Newport Candy Shoppe

Newport Candy Shoppe was a super cute candy shop with tons of different candies. They also had popcorn and caramel corn in different flavors. They were super nice and friendly.

Beautiful candy shop! I was amazed at the selection of so many chocolates and candy! Their new location, still right there on the Bayfront, is amazing! It is well stocked and so well arranged, as well as bright and cheery. I wanted one piece of everything! The chocolates are made right there in South Beach, and you can’t beat the selection and flavor anywhere! I used to be a big fan of a well known chocolate store, now I am definitely a loyal fan of Newport candy shop hands down. Even the taffy is made right there at the shop and it is the best in my opinion. Please make sure to visit this shop when you are in Newport, the staff are also very friendly and helpful!

Very clean. Fun happy colors. A huge variety of salt water Taffy. They sell it by the pound. Diabetics beware. Much sugar candy. Leans on the expensive side for candy. One piece of fudge was $3.00. It can fit your sweet tooth cravings if candy is on your menu.

We were visiting the coast on Friday 7/18/2025. We used to live here and remembered how much we enjoyed the bay front and a few shops including Newport Candy Shoppe. Today we were met with the rudest customer service. I had walked up with a small bagged taffy in hand and was getting ready to ask for some sour. Cherries and the young man at the counter, saw me walk up and turned around to talk to the other gal. That was working completely ignoring my hello. I tried to say hi and hello three times before he finally turned around and looked at me. I made my request politely to get some sour cherries and he mumbled at me and said something to the girl and the girl helped me but seemd to be in a mood. She was rude to my kids as well when they asked for fudge. She was not friendly nor polite. When weighing our stuff, she was slamming our bags around. There was no thank you.There was no, please, there was no. How are you? Etc. Zero basic customer service. We have been in many times before. I have never experienced this with any of the many visits we used to do. It was very disappointing, especially on the day of my child's birthday and this being such an iconic store for their childhood memories.

Not sure what’s happened to this place. Usually come here every summer to get taffy for gifts, same story this year. Friendly people, good quality. Person working this year seemed to be bothered that we were there, and annoyed that she had to look up from her phone. She dropped my change to me before I was ready and it just went everywhere. Didn’t give me my things, just left it all on the scale and started typing again. And they don’t take card…turning out to be more of an inconvenience. Hope it turns around.

The staff were great and it was cool to see old school taffy pulling. We got a five pound bag to take home since we don’t get to the coast but once a year usually. Only disappointment were the depth and strength of flavors. Most of the flavors didn’t have enough flavor to tell what they were other than the peanut butter and salted caramel. I love the consistency of the taffy and that it’s soft. Just wish there was more flavor.

The candy was the only good part of this store. The worker behind the counter was unbelievable rude to everyone who walked in the store. She never greeted them and acted like she was put out every time she needed to get chocolate out or ring a customer up. Our whole group was floored by her behavior. Based on other reviews it sounds like this was not a one-off occurance.

Nice candy shop with wide selection. But the salt water taffy varieties all taste very similar. We could not distinguish flavors other than the licorice and intense cinnamon.