Tuck’s Candy Factory

Candy lovers will not be disappointed — it is fresh, diverse, and can even be packaged and delivered to you if ordered in advance. The shop is located centrally to art galleries and restaurants, so there’s plenty available to do in the area, especially if you head into Boston.

I’m a big fan of Tuck’s taffy – best I’ve ever had! Loads better than the stuff you can get at the airport. Great variety of flavors and highly addicting. Some of my favorite flavors are: cinnamon, peanut butter, licorice and spearmint. Yum! May have to drive up there soon to stock up.
I’ve tasted some of the chocolate items and I find the chocolate average.

Excellent dark chocolate peanut butter cups and packaged «fruit» slices.
Mixed opinion of their marzipan tiny fruits — sometimes good, sometimes kind of stale.

first time their and last. The girl at the counter asked if that’s all I wanted (1 item) I said yes. I saw her put something else in the bag then I got distracted, I paid her and left. I got back on the bus (a bus tour) and headed back home. Once home I realized she had charged me for the item I did not want. I guess that is a good way to get rid of summer product,

An amazing stop and such sweet surroundings. There are a good number of stops here in Rockport that seem timeless, Tuck’s fits that bill with room to spare being in business more than 80 years. The shop looks it in a positive way and without any questions at all the candies are to die for.

Spectacular salt water taffy and cases of gorgeous looking chocolates. I’m sad we didn’t go back to buy more before we left. Staff was friendly and efficient.

Cute, fairly touristy. Lovely old taffy making machine in the front window that’s fun to watch, especially with children. The penuche fudge was decent. One disappointment– they «don’t do» samples, not even one tiny sliver. And that’s half the fun!

This store is really cute. You can watch them as they make taffy in the other room and the staff is all very friendly and willing to make suggestions. The taffy is delicious! They also have a lot of chocolate and other candies as well. If you need a souvenir, come here to pick it up. You won’t be sorry!

All we got was some fudge and toffee but they were really friendly and it was a nice looking place. The toffee is perfect. The fudge was very good but not the BEST I’ve ever had.

We went to Tuck’s candies to buy 15 pounds of salt water taffy to use as wedding favors. The woman at the counter was very helpful and made it easy for us to get a large assortment of candy. Their taffy is delicious!

Good taffy! And you can see the machine churning them out :)
There’s a huge variety of flavors for cheap cheap cheap! And a good amount of assorted candies along the wall.
Not much to say except that Tuck’s (there are two in the area, very close to eachother) is a quickie must see/​taste if you’ve driven a fair distance into Rockport!

The chocolate covered Nutter Butter was good, but nothing great. Typical touristy candy shop. Each piece of chocolate is around $ 1.25 each.

Good little candy stop in Rockport. They have great solid dark chocolate — perfect mix of bitter and sweet, and nice and solid. The fudge is just okay, a little dry and not too flavorful.

Always stop in to buy my salt water taffy!!! Love the peppermint & banana flavors! I also tried their fudge, its decent. They are very friendly!

I have an on-​off relationship with Tucks. Because I live in town, it’s the closest place to get chocolate if I’m having cravings. But their chocolate really isn’t anything to write home about. It’s very dry and tasteless. The truffles aren’t very good. But it’s fantastic around Christmas time. They do candy demonstrations and let you in the store to show you they make candy canes. The thing I think Tucks makes best is their peppermint sticks with chocolate in the middle. Those are delicious. I think they sell them year round but they make a lot of them around Christmas. As others have said, the stores are family owned and the man who runs them is lovely. He’s a very nice guy and good with children when they come to watch the demonstrations.

Tuck’s rocky road cups have played a major role in my life for the past five years. I use them to reward myself when I do something good… or want something good to happen. Eating delicious chocolate is DEFINITELY a good thing to have happen. I have a co-​worker who would refer to this as ‘intentional chocolate’. Try it. Rocky road cups make life even better.

The classic new England seaside taffy and chocolate store. MMMMMM!
I like the one near the neck as it has a taffy pulling machine that goes during the summer. The other one up the street has the huge selection of goodies. By the way, you won’t be disappointed, eat alot!

Have you ever had chocolate covered blueberries? Their chocolate is delicious! They even offer candy canes filled with chocolate around the holidays! Homemade salt water taffy, chocolate covered oreo cookies… so good…

Tuck’s is a staple in the downtown storefronts in Rockport. With two locations, one more of a gift shop and the other the taffy pull/​candy factory, you get a different experience in each place, with all of the varieties of candy. If this were solely ranking the candy factory, it would have four stars.
Being able to watch people pulling taffy is really cool if you’ve never gotten the chance to see that before, and the candy is reasonably yummy. But if you’ve ever had Nichol’s candies in neighboring Gloucester, or tasted fudge from the fudgery up the road, you may regret buying those things from Tuck’s first.
The plus side is that it’s all right there in one spot, so if you’re craving a box of chocolates or some taffy, there’s a great selection. The taffy alone would get five stars from me, but given the other offerings it bumps it down to three. Particularly the gift shop outlet of Tuck’s… the items there are generally very tacky and cheap, with a lot of ‘Rockport’ put on everything. (we don’t have killer whales or bottlenosed dolphins), though there is a fair selection of greeting cards and an occasional nice gift tucked amongst the personalized pens and lobster magnets.
Oh! And they’re open year round and make their own huge candy canes at Christmas which are delicious!
All of the taffy flavors are delicious, though. Particularly the coffee and the peanut butter/​molasses.

Pretty typical tourist trap candy store, although they get bonus points for being a fourth generation independently operated small business. You can find places like this in any seaside tourist destination. They all make some form of taffy and have listless teens working behind the counter dreaming of anything but making and selling candy.
I for one as a tourist salute them. And eat their taffy.