Van Holten's Sweet Shop — Restaurant in Seaside Heights

The only vegan items in the store (other than the commercial candy) are limited to one column at the end of the main counter. And it’s all pre-packaged. Which is nice to avoid cross contamination, but that means you have to buy their predetermined package size and can’t get a variety of different candies to try unless you seriously overload.

There’s Flavored popcorn, chocolate clusters (chocolate covered raisins, nuts etc), chocolate bars, chocolate bark.

Some ingredient lists are helpful, some are woefully inadequate.

We got a small 1-oz bag of the “cheese” popcorn, it was a nice flavorful snack. And at $1.95, a reasonable boardwalk purchase. It would have been nice to have other flavors in that size to more easily try them all. The big bags are still only $4 though. And you get 4x as much in those compared to the small bags. Economy of scale and all, but popcorn takes up so much space in our bags!

I also got the raisin clusters. They were quite nice. Basic, but still nice to be accommodated. (Maybe a bit too high chocolate to raisin ratio? But still perfectly tasty. I’d LOVE to see a chunky-style cluster with raisins and peanuts mixed together.)

Still though, it’s nice to be accommodated in such an...

I actually live in New Jersey. This place is complete trash! I bought 4 pieces of fudge today and got home and tried 2 pieces. Complete trash! By far the worst fudge I have ever wasted my money on.I bought chocolate peanut butter swirl caramel sea salt (disgusting) and I love salted caramel items. Chocolate death and a chocolate chip cookie Dough and chocolate fudge. The two I tried were aweful. Disgusting. I see why it’s so cheap! I love fudge and buy it at every shore point I visit during the summer. This is the worse I have ever bought .don’t...

We go here alot during the summer. A lot of homemade chocolate options. All are very good and interesting creations. Never tried the fudge but the chocolate is of good quality. I'm writing this review not just for the chocolate but their less known item. Their popcorn flavors are the best popcorn I have ever had. I'm eating a lime sea salt and vinegar bag right now as I write this. They have all kinds of flavors that you can't buy in a store. Get a bag. You will see what I mean....