Swedish confectionery headquarters, featuring gummies, licorice, marshmallows
"With a variety of outlets in NYC, BonBon peddles candy specialties imported from Sweden. Many are gummies of one hue or another, in various novel shapes, including the vaunted Swedish fish, but other flavors, including sour and salty, are less familiar. Other specialties include licorice pipes and miniature flavored marshmallows, everything sold by the pound. The Williamsburg location is fittingly across from the movie theaters, but the BonBon Red Hook headquarters has a hot dog pop-up on the weekends." - Robert Sietsema
"It’s easy to understand why this excellent Swedish candy store, with multiple locations, has a cult following. Not only do they sell hard-to-source treats with unique textures and vibrant flavors, but everything about BonBon is aesthetically pleasing, down to the pale pink paper bags and gold scoops. The candy (marshmallows, licorice, nougat, chocolate, and more) costs $4.50 per quarter pound. We haven’t tried anything here we wouldn’t gladly shove fistfuls of into our mouths, bags and pockets, but some highlights include the cloud-soft marshmallow mushrooms, the brain-zappingly sour raspberry pucker bottles, and the sour Rambo strawberry licorice tubes, filled with vanilla cream." - molly fitzpatrick, will hartman, willa moore