and the Island Cow showed showed up to the Sanibel 4th of July parade!
Today we made more great memories with this amazing community! 🇺🇸

04/19/2024

Our new friends over at Tarpon Tale Inn got some great shots of our dishes at Wickies! We have brought several of the Mad Hatter signature dishes to our Wickies menu. 🍽️

03/07/2024

We are getting a little closer to opening this gem of a restaurant on the east end! We are really missing our signature Mad Hatter wine glasses right now after seeing our new Sanibel Lighthouse wine glasses we have for Wickies. 😍🍷

✨ Our Sanibel Lighthouse wine glasses have arrived! Getting closer to opening 🤗 and we cannot wait! 🍷

09/13/2023

We are very excited about this endeavor with Island Cow! While we wait for the new location of the Mad Hatter, we hope you come visit us at Wickies Lighthouse Restaurant and the Magic Bus Ice Cream!
We are also needing to make room for some new inventory, so we are having a 35% off sale on Mad Hatter apparel on our website.

https://www.strandedatsea.com/madhatterapparel.html

Promo code: MADHATTER35

provided to The Santiva Chronicle Foodies on Sanibel will soon have a couple of new establishments to check out thanks to a partnership formed between the owners of the iconic Island Cow and Mad Ha…

12/24/2022

As we reminisce of last year’s “Mad as a Hatter” Christmas tree, we want to wish you all a Merry Christmas and wonderful new year! 🍾 🥂

📸: Taken from our amazing host, Bobby, last year who decorated the masterpiece of a tree himself. 🎄

12/03/2022

We are missing each and every one of you!

Thank you to all of you that have sent us Alice in Wonderland gifts to display in the future Mad Hatter. We are saving every card and special note that you send along with them. 🥰

Thank you to those who have placed t-shirt orders to support us. We love reading your special notes you write along with your order. Our screen printer has finally caught up with orders and is ready for more!

Thank you for your Facebook messages and the pictures of your memories. Our heart aches that our beloved restaurant is gone, but we are looking forward to a bigger and brighter future. Opening at the original location isn’t looking promising, but we will return to Sanibel Island. We can’t imagine Sanibel without The Mad Hatter and are determined to reopen. We will keep you all posted on our future plans. Until then, from our family to yours, Happy Holidays! 🎩

📸: Taken of our family in April of 2021 after we purchased The Mad Hatter that January.

🎁: Mad Hatter shirts can be purchased only at https://www.strandedatsea.com/madhatterapparel.html

11/11/2022

Tonight was such a great turnout supporting our staff! Our raffle ticket winner won $861!

We are also so grateful for Bucketts Wings & More in Ft Myers for donating 10% of all food and drink sales to our staff!

11/07/2022

We are only a few days away from our staff benefit night! We will also be selling raffle tickets from 5:30-7:30pm for $5 each. 🎟 Winner gets 50% of the raffle pot and the rest will go to the staff! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 If you can’t attend, but would like to purchase raffle tickets, please message us for details.

10/31/2022

Join us Thursday, November 10th, at Bucketts Wings & More in Ft Myers for a Mad Hatter staff benefit night! 10% of proceeds will be donated to the employees of The Mad Hatter. We will also be doing a 50/50 raffle drawing. We look forward to seeing you there! 🎩

We are extremely grateful for the generosity of this local business to help the restaurants of Sanibel, Captiva and Ft Myers Beach that were effected from hurricane Ian. 🥰

http://www.buckettswingsandmore.com/

10/21/2022

Our amazing servers, Britt and Katie, went out to Sanibel today to visit the restaurant. They were able to salvage some more beloved pieces! Thank you everyone for all your kind messages. We also appreciate the special packages of Alice in Wonderland decor for the future Mad Hatter. 😍 We also want to thank everyone who has supported our gofundme and ordered our Mad Hatter shirts! Your love and generosity is keeping us going through this tough time! 🥰🎩

https://www.strandedatsea.com/madhatterapparel.html

https://www.gofundme.com/f/5mq9b-mad-hatter

10/06/2022

Today we visited the Mad Hatter. 😔 As I stared at the rubble I just still couldn’t believe what I was seeing. Wine bottles everywhere! Let me rephrase that… GOOD wine was everywhere! I noticed that there was one painting of the Mad Hatter that was still in tact. I was able to pull it out and prop it up. Unfortunately, coming by boat today, we could not take it with us. Hopefully, it will find a home for now and make its way back when the new Hatter is up and going. This is all still so unreal.