New Midtown Candy Shop

[cannon_fodder]

"Old World Confectionery" open on Tuesday in the old subway location at 2501 South Harvard, across  from Yoon's Tae Kwon Do, just before the BA heading South.

I stopped in out of curiosity yesterday and am excited to have them in my neighborhood.  It is owned by a young Tulsa couple who moved their store FROM Broken Arrow and followed it to Midtown (new store, new house).  They were very pleasant and put up with my questions as a good business owner should. [^]

Anyway.  It is more of a home style candy shop (as opposed to high brow Kokoa).  No truffles or hand crafted blue berries for $25 a pound.  Instead they have fudge (which is really good), a horde of hand dipped pretzels, nuts, etc., taffy, chocolate brittle, candy canes... things like that.  Nearly everything they had was available in dark, white, milk or sugar free chocolate.

Most stuff seemed to be about $7.50 a pound (don't hold them to it, I think that's what it was!) and I loaded up on some Chocolate Cookie Dough Fudge, some Dark Chocolate Brittle (kind of like crackle) and some milk chocolate covered coconut things.  I'm munching on it as we speak and it's damn good.

I'm not paid, don't know them, nor did they give me anything at all (other than a sample of the dark brittle, which I then bought a half pound of:).  I am just excited to see a new business open up in my area and enjoyed it, so I'm passing on the good word.  HINT:  Easter is not too far off - so you had better try it before stocking up on all your Easter goodness. []

[Conan71]

I was having trouble picturing the location, got it now, north of the BA viaduct.  Thanks for the tip.

[joiei]

quote:Originally posted by cannon_fodder

"Old World Confectionery" open on Tuesday in the old subway location at 2501 South Harvard, across  from Yoon's Tae Kwon Do, just before the BA heading South.

I stopped in out of curiosity yesterday and am excited to have them in my neighborhood.  It is owned by a young Tulsa couple who moved their store FROM Broken Arrow and followed it to Midtown (new store, new house).  They were very pleasant and put up with my questions as a good business owner should. [^]

Anyway.  It is more of a home style candy shop (as opposed to high brow Kokoa).  No truffles or hand crafted blue berries for $25 a pound.  Instead they have fudge (which is really good), a horde of hand dipped pretzels, nuts, etc., taffy, chocolate brittle, candy canes... things like that.  Nearly everything they had was available in dark, white, milk or sugar free chocolate.

Most stuff seemed to be about $7.50 a pound (don't hold them to it, I think that's what it was!) and I loaded up on some Chocolate Cookie Dough Fudge, some Dark Chocolate Brittle (kind of like crackle) and some milk chocolate covered coconut things.  I'm munching on it as we speak and it's damn good.

I'm not paid, don't know them, nor did they give me anything at all (other than a sample of the dark brittle, which I then bought a half pound of:).  I am just excited to see a new business open up in my area and enjoyed it, so I'm passing on the good word.  HINT:  Easter is not too far off - so you had better try it before stocking up on all your Easter goodness. []

No need to trash Kokoa, they are two completely different stores carrying completely different products.  THey aren't even the same variety of orange.  I will definitely check out the new store and will still continue to be a customer at Kokoa.

[danno]

Its good to have business moving BACK to tulsa from BA. I'm not much on sweets, but i'll have to check it out.

[Cirage]

I bought their truffles for our neighbors this year and they were positively received and consumed.  I can totally confirm that they are fantastic.

[cannon_fodder]

quote:Originally posted by joiei
No need to trash Kokoa, they are two completely different stores carrying completely different products.  THey aren't even the same variety of orange.  I will definitely check out the new store and will still continue to be a customer at Kokoa.

Oh hell no.  I wasn't trashing Kokoa at all.  I LOVE their chocolate covered Blue Berries and enjoy trying their different truffles.  Their real hot chocolate is amazing too - though I can barely finish a full cup.  Too rich (but don't add steamed milk)!

I was just trying to illustrate the differences.  Kokoa is certainly high brow and the blue berries are around $25 a pound (I think $15 for a half).  It was not meant as an insult and they indeed will not compete with each other.

[Kashmir]

My German ex-neighbor used to shop there when they were in BA.  I guess she'll have to get her quick fix from Nutella @ Reasors...
Just Kidding...Good Luck to them.

[Conan71]

I stopped in Saturday afternoon.  Very nice young couple, Dave & Jennifer.  I guess I walked out of there with about 4 lbs. of treats.  I kind of sampled- everything was excellent.  I highly recommend it.

The signage is not overly flashy, it's between the BA expressway and Brooks Harvard Medical Center (the Ho-Ho Hotel on Harvard) on the east side of the street in a strip center.

I hope everyone supports them, they are worthy of it.