Guide: Discover the Best Candy Stores in San Antonio

Get buckled in, fellow sugar fiends, because the San Antonio Candy Trail is about to take you on a tasty ride through the sweet side of the River City! There’s nothing that beats the euphoria a good candy can bring, and now you’ll have the chance to experience that elevating rush at the litanya of shops that make San Antonio one of the top cities for getting our dose of cavities.

1. Alamo Candy

1149 W Hildebrand Ave San Antonio, TX 78201

Alamo Candy is retro cool meets new-school sweet! Sure, we carry the classics, but also authentic MexicanCandy and Glass-Bottle Sodas. Party favors too. Plus, who doesn’t like a good bulk deal?

2. Lolli and Pops

15900 La Cantera Pkwy San Antonio, TX 78256

Lolli and Pops. If Willy Wonka opened a boutique, it would look like this, stocked with candy no one’s ever heard of — balls of gooey gummy bears in unexpected flavours (these you really do have to chew, and they won’t take this lying down) — utterly adorable.

3. It'Sugar

7400 San Pedro Ave San Antonio, TX 78216

If you want a king-size candy, go to It’Sugar. With pound candies, over-sized lollipops, sushi- and pizza-themed candies, candies that turn into animals (dinner and dessert combined!), plus ‘Yummy World Food’ – all this and more will make you feel like a kid in a – well, you get the picture.

4. Mason’s Candy

503 Avenue A Ste 1116 San Antonio, TX 78205

Mason’s Candy is the fuzziest hug you’ll ever have. Hidden off the main square, south of the Pearl’s Farmer’s Market, Mason’s is a hole-in-the-wall shop of delicacies to die for. And the nicer the shopkeeper, the better the candy.

5. CandyVerse

849 E Commerce St San Antonio, TX 78205

Sometimes all that’s on the menu in CandyVerse is sugar, sweetness, yum – yum – yum In the videogame Civilization series, gamers build entire civilisations. In CandyVerse, they check out at the counter. ‘This man is really cool,’ a voice-over announces. ‘He might even be cooler than your candy. You’ll be coming back here.’

6. Candy Cottage

14011 Ranch Rd 12 Wimberley, TX 78676

Candy Cottage is your cocoa-bean-flavoured dream, where you can find pretty much any candies and ice creams. Enough said that you will have the best staff to help you cover your cravings. If you happen to be in a mood for candies, you have got to drop here at once.

7. Popcorn Piccadilly

15069 Interstate 35 Frontage Rd Ste 206 Selma, TX 78154

Now, Popcorn Piccadilly is not only a candy shop. It’s also a popcorn store, a chocolate store, and a soft drinks stand. Want some salty popcorn? Old-fashioned candies? Or an old-time soda? Popcorn Piccadilly will do the trick.

8. Casa Dulce Dulceria

6900 San Pedro Ave San Antonio, TX 78216

Pick up regional Mexican candy (everything from assorted to those large lollipops, or anything spicy), plus a few scoops of ice cream, at Casa Dulce Dulceria so you can eat your sweets at home. And rest assured, they won’t let you forget about safety. A temperature check at the door ensures that everyone checks out sugar-high and feeling fine.

9. La Dulceria

1512 Basse Rd San Antonio, TX 78213

Carved milk cakes that melt in your mouth La Dulcería will satisfy your sweet tooth with a full wall of Mexican candies, large selection of chamoy and home goods.

10. See's Candies Seasonal Pop Up Shop

22710 US Hwy 281 N Ste 104 Village at Stone OakSan Antonio TX 78258

Last, and perhaps least, there’s the See’s Candies Seasonal Pop Up Shop. If you enjoyed the over-the-top staff niceties, feel free to buy some candies here, although the ‘employees exhibit great knowledge’ comment is overkill. If you love amounts and adjectives, ‘TJ Maxx offers a sensational array of necessities for an inexpensive cost, creating an experience that’s second to none!’ If you prefer to be told what’s what, as in ‘All of these works assert some truths about the human anatomy, and employ various media such as oil paint, bronze, and digital emulsion photography’, go for the Getty. If you have the money to spend, enjoy the construction project, and want to claim some deep cultural standing, go to Sherman Oaks.