About Savannah's Candy Kitchen

Here at Savannah's Candy Kitchen we pride ourselves in making true southern confections. For over forty five years, and 3 generations, the Strickland family has been hand making an array of Southern confections using their family's recipes. Owner of Savannah's Candy Kitchen, Stan "the Candy Man" Strickland, learned his mother's passion and old-fashioned methods as a child. Watching her carefully select the freshest ingredients and the way she would use the cup of her hand to measure them. In 1979, the down-home southern delights that started as Mom's recipes, were perfected and used to launch a candy store located on River Street in Historic Savannah, Georgia. The store quickly gained a reputation for Pecan Pralines, Hand Rolled Pecan Logs, Glazed Pecans, Old Fashioned Peanut Brittle, Divinity Candy, and everyone's favorite Turtle Gopher. In 1990, with the original Strickland family recipes, Stan the Candy Man opened the first store named Savannah's Candy Kitchen. On the east end of River Street, in Historic Savannah, Georgia you'll find a copper kettle hanging above a red awning. Inside there is a sense of heritage and love that goes into every hand-made candy. Although not the first of the Strickland Family's candy stores-in Savannah (that one was named River Street Sweets); Savannah's Candy Kitchen, has become the largest candy store in the south.Read their story