Dreamer Coffee now open in old Dolle’s Boardwalk spot
For the first time in about 100 years, there’s a business operating on the northeast corner of Rehoboth Avenue and the Boardwalk in Rehoboth Beach that’s not selling candy – Dreamer Coffee and Juice Bar.
Owner Adile Akgoren opened the original Dreamer in 2015 at 32 Rehoboth Ave., on the opposite side of the Bandstand from the new location. The new store is located in the former Dolle’s Candyland business that had anchored that spot on the Boardwalk since 1927 before closing in late 2020, then moving up the street in 2021.
Akgoren took over the space soon after the candy store moved. The expectation was to open last year, but it never came to fruition. The menu hanging outside includes smoothies, acai bowls, overnite oats, iced drinks, fresh-made lemonades, bubble teas, matcha teas, popping boba, hot drinks, cookies, muffins, croissants and more.
Akgoren also owns Adeline New York, which is located a little farther west on Rehoboth Avenue in First Street Station.
For more information on Dreamer Coffee and Juice Bar, go to dreamermiami.com. The phone number for the original Rehoboth location, 32 Rehoboth Ave., is 302-567-5513. The business is open 8 a.m. to 10 p.m., daily.
Chris Flood has been working for the Cape Gazette since early 2014. He currently covers Rehoboth Beach and Henlopen Acres, but has also covered Dewey Beach and the state government. He covers environmental stories, business stories and random stories on subjects he finds interesting, and he also writes a column called Choppin’ Wood that runs every other week. Additionally, Flood moonlights as the company’s circulation manager, which primarily means fixing boxes that are jammed with coins during daylight hours, but sometimes means delivering papers in the middle of the night. He’s a graduate of the University of Maine and the Landing School of Boat Building & Design.
