From orange crunch to Key lime: Last call to buy The Bubble Room's cakes in Fort Myers

Robyn George, Fort Myers News-Press
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The Bubble Room had been selling its cakes around the back of Broadway Palm Dinner Theatre since January.
The Bubble Room had been selling its cakes around the back of Broadway Palm Dinner Theatre since January.

This weekend is your last chance to buy The Bubble Room’s beloved cakes in Fort Myers.

The Captiva restaurant will be selling eight different cakes and half and whole orders of Bubble Bread from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 16-17, around the back of Broadway Palm Dinner Theatre for the final time.

Generous slices of orange crunch, Key lime, French chocolate torte, Jamaican rum, white Christmas, red velvet, very moist chocolate and tropical breeze will be sold for $10.12 after taxes. Of those flavors, orange crunch — moist yellow cake layered with an almond brown sugar crunch and orange cream cheese icing — is the most popular. Half ($10.65) and whole loaves ($21.30) of Bubble Bread are also available.

The Bubble Room remains closed from damage caused by Hurricane Ian. “That’s coming along slowly but surely,” General Manager Stephen Peach said back in March.
The Bubble Room remains closed from damage caused by Hurricane Ian. “That’s coming along slowly but surely,” General Manager Stephen Peach said back in March.

Although The Bubble Room — an island favorite since 1979 with its bubble lights, old Hollywood posters, jukeboxes, train sets, antiques and more — was still standing after Hurricane Ian tore through the area Sept. 28, 2022, it was heavily damaged and remains closed.

It began selling its cakes at the dinner theater in January.

“The Broadway Palm Dinner Theatre in Fort Myers has been unbelievably gracious in allowing The Bubble Room to use their kitchen facility to bake and sell cake,” the restaurant posted on its Facebook page early this year.

While work has begun on the interior of the restaurant, it looks like it will still be a bit before it reopens.

In the meantime, Boops By The Bubble Room, next door to the restaurant, reopened in March and is selling coffee, breakfast and lunch sandwiches, pastries, ice cream and, of course, those cakes, from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily.

Generous slices of The Bubble Room's red velvet cake are ready to be packaged up at Broadway Palm in Fort Myers on Friday.
Generous slices of The Bubble Room's red velvet cake are ready to be packaged up at Broadway Palm in Fort Myers on Friday.

The Bubble Room Emporium, which sells unique gifts and Bubble Room merchandise from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily, reopened earlier this month.

That leaves The Bubble Room as the last of the property’s three businesses to reopen.

But don’t worry, there are plenty of cakes at Boops.

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Broadway Palm Dinner Theatre is at 1380 Colonial Blvd. in Fort Myers. Pull around to the back from Royal Palm Square Boulevard and follow the signs.

The Bubble Room and Boops by The Bubble Room (239-312-8649) are located at 15001 Captiva Drive, Captiva. Follow them at bubbleroomrestaurant.com or on Facebook. The Bubble Room Emporium (239-472-6545) is located across the street at 15000 Captiva Drive.

Robyn George is a food and dining writer for The Fort Myers News-Press. Send news to rhgeorge@gannett.com.

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