From candies to different flavored root beer and gummy bears, Sugar Cubed has it all. As you might have seen on St. Louis local news stations, there is a new candy shop in town and they’re prepared to sweep you off your feet.

“I love walking around Main Street,” senior Jessica Jones said. “I love going into all of the shops and seeing the variety of things they have. I’m excited to go into Sugar Cubed and see all of their crazy candies next time I’m down there.”

As you walk through the door of Sugar Cubed, you see different flavored Jelly Beans and M&Ms lining the walls. There’s a bar set up in the back with five different types of root beer, other craft sodas and international soda from Japan and Europe. They also have a butterscotch soda that tastes like ‘Butter Beer’ from the well-known Harry Potter movies.

“I’ve always wanted to have a small retail store,” store owner Samantha Ellison said. “We were in Los Angeles visiting my third sister, and we went and visited a lot of candy stores like Dylan’s candy bar. We felt like the area was missing a unique candy store.”

Since Labor Day, the store has been in full swing on Main Street in St. Charles. The store took the place of “The Man Cave” and is right across from the restaurant TrailHead. On May 23-25, Samantha and her sister visited the ‘Sweets and Snacks expo’ in Chicago  to see what candies they could make and add to their store.

“We wanted to have unique things, and we knew it would be popular because kids like it,” Ellison said. “Butter beer is unique and so is our German and Japanese candy.”

In the future, the store is planning on finishing the upstairs level to be an activity room. They plan on holding movie nights, get togethers for groups or birthday parties in that space. The top level is set to be finished in 2017.

“I like the people who come into the store,” worker Brittany Shaw said. “I always try to interact with the customers and it’s a lot of fun.”