Quay Confectionery

This place was terrible! Bought some fudge. The guy could not tell me the difference between two quite similar flavoured fudges and wouldn’t let you sample any. Therefore in the end bought two great big bags of it. Unfortunately it was disgusting. It tasted like it was completely rancid and had gone seriously off. I had bought some for my dad so I actually let him try it too and he also exclaimed ahhhh it’s disgusting, is it off?! I had bought some from there years ago and although it was not amazing it was OK but this time there was something badly wrong. It was also so overpriced. Where I’m from there’s a fudge shop that makes fudge there fresh in front of you and it’s about the same price and a whole lot nicer.

Wanna know why children prefer Quay Confectionary to Hansel & Gretel?
It’s a big space filled with hundreds of brightly coloured jars.
Even better, the jars are filled with candy canes, bon bons, cola cubes, white mice, coconut ice, chocolate fudge, humbugs, gobstoppers, sugar mice, sherbert dips and giant lollipops. To top it off, there’s a pick & mix with more sweet and sour treats.

This is a proper sweet shop, the kind where you’ll get diabetes from simply receiving your change. Sat at the Albert Dock amid shops of equally startling prices and tourist-​baiting traps, it’s difficult to cast your gaze over the sweeties on offer and not have something in your brain clunk you mentally back into childhood.
Jelly beans, sugar mice, bon bons, sticks of rock, candy floss and chocolate shapes of every possible permutation adorn the walls, mocking you with their cripplingly high sugar content. Also, like I mentioned, filling a pick ‘n’ mix bag here will warrant a part-​time job, on account of the prices. Probably best to cut photos of sweets out of magazines and lick them instead. It’s cheaper.

Quay Confectionary is a sweet shop in essence and the kind of place which kids would adore but it also seems to attract an older crowd perhaps due to its dock side location. This place is a real treat to enter and I’m sure the sweet toothed people out there would not be able to resist dipping into their cash to grab a tasty treat to gorge themselves on.
Some sweet shops can seem tacky and dated like you imagine the old sea side stalls to be however this particular establishment offers a little more due to its pleasing aesthetics.
The prices are a little high but that is no surprise here and you get great value for your money if I’m honest.
On the whole a delightful little store which is well worth popping into and picking up a treat.

Any shop you find within Albert Dock is always going to be overpriced, obviously with the amount of tourists the site attracts, especially during high season.
There is no exception with Quay Confectionery (situated in a prime location just doors away from the Tate Gallery) — this is a decent little sweet shop which is ideal for the demanding child.
Whilst they sell at moderate prices, some of their sweets are of great quality as I found out with their jelly babies! Other sweets however, can be found in your local corner shop and contain nothing special about them.
A sweet shop for the tourists and perhaps not worth the trawl if you’re a local.

Oh, the smell! So, so tasty smelling as soon as you step in the door. You could get a sugar high just from taking a deep breath inside this shop. Awesome.
This shop could probably rival Honedukes in the Harry Potter series. They have wall-​to-​wall candy, and they are not small walls. There is an amazing variety of jelly beans, a large and varied pick and mix, old fashioned candy canes in various colors and flavours, pots and pots of lollypops, boxes of traditional fudge, an average range of normal candy bars and chocolate bars, and even a really great selection of homemade chocolates and truffles. I don’t think I’ve ever seen such a large, well stocked candy shop anywhere else in Liverpool.
It’s probably a good thing I didn’t know about this shop for nearly two years …

What i expect from a sweet shop is an exciting an unique experience. A sweet shop is a rare treat nowadays and the experience should reflect this. Quay Confectionery however is not this experience. It’s overpriced sweets are presented in a disorganised and unimaginative fashion that does not direct anyone towards spending more than they would have too.
Battling through hoards of tourists for sweets that could be purchased at a corner shop up the road is not something I enjoyed. One particular chocolate was the ‘Cuban cigar chocolate’, £4.95 for a low quality ‘chocolate swirl’ as the package proclaimed is not something worth paying for. Save your money and shop elsewhere.

Oooooohh I came here with my boyfriend and he was really mean and didn’t let me buy anything. It’s next door to Funky Shake Bar (another one of my favourites) and has all my fav sweeties. Coconut ice (as well as other delicious handmade fudge), £1 gobstoppers, hand made truffles, jelly beans, oh and I could go on and on.
They have a few more healthier options also, boiled sweets they have ‘natural’ on them.
A few slightly different things such as preserves and microwave corn on the cob!

So there weren’t Oompa Loompas working behind the counter, but I half expected to be confronted with a violet– top-​hatted Gene Wilder singing «Come with me, and you’ll be, in a world of Pure Imagination» as I excitedly crossed into Quay Confectionery. The walls are chock full of sweets, jellybeans, gob-​stoppers (not the everlasting kind unfortunately), swirly lollipops and the like. Pretty much every thing you can imagine down to sugared mice and chocolate hedgehogs.
They have that old-​school sweet shop look about them too and you can shovel your favourite sweets into paper bags from the most extensive pick and mix selection I’ve ever seen.
Oh and they have like Every kind of fudge. Strawberries and cream, lemon meringue, rum and raisin, mint, double chocolate, vanilla… okay you get the drift. But if you want to be literally a kid in a sweetshop (you don’t need a Golden Ticket to get in!) then get down to the Docks and satisfy that sweet tooth!