Master chocolatier Chris Curtin’s confections have been hailed as the best chocolates in America. He spent time learning the trade in Belgium, Switzerland, France, Germany, and Japan before setting up in West Chester. His elegant truffles, crèmes, caramels, and bars are also sold online and in other shops, including Di Bruno Bros.

For more than 30 years, Sweet Stuff in Ardmore’s Suburban Square has been wowing kids and adults alike with its walls of candy. The Main Line’s largest selection of candy and chocolate includes all types of gummies, nonpareils, licorice, jelly beans, chocolates, and chocolate-covered pretzels and dried fruit.

On a busy day, Mueller Chocolate Company inside Reading Terminal Market can serve up to 800 customers. Many stop to get boxes of chocolate caramels sprinkled with sea salt or chocolate-covered pretzels and fruit — the brave try the chocolate-covered onion or opt for a body part, like the brain-shaped chocolate.

With five locations in Philadelphia, this nuts and candy shop stands ready with a sweet or salty fix. The vast selection includes caramels, cordials, marshmallows, gummies, hard candy, mints, chocolate-covered nuts, and more.

Family-owned Lore’s has been making sweets since 1967. More than 100 types of chocolates and confections made by hand in small batches are sold at the Old City shop, which is just a block from the Liberty Bell. Choose from chocolate-covered graham crackers and pretzels, malted milk balls, single varietal chocolate bars, butter toffee pecans, caramels, and sugar candy.

The Anastasio family, which goes back four generations in the Italian Market, is behind Anthony’s Italian Coffee & Chocolate House. To the left is the coffee shop; enter the door on the right to browse the display of chocolate-covered pretzels, chocolate turtles, chocolate cordial cherries, and dark chocolate truffles filled with hazelnut ganache.

This relative newcomer to the candy scene sells some of the city’s most stunning chocolates. Owner Aurora Wold honed her skills in New York City restaurants like Jean-Georges and Eleven Madison Park before opening this Queen Village charmer. She uses sustainably sourced chocolate to create hand-painted bonbons in vibrant colors, slow-cooked caramels, crisp toffees, nougats, pate de fruit, marshmallows, and candy bars.

Just off South Street, Sweettooth is a big draw for families in the neighborhood and tourists looking for a sweet pick-me-up. More than 250 items in the store make deciding what to get a challenge, but mix-and-matching from the rows of candy-filled containers is encouraged.