Anthony-Thomas Candy Shoppes

Tours! Awesome experience. The hubby and me had a day off work so we headed down to Columbus. The factory has a gift shop, and there you can buy a ticket for a tour. The ticket can then be used toward the purchase of chocolate. Yummy! This place makes Buckeyes as well as chocolate holiday items for larger famous companies. The tour is great. Very educational. I’m a nerd and loved it. I ended up buying so much chocolate and candy it was insane. Great if you have school aged kids for sure. Highly recommend if you are in Columbus!

The tour was really cool. watching how chocolate and other candies are made was very fun for us. At $ 2 per adult and $ 1 for kids you can use your ticket as a coupon after the tour for a dollar off whatever you purchase in their store. we made out pretty good when it came to buying some chocolate goodness

I have loved Anthony Thomas as long as I can remember! There are endless choices of chocolates and other goodies! Whenever I get anything from Anthony Thomas’, it’s truly and special treat!!!
There is no better tasting chocolate anywhere that I have tasted that can come close to being as delicious as their chocolate!!!

2 $ for the tour & then you get to use that 2 $ to shop for candy! Loved this place. Wish they had more tour hours though.

The factory tour is a great — inexpensive day trip to do with the kids!
Tuesdays-​Thursdays you can head over for the factory tour. It was $ 2 for me and $ 1 per each kid. However, we received a dollar off coupon per each dollar spent towards any candy you purchase. So ultimately, its free as long as you spend a buck in the shop.
The tour — was an elevated catwalk that overlooked each part of the candy making/​packaging process. It was super cool to see the machines in action, oozing chocolate! The employees looked happy as they worked; I guess who could frown surrounded by that much chocolate.
The history of the business was pretty interesting — family business. They have 13 shoppes that sell their candies. They contract for larger businesses too.
Samples at the end (along with the coupons you got earlier) put you in the mood to buy some more as the tour ends in the gift shop. I brought home choc. covered marsh mellows, truffles, caramels, buckeyes and rock candy. Only spent six bucks and some change — much less than I would have spent at Chocoholique. Love me some sweet treats!

You’ve been driving down 270 and witnessed their large pink bunny atop their building. The location’s no mystery-​sign says Anthony Thomas. What is a mystery is what’s inside that building.
Chocolate. Milk chocolate, dark chocolate, sugar-​free chocolate, chocolate covered fruit, Buckeyes, bulk candy and more. All this can be bought in the store found inside that huge bunny building. All this can be experienced though a factory tour, which, I haven’t taken yet, but will. I mean, why not?
I stopped in for the first time to see if they had anything for Easter. If-​pssh. If, he says. They had EVERYTHING you could need for Easter baskets. Jelly Beans (including Spice and Black), molded hollow bunnies, solid bunnies and lambs, a giant $ 300 solid bunny for photo ops (and for purchase), colorful rock sugar candy and chocolate covered crème eggs. A flavor that stood out was the Dark Chocolate Sea Salt Caramel. What’s great is that they had sugar-​free Easter themed candy, which provides a fun option for those who can’t enjoy sugar.
Finding the shop can get a little tricky. It’s not hard, but not as easy as it is spotting it from 270. My best suggestion is to Map It and keep your eyes open for what Morgan D included in her photos. The area is a little industrial and there’s a good amount of parking but I’m sure it gets full during their candy sales.
Looking forward to Valentine’s.

This was a fun choclate factory tour that kids will really enjoy. My kids are big fans of the show ‘How It’s Made’ & the tour let them see up front the machines that crank out all the chocolate. You also get a buckeye at the end of the tour which was a bonus!
Being from out of town, I had never heard of Anthony Thomas before but I am now a fan. Their chocolate is so creamy and I love the variety of chocolates and other types of candy they had in the gift shop. We picked up some chocolate covered pretzel rods that were a perfect combination of sweet & salty, toffee covered chocolate squares and the most flavorful salt water taffy I’ve ever had. Prices were reasonable also.

Touring this factory from the glass encased catwalks that go all through the production area, it felt like living an episode of How It’s Made, Unwrapped, or Factory Made. The candy itself was melt in your mouth heaven. It’s up there with Godiva.
This is a great day out with your kids or a personal munchie raid. I took off a point though for the exorbitantly expensive prices. It kinda takes some of the fun out of it for you unless money is no object.

We took the factory tour and we wished we did not. We saw so many violations. Employees touching things and dropping boxes on the floor. They just picked up the boxes and filled them with candy. I don’t know why they think handmade chocolate is something to be desirable, I rather have the machine make them– it’s so much cleaner. The less human contact with food the better. After the tour we bought some samples, which were nothing to die for.

Ya, ya, Easter is over — but now is a great time to go to A.T.s to stock up on 50% off molded chocolate novelties, bunnies, and half priced filled Easter eggs.
The chocolate is much better than your typical Hershey bar or cooking chocolate and tastes great. I also like to melt the bunnies down for chocolate fondue, or to grate over a chocolate cream pie or some homemade tiramisu. You can exorcise demons by chopping the bunnies and adding the chopped bunnies to your favorite chocolate chip or oatmeal cookie recipe.
At this point why shop before Easter if you want the same goodies the day after at 50% off? Tell the kids that the Easter Bunny is offering Carte Blanche on the day after Easter, direct from his factory…
As of this morning, there were still lots of molded bunnies and filled Easter eggs with peanut butter, butter cream, chocolate fudge, and fruit and nuts.
Try the area stores as well…

After driving past Cocoa Manor near Goodale Park seven thousand times, I decided it was time to try Anthony Thomas Candy.
I went to the Arlingate facility several times before actually gaining access (please note their business hours), but once I got into the candy shoppe and that nose tingling chocolate scent overtook me, my frustrations dissipated. I wandered from table to table, admiring the special Christmas chocolates, baby shower and wedding chocolates, thank you and get well chocolates, boxed chocolates, display case chocolates, marked-​down Halloween candies, and a giant buckeye weighing over 200lbs and costing about $ 3,500. Yowza! I inquired about the big buckeye, and was disappointed to find out that it’s solid milk chocolate, no peanut butter.
I grabbed a bag of Cherry Sours and hit the display case to handpick a small variety of candies. I got a chocolate graham, one raspberry and one lemon cream, two buckeyes, two caramels, two cherry cordials, two crunches, a chocolate covered orange peel, and a coconut flake to be split between myself and Greg. I tried to memorize what everything looked like as it went into the box; one of my biggest pet peeves about boxed chocolates is you never know what you’re about to bite into. Right, Forest?
I have to admit that I’m not one for oranges, but the lady behind the counter suggested it, and I like trying new things, so I bought in. The orange peel was actually really good. It was chewy and fresh. I liked it a lot. I also loved the chocolate graham and the caramel candy. The raspberry cream was strange. It had seeds in it, and I didn’t like the flavor. The buckeye was smooth and creamy. The other candies are waiting to be devoured.
I also broke into the Cherry Sours. They are delicious. I could easily eat the entire bag in one sitting. They have a crystallized sugar coating on the outside, and a chewy jelly-​bean like center. They just slightly sour.
Cost per unit was totally reasonable.
Oh, on the way out of the store, I was also offered a chocolate buckeye pretzel. It’s basically one of those peanut butter filled pretzel nuggets dipped in chocolate. If you like salty-​sweet as much as I do, try a bag of these. They were yummy and reminded me a bit of that homemade puppy chow Chex mix candy.