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Is Roman Candy Company (horse-drawn cart) Still Open? (New Orleans, LA)

Best Thing I Ever Ate, Season 6 New Orleans, Louisiana

Current status

Open

As of October 2026, Roman Candy Company (horse-drawn cart) is listed open on Yelp, reviewed by our team on September 7, 2026; not yet independently confirmed through direct contact.

What the source shows: A Yelp listing for the business, filed as Roman Chewing Candy and updated July 2026, showed it active at 5510 Constance Street, the company's home base for its mobile taffy cart. How we decide a status →

What happened after Best Thing I Ever Ate?

The episode featured the Roman Candy Company, whose taffy has been sold from a mule-drawn wagon on the streets of New Orleans for more than a century. Founder Sam Cortese built the original cart in 1915; the same cart, since updated to meet current sanitation rules, is still used today, according to Atlas Obscura and The Takeout. The company hand-pulls roughly 700 to 800 sticks of taffy a day in vanilla, strawberry, and chocolate flavors, and operator Ron Kottemann runs the wagon without a fixed daily route, while his son Daniel runs a second cart at a permanent stand at the Audubon Zoo. According to a Yelp listing for the business, filed as Roman Chewing Candy and updated July 2026, it remained active at 5510 Constance Street, the company's home base, with 17 customer reviews on file.

The episode Best Thing I Ever Ate, Season 6

Episode 2
Air date not confirmed
Title: New Orleans · What was featured: Mule-drawn taffy cart, a century-old New Orleans street tradition

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Sources we checked 3 references

  1. Yelp https://www.yelp.com/biz/roman-chewing-candy-new-orleans
  2. atlasobscura.com https://www.atlasobscura.com/foods/roman-candy-new-orleans
  3. thetakeout.com https://www.thetakeout.com/1752957/history-roman-candy-mule/
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