If all goes according to plan, Sanibel Island will be welcoming two new restaurants in November. Brian and Elke Podlasek, owners of The Island Cow, and The Mad Hatter owners Max and Bridget Kolshak ...

A recent drive from the east end of Sanibel Island to Andy Rosse Lane on Captiva found 30 restaurants welcoming guests and serving up new and old favorites. From iconic waterfront eateries to ice ...

Trasi Sharp is in constant motion shortly before her restaurant's 2 p.m. closing on a recent Thursday. She greets customers one minute, then dashes off toward the kitchen. Returning moments later, she ...

From dog sledding on a frozen lake in Ely, Minnesota, to sitting on a beach in Sanibel, Florida — one extreme to the other — that was me within six days in mid-March. My family has been going to ...

The historic Casa Ybel Resort on Sanibel recently reopened to guests — along with its beachfront Thistle Lodge restaurant — for the first time since Hurricane Ian forced its closure in September 2022.

Restaurants on Fort Myers Beach and Sanibel, open for years and intertwined with everyday people, disappeared under a catastrophic storm surge as Hurricane Ian tore through the area exactly 18 months ...

Waaaaaay before the existence of Airbnb and VRBO, Sanibel's Sundial Beach Resort & Spa was one of the early destinations to offer rental condos as a place to escape instead of the traditional hotel ...