Candy Heaven

This place is kinda hard to miss primarily because they have an employee patrolling outside handing out free sample coupons.
Once lured in you can get a said free sample from any one the dozens and dozens of bulk candy barrels.
You’ll probably wind up getting more for yourself or as a gift however.
It’s easier to run up a bill without intending to-​just because it’s sold in bulk, doesn’t mean it’s as cheap as you might expect.
Regardless, there’s a lot you can do here, especially with themed bags. Picking out a sll shark theme candy bag was kinda awesome.
There have some old timey items such as rock candy, horehounds etc. but the focus isn’t just on nostalgia. They have novelty items like chocolate covered crickets (I hope that’s a novelty item anyway) and giant jawbreakers. Literally there’s something for everyone.
Not too shabby a place to have fun in.

I loved this little candy shop the checker was fabulous and reminded me of willy wonca, he enjoied his job you can tell. I loved he gave my little girl a candy necklace complementary. Everything I picked from this store was good candy. All the staff was helpful and fun. You got a free sample of your choice they stock body breakers which is aweaome. They had a gourmet chocolate case and had fudge and toffee in every flavor totally recommend this place to anyone who wants to stock up on candy or loves sweets.

If you like sweets you have to stop by this store in Old Sac! I went into the store expecting to buy a handful of candy for my sons, but I ended up seeing so many unique candies I’ve never seen anywhere else that I bought quite a bit just for me. I love wacky sour candies and this place had so many I couldn’t possibly buy them all. I kept loading candies into my bucket until the bottom was covered. I was sure I was going to end up spending 30 dollars, but it was only 12! I was so pleased. I’ll stop there again anytime.
The Zotz were fantastic and so sour, as were the Toxic Waste brand sour candies. I got an Icee lick and dip lollipop for one of my sons, it came with sour powder for dipping, he loved it.
I saw 5 or 6 different Pez dispensers I wanted to buy but I had to stop loading up my candy bucket. OH! They had all sorts of Claeys hard candy and they are the most flavorful hard candies I’ve ever had. I would go back to this store just to buy all the Claeys flavors.

Man, my sweet tooth was satisfied. I was craving licorice, and they had so many too choose from. They also had taffy and a huge selection of candy tat I haven’t seen since I was a kid. A must stop before heading home.

Let’s face it, some of us secretly desire to put aside the food pyramid or the 5 food groups and throw our diets to the wind for at least an hour or so! That’s how I felt the moment I walked into this shop! Life CAN be sweet (literally) when you enter Candy Heaven!
This place has anything and everything that has sugar in it’s ingredients. But if you want sugarless, they have that too! So many candies, so little time! Any candy you can think of, or crave, can most likely be found at this store from every fruit flavor, to chocolates, to caramels, to taffy, to truffles, gummies, hard & soft candies, even old brands from my childhood that I thought no longer existed. They also carry gifts and souvenirs to go with your selections.
As I walked around the aisles of temptation, I couldn’t help but be impressed that there was a whole section devoted to every flavor of saltwater taffy imaginable! Then, there is the Jelly Belly section, and oh yeah… the wall of Pez! They even allow sampling as long as you make a request and you stay within the shop!
If you are a sweet-​a-​holic like I am, then resistance will be futile! There is nothing sweeter than visiting Candy Heaven!

A friend and I were discussing things that Sacramento is known for, and he happened to mention saltwater taffy. I had never known that Sacramento was known for saltwater taffy, and I am still wondering where all this salt water is supposedly coming from, but just a few hours after this conversation, I found myself in Old Sac standing outside Candy Heaven.
Naturally, I had to go in and check out the saltwater taffy.
As soon as we entered, we were told by someone standing just inside the door that we were allowed to sample two candies from any of the barrels labeled with blue tags. This was very exciting, but Roommate and I were also not exactly sure how to proceed. «What? For real? We can just take the candy and eat it and no one will get mad at us?» This went against everything that I was ever told when I was a child hanging out in the candy aisle of supermarkets. Roommate and I were so unsure that we went to ask another sales rep if it was ok to just take the candy and eat it. He very nonchalantly said, «Yea. Anything from the blue barrels. You guys are good.»
Being curious about the taffy, Roommate and I headed over to that section. There are literally barrels upon barrels of different flavors of taffy in one corner of the store and almost all of them are available for you to try (save for the sugar free flavors, but that just takes all the fun out of it, now doesn’t it?). Roommate and I were good and only tried the allotted two pieces of taffy, but really, who would have policed us if we were to try a few more? The piña colada taffy and orange crème flavors were delicious. Apricot was so-​so, and Roommate said she really did not like the cherry cola flavor at first because it tasted like it had a plastic coating.
When we were there, there was also someone near the register offering chocolate cricket samples to anyone who dared. It made for a lively atmosphere with people shrieking and laughing as they sampled.
tl;dr: A charming little candy shop in Old Sac, filled to the brim with brightly colored candies, and home to some apparently famous Sactown saltwater taffy.

I died from a sugar comma and ended up here on Candy Heaven. May I overindulge myself with the Salt Water Taffies please?! Brian, Alliver, and I decided to make a trip to Candy Heaven when a couple of the sales associates handed us sampling tickets for the salt-​water taffies.
Location:
The candy shop is next door to Laughs Unlimited. It shouldn’t be difficult to spot since it’s right around the corner the moment after you cross the yellow bridge in Old Sacramento. Parking can be a pain in the butt since you have to pay $ 1.50 every hour spent parking over there. However, the aroma of candy wonderland is welcoming and enticing.
Candy Selections:
Candy Heaven’s strongest asset is the Salt Water Taffy. It’s super cool how they let you sample a piece or two before binge buying a whole bunch of them. My favorite ones were the Chicken and Waffle and Maple Bacon salt water taffies. (I know sounds gross right?) The flavor might be intimidating because of the name but I promise you it tastes awesome! Both of those taffies were sweet as honey at the beginning then it had salty kick-​ass aftertaste. However if you want something on the fruity side, I suggest trying the tropical punch or passion fruit flavored taffy.
Nevertheless, they have a lot of the generic candy brands you can find at your local convenient store. There isn’t that much selection in chocolate and fudge, but the options are pretty endless with their taffies.
Customer Service:
«Have a sweet day» is the motto once you walk out of the store, but «sweet» customer service… I didn’t get much of that. What this business needs to work on is being more explicit with their sampling directions and holding potential customers accountable. When you tell customers, «take a sample or two» that’s an opportunity for others to take advantage of the sampling system. Have an associate keeping track of the tickets and don’t get mad if someone takes advantage of the system because the communication through paper wasn’t that explicit the first time. On the other hand, the person ringing me up at register was sarcastic as hell. Even though it was funny to play along, some sensitive people might find it offensive.
Overall:
Despite the «mehh» customer service, I wouldn’t mind coming back here and binge buy on more taffies because they’re cheap. :)

Oh my goodness, this place is dangerous. I took one of their buckets and just started filling it.
I spent over $ 20 on candy at this place!
It was worth it. I’ve been on a sugar high for three days, LOL.

A two year old child was dictating today’s activities, so we passed this little shop and the kid, John Albert, came to a screeching halt in his tiny bedazzled light up sneakers. I believe the clouds parted and angels came out to sing, because the look on his face!!! Anyway, we let him have a few minutes to ooh and aah but before we stepped in, we said DO NOT TOUCH ANYTHING and gave him that stern look that babies just laugh at.
Anyway, his mother and I broke down and got a little bucket of goodies. I went for my favorites, orange flavored soft gummy things that probably cause cancer while the kiddo was all over anything that looked like chocolate.

Candy Heaven it is! This place is so amazing. To see all these barriers full of all kinds of candy is a trip. Talking bout a kid in a candy store. Well here you have just that. I also think its neat how they get the people in their store. They have people walking around giving out a piece of paper for free candy to any and everyone. And that gets the people in the store. (FREE)Well thats what got us in here. Lol
Well let me say this, God forbid if you have a sweet tooth. This place has sooo much candy its unbelievable! There was this one guy, I think he was getting some of every kind of candy there was in here. His bag was so full after he paid. And let me not forget to mention they have this whole chocolate section. Whoa lord, somebody help me. I got me some different kind of candy that I’ve never had before. It was soft and chewy in lemon or pineapple favor. Their called Pizazz Juicy Jellies. But they come in other favors as well. I like them a lot. They just melt in your mouth. Love, Love, Love them.
And I loved that store. Its located at the end of Old Sac on front street across from Joe’s Crab Shack, the little school house and Hornblowers loading dock.
Candy Heaven is just that, the store was crowded with people and the staff is cool and they all say «have a sweet day». I think that’s cute. I know the children love this store, they were so happy in here, running around asking for candy. Wonderful fun day here.

This is a candy lovers paradise. I’ll be quick and honest one this one. I never bought anything but I did try their free samples and they were amazing. Staff is really friendly!

I love this place. I come here every time I come to Old Sac and bring my friends. It’s located near Joe’s Crab Shack. They have several candy stores in Old Sac, but nothing compares. This place used to give all you can eat samples, but now they limit it down to two, but who’s really counting?! You have to wonder what happened to make they limit the sampling to two. This place has everything from the old classics– taffy, and old trendies such as pop rocks. They also have everything in between. Sour gummies, jelly bellies, cotton candy, bark, lemon drops, cinnamon bears, liquid candy, giant pixie sticks, candy covered sun flower seeds, lip pops, sesame seed candy, chocolate case, pez dispensers in all the trendy designs, lemon heads in those little cardboard boxes, Hello Kitty, Novelty candy to wear and mints, worm and cricket lollypops, real ant and scorpion candy ect.
Don’t forget to look up and see all the creepy clowns. These aren’t your typical circus clowns.
They also hand out samples of chocolate covered crickets.
This is the place to go before dinner.

Every children and adults are feeling the experience at Old Sacramento by taking to this nicest, and the sweetest candy shop ever in this Sacramento’s historic place. It’s called, «Candy Heaven.» Candy Heaven is your «Pure Imagination» candy land shop where you can munch your sweet tooth from domestic and imported candies, chocolates, toffees, and many more!
One of the most good things about Candy Heaven is the free samples! Yep kids, rejoice yourself cause you can try many candies as you want to buy! I haven’t got a chance to try free candies yesterday, so I’ll might be back in the next visits.
For my candies or chocolate choice, I ordered the white chocolate almond bark and black and white chocolate peppermint. So far, these two tasted outstandingly good! The black/​white chocolate peppermint is mesmerizing as I can feel the peppermint pieces through into my mouth! The white chocolate almond also tasted good too! The almonds is crunchy and eatable as well as the smoothness of the white chocolate. A simply delicious treat!
The parking can be harder to park. You can find the parking garage near Old Sacramento and Downtown if you can. Otherwise, you can ride a bike, walk, or using public transportation easier without the hassles.
In the end, Candy Heaven is the most heavenly candy shop in the Sacramento area! As what Willy Wonka mentioned from the 1971 classic movie, «And almost everything you’ll see is eatable, edible. I mean, you can eat almost everything.»

If you know me, you know I love candy, and when I saw a sign that said Candy Heaven in old town Sacramento, I made a bee line for it.
Upon entering I found so much magical candy, but I have been to enough candy stores to not fall head first into the overcharge pit that all stores like this have.
1-​do not buy packaged candy here like zots, gobstoppers, etc., you can get this at Walgreens, Safeway, or AMPM for 70% less than what these places charge.
2-​Do not buy candy that has been prepackaged by the store, this is to make the amount you buy more weighty, therefore you are charged more.
If you follow these rules and walk through there are a ton of candies in the barrels to spend your money on. Taffy, Baby chicostix, hard candy’s licorice, and more.
While there they were offering chocolate covered crickets and I had one, that was fun. They also are really cool about you trying the candy with the blue labels. That was fun.
But to me the sea salt caramels and the pez wall was all I wanted.
I have to give it a 4 only because the pez were really hard to look through just shoved in everywhere, so unless the one you wanted was out front, you weren’t getting it.
I still got 3 and between that and all the other candy I spent $ 50 for two heavy bags of candy.

Walking around Old Town Sacramento, we were offered a free candy sample more than once, so decided to check the store out.
Store is big and they have lots of of interesting taffy flavors: chicken and waffles, strawberry cheesecake, maple bacon… You name it. There were barrels and barrels of each flavor.
They’re generous enough to give you 2 free samples of any of the candies with blue tags, which were quite a lot.
They have a Creepy clown and dolls inside the store some kids were scared of. But overall, a fun place to check out and get your sugar fix!

This is an interesting place! There are bins scattered all around the inside as well as a chocolate counter and misc candy treats. They also have a few scary clowns scattered around for comedy relief maybe. We are talking the clown in «IT» by Stephen King. So keep that in mind if your young children are sensitive. I’m sure your kids wont be looking too much farther past the next bin of candy! So they tell you when you go in that you can sample TWO pieces of candy from any blue tagged bin or any taffy flavors. Thats pretty decent & believe me, your kids will be high as a kite when you leave! The employees are all very… er… Interesting and they enjoy teasing you & offering you chocolate dipped crickets! I had one today since its my bday & really, why the heck not?!? Its really not such a big deal. So I would say most people leave the store satisfied, whether you buy something or not!

This place is a guilty pleasure when you walk in, the owner has a witty welcome waiting for you. There are free samples all over the store, and if you ask the owner he will direct you towards interesting and strange candies. First he recommended the atomic waste, while «forgetting» to mention it was a knock off of a warhead lol he got us good. Then offered us chocolate covered crickets! Ah!
As to the store itself, I’ve literally tried to find a candy brand he doesn’t carry… Yet to stump him. It’s always clean, the staff is super friendly, and they always throw extras on top of what you buy if you play along with there games.

This place is crawling with kids. Then again I shouldn’t be surprised seeing that it is a candy store during summer vacation.
I’m not a sweets kind of guy but the ambiance in this store is nice. They allow you to sample certain candies (marked with the blue signs) as well as the taffy. And they were giving away chocolate covered crickets to kids brave enough to try… now that’s a store keeping in touch with its demographic!

This has got to be one of the best candy stores in the history of America. They have everything you could possibly want and all of your childhood favorites as well. Nerds, taffy, giant suckers and jawbreakers that you cant fit in your mouth.
They have a guy outside who gives you a voucher for a free piece of saltwater taffy and usually they tell you to try a few before they take the coupon. The place has the coolest decorations and its brightly colored. I love the old fashioned look and feel of it too.
I always end up leaving this place knowing it will affect my New Years resolution. But it’s well worth it.

A lot of variation of candy, got pop rock candy for $ 1.50 and the cashier give my daughter extra candy.
They have a lot of salt water taffy flavor and you csn sample them in the store.