We opened in July in the building on Main Street that people have been walking into for candy for a very long time. Loose candy by the quarter pound, hand-dipped ice cream, a deli case with sandwiches made to order, and antique booths in the back half of the store. Open seven days a week, ten to five.
New in July 2026 · Open seven days a week · Historic Downtown Parkville
What is inside
The front half of the store is the counter: candy, ice cream and the deli case. The back half is antiques, forty booths of them, which is the part people do not expect and then spend an hour in. You can get a cone and walk the booths, and most people do exactly that.
Sixteen flavours in the case at a time, hand dipped, in a cake cone, a waffle cone or a cup. Malts, shakes, floats made with bottled soda, and sundaes. The flavour list changes and it is written on the chalkboard, which is the only place it is ever accurate.
$4.25 single scoop
Loose candy by the quarter pound out of the jars, sold in a paper sack the way it should be. Root beer barrels, horehound, ribbon candy, salt water taffy, licorice, sour cherries and about ninety others. Plus the boxed and nostalgic candy people come in looking for because nobody else carries it.
$3.50 a quarter pound
Around eighty kinds of glass-bottle soda in the cooler, including the cane sugar ones and a shelf of the flavours that exist mainly as a dare. There is an opener on the wall and a crate for the empties, and you are welcome to drink it here.
$2.75 a bottle
Sandwiches made to order on the slicer, a few salads, chips and a pickle. Nothing complicated and nothing that takes twenty minutes. Most of it goes out the door in a paper wrap to people eating on the bench outside or down at the river.
$8.50 a sandwich
The back half of the building. Forty vendors, so the mix changes constantly: pressed glass, enamelware, quilts, tools, signs, jewelry, records, small furniture. Everything is tagged and priced, and we ring it all up at the front counter.
booth prices vary
Honey, jam, pickles and sorghum from people who live within about thirty miles of this counter, plus candles and the sort of small gift you buy on your way to something. We put a card in the sack telling you whose farm it came from.
from $6
Prices
Cash and cards both, and there is no minimum on a card, which matters in a store where a lot of purchases are two dollars. Antique booth prices are set by the forty vendors and are on the tags, and we ring those up at the same counter. If you are bringing a group of children through, call ahead in the morning and we will have somebody extra at the ice cream case at the time you say. Prices here are illustrative for this preview.
The shop
The one thing worth saying plainly: this shop opened in July 2026. Two different businesses have been in this building before us and both of them are still all over the internet, with their photographs, their hours and thirteen years of reviews attached. If you searched and got a name that is not ours, that is why. The door is the same door and it is open seven days a week.
The shop
Owner name goes here opened Peppermint Landing in July 2026 in a building that has sold candy on and off since before either of us was born. The marble counter, the jars and the tin ceiling came with it. What we changed is the ice cream case, the deli slicer, and the fact that it is open on Sunday.
The reason this page exists is that a shop three weeks old cannot outrank two shops that are gone. Search the address and you still get the trading post that was here for thirteen years, and behind that the sweet shop that was here before them, both with more photographs and more reviews than we will have for a while. This page is the only thing on the internet that says, in one place, what the shop is called now, what is in it, and that it is open today.
Owner name goes here, Parkville
Finding us
123 Main St
Parkville, MO 64152
Two blocks up from English Landing Park, on the same side as the awnings. Street parking on Main and a public lot behind the buildings. The front door is at sidewalk level with a low threshold, the aisle to the ice cream case is wide, and the booths in the back are on the same level as the front of the store.
Seven days a week, ten to five, including Sunday, which is the day most of downtown Parkville is shut and the day the park across the road is busiest. On farmers market Saturdays and during Parkville Days we open earlier and stay later, and we post it on the door and the chalkboard. If you want a tray of candy or a cake made for something, a week is plenty of notice.
Towns we cover: Parkville, Riverside, Weatherby Lake, Platte Woods, Lake Waukomis, Northmoor, Platte City, Kansas City north of the river, Zona Rosa, Leavenworth, Lansing and everyone who has walked up from English Landing Park.