Sweet Surrender

Posted by Regan

Having recently moved from San Francisco to New York, I still toggle the coasts pretty regularly. A trip out West seems to always include a visit to Miette in Hayes Valley, a candy store that's equal parts Parisian confiserie and five-and-dime, with a dash of dressing-room girlishness that's irresistible.

The madcap array of candy is as beautifully put together as it is displayed, and ranges from the usual (multicolored gumballs, jawbreakers, and the full spectrum of jelly beans) to the unexpected (sea-salt caramels, old-fashioned candy bars, imported chocolates, malt balls, and an assortment of candy cigarettes). Cakes, cupcakes, and pastel almond macaroons (from the store's sister bakeshop) fill the front window and an entire wall sports an international selection of black licorice (my personal favorite).

Nearly everything is sold by the pound, so you can buy as little or as much as you like. In fact, I'm enjoying my stash of Danish Heksehyl Zoet at my desk as I post this!

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Comments

[Enzie Shahmiri]

Everytime I visit San Fransisco, I stop at Miette for their Lavender sugar cookies. They are too die for!

I love the colors in that store so much that I am even using their wallpaper as the backdrop for a portrait commission I am currently working on.

Miette is awesome!

[Rosie]

I can't get over that wallpaper! Love it!

[Amanda]

Don't you just love this place?! Whenever I take a day trip to SF from my home in Sacramento, I make a pit stop at this delicious place. The decorations and design in this shop are really cute and vintagey.

[decor fellow]

Thanks for bringing light to this FAB bake shop! I heart the macaroons and have some each trip to SF. Yumm!

[Annie]

Wow! Even though I've lived in the Bay Area almost a decade there are still a thousand (or more!) wonderful little places to discover. You totally had me at "sea-salt caramels." I mean really, is there a better idea?

[murali]

Wow! Now *that* is a candy shop! I haven't seen one like that since I was a kid, and they were rare enough then!

[Deborah]

For everytime Ive been to HV Ive never gon into the store!I deffinatly will now!