Rocket Fizz

Lots of different sodas and candies. I’m only giving it a ⁴⁄₅ because I don’t drink soda (I know sad, I burp wayyy too much and the carbon dioxide kind of hurts my throat). It was a super cool and fun atmosphere. I’d love to come again to try different flavors.

I stopped in Rock Fizz during The Loop Ice Walk. I’d known about it for a while but finally had an excuse to stop in.
This place is pretty much the pinnacle of candy stores. There is literally candy and soda everywhere! The entire store is lined with tubs of at least 50 salt water taffy flavors. If you’re a soda lover, then there’s something for you too. They have a bajillion different unique soda brands and flavors. I should have tried one but I wasn’t feeling it with he freezing weather and all.
We filled up a bag of salt water taffy for $ 8. It seemed like a really good deal. Stuff to the top and enjoy yourself! The only thing I wish they had was a wider selection of chocolate. Also, the staff was really friendly at check out. It’s worth stopping in if you’re in the area or looking for that sweet tooth fix.

Had some time to kill waiting for a movie to start, so we wandered over to RF. It looked like it might be a fun store but not so much. A lot of the candy was the old stuff from the olden days, sort of speak, but not very interesting. A lot of teens roaming about which kind of surprised me because everything was so overpriced. Not worth another visit, just OK.

Not impressed at all. Candy was boring and overpriced. I did not pay that much attention to the soda selection as I am not a big soda drinker.
I did find several humous signs that would be great joke gifts for various friends and family members.
Service was minimal, not even a greeting or a thanks for coming in. With that type of customer service, I most likely will not be returning.

Cool, crazy, out of this world candy shop with interesting treats and the soda options are beyond ridiculous… I mean limitless. The staff is nice, prices are reasonable. They have remade gift baskets or they will customize one for you. Very cool experience

Such a fun store — every candy you can possibly imagine, including delicious international candy! The salt water taffy is amazing and comes in so many flavors it’s hard to choose, luckily you don’t have to because it is sold mix and match, by the bag, and they encourage you fill the bag until it is bursting at the seams, so you get a LOT for your money!
They have any sort of soda you could imagine — including bacon flavored, ranch dressing flavored, sweet corn — as I said, anything you imagine, but they have lots of yummy flavors like plum, passion fruit, lemon, etc. Best of all, they sell all the Fitz’s Root Beer flavors as well!

Oh snap! This place is dangerous. One may enter the store but it’s hard to leave! I felt like the bratty Veruca Salt with all of the candies, treats, ‘sodies’ in my visual presence. Don’t care how – I want it NOW! This store has all of the old time, old fashioned candies plus a wide variety of new and interesting things. This store uplifts spirits and invokes happy childhood memories. The only thing missing is a playground.

Great place for oldschool candy and saltwatertaffy
. friendly staff not overpriced kids enjoyed

I love soda and candy. I never really outgrew my childhood sweet tooth, and Rocket Fizz is a place where people like me can bask in the rows and rows (and rows and rows) of soda and nostalgic sweets.
The trip can be overwhelming, though. I stopped in to buy a bottle or two of root beer — it’s probably my favorite soda variety — and was not prepared for the sheer amount of choices I would have. I spent probably a good 10 or 15 minutes flitting between the root beer on the shelves in the back and the root beer in the cold case up front. Unfortunately every time I decided on a choice from the back it was not also available to me pre-​chilled. I have unpopular tastes, it appears.
In any case, there’s a soda for any need. Do you love bacon so much you wish you could drink it? Done! Are you craving the melty chocolatey, marshmallowy, melty goodness of s’more, but lack a campfire? No problem, Rocket Fizz has got a bubbly alternative to satisfy your craving.
In addition to their crazy bananas beverage selection, there is also candy strewn everywhere. There’s a large bank of taffy on the right when you walk in, and they also offer everything from upscale artisanal bars to old-​timey treats like Mallow Cups.
Now that I’ve had time for the sheer number of goods available to sink in, I’m ready for my next trip.

I didn’t know much about Rocket Fizz until I watched company president Robert Powells don one of those completely natural-​looking disguises on Undercover Boss. Each store he visited looked like a bundle of sugary fun, and that episode made me want to check out our local Rocket Fizz in The Loop. Well played, CBS. Well played.
At this «soda pop & candy shop,» you’ll find:
–Bottles of soda, some with interesting flavors (e.g., bacon, pumpkin pie)
–Retro, international, and traditional candies
–Bins of taffy that line a good portion of a wall
–A small assortment of gag gifts, including Archie McPhee products
–Walls filled with cutesy, funny, and snarky signs
–Lots of people, especially on a nice weekend afternoon
A few Hello Kitty items caught my eye, but I managed to leave without making a purchase. I would have bought some peanut butter taffy, but I didn’t see any.
Overall, prices seemed high to me. However, it’s a fun place to visit, and I’d definitely stop by again next time I’m in The Loop.
I’m not a soda savant or a candy connoisseur, so you’ll probably want to take my review with a grain of sugar. I’d also appreciate if you would forget that horrible wordplay. Thank you.

Before this place opened, I had never heard of the ‘Rocket Fizz’ name; apparently its popular in other cities around the US. I did come in a couple weeks after they opened, and I was so blown away. First, I am a huge soda junkie/​fanatic (I don’t drink coffee so soda is my picker-​upper) so for me to see a selection of over 500 sodies? It was hard to pick out which ones to try, and which ones would be my favorite. Some of them are the hard-​to-​find Jones flavors, and some of the more bizarro ones like the Buffalo Wing and Cookie Dough soda. I’ve made a few trips here and I have enjoyed some of the offbeat flavors. I also really dig Virgils Root Beer, which is also available at some organic food stores too. I’d say about 85% of these sodies you won’t be able to find anyplace else in St. Louis.
Soda is priced okay, but not the candy. Don’t get me wrong, this place has a large selection of candy too, so if there is something insanely obscure you like, the chances of them having it are high. And the place should be given major props to its near retro-​ness.

This fun little candy/​toy/​soda/​whatever store is a great addition to the Delmar Loop. In addition to the crazy array of soda they offer, you can also get a huge variety of international candies. My favorite part is the row of saltwater taffy that good nearly an entire wall with dozens of flavors, everything from caramel apple to passion fruit to root beer.
The staff were very friendly, so much so that when I went to check out with my bag of taffy, the woman working the register packed the bag down to create more space and told me I could go full it up again. So nice!

Rocket Fizz is a welcome addition to The Loop. For those that do not know Rocket Fizz is a chain store that focuses on selling candy and a large variety of bottled soda.
There is a large variety of salt water taffy and other sugary sweets, however if you are looking for a variety of chocolate head down the street to Miss M’s Candy (Locally Owned) for a better selection of chocolate. The largest draw here is the huge, and I do mean huge selection and variety of soda. With such varieties like Judge Wapners Root Beer, Bacon Soda, and Peanut Butter & Jelly Soda I am sure you can find a unique flavor for anyone. Yes, for those who do not want to take a risk they also have classic varieties like cola, cherry, etc.
The staff here is great, very friendly and helpful however I cannot help but think the prices are a little on the high side. A 12oz bottled soda was $ 2.20 and a large bag of taffy was $ 7.99, the bag was not very large. I will give the staff credit because after I filled a bag with taffy they told me that I could fit even more in the bag and asked me if I wanted to go get more. Overall this is a welcome addition to The Loop and adds some diversity to an already unique neighborhood. I just wish the prices were a little more competitive.

Unique old-​style soda shop (no fountain, just bottles) and candy store. This place has a large selection of both standard and novelty sodas and candy as well as an entire wall of bulk candy and taffy by the bag.
A nice surprise was the wide variety of novelty toys, bubbleheads, pez dispensers, comic character signs, etc. Any comic geek or kid at heart would at the very least get a kick out of taking a stroll through this store and at the most leave with an empty wallet and the promise of a monster stomach ache.

Rocket Fizz is a great new addition to the Loop’s energetic neighborhood. A fun and whimsical candy and soda shop with overwhelming candy visuals everywhere. WHAT’S THAT? Why do I feel like I have a silly grin on my face? It’s alright. You can’t help but feel like you’re having a sugar rush when you start breathing into the space… But so is everyone else.
Inside Rocket Fizz it takes awhile to take in everything around you. Don’t worry, the friendly staff does not take offense into you perusing around for hours. The space is made to peruse and poke fun of things. There’s no one rushing you around to leave. The place is filled with all sorts of candy from vintage American sweets to international candies. Also I appreciate the punny signs on the wall (my kind of place).
I would say I really enjoyed the rainbow rows of saltwater taffy with unexpected flavors! Popcorn, Chile mango, pomegranate, and the list goes on and on. Oh and you can’t forget their impressive collection of soda pop and root beer. THIS PLACE IS STACKED WITH AWESOME SELECTIONS! If you purchase a soda, make sure to grab a soda punch card and get the 9^th soda for FREE!
Well, don’t leave this store empty handed. At least grab a soda pop and a bag of few of the taffys before you peruse to the next interesting store at the Loop.

I am a huge fan of boutique soda and candy. I love this store for that, but the service is absolutely rotten. Once I was there and the girl working seemed really annoyed to answer my questions and just curt and uninterested. I asked about Dr. Pepper style sodas and she acted as though she’d never heard of such a thing. Another time I was there just before close. They locked the doors while I was shopping. I was under the impression that they were open till 11pm since that’s what it said on Google. When I asked about it, the guy was rude and said they «can’t stay open forever.»
The soda and candy selection is awesome. The store is a really welcome addition to city and to the loop — but someone needs to train the kids running the place how to be nice to customers.

It is a new store in the loop. Clean and bright. More interesting than I thought it would be. There are so many different kinds of soda here. Some amazing flavors I’d love to try, such as chocolate soda.
The store owner has a style. I think everyone could enjoy his time in this store.

This place is fantastic if you like candy and soda. Since I do, I can’t give it a low score. The employees are super helpful and know their inventory fairly well.
My only gripe with this place is that most things here cost way more than i actually want to pay. I’ve bought the same sort of candy elsewhere for much cheaper. Also, the soda here is really pricey. 2 bucks for a 12 oz or small soda? eek!
With the bad out of the way, let me tell you why you should visit!
This place would’ve been my favorite place in all the world when i was 12. It has many varieties of candies and sodas, and even vintage-​looking tin plate things. I found so many things i wanted to try and so many things i don’t really know how i feel about. They have monster themed sodas and communist dictator sodas. FANTASTIC.
Also, being so expensive, I won’t buy too many sodas, right? Let’s hope that’ll help prevent me from drinking TOO much sugar.

This place was quirky and fun! I love the retro feel. They have SOOOO many soda pop’s here. The tin logos that lined the wall were definitely fun to look at.
This is not your typical candy shop. They also have some weird items on display, like a unicorn mask — but warning, don’t try it on because god knows how many people have stuck their faces and drooled all over that mask…
They have some «Grow a Boyfriend/​Girlfriend» toys, animé eyes goggles, bobble head Buddha dolls, Sigmund Freud figurines, etc etc.
Be sure to stop by if you need to find a gift for a friend, or even just to laugh at some of the items/​displays.

This place is majorly sweet! seewhatididthere?
Any fans of candy or soda-​pop need to get here ASAFP. It’s just a really fun store with so many neat things. There’s all your traditional candy. And then all sorts of special stuff. An entire section devoted to bacon-​flavored candy. Lots of taffy. Some fancier chocolate bars you’d see in Whole Foods (pricey) and everything in between.
The soda section is what really blew me away. THEY HAVE SO MUCH SODA. It’s all over the store. Then there is a huge cooler where you can get it cold ones ready to go. The best part — Root Beers and Ginger Beers! Huge selections of each! I must try ALL of them.
For more adventurous types, they have the crazy off-​the-​wall soda flavors like Ranch Dressing and much much more. There’s even a soda punch card, buy 8 and get 1 free!
Don’t come here if you’re in a rush. Give yourself at least 30 mins to look around at all the cool stuff. This place is definitely worth the time.