Guide: Discover the Best Candy Stores in Nashville

Savannah's Candy Kitchen

Let's start with Savannah's Candy Kitchen in the Candy Kingdom:Ya take a candle in yer hand and bite intoA missus makin a piece of cotton candyFor 70 years, she's been happy hereBut tonight her glucose is in the airAnd though this candy is sweet,It'll bring tears to your peach fuzzed cheeksLike a banjo boy can fuck up a songPralines and gofers, country bollards singin Natchez white lightning.

310 Broadway Nashville, TN 37201

IT'SUGAR

Next to it is IT'SUGAR, a giant candy shoppe: laden yourself down with as much of the stuff as you can ram into a bag and take to the counter to be weighed; you'll pay less than the price of a new rock-and-roll six-string for anything given an exit permit.

122 Opry Mills Dr Nashville, TN 37214

Goo Goo Chocolate Co

Need some purely decadent southern chocolate? Then the Goo Goo Chocolate Co probably has the cacao- derivative for you. Had some of those chocolate clustery, ambrosial-from-another-world Goo Goo clusters lately? Next country song!

116 3rd Ave S Nashville, TN 37201

Leon's Candy

Yee-ha, candy! Sample pralines, as you do, at the fourth-generation praline and confections Leon's Candy, which offers a personal favorite: Jack Daniels. It's a suite of soul country for your mouth; every little bite hits just the right note.

138 2nd Ave N Ste 102 Nashville, TN 37201

Schakolad Chocolate Factory

Got a sweet tooth? Satiate it at Schakolad Chocolate Factory ­– an undeniably family-friendly environment – where the wonderland of chocolate combines with a three-generation family recipe to make the handmade special treats so scrumptious you'll be humming ‘Nashville' before you've finished ‘Nashville'.

1735 Galleria Blvd Ste 1037 Franklin, TN 37067

Kilwin's

Pause. Loiter a bit. Make that Spartan roundabout of the quad just a bit more leisurely with some bubbly service at Kilwin's (fresh-made fudge!), some coffee, a sampling of candy at every counter. Perhaps you have slipped into Nashville time.

405 Main St Franklin, TN 37064

Merchant's Mart

It doesn't matter that Merchant's Mart is pretty average. Like most candy stores, it’s likely rather nondescript with row after row of Star Way bars looking more or less like it does in every other candy store in town. But if you want variety, you tilt your head. It doesn't matter how long the neck or which way you rotate it. As soon as you say, ‘Yes, yes, Merchant's Mart', you're gone. They might have 3,000 different kinds of goodies – who knows – but you ain't gonna know what kinda stuff's gonna be in there. Your dog might git in there and win a million dollars! Merchant's Mart is the Grand Ole Opry of candy stores. You don't know when you walk in the Grand Ole Opry who's gonna come out, but ol' Roy will probably be good.

1800 Elm Hill Pike Nashville, TN 37210

Candy Craze

Candy Craze is the sort of thing you buy to seek an inexpensive, self-contained high – a Tupperware soup aisle of dessert Nashville's musical community: extremely diverse, exciting, instantly gratifying.

1800 Galleria Blvd Ste 2260 Franklin, TN 37067

Ivory Cotton Bar

Next is Ivory Cotton Bar, which specialises in flavoured cotton candy (the company does on-site custom flavouring, gift baskets and live spinning at events as well) and is nothing short of spellbinding, like Nashville itself.

624 A Jefferson St Nashville, TN 37208