Riverside Chocolate Factory

Over this past weekend on a day out road trip My Husband & I discovered Riverside Chocolate Store! I love homemade candy & sweets. I am 68 & this is the best homemade chocolate store I ever tried! The smell of homemade chocolate is so wonderful. It took a long moment for us to decide what to get? We did purchase milk chocolate & also each had a milk chocolate dipped Bananas. Wonderful & the best! Next time & yes there will be a next time & many times when we are in the area to try the homemade fudge. This store is pricey like everywhere else & some items are very reasonable. But we had top watch what we spent that day. I was hypnotized by the smell of fresh homemade chocolate & dazzled by so many choices! It was very hard for me to pick out a few things. Very friendly service as well. We did tell the staff it would take some time for us to decide. They understood too. So many delicious homemade goodies! Plus the regular manufactured candy little kids & adults love. Almost anything you can think of! really appreciate old school shops like this. It reminds me when I was a little girl as we had so many great homemade candy shops like Riverside. But sad to say over the years they started to close & vanish. Due to factory candy. Riverside is the real thing!! I could go here once a week if I lived closer. We live in Chicago out west near the suburbs. But Riverside is well worth driving to. So many choices! Such a pleasant homemade chocolate store! Ice Cream too & many choices as well in that section. My grandson would love to go here with us! I pray that Riverside never goes out of business! I pray that there generations of family keep this wonderful, fun & charming candy store open forever!

Riverside always have great candy apples - a wonderful delicious variety!Service is always great! They have many treats - homemade chocolates and old candy favorites!

Fun independently owned (I think) candy store that makes its own stuff and sells ice cream. Very nice little place. And the pumpkin carmels...oh my god. Put them into my freaking veins. PUT THEM IN.

Decent chocolate- I mean chocolate is delicious. Didn't try the ice cream. What I had was good. The usual treats you would expect. Fudge was good.

We have been coming to this place for many years. To our disappointment we stopped in tonight to witness a bunch of unhappy, unwelcoming, unfriendly rude people. It certainly was freezing in there but you shouldn't take it out on your customers. I did see it is under new ownership and also see that they disabled google reviews because they are so bad and pretty much say the same thing. One would think they would be a little nicer with all of those bad reviews. It is unfortunate because the treats are wonderful but people will only tolerate rude, ungrateful behavior for so long. I hope you can turn this around quickly for your sake !

Small family owned candy store located in a building shaped like a huge Hershey Kiss.Known for their hand dipped toffee along with caramels and turtles.Small section featuring "Old Time" candy which brought back many childhood memories They also serve homemade ice creams as well as chocolate covered fruits and fudge.Prices are not cheap but the quality makes it worth while.Shipping is available. If in the area,give this local candy store a visit.

Went after dinner, one day. This is my first time going. I was told chocolate covered bananas are the way to go. I choose mine with nuts and dark chocolate. Never did I Realize how delicious this could be. It was so refreshing . Only there was a really long line, but it did move really fast. There were many people. The staff did good about people trying to cut there were choices of candies, nostalgic candies, delicious handmade candy ice cream all kinds of treats. I did also buy some fudge chocolate cream filled things, chocolate, strawberries, and chocolate raspberry cups. The chocolate strawberries, real raspberry cups need to be eaten soon. The cream filled chocolate not so fast thoroughly enjoyed the fresh raspberries and fresh strawberries covered in chocolate For the cream filled chocolate bonbon not my favorite. I will not buy again. I did not try the fudge. I will do that today. I did not get any kind of receipt. I was curious what the breakdown of my bill was to know what I paid for which items that would've been interesting to see as the bill was pretty hefty for two chocolate with bananas 22 cups, two strawberries and a piece of fudge so know what I would pay next time or what I would choose to purchase based on price community tons and tons of I'm gonna post some men. The seats out side were so cute and nice to enjoy our treat.

When you are craving something sweet or need a special gift this is the place to go in McHenry. It's right on a busy corner and the cone shaped building is hard to miss. It's pricey but has quite the selection of everyday and holiday candy. They also serve ice cream. Service was quick and friendly and the displays were mouthwateringly cute.

This place is SO good... I would say addicting! In the best way possible :). I always get the same thing- chocolate covered bananas and strawberries on a stick, usually covered in dark chocolate. What I love is that the fruit is not overly frozen and hard to eat, both the bananas and strawberries taste fresh and the chocolate accompaniment is soo smooth. I wish there was another location in the city, but whenever I'm in the burbs or nearby.. I have to stop in! I would suggest you do too :)

It's a busy place, especially for ice cream. Their chocolates are so good. The haystacks are big and delicious!