Guide: Discover the Best Candy Stores in Glasgow

Get your candy in a bun and get ready to suck on your lollies as I guide you on a candy-filled journey through the city of Leeds, stomping and cavorting from one confection to the next so you can laugh and lick this delightful town’s mouth-watering candy wonderlands.

The Sweetie Shop

10 Merkland Street Glasgow G11 6 United Kingdom

The Sweetie Shop is a place you cannot easily avoid. It is a sugar beacon, a spinning neon sign screaming in fluorescent green, yellow and pink, luminescent from the distance, and as soon as you see the candy in the window, which is usually the case after about an hour in the Valley of Death, you’ll be dragged in by an invisible candy vacuum spike. Candy pickpockets.

Sweet Dreams

The Savoy Centre 140 Sauchiehall Street Glasgow G2 3DH United Kingdom

Oh, the irony of finding Sweet Dreams here, within that den of urbane sophistication that is the Savoy Centre. The many suggestive confectionary references that await you in this confectionary eutopia would certainly be lost on any unfortunate observer who succumbed to an uncontrollable fit of the giggles.

Glickman's

157 London Road Glasgow G1 5BX United Kingdom

Hidden between Glasgow Green and the Gallowgate, Glickman’s is a sugary gem. It’s small, hidden, easy to miss, and once found it’s an assault on the taste buds. A Pandora’s box for the palate. It could blow your head off.

Glasgow Sweet Centre

202 Allison Street Glasgow G42 8RS United Kingdom

If your taste buds are craving a touch of the exotic it’s best to head down to the Glasgow Sweet Centre. The jalebis have a crunch that just might give Walid a run for his six-pack. Thin, sticky and very sweet… it’s a sensory ride.

The Big Candy Store

42 Sauchiehall Street Glasgow G2 3AH United Kingdom

The Big Candy Store is the local equivalent of Aladdin’s Cave, and stocks everything from kids’ (and big kids’) novelty sweets to vast cans of soft drinks as big as your head. Drop in occasionally to find new candies you never knew existed. And get lost.

Sugar Candy Mountain

22 Station Rd Milngavie East Dunbartonshire G62 8AB United Kingdom

Avoid those fake-retro sweet shops and head for Sugar Candy Mountain instead. A pleasingly uncloying display of sweet nostalgia, this is the sort of place where children flock around the candy counters and old ladies sit around gossiping over tea with the proprietor.

Thorntons

Unit 41 Buchanan Galleries 220 Buchanan StreetGlasgow G1 2FFUnited Kingdom and Unit 15 St Enoch Centre 55 St Enoch Square Glasgow G1 4BWUnited Kingdom

The little shop that could (and did): Thorntons.This veritable chocolate emporium has everything from chocolate lollipops to mammoth gift boxes in every conceivable variety. The Thornton’s deals are always sweet, the chocolates sweeter, and if you try their Thornton’s special toffee after a particularly enamel-crunching day, you might even want to make a dentist appointment.