Sweets For Your Sweetie: The 6 Best Candy Stores On The Riverway
Valentine's Day wouldn't be Valentine's Day without a lil' sweet treat, and supporting local businesses makes the deal even sweeter. From classic chocolate boxes, vintage faves, or unique foreign finds, you will surely find something for that special someone. Here's a list of 6 local candy shops for you to explore:
This & That's Candy on Main
Piqua
All the small town charm with big flavor. You'll find retro sweets, sodas, and toys. Customize your own sweets box!
Winan's Coffee & Chocolates
Sidney, Piqua, Troy, Montgomery County
Winans was officially born in 1961, when brothers Max and Dick Winans opened Winans Carriage House Candies in Piqua, Ohio. Reviving a family confectionery tradition that began in the early 1900s, they filled their shop with hand-dipped chocolates and hardtack candies—bringing sweetness and joy to their community.
Every year, you can order chocolate-dipped strawberries for Valentine's Day or find other cute holiday themed items and wines.
Rad Candy Company
Tipp City
Now this is where you're going to find those special foreign snacks and treats like Japanese Lays chip flavors, Dr. Pepper TicTacs, Dubai chocolate, and other hard-to-find specialties. Small gifts and collectibles like comic books, bobble heads, and Pokemon cards are also for sale.
Grandpa Joe's Candy Shop
Troy & Miamisburg
With bright and colorful quirky displays, Grandpa Joe's is a treat for your eyes AND tastebuds. Use their 'world famous 5$ candy buffet' to build your own custom sweets box, browse gag gifts, find Japanese snack mystery boxes, and shop unique glass bottle sodas.
Esther Price
Montgomery County
In the 1920’s, Esther Price began making fudge at night after the children were asleep to help make extra money for her family. She’d fallen in love with making candy as a teenager and started her business walking fudge door to door.
By 1926, what started in her parents’ kitchen had blossomed into a full-fledged candy business where she couldn’t make chocolate fast enough. She built the current factory headquarters around her house on Wayne Avenue in Dayton, Ohio where the company’s entire candy supply is still made today.
Products are made using premium chocolate, locally produced milk and butter, fancy-grade almonds, pecans, cashews and succulent cherries.
Henry's Candy Company
Hamilton
Family-owned and operated, Henry's offers a more trendy, 'psychedelic' retail experience in downtown Hamilton with starburst lighting and poppy, colorful accents. Buy your sweets by the pound. Always fresh, made in the USA.