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The Smiley Barn

4.3 (16 reviews)
Open • 10:00 am - 6:30 pm

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Torrie B.

Guess what? My husband and I don't have kids and we still come here and love it. We have been to the petting farm the past 2 years and highly recommend it. So cute for children and adults alike. A nice variety of animals and they are all well taken care of. They have toys, treats, books, and games. All kinds of gifts for everyone in your life. If you visit, you just might feel like a kid again!

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Dawn O.

We've been wanting to stop at the yellow smiley barn for years. It's close to my son's birthday, so we stopped on our way to Madison. It's really easy to get on/off 94 & conveniently located by lots of other shopping & food options. The store barn is a kid's dream with so many different options of play, from outdoor, dress up, dice, board games, build, puzzles, and more. Don't forget the chocolate, fudge & candy to make your experience complete. They are two levels. Upstairs is mostly Playmobil & you can have a hands on experience. There is a little Lego corner displaying dream sets, too. The barn does price match on Playmobil sets. We were looking for a new game & asked the nice gentleman for new ideas & trends. Maybe the owner? He was very nice & helpful. We ended up purchasing the happy salmon game, which is a family fun game. Even if you're not in the market for a new game, check out the cute ambiance. The prices I thought were pretty reasonable as well.

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Michelle D.

What a nice toy store. Loads of toys, games, and books for all ages. There is a candy corner too. Only complaint is the candy corner could have more brands and unusual flavors. But boy is it nice to have the smiling barn back! Thank you for making the trip between Madison and Milwaukee a whole lot friendlier!

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8 months ago

Your website create account is not working. It's super frustrating. And when are you going to stock up on the Razzles???

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Neat place for kids to experience. Then we had the turtle sundae out front so, glad I got the small but it was oh so good!

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Freese's Candy Shops

4.7(26 reviews)
19.0 mi
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Decided to go to public market today in Milwaukee. I stopped at this candy shop. Excellent customer…read moreservice and amazing chocolate. The chocolate covered strawberry special was amazing! Would highly recommend. Can't wait to go back!

I'm really surprised this place is so popular. I tried a variety of their chocolates from milwaukee…read morepublic market. They were all a similar quality, maybe a half step above something like a gold brick egg or the unbranded chocolates you get on easter or valentines day. Each and every one of their chocolates was made out of an identically flavored, identically consistent hard chocolate coating. The "coconut clusters" were literally just the same exact chocolate used for coatings, with a small amount of shredded coconut mixed in, in a solid glob that you have to gnaw on. I truly believe I could make a better coconut cluster at home in my kitchen right now with no experience. No mind was paid to ratios: the delicate honeycomb candy and whipped vanilla candy had such a thick hard chocolate coating on it that when you bit into it all you could taste was the chocolate and not the filling. The truffles... didn't resemble a truffle in anything but appearance. They were some type of fudge (again, think unbranded valentines day box) covered in the same super duper hard and thick chocolate coating. They were actually hard to eat. The ubiquitous chocolate was overly sweet and had nothing interesting about it. If I'm going to have too-sweet chocolate I prefer something like a hersheys bar. The only items I thought even had an appropriate filling to coating ratio, density, and flavor matchup was the jelly candy and toffee. The toffee was just identical to a heath bar, but I do like heath bars! The only compliment I have for this place is it's relatively cheap and would delight a child who could pick out a variety of things to try. I guess if you're looking for a local alternative to stuff stockings and easter baskets with, this would be a good idea. Due to its placement in the market, the typical chocolatier display, and the individually priced pieces of chocolate, I assumed this would be an artisanal product and was disappointed.

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The Chocolate Chisel - Outside

The Chocolate Chisel

4.3(74 reviews)
34.4 mi
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I love the cow benches and overall quaint vibe of the shop! I've been coming here for quite some…read moretime and have always loved it. The service is welcoming and efficient. The chocolates and ice creams have been consistently tasty. Some of my favorite sweets/recommendations are: caramel sea salt dark (and milk) chocolate, raspberry heart chocolate, spicy chocolate ice cream, lavender sorbet, and many more! The people I've visited the parlor with liked the chocolate ice cream, superman ice cream, grapefruit sorbet, and a variety of chocolates. Try it all for yourself! P.S. - The chocolates make great gifts!

Heading south from Sheboygan with my family I had a craving for ice cream, so I pulled up the…read moreoptions around Port Washington. The "best" local place that was open in January was The Chocolate Chisel. My family and I stopped and each got a cone. I also got three truffles. The truffles I bought were chai tea milk, experimint milk (ganache with peppermint extract), and peppermint hot chocolate. The chai tea and experimint milk truffles both tasted like they should based on their descriptions, but I wouldn't wantto buy either again. The peppermint hot chocolate had some crushed peppermint on top, but other than the chocolate being in the shape of a mug, nothing about it reminded me of hot chocolate. Ultimately I don't think any of them were worth the price. The ice cream was lackluster. Both of my kids got cookies and cream in a cake cone and thought it was skimpy on the cookies part. My wife and I sprung for waffle cones with ours and were both disappointed in the excessive cone to ice cream ratio that heavily favored the cone. She got plain chocolate and it was fine. I, however, got banana-rama and ended up throwing it out because it tasted more like butter pecan than anything banana related. I even went back inside and verified with the employee that it wasn't mislabeled in the case.

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Burke Candy & Ingredients

4.8(35 reviews)
24.2 mi•Riverwest
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Chocolate lovers: I highly recommend stopping at Burke Candy & Ingredients! I've walked past this…read morebusiness for years and, somehow, never stopped in until last week, when I decided to pop in on a whim. Boy, am I glad I did! As a serious chocolate lover, I was immediately in heaven. I may have gotten a little carried away and left with several truffles in hand... and then proceeded to eat every single one of them in one sitting. Maybe that's not everyone's cup of tea, but honestly? I had absolutely no regrets.The chocolate was that good! I can't believe it took me so many years to finally walk through the door, but now that I have, I already know I'll be back. This is exactly the kind of local gem that deserves to be discovered and enjoyed. I can't wait to bring my mom here when she visits! If you love chocolate, truffles, or simply treating yourself to something delicious, do yourself a favor and stop in. You might just leave with several treats too... whether they make it home is another question.

Date of visit: July 28, 2025…read more I stopped in here as I am leading an effort to find local vendors that we can order from as part of a holiday gift effort for some of our customers. I perused the store and selected brittle, taffy, and chocolates as part of a taste testing for the whole team to determine which items were the best to consider as gifts for our customers. Staff was friendly and accomodating, and even offered me a sample after I completed my purchase. Oddly, despite spending about $70 and explaining what I was doing with my purchases, I didn't get a receipt. I dropped an email to the store and received a quick reply and was provided with a picture of the receipt that was quite small and blurry, though thankfully our AP department didn't question it too much and I still got reimbursed for the purchase! And if you were wondering, the taffy was surprisingly good, but wasn't labeled on the package in terms of what flavors were in each bag, so that was a big turn off for our taste testers. The chocolates were a big hit and will be a finalist for our customer gifts!

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