Leonidas chocolates

Update 2026

The store re-opened in the 2nd week of January 2026 - in exactly the same place!

Same great chocolates, in a new freshly-built store, which occupies the full space of the previous shop and the next-door milk-shake bar   (and was briefly a cosmetics pop-up shop in between) - it's near the top of the elevators, opposite NameIt! clothing and next door to Foxford Jewellery.

A month after opening 

Update - 2022

Leonidas closed this, their only Galway-city store in the fourth week of November 2022.

They are still open in other Irish cities, and selling online through their website, www.leonidasonline.ie 

About Leonidas

Leonidas are based upstairs in the Corbett Court end of the Eyre Square Shopping Centre, in a small kiosk between Shake milkshake bar and the elevator.   Leonidas is chocolate expert, selling over 100 different kinds of Belgian chocolate through stores around the world

The focus is freshness, quality and fine chocolate taste.   Leonidas chocolates are made with the freshest, finest quality ingredients, without vegetable fat and using chocolate with 100% cocoa butter for both the chocolate coating and chocolate filing.   Manufacturing is in accordance with traditional methods, and will  never compromise their tradition of quality. 

Chocolates can be purchased individually (priced by weight), or in a range of pre-assembled or fill-on-demand selection boxes, with hampers or in seasonally-inspired packages.

Opening days and hours 

Open seven days a week - usually closed 1-2pm for lunch.

Socials and contact details 

Phone:   091 56 74 89 

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Kingdom of Sweets

This pick-and-mix sweets franchise opened in a pop up stall in the upper level of the Eyre Square Shopping Centre on 31 July 2024 - near BPerfect cosmetics.

They offer a very wide range of non-branded sweets, with the ability to buy any quantity of each item.

Sweet Dreams

This traditional style sweet shop selling traditional boiled sweets, jellies, chocolates, novelty sweets, American candies, sodas, cereals, ice creams, coffee, hot chocolates and more was located in shop 11 in Corbett Court Shopping Centre - on the ground floor near the escalators.  

For a long time they had a double shop unit, but during 2023 this reduced down to one.  Then after Christmas they never came back, and the shop is cleared of most stock.  But so far there are no announcements on their social media.

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Phone:  +353 86 371 9823

Email:  sweetdreamsgalway@hotmail.com

January 2024

June 2020 - reopened after the first Covid-closedown

Candyland

This locally-owned sweet-shop was opened in May 2011 by the Shaughnessy family.  The first shop was in Upper Abbeygate Street, roughly opposite Galway landmark, Sally Longs.

The store quickly grew to have an impressive range of heritage confectionary and related grocery products, from American, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and beyond, and became a destination experience for local and visiting sweet-lovers.  They also have great gifts.

In 2020, when the Covid-19 public health emergency closed all non-essential shops, they rapidly switched to working on-line, and provided touches of sweetness by post and for collection when allowed. 

In mid 2021, when many other business were thinking about downsizing, they took the bold move to Irwin Court, just off Eyre Street into the shop previously occupied by Paco Fashions.   As in-person shopping has opened up again, they have been able to increase their product range, and there is now plenty of outdoor space for managing the fast-moving queues of confectionary enthusiasts.

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The new store in Bóthar Irwin

The original Candyland store in Upper Abbeygate Street