Tweet Sweet

Chocolate Cottage: The Ultimate Sensation
720 East 10600 South
Sandy, Utah 84094

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Review Summary
The Chocolate Cottage is a home-grown, mom-and-pop neighborhood chocolate and confection shop. What you can expect is friendly service and a wide assortment of candies and fresh chocolates. Though it’s close to the main drag (106th South) it’s strip-mall location behind a gas station leaves much to be desired, as does some of the decor inside. Have a chocolate-covered grape and instantly you’ll know you’re in the right place.

My Visit
I drove out to the Chocolate Cottage on my lunch break, and found them located right off 106th South past 7th East behind a Tesoro Gas Station in a rather old-looking strip mall. There were several people in the store when I walked in, one of which – a young boy – seemed overwhelmed at all the packaged confectionaries and brightly-colored candies covering the walls. I was immediately drawn to the well-ordered chocolate case, where I selected some milk chocolate haystacks, mint truffles, nut-covered toffee, and a couple other tasty items with the word “divine” in their names to take with me. All the chocolates in the case were neatly placed in glass dishes on paper doilies and rung up by the pound as I chose them. I thought it cute that when I went to unknowingly select a “sugar-free” chocolate, the lady that was helping me said “you might want this one over here, since those are sugar free.” (I’m rather slim, so I suppose she thought I could handle the sugar). The shop itself had a very “home-grown” look that seems very common in Utah - the whole lace and wallpaper approach.

It was no surprise after seeing the shop that I didn’t find a website for them (see below), it’s a very neighborhood-like place. As far as appearance, it was very different than the way I image Tweet Sweet looking – it was more like a candy-store meets grandma cute.  I grabbed their business card while my treats were rung up. Founded in 1991 (according to the card) and run by Gary and Kim Smart, it looks like they’ve been successfully serving the area for over 15 years. Their tagline read “The Ultimate Sensation” (hu? what’s that?) and also had “Candies and Gifts for All Occasions” stamped on the card (ahhh, that’s better).

Their shop had a little to be desired as far as it’s “look”, but their chocolates were tasty. I shared a few with people down at work and they agreed. On the way out she gave me a chocolate-covered grape – my first time eating one of those. It was awesome – a nice flavorful pop inside a sweet chocolate layer. They also dip strawberries and rasberries daily. I’ll be back for more of those.

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