River Street Sweets

Instead of getting dessert at the restaurant we had dinner at we wanted to get gelato. We first stopped somewhere else, only they had ice cream and not gelato.
We were so excited to come to River Street Sweets and see so many great selections of gelato!! (Yes, we know our gelato. We ate our gelato way through Italy.) Get a taste before you decide - we did ... and then ... we ended up getting two smalls. Peanut butter and salted caramel. We loved having them together.
The staff was so nice and helpful. We checked out all of the chocolate candies, hard candy, pralines they were making and so much more. They even offered us a tasted of the praline!!
Such a great end to a great evening!!!
Highly recommend their gelato!!

So excited to find a location in Key West! Some of my absolute favorite pralines. This location definitely lived up to expectations. Pralines were fresh and warm with just the right level of sweetness. Staff greeted us and gave us samples right away! Cute store too.

I love going to River Street Sweets. Anytime I travel to a city that has a location, I have to go check them out. I always start with the praline samples that are fresh. You can't leave without purchasing any pralines, but this time I got I've cream too and it was truly delicious. Get the praline ice cream.

If I could bottle up this stores scent and wear it as perfume I would. While I made a direct line in to the ice cream I was craving, I passed a ton of fudge and homemade desserts. While looking around and sweet woman gave me their menu where I found out I can ship these sweets as gifts!! From now on for bdays and celebrations I will use them to mail all sweets. Great company.

This is a must stop place for caramel apples and or chocolate apples. The pralines are to die for as well.

So expensive! 4 pralines were $20! Totally outrageous. Be prepared to spend a lot for little.

A super fun candy shop on the main strip through the Key. They have vintage style and modern candies, along with some handmade chocolates and ice cream in the back.

They were making fresh chocolate turtles when we came in and it smelled great! We didn't end up getting anything as we didn't want it to melt in the car and we didn't want to eat it right there on the spot.

The staff was busy working on cleaning and making chocolates, so we weren't greeted, but it wasn't a big deal and they did smile and nod at us as we looked.

Overall: A
A fun little multi-option candy and ice cream spot on the main shopping road.

The ongoing pandemic has definitely taken a toll on a lot of businesses and public places since a consumer's mindset to buy anything outside of essentials or to visit a public place like a park or beach, has crippled down significantly. Now by living with what has become the new normal, it is commendable on how these businesses and public places continue to remain open and cater to the general public by following the safety standards. It is now all the more important that we as customers, support these heroes during these dark hours to mankind.

We stopped here just going by how inviting the entrance looked and the iconic "World Famous" tag that's attached literally to anything that you find in Keys; Here it was the "World famous Pralines". The baker/person who was at one of the counters offered a sample Praline which was just out of the world, to be honest and that even egged us to buy some more of those. The shop had a galore of desserts, sweets and candies that were even stored in large barrels, like we were in Willy Wonka's territory.

Everything was sweet until this point except when he pointed out a very gender stereotypical remark when I was pulling out my wallet - "So it's always the woman deciding and the man paying huh?". We were awestruck by how proud he looked with his comment. I wanted to leave the place right away but my wife insisted that we pay for it as to why blunt a business for a dumb employee's sake. So we still paid for the pralines and were on our way out.

I would have rated this place a 5 star if not for that ignorant caveman who thinks it's still the Man's world!

Delicious wafts of chocolate and caramel greet you from the doorway, and the temptations of warm rich sweets draw you in. By the entrance, you can watch as someone makes a fresh batch of one of their desserts. You can also ask to try a sample and they will give you a generous serving. Their pralines and turtle logs are fantastic. In the back is their house -made ice cream and gelato ranging from traditional to more experimental flavors like watermelon and pina colada. The staff were all very friendly and happy to talk about their many desserts. Great stop for visitors with a sweet tooth.

Exceptional gelato and pralines! Everything is made fresh in the store, they're offering free samples & shipping; the displays are inviting. Hard to come in and resist, so we didn't! We enjoyed Savanna's Pralines on River Street in Savannah, Charleston and they were just as good here in Key West.