Dylan's Candy Bar a sweet success for designer's daughter
If Ralph Lauren is your dad, you probably have a built-in good-taste gene. The designer's daughter, Dylan Lauren, wanted her own company and opened the most incredible candy store, Dylan's Candy Bar, in Manhattan (the Big Apple). It's the flagship store, but there are four other stores, in Garden City, N.Y.; Houston; and Orlando, Fla.
Entering, you would think it would bowl over kids, which it does. One little guy froze and said "wow" three times before he would budge, but adults are also slack-jawed on their first visit.
It's two floors of floor-to-ceiling candy. While sampling candy or eating a giant ice cream cone, you sit on a barstool seat that looks like a giant peppermint. Going downstairs where there's lots more candy and a party room that can be rented, you'll see that candy has been embedded under the Plexiglas.
The Saturday I dropped in, the place was packed.
"This is the biggest crowd we've seen anywhere in the city," one visitor said as she made her way to a wall of jelly beans.
I think my favorite part of the store was a giant apple filled with a display of some famous people's favorite candy.
Ralph Lauren loves black licorice. His wife, Ricky Lauren, Dylan's mother, prefers peanut M&Ms. Billy Crystal and Michael J. Fox are wild for marshmallow peanuts. Mary-Kate Olsen loves Tootsie Rolls, and Bill Clinton has a weakness for PayDay candy bars.
Each person signed the little container holding his or her favorite candy.
The store seems to bring out the kid in customers of all ages. A middle-aged woman looked wide-eyed at the ice cream sundae she was about to dive into.
"Can you believe I'm eating ice cream with a candy bar stuck into it? And I'm going to eat the whole thing even if it makes me sick," she told the lollipop-licking child she was with.
source- www.kansas.com
If Ralph Lauren is your dad, you probably have a built-in good-taste gene. The designer's daughter, Dylan Lauren, wanted her own company and opened the most incredible candy store, Dylan's Candy Bar, in Manhattan (the Big Apple). It's the flagship store, but there are four other stores, in Garden City, N.Y.; Houston; and Orlando, Fla.
Entering, you would think it would bowl over kids, which it does. One little guy froze and said "wow" three times before he would budge, but adults are also slack-jawed on their first visit.
It's two floors of floor-to-ceiling candy. While sampling candy or eating a giant ice cream cone, you sit on a barstool seat that looks like a giant peppermint. Going downstairs where there's lots more candy and a party room that can be rented, you'll see that candy has been embedded under the Plexiglas.
The Saturday I dropped in, the place was packed.
"This is the biggest crowd we've seen anywhere in the city," one visitor said as she made her way to a wall of jelly beans.
I think my favorite part of the store was a giant apple filled with a display of some famous people's favorite candy.
Ralph Lauren loves black licorice. His wife, Ricky Lauren, Dylan's mother, prefers peanut M&Ms. Billy Crystal and Michael J. Fox are wild for marshmallow peanuts. Mary-Kate Olsen loves Tootsie Rolls, and Bill Clinton has a weakness for PayDay candy bars.
Each person signed the little container holding his or her favorite candy.
The store seems to bring out the kid in customers of all ages. A middle-aged woman looked wide-eyed at the ice cream sundae she was about to dive into.
"Can you believe I'm eating ice cream with a candy bar stuck into it? And I'm going to eat the whole thing even if it makes me sick," she told the lollipop-licking child she was with.
source- www.kansas.com
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Absolutely adorable!
