So I need to preface this review with one major caveat: I'm not that crazy about fudge nor brittle…read more This matters in a brittle and fudge shop. Brittle seems like the candy I'll be lightly chewing, against doctor's orders, when I get my first pair of dentures, and fudge never comes close to satiating my cacao addiction, it's never dark or rich enough, it's like shoveling chocolate flavored sugar into my jowls. So when I entered this place, hoping to bring home candy for the fam, I was kinda dismayed. But the owner, Mike, was just so darned friendly, I was compelled to dig deeper.
Oh yes, Mike, do tell me about your impressive gingerbread house, how did you make those marshmallows look like snow? Yes, Mike, I'll take a sample of your biscochito brittle (honestly goooood). Mike, is this a Harry Potter candy table? Why, now this, Mike, this is something that would definitely appeal to my Potterhead kiddo. Why yes, Mike, I'll take some of those Bertie Botts beans. And she'll appreciate my bribery.
To summarize: I like candy shops, and it takes a certain personality, a Mike, to make such a shop win. Visit this place if only to enjoy a conversation with this Mike guy, learn about how his wife insisted on the Potter table, how his son is excelling at school, these kinds of things that remind us that small businesses with devoted owners can remove us from our stressed-out everyday existence and deliver down home conversation that simply sticks with you, like the calories in those biscochito brittle bites.