With supermarkets these days thinking we cannot be trusted to have sweets beside the till, McKays is a sweet tasting trip back to yesteryear. The walls are jam packed with bottles and jars, bags and packets of any sweet treat you could wish for, just waiting to be weighed out and enjoyed. It is amazing how such a tiny place can fit so much in, also selling a good variety of tobaccos for those that way inclined. Yes, it is aged, dark and tiny, but regardless it is rockin.
Lyra M.
Rating des Ortes: 5 Belfast, United Kingdom
The last reviewer has basically summed McKays up, so I don’t want to add to much more except to say this: they serve Belfast’s only decent tasting fudge. I’ve been shopping in McKays for years and can remember visiting as a young child-always to buy their ‘buttered tableau’ i. e their fudge. As a connoisseur of the stuff, I can tell you that to taste really great fudge, you need to get the Scottish stuff and McKays is the only place we’ve ever been able to find it. They also serve Edinburgh rock, which is a real treat for any Highlanders living in Belfast too.
Emma P.
Rating des Ortes: 3 Belfast, United Kingdom
Until I decided to Unilocal about it, I didn’t actually know the name of McKays, I only knew it as ‘that wee shop at the end of the Arcade that does the lovely sweets’, and that’s probably what I will always call it, to be fair. Really centrally located, McKays does a roaring trade from people out shopping, or others on their lunch hour who work in the town and want to pop in for their newspaper, magazine, cigarettes, or just some of the lovely old fashioned sweets, bon bons, gums and treats that you can get in here. It’s really small inside, so you’re better looking at what’s on offer through their window, which bulges with goodies — if you have a sweet tooth beware, you will do yourself some damage here…