Ainslee's Salt Water Taffy, Depoe Bay OR

The best salt water taffy ever. We stop there every time we go to the coast. The staff is always friendly.

The taffy is fantastic. Today they pulled at least two flavors. Fresh black cherry and licorice. Make sure you sample at least a piece of taffy and purchase at least a little of their amazing hand dipped chocolates as well. My favorite is the sea foam in milk chocolate. My second trip to Depoe Bay in a month and I am now heading home with a full bag of yummy salt water taffy. Come give them a shot. There are really good restaurants as well. I believe Highway 101 Burger is right next-door. Make sure you check out the wave action and possible whale migration out in the bay.

Super soft taffy. We almost ate the entire bag before the day was over. We just couldn’t stop eating it.

Very friendly service and my mom says it's the best caramel corn she's ever had so I had to stop.

So many flavors! I thought "I'll just get a few pieces of each flavor that appeals to me" and $30 later I had almost a whole bag full of taffy

It's good though, and their chocolate covered sea foam is amazing!

Black Licorice ice cream is hard to find, so getting a scoop here was a rare treat. Yummy! However, taffy merits the loss of a couple stars in this review. It didn't have a very good texture, and even knowing the half-dozen or so flavors I picked out, I couldn't sense which was which, other than mint and cinnamon. The others (even caramel apple) were hard to figure out when I blindly grabbed one out of the bag. It's weird that this place is so loved. I've had much better.

A couple of months ago my husband and I went to Depoe Bay and I wanted to get some salt water taffy and carmel corn. Got both and they were wonderful! The taffy was soft and the different flavors of root beer; cinnamon; vanilla; marionberry and numerous others were right on spot. My granddaughter and I really enjoyed the carmel corn when we made it back home. We have been goitg to Ainsler's for many years and never disapointed. Certainly no complaints from us,

The ice cream they sell is Umpqua, which you can purchase at any grocery store for a fraction of the price. No kid size scoops available. They also charge an extra dollar if you want an extra cup so you can split ice cream between a couple kiddos. Staff wasn't friendly. The whole thing felt like a rip off.

We had a wonderful time at the store. We could observe the process of making salt water taffy. The machine for wrapping the taffy is from early 1900 and super interesting to watch. Tasting the fresh taffy was so yummy! We had peanut butter flavor. The consistency of the fresh ones is so different. Really great experience!

Always stop here when I’m at the coast. Always had a great experience and this time I as no different.

Not sure what’s up with the bad reviews. This isn’t your factory made taffy you’d find in the Walmart candy aisle people. It’s a local owned shop that makes it all in-house so of course it will be a little different than you see used to.

I've tried salt water taffy all along the Oregon coast and this is my favorite so far! Even though some of the flavors were sold out and taffy wasn't being made to watch at that moment, this is the softest and best flavored salt water taffy I've tried. You can tell this is freshly made!

Grew up in Oregon, been coming since I was a little kid. Place fell off the face of the earth. Taffy is nasty!

I agree with a the recent reviews. My first experience with Ainsley’s taffy goes back to the 60’s as a child and then several more times over the years whenever I visited the coast. Bought some last year and it was great. However the taffy we bought yesterday for ourselves and grandkids was nothing like what I’m used to. It is tough and hard - almost like it’s stale. The prior product just melted in your mouth.
Definitely a change and do not recommend at all. You can get better at your grocery store back home.
Very disappointed that the grandkids will not get to experience what I did.

EDIT: I am happy to report the taffy has gotten *much* better since the time I wrote my original review. Flavors are good and taffy is nice and soft - definitely worth the stop again!

I have bought taffy here for at least two decades and, until June 2022, I had never had anything bad from here. Like so many others here have said, the taffy has changed dramatically - there is almost no flavor whatsoever, and the flavors that do come through taste awful. Stick to the chocolates and popcorn - those are still edible.

Went there a few days ago and was disappointed at how flavorless the taffy was (I guess they changed the recipe) and how rude the workers were: (

Spent $20 on taffy that tastes terrible. If a child is spitting it out, that’s not a good sign. Most are flavorless, except a few. The green apple tasted like bile. And they’re sticky, but not in a good way.

We have been going here for years but it seems like the taffy recipe has changed. Perhaps new owners or not made in the store anymore?

We’ve eaten the taffy here for years. I would have given it 5 stars, but the taffy seems to have changed. It says it’s still homemade, but it also looks very different. We would love to know what was changed.