Sweet Gifts @ Video Cafe

We love your whole candy store! Every time we come we get more excited about all the new things you have! We buy all our special gifts there! Everyone is so friendly and so nice! Your the most creative candy store that we have ever been to! We love your shop! Our best friend always wants to take the ride with us just to go to your candy store and get his favorite chocolate covered gummy bears! Thank you for being so awesome!
Michele, Stu, Samantha and Spencer

Sweet Gifts & Fudge is a cute little neighborhood shop, stocked with stuffed animals and every sweet a child (or grown-​up!) could want. The staff is super friendly and there is no shortage of sugar to be had, from ice cream to fresh fudge to cotton candy. The candy can be a bit overpriced, but that’s fairly standard for the weigh-​it-​yourself candies (yes, I am guilty of spending $ 16 on candy corn here, but it was also so much better than the Brach’s candy corn you get at Duane Reade). Also, there’s something chalky about the yogurt pretzels, no clue why. The chocolate ones are safe though. :) Solid spot to pick up sweets and gifts and the people here really are the nicest!

Sweet nostalgic memories of childhood favorite candies give you a warm hug when you walk through these doors… the homemade fudge is sooo ridiculously good (red velvet!) and sweet. Just stop by and have your jaw dropped, yup that awesome.

Was in a rush to get some snacks for a party and stumbled upon this place. It has a great selection of sweets. We ended up going with several types of fudge (got the caramel vanilla, rocky road, chocolate, and vanilla chocolate swirl). People at the party LOVED it. Glad to have it in my new neighborhood.

This place is awesome. So much fun to be in there. I’m not a sweets guy at all, but I loved all the interesting selections they had. I have a bag right now of peanut butter chocolates (think butterfingers), and clodhoppers — and I’m going to finish it all before I get a chance to share it with anybody. Great vibe, I will definitely go back for gifts and for my lunch break.

My friends and I stumbled into this place. What a great find! They make their own fudge and you can sample the assorted flavors. My friends loved it and bought some to take home. If you don’t like fudge they have an assortment of other candy you can buy along with novelty items. If you’re around the area, you should definitely swing by!

I got lucky and found this place while my wife and I were wandering around the hood after an appointment.
It’s absolutely adoooorable! You’re immediately greeted with a genuine smile when you walk in. The staff is so sweet (yep, totally intentional) and friendly. There’s a selection of DVDs in the back. In the front there’s a massive selection, not only of treats, but of all kinds of other candy and fun novelties.
There’s an endless array of fudge flavors to choose from. I highly recommend the red velvet. MmmmmMmmM…

Have to try the blueberry cheesecake fudge. And ask Luis to say peanut buttuh. It’s the best. Thanks Luis for a fudgetastic experience.

I LOVE this place. I had a lot of difficulty finding fudge in the city; however, I stumbled upon Sweet Gifts and I was SO pleased! Their fudge is fresh and delicious. I especially enjoyed the Red Velvet and Cookies n Cream. They also have a ton of other amazing looking flavors. The staff is so friendly and nice.
The only other place I know of that has fudge is Dylan’s. This fudge is SO much better.

Candy. Ice Cream. DVD rentals. Stuffed animals.
Don’t do drugs and walk into this place.

Super nice, charming, inviting, helpful, I could go on… Great service and delicious fudge!

Wonderful fudge and even more wonderful service. I highly recommend the new caramel chocolate fudge.

The owner is such a lovely guy. I used to go in a few years back before they changed over to a candy/​dvd store… I was surprised to see so much choice in sweeties last week (or candy as you all call it !) I have just called to see if they have «lego» candy that I can use to decorate my 4 year olds birthday cake tomorrow and they do !!! whoooppiee I will be going in there way more often from now on… always love to support local business too ! Great store go visit ! oh and he let try the home made fudge yum !!!

I absolutely LOVE this place. Very friendly staff and also they have been around for a long time so it’s good to still see them here in the neighborhood. They have a great week day special rent one new movie get an old one to rent for free! Can’t beat that. :)

We LOVE this family run store – it is a gem in Hell’s Kitchen.
I forgot to order balloons in advance for my daughter’s first birthday party last week, and the owners came in early on a Saturday morning to get them done in time for me. They also will call me when movies I want to rent come back, and their homemade fudge is also the best in town.

Great video selection for weekly rentals. Endless candy options with gourmet candy and frozen yogurt behind the counter. Great staff and open late!

Come for the wide-​range of candy, fresh spun cotton candy, the hand-​crafted chocolate or the delicate ice-​cream. I’ve never felt more like a ‘kid in a candy store’ in this place.
Love!

«Candy Killed The Video Star»
This quietly run business now generates the feeling like Dylans Candy Bar threw up on a Blockbuster Video (do they still exist?) And I like it!
Video Café was always promoting other products and services even during their days of actually being just a video rental store. Now renamed «Sweet Gifts» they have honed their direction of providing you with all the goodies (and more) you can get at a movie theatre, plus some really great titles to rent. I mean it’s impossible to leave without any sort of sugary substance. Now, leaving without a «Hells Kitchen» branded hat or tee shirt is more plausible.
The membership is free which is a bonus, but also to be expected considering all of the netflix, on-​demand, red box options. Selection is big but someone has to filter out some of the razzies.
The staff is always very nice and lets you browse in peace. I even got them to waive a late fee once due to causes out of my control.
I’ve seen this business go through a lot of changes and I truly hope them the best. I would hate to see a proprietary establishment disappear.

As a long-​time resident of Hell’s Kitchen, I’ve been going to the Video Café for over 10 years. Angel, the owner, is a really nice guy. Unfortunately as we know most locally owned ‘mom-&-pop’ video rental stores have long since vanished, along with even the big chains like Blockbuster. However, the Video Café remains, due to the fact that they have brought in Candy, ice-​cream, and other novelty items, including their ‘Hell’s Kitchen Gear’, which is a really great idea, since you can’t get it anywhere else in the neighborhood.
Their video collection is unfortunately not as extensive as it once was, since they’ve sold a lot of their stuff. But, if you are looking for new releases, and old school classics, they are the best place around. Plus, their homemade cotton candy is delicious…

It reminds me of where Jerry, George, and Kramer rented their videos — ‘movie whisperer’ and all. But no Rochelle, Rochelle.
Free membership, Hell’s Kitchen hats and tees, good deals during the week like rent one new release get an old movie free. The staff is really helpful and friendly, there are tons of VHS’, random DVDs on sale, and a porn selection.