TEDDY’S is a Dún Laoghaire institution. The quintessential south Dublin national treasure. If ever you’ve walked along the coast of Dún Laoghaire, Seapoint or Bray, then chances are you’ve enjoyed a TEDDY’S and been amazed at the huge queues for our famous 99.
Teddy’s, through the decades since it opened in 1950, has been selling ice-cream from a small shop overlooking the wide expanse of Scotsman’s Bay at the end of Windsor Terrace.
It also, now as then, sells boiled sweets, iced caramels, clove rock, acid drops and chocolate satins by the quarter pound from jars.
The original Teddy, (real name Edward Jacob) was the man who started things in 1950 and began Teddy’s small seafront empire. It was said he got his name from dressing like a Teddy Boy in the 1950s, winkle-pickers and all that. A real curio of the era, his esoteric lifestyle meant he divided his time living between Dublin, Morocco and the south of France.
