Candy Kitchen — Restaurant in Madeira Beach

I LOVE THIS PLACE!! I was born and raised here in St.Pete for my whole life and this ice cream shop holds so many great memories in my mind. They have been here for ages and have such a cool shop, environment, ice cream and other types of sweats.

Unfortunately, after both Hurricane Helene and Milton the shop interior and exterior was damaged greatly, so they had to renovate a lot of it. The burying still looks the same on the outside, but the inside is completely redone. There’s more space for customers to enter and walk around, but it clearly more cramped now for the employees in the back. I really do miss the original look, but things come and go. It’s still the same place in my mind, just looks different, and the ice cream and sweats are all the same, so don’t be upset that it’ll be different.

Candy Kitchen has two locations, and this is the original one. I really prefer this one over the other just because it means more to me. However, the other cite is much bigger with more options, so if that’s more to your liking it’s just north of the main Madeira Beach entrance.

Overall, love this place. Top ten places in all of St. Pete to me. The employees are all amazing and do so much. Cozy and retro environment, cool sweats and ice cream flavors, and overall just big highlight of...

I loved this place grew up near there but we went the other day and 3 of us got our single scoop which is two small scoops of ice cream. Banana one is my ultimate favorite one there best hands down! Only issue we had was my aunt bought a hot fudge Sunday. Ours was around 4$ for our single scoops but that’s to be expected since it’s on the beach no issue there but hers was over 6$ for same amount of ice cream not really a issue the problem was there was no hot fudge on top so when my aunt dug to the bottom there was I kid you not a quarter size dollop of fudge? Tiny tiny bit an tiny bit of whipped cream? 2 and some change more $ for the same amount of icecream for a quarter sized spot of fudge. Smh that was disappointing. I don’t recommend the hot fudge sundays don’t waste your money on that. Just get your single scoop if you want some. Or buy a half gallon of bluebell for 6$ and have many cones. Up to you but make sure they give you fair amount for the price because my aunt was so bummed out over that fudge 0 out of 10 stars. If you knew just how awesome my aunt was and how much she’s does for EVERYONE even strangers she deserves her fudge lol. I still love the banana icecream that one deserves...

what can I say about the Candy kitchen I have been going there since I was probably 5 my name is written all over that place I remember when they had their first child and and I remember going back into the back and helping them make homemade ice cream as a kid because I was there so much that they pretty much like babysitters to me down the street from there and they just let me hang out so often and it was like a family that was amazing remember so many good times being there and just the killer Sundays and then my mother pitching a fit about spending money there so much and so she started buying me all the stuff to make them at home and I would just go there to buy chunks of fudge and we would make killer Sundays at home and it saved her some money and I was always happy. I am so thankful that they are still open I hope they never close and I hope it never changes and every time I go to Madeira Beach area can I get a chance to go the there to see how it's evolving. But never changingit's an amazing place and I'm so thankful that it's...