Savannah’s Candy Kitchen

This is a great Candy Shop right on River Street in Savannah. They make all sorts of candy homemade in front of you. They offer samples of some of their items so you can try before you buy it. We tried the two samples they were offering the praline and another type of pecan roll. I personally do not like the cons but the praline was warm and absolutely delicious. We bought peanut brittle, caramels, chocolate covered pretzels, and salt water taffy. Everything we tried was very good and the prices were not too bad. Salt water taffy was buy 1 pound get a half pound free which was pretty good and the cost of one pound was about $ 10. I got to each of the milk chocolate salted caramel and dark chocolate salted caramel. Both of them are very good. Chocolate-​covered pretzels were very tasty my son absolutely loved his milk chocolate covered pretzel with sprinkles and I got the dark chocolate. They had just the right amount of salt and were still crunchy. This is a neat store that has three areas to walk through. They also have ice cream for sale that looks wonderful. The smell is absolutely intoxicating in this shop.

Open early and late! We stopped in while waiting on a table for brunch on Sunday morning and started our morning with free praline samples (best start to a Sunday morning ever!) The shop is huge, with multiple rooms serving up taffy (they deliver it throughout the store on a conveyer belt!), gelato, pralines and chocolates of every shape, size and variety. I am a sucker for the pralines, I only get them when I visit either Savannah or Georgia, and they’re all great (is it just me or does every shop boast of having the best! And when they’re hot out of the oven, they all taste the best to me!) On our Valentine’s Day stop we were able to watch them dipping and decorating huge chocolate covered strawberries and of course making the pralines. They also had a variety of enormous candied apples, but that sweet treat I’ll have to save for another visit. Savannah’s Candy Kitchen is a great stop if you want to satisfy your sweet tooth (even if it’s just with a sample!), it’s sure to be busy at all hours but opening from 9:30am-10pm or 11pm every day gives you many an opportunity for a return visit!

Very hospitable and a nice experience. The shop is bigger than it looks. One side has a lot of barrels of candy… especially childhood favorites. If you’re lucky, you get to walk in and watch candy being made right before your eyes. I couldn’t work here, the smell alone is enough to put you into a diabetic coma. Another expensive candy shop. I treated myself to some expensive gumballs, 4 pralines, some fudge, chocolate bark, and some Act fluoride mouthwash when I finished the last morsel.

A throwback to one’s childhood. There is a lot of everything for everyone. Try a sample of original praline and watch out for the falling taffy (bits of heaven!).

This place is excellent for hand made goodies. They have free treats to try and have a lot of variety. Some candys are pricey but worth it. Good place to stop in the downtown area. The staff is very friendly and helpful. Definitely going back.

The free praline samples are why I walk in and out of the place 10 times in an hour just to come by and get some more. The treats are all delicious and fresh. I recommend the pralines or the truffles but the ice cream is my absolute favorite. The peach cream is the best!

Awesome candy apples. It is also fun to browse the other types of candies on offer, they have so many!

I loved everything about this fun, energetic yummy candy house. As you enter the store, candy makers greet you with a free taffy that comes from the taffy machine. Huge assortment of candy, chocolates and other treats. We left with candy apples, chocolate pretzels, and the kids picked out random candy by the pound. Staff was super friendly and think its fun place to explore while visiting Savannah.

This was a very classic place for family and kid to visit. They had a friendly friendly staff and gentleman with big smile and friendly service gave us some free candy samples to try at the entrance on the left (small factory). Our daughter loved this place and we got some chocolates and candy. We definitely recommend to visit this place to anyone who is visiting Savannah!

Love the layout and all the eye candy. oh wait, that’s real candy.
This place is huge and basically divided into 3 sections. Staff, for the most part, is very friendly and nice.
Section at right (skip it) is the regular candy. the stuff you can get at any candy by the pound store anywhere. nothing special about it. Silly me, being obsessed with sour candies, I got some anyway. and it’s disappointing — some didn’t even taste right to me. then again when everyone can stick their hands in there who knows what’s going on. Clearly this area is rarely used because the woman behind the counter just ignored me the whole time anyway and was reading a newspaper or something so she’s not even paying attention in case someone wants to grab a handful to shove in their face. or elsewhere.
The middle section — fresh pralines, fudge, candy apples, chocolate… get yourself some pralines! The pralines melt in your mouth. so good! Lots of gifting goodies too. Watch those pralines be made, and eat a sample too!
The left section. umm clearly saltwater taffy is what’s left! Watch this made by hand also! Pretty amazing how they do this and how they add those color stripes into the taffys to represent different flavors.
When I think of Savannah I think of taffy and pralines. (and foodie good food. and SCAD) so this is a great stop on your way, and a great place to pickup gifts to take home for the loved ones

We received an assortment of candy just before Christmas from this company. There was no card attached therefore we have no idea who sent it.
The candy is gross. The pralines, bear claws and some sort of weird toffee crap were horrible.
Four of my family members tried it separately and none of us could tolerate even one bite. I threw every bit of it in the garbage.
If I knew who sent it I would tell them to get their money back.
I had to give one star in order to post my review. This company does not deserve half of a star.

Oh my god! I am glad I don’t live closer because this candy shop is addictive. The free sample of the praline was still warm and very tasty. The taffy was being pulled and as I was looking at the different kinds the bins started moving and candy dropped from a dispenser over my head to fill it up. It made me do a double take!
I also got some chocolate covered pretzels that looked lovely but my favorite? The caramel and farm chocolate covered Apple. The flavor was incredible!
The cashier was very sweet and offered to cut it up for me once I told her I was in a hotel. That made it so much easier to eat.
The store seems small but actually has so many neat boxes and assortments of goodies along with the fresh candies being made.
They also have fresh chocolate covered strawberries and almost any confection imaginable. Definitely try this place out, you would be disappointed.

It is candy heaven.
We stopped at both locations on River Street and City Market, and the Market store is bigger. Both huge selections of handmade candy and pre-​packaged.
I can’t write much more in my sugar coma…

Candy! Popcorn! Everything that will make me so hyped up for about 3 hours with a sugar rush is in this place! But I must say they have a great selection of candy apples brownies and other goodies and comfort snacks that will keep you coming back for more. Service is great and prices are what you pay for — your favorite snack and lustful sweet snacks.

So much deliciousness in one place. Sweet tooth overload. Chocolates, taffy, Pralines, you name it they have it. This is a place definitely worth finding. The help was very friendly, prices reasonable for quality candies.

It’s a place that’s about three full store’s worth of candy and sweets. What else do you need to know? Don’t be silly. Go here.

The praline I purchased didn’t make it but maybe 30 feet from their door! Delish! And a bit heartier than the ones in New Orleans. Definitely worth a stop. Yumm! I can think of many worse things than walking around River St. eating pralines and diabetes isn’t one of them ;)

I went to the Savannah Candy Kitchen the night before I left to go back to California. To say it was busy is an understatement, I think there must have been some type of school competition or field trip going on because the place was swarming with preteens on search of a sugar high. But that did not deter me from my mission to take back sugary confections to family and friends. I purchased loose taffy that can be bought by the pound, there are so many different flavors to pick from. Piña colada, strawberry, p&b… Amazing! If you’d rather purchase it prepackaged, they have that option too.
I also bought sour candy back to my pet sitter (her candy choice) and boy do they have selections!
The staff were super friendly, the young man behind the counter realized he’d over charged me (something I had not noticed) and went out of his way to correct it and save me some money. So, to that young man first thank you for being honest, and secondly thank you for making this tourists visit a lovely one.

Taffy, Cavities, Samples… oh my
Taffy, Cavities, Samples… oh my
Taffy, Cavities, Samples… oh my
Of course this place is more than just a quick stop to grab free taffy samples and getting cavities.
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I exited my hotel across the parking lot and the first store I noticed was the «Savannah’s Candy Kitchen» sign. Candy isn’t my thing but for whatever reason, candy stores just draw me in… maybe it’s the colorful packaging, or the action of people that just drool over chocolatiers working their magic or maybe it’s the feeling like a kid again… whatever it is, I’m glad I got pulled into this shop.
TAFFY ! ! !
Like many classic ice cream shops that cater to kids, this candy shop had an overhead train traveling around the store… maybe the tracks were elevated to the draw more attention to the conveyor system that delivers the fresh made taffy from the «taffy making machines» over to the «taffy sales area» where the warm, individually wrapped taffies are placed into wood barrels… more importantly, you can grab a free sample.
CHOCOLATE and FUDGE ! ! !
Walking between the two taffy areas you can feel the allure of so much more… like the «chocolate and fudge area… creating specialties likes turtles (caramel and pecans), crazy covered apples (just insane looking), chocolate covered pretzels and chips, pralines, toffee, unique rice krispy bars… and so much more.
SUGARY CANDIES ! ! !
Even if have the self control to walk away from the chocolate and fudges, you still have to fight off the craving to grab candies off the «Great Wall of Candy»… more options to deal with: candies by the pound and prepackaged classics (Pop Rocks, Razzles, Astro Pops, Boston Baked Beans, et cetera)
POPCORN ! ! !
This is where I finally gave in… not just fresh popped; fresh popped covered with chocolate drizzle. Got a free sample and then my wallet opened without thought and I bought some. Granted it was meant to be eaten later that night after dinner but ended up eating it as we left the shop.
DEEZ NUTS ! ! !
What looked like a strange mixing machine in the taffy area turned out to be used for mixing pralines and other nuts with sugar coatings… candies pralines were amazing (you can see, they give quite a few samples out).
EVERYTHING ELSE ! ! !
Flavored sugar sticks, a rainbow of licorice flavors, tin lunch boxes (to load up with candy of course), give packages, homemade cookies, gumball machines… basically anything that can make the kid-​version of yourself smile !

This place is super cute and cozy looking. There was popcorn, ice cream, and other items (chocolate dipped strawberries, caramelized and salty treats). The air was filled with a sweet scent as the store was filled with all types of goodies.
The taffy train was too cute. Basically there’s a taffy making area where you can easily see the large taffy chunk being shredded into smaller pieces to be distributed on the selling floor. These pieces are moved in little buckets on a conveyor belt after they’re shredded into their miniature form all neatly wrapped. I’m unsure when exactly they’re wrapped, but when it’s finished and done with, the taffy is neatly packaged. Then it’s transported onto a mini train that deposits these iddy bitty pieces onto a shelving unit ready to be picked up by a little kid.
Although my friend only bought a bottle of water, the crowd that passed through for ice cream shows this place’s popularity. The employees here were courteous enough. I wouldn’t say they were super friendly, but they satisfy the customer service arena.

Der unglaublichste Süßwarenladen in dem ich je war !! Kaum tritt man ein, schon kriegt man einen «Taffy» zugeworfen !!! Man kann zuschauen wie die verschiedenen Süßwaren per Hand produziert werden. Und die Preise sind mehr wie human. Einfach toll !!!