Nichols Candies

First of all, the staff is wonderful! Very friendly & attentive, but good in letting you wander while you make your final decisions. And for the chocolate, melt in your mouth deliciousness! My girlfriend and I were driving home (to Watertown) from the beach when we stopped in to satisfy our sweet tooth. This place definitely did the trick… the only downside is that it’s almost an hour from our home!!! Nevertheless, we will definitely be making the trips up for a fun day trip and special treat… this place is worth it!

A family favorite, this place is old school. You order by the pound. One of the workers grabs a little white box and follows you around as you point at what you want and she fills your box. It’s all homemade and really delicious.
I love the dipped mints (particularly the pink ones!), the turtles, the fudge, and the chocolate Easter Eggs.
They have filled candies, caramels, nut clusters… all kinds of delicious stuff! They have homemade marshmallows, brittle, really anything you could dream up. They also have some sugar free items. You can tell this stuff is made with love.

This is going to be a must stop on our annual vacations out here! Stumbled across it after going for clams at Farnhams and wow! Sister went and picked up candy that we all ate up once she got home — the peanut brittle is off the charts. So once we left and were headed home, we made a stop here first since it was on our way out of town. Wow was it worth it! We all bought peanut brittle and several of us bought a box of the chocolates (all hand made and very good — you ask the lady for help and she’ll walk with you thru the store as you say you want 2 of those and 4 of those and in they go!). Someone in our group bought taffy from here too and they LOVED it — said it was light, fluffy and yummy! (not the case with the candy store we used to always go to in Rockport — but this will be our new place to pick up things for everyone from home from now on!). May just have to check how much shipping is all the way from there to here!

stale-​tasting candy. rude employees. pass!

Great customer service, fast shipping even during holiday season, and excellent chocolates. I am totally obsessed with the cashew chocolate squares. I had never had such creamy dark chocolate before. For those who think prices are high, think again. I’ve bought chocolates that go for $ 40-​$ 60 per pound that weren’t any better if even as good as these at $ 23 per pound. This is the real deal — homemade, fresh and delicious.

I have been coming here since I was a little girl and the quality is still great. However, as the years have passed, the salt water taffy has gotten smaller in size, but the wrapper size has remained the same.

This is a cute candy shop off the side of the highway. Two very friendly staff asked if I needed help but left me to wander until I figured out what I wanted. I admit, it was hard to decide as there were so many delicious looking options…
Fruit cremes, nut clusters, brittles… if you like it and it’s candy, I bet they will have it for you.
Worth a stop in for your sugar fix!

Great chocolate, not a store for kids. Very old fashioned

Chocolate heaven… Really…everything chocolate… stacks and stacks of it. I have been to Gloucester twice now and have driven by this candy shop over and over again and I finally convinced my boyfriend to stop. The first thing you smell is chocolate, the first thing you see is tables of chocolate and the first thing I did was drool. At Nichols they make everything. They have a small room where they have the machines to create this amazing homemade candy.
The lovely women who seemed to be the owners were great, very welcoming.
You are not aloud to go and pick up the candy with your hands yourself, the ladies will grab a bag and take you around each table for you to choose your selection. That is the only thing I didnt like, I wanted to grab what I wanted and not have some one follow me. But the chocolate was amazing and if I ever make a trip back I am stopping again and leaving with more then three bags.
The chocolate was incredible, best I have ever had!!!
So many different kinds… chocolate covered nuts, berries, mints, coconut… amazing!!!

Get the cashew clusters!!! Best candy i ever had in my life. Only one problem, I almost ate the whole box!!!

A sweet little stop on the ride home. Pun totally intended. As you step in the door you can see where all the goodies are made to the left of the entrance through the window. If you take a look at the signs hanging from the ceiling, all the tables are organized by candy type (chewy, crunchy, cream filled, etc) but don’t let the sheer volume of chocolates intimidate you. The ladies working here will gladly give you the grand tour and provide suggestions based on their own quality testing ;) Lucky ducks.
It isn’t the cheapest place to get your goods, but everything I’ve tasted is quality and I’ll definitely go back for more.

Stopped in today on our trip to Gloucester…
The woman working there was soo cute, she walked around the store & boxed all the little candies we picked out… The place smelled soo wonderful!
Tons of Chocolate covered everythings, and I LOVE that they had Dark on several things in addition to Milk (I tend to love Dark)… Got several little goodies…
Bummed they didnt have more non Chocolates (I have an obsession with Jelly Beans…
Will def stop back in on our next trip up! And on the way out we even got directions! She was soo cute I wanted to hug her!

Great old timey candy house. The person helping me was so kind and helpful. The box was gone pretty quikly after gifting it to my family. Reminds me of Mrs. Nelson’s candy house in Chelmsford, MA

Uh oh. I have resisted going in for years but finally stopped. Cute, cute, cute little building. It’s not as cute on the inside as it is on the outside. It’s a little… dingy… on the inside. The lighting is weird. But hey, that’s ok guys, your candy is amazing.
I filled a box and got a nice assortment of dark/​milk chocolate with insides ranging from caramel to fruit creams. Some of my favorites:
Dark chocolate covered marshmallow
D. choc salted caramel (YUM. Yum yum yum)
D. choc cashew clusters
The woman working was super nice, helpful, and very patient with me as I tried to make up my mind.
Going to try the salt water taffy next time.

This place is a little tradition of mine.
Once a year I make a trip to this little Candy House.
They are like most typical Private Candy Houses.
Houses that look to be over hundred years old enclose a room full of chocolate delights.
There is such a house back in NJ where I grew up. In fond memory of that store, I make the brisk trip to Nichols to get my once a year chocolate for my baby.
And everytime I go, I get the chocolate covered strawberries, tofee chocoloates, honeycomb chocolates, and a few more items.
My baby loves chocolate lollipops shaped as bear heads.
She says it’s convenient for her to chew on a likeness of me in anger than being really angry at me…
the things I do for love~
one note: there is a 10 dollar minimum for credit card purchases.

I was really hoping to get some chocolate pretzels but for some reason they didn’t have any at the time. Instead I got some toffee, fudge and coconut stuff, all delicious.

Solid-​chocolate elephants with their names written on little Post-​Its; white chocolate crosses at Easter; a huge sign that says «CANDY HOUSE» on the roof.
A fantastic place. Just don’t touch any of the chocolates yourself, or you’ll get in big trouble with the little old ladies who work there.

Ay, ok, I’m not rating this based on «everything about a candy store» because I can walk into most decent candy stores and be perfectly happy getting some chocolate, cashew turtle type thing. I mean, I’m just not that discerning when it comes to candy stores.
HOWEVER, the reason I really enjoy Nichols is because of the Walnut Whip. As another reviewer remarked, the store is a bit pricey but I still plunk down the $ 18 for a pound of it. The problem is that, unlike whenever I’ve gotten fudge, the Walnut Whip doesn’t stand a chance if I open it around other people. I can open fudge or anything else around people and they can get their chocolate/​sugar fix within a piece or two, but Walnut Whip is so fluffy and lite (appropriate referred to as a «Meltaway»), that after I’ve already shared 1 – 2 pieces with people, they’re still coming back for a 3^rd and 4^th.
It’s so good it doesn’t last!
Now, I don’t know if Marzipan is really that much different from store to store but I really dig it at Nichols. They also have a lot of other stuff, too, so there’s never a dull moment. I just think you should check the website for the prices first… $ 18 for a pound of walnut whip… that’s more than it costs for an ounce of SILVER!

Nichols has been in business all of my life, my parents’ lives, and most of my grandparents’ lives. With all those years of experience, you know they know what they’re doing.
Nichols hand-​makes every variety of chocolate confection you can imagine, plus plenty of non-​chocolate offerings for those crazy people who aren’t chocolate fans.
Every variety is laid before you on tables and shelves and pedestals. With assistance from one of the friendly chocolate mavens who work there, you can make your way through the maze of goodies picking and choosing what you want in your custom quarter-​, half-​, one-​, or two-​pound box.
There’s also a very good sugar-​free section for anyone watching their waists or blood sugar.
It really is the place to shop for Valentine’s day. They have a good variety of fancy, heart-​shaped boxes in various sizes and levels of frilly-​ness.
A word of warning, however. Nichol’s gets very busy around the holidays. You may have to wait a good 10 minutes before a storekeeper is available to help you with your custom mixes. When it’s packed, there’s usually a place to take a number to be sure that everyone is served in the order they arrived.

I haven’t been to a candy shop since I was a child on Martha’s Vineyard. We took a trip to Gloucester and had to go back!
To my amazement every candy is hand made, even the sour patch kids! I was like of course they just package store or factory sour patch kids, but nope they use real ingredients.
Everything looked so delicious ! I was tempted by the chocolate covered cherries. 100% impressed and excited this is so close to my home.
The reason I’m giving 4 stars is because it is a bit pricey, but I understand it is because of the hand made factor. Overall great place!!!