Costas’ Candies

My dad gets me chocolates from here every year for Christmas, and they never disappoint!

Pros: Friendly staff and good service. And the caramels are fantastic.
Cons: Price
The food itself from the restaurant was not bad but iwould not call it good. I went there with my 4 kids knowing that they have great caramels (my wife’s coworkers sometimes bring them in and she steals one for me) and that they have a café there as well.
I didn’t even order food because of the prices. My bill was $ 40.80 for 2 burgers (1 a la carte), chicken tenders and a grilled cheese. The burgers were frozen ¼ lb patties but they cost $ 9. Chicken tenders came with just 3 frozen small tenders and fries and we’re $ 9 as well. No kids menu. Yes, that’s right, I took my 4 kids out for lunch, didn’t order for myself and I’m out over $ 40. Ouch.

Absolutely love their maple flavored chocolates and English toffee! The diner itself is nothing special, but the candy is definitely worth a stop!

All of the candies are delicious, you can’t go wrong!
Don’t go here for the food, go for the candy. Buy about 5 of the large boxes full before you leave town or you are going to be crying the entire way back to Iowa or Minneapolis for being an idiot and not stocking up.

I have always enjoyed this little diner when I come through town. The food is delicious —LOVE being able to have a gyro omelet!!!
Not a place for a group. It, as with most Owatonna eateries is very small, and incapable of serving more than 15 people at a time in the entire establishment.

Costa’s is a small diner with friendly wait staff. The restaurant’s look is plain & food is no frills but is offered at a fair price. Among their specials they were offering ‘rueben soup’ or ‘chicken noodle’, which the chicken noodle was quite nice. My group got a grilled cheese sandwich & grilled cheese with bacon. They liked both of them.
When you pay your bill you are tempted by the chocolate truffles they make here. They have quite a nice selection of tasty treats. I bought some to bring home as treats for my family, and they happily made them disappear before I knew it.

Owatonna is by no means the foodie capital of Minnesota, so I was not expecting some kind of fine dining experience when my partner and I walked in to have lunch on Saturday. In fact, I was expecting to have a very diner like experience and maybe check out the candies… but I was very displeased with everything about this place.
There are maybe about 15 booths here, so getting a place to sit is fairly difficult, and being one of the few restaurants in the city means that it is also quite busy.
We did find a booth in the back and sat down to await the waitress. After about five minutes of sitting there while she walked to and from the other 4 booths directly seated near us she FINALLY stopped off to ask us what we’d like to drink and to drop off some menus.
Another several trips to the other booths later she finally brought our waters and we placed our order. I got a Gyro with a salad (tzatziki for my dressing), and Domm got a bacon cheeseburger and fries.
Another long wait (with no refills on our waters) before the food arrived, but when it did I was immediately disappointed. She set the plates down in front of us with no silverware, napkins, no ketchup, no dressing, not a word. She walked away.
I flagged her down as soon as she walked to another booth and had to actually demand that the items be brought to our table. She seemed very offended that I would even ask her.
My Gyro was alright, literally it was not bad or good. The tzatziki, it turns out, was not a sauce, it was more like sour cream with some cucumber in it… Disappointing.
Domm’s burger was… awful. Dry, VERY overcooked, the bacon was tiny and burnt, I suppose the fries were rather redeeming, they did a very good job of cooking those Ore-​Ida crinkle cuts.
We did not stay for any of the brightly wrapped candy at the front of the store… I was much too annoyed to give this place any additional business.

It’s a candy shop — I went in for the homemade candy, and loved it immensely!
The carmel and chocolate were beyond all expectations.
I highly recommend this candy shop!

This place is a joke. They advertise themselves as a Greek Restaurant, but the food is far from authentic Greek. The candy is good.