The Rinkha in Larne

The Rinka is my childhood ice cream shop. It has really unique flavours like toffee apple during autum. The prices seem to be fixed as they haven’t been changed in years. The Rinka has plenty of affordable sweets and my favourite toys I had as a kid. All I have else to say is that everytime I go there I am hit with nastalga, yet it is still up to date.

Great place for an Ice cream.plenty of flavours.

Always liked the Rinkha. Great ice cream. A brilliant local country store.

Ice cream good…cones very brittle…snapped on first lick

Rhubarb and custard ice cream is the best. My favourite ice cream shop!

Always stop in at the Rinkha for their homemade ice cream after a sea swim 🏊‍♀️ in Portmuck, Islandmagee

After generations of first class ice cream, it's now bottom of the list. Very disappointing

Best ice cream cones on Islandmagee!!

One of my favourite ice cream places

1st class honeycomb ice cream 🍦 😋 😍

Place is great. Ice cream un real and you can get anything you need under one roof.

Love to have a wee drive out to the Rinkha. The ice cream is the best I've ever tasted. Strawberry shortcake is highly recommended 😋

Lovely shop. Fond memories from childhood were relived on my recent visit.

Great tasting ice cream, served by very friendly staff

Having the ice cream while standing outside busking was therapeutic. Maybe you can have a few chairs outside for the customers. There were lots of bikers and were asking for a toilet. Please have a customer toilet in place

This is a well established business that has been making their own ice cream for 100 years. It's to die for !

The shop itself has changed since I first started going to it many years ago it was always a must visit for Christmas but not as many toys now more food products but the ice cream is still the same always yummy.

Useful home-made icecream, food, toys and gifts also hardware.

Still our number 1 place for a great ice cream. Also great for toys. Always had childhood memories going here for a treat, great that now we can still do this for our kids who love it.

Not bad icecream bud young staff is terrible. Very cheeky. Sorry but after 18 years , time to find different place.

What is there to say. The Rinkha is The Rinkha. Absolutely delicious ice cream the way it used to be.

Nice ice-cream, and there was a qué so you know it's good,

Great ice cream, brings back memories...

A stop after a day at the beach. Lovely icecreams and a very good price.

This place has been going well before I was thought of, but the ice-cream is still the same, a place to visit on a warm sunny day. They still make their own ice-cream. On Sunday though there wasn't as much as previous, whether down to sold out or awaiting to arrive. But still not disappointed, Turkish delight, and it was as good as before. Give it a visit, and see for yourself.

Best ice-cream by far lovely staff. Very friendly atmosphere.

Have been visiting the Rinkha recently for icecream as a treat for Mum - she loves the Belgian Chocolate whereas I prefer the strawberry cheesecake flavoured icecream! It has been busy which is an indicator of how popular the icecream is!

The best ice-cream in the country. Absolutely incredible flavours!

This used to be an excellent place for ice cream and especially milkshakes. Was here for the 1st time in a while portions were poor and the flavours nothing special. Do yourself a favour and go to mauds or morellis get better flavour portions and better value.

Called out for toys for my Grandson . Not as well stocked as it used to be . Nice gift wear and good ice cream

Ice cream has got very expensive and carton size smaller!!

An amazing shop! Open all year round, and with their amazing secret recipe ice cream, not to be missed. Highly recommend a visit if you're in the area!

Strawberry cheesecake flavour ice cream ... That's all...😋

I know things are tough but near £3 for a scoop of ice cream in a tub is just madness, being going here from a child 40 years ago and now i bring my own grown children but as much as i live there ice cream its just not affordable any more for a family to visit.

Their fudge ice cream is the best ice cream i have ever tasted. Well worth the 1 hour drive!

Busy iceream parlour and toy shop. Large free car park. Shop sells a wide range of gifts toys and greeting cards.

We stopped off on the way back from The Gobbins (which had closed early) Delicious ice cream at a good price and lovely service. Also plenty of flavour options

Hadn't been in awhile but never disappointed

Really enjoyed a visit today. The ice cream is always the great draw, but this time we were buying a floor mat, porridge oats, and other random things. There’s a huge variety of toys, food and household items here. They sell books on local history, and the R.S. Ó Direáin / F. McHugh one, Islandmagee and Templecorran: a Postcard History, has the story of The Rinkha inside! Staff were very friendly and helpful. Toy ankylosaurs up on top of the till! Great to see a family-run enterprise still going strong after so many decades. They have an area celebrating their history with loads of interesting photos of the dance hall and live music acts that played here. They have their own big, free car park outside.

Always a pleasure to shop here ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Wonderful experience always, happy staff, beautiful coffee and ice cream. Been going to The Rinkha for over 50 years, l never pass it.

Beautiful store selling an array of food and gifts but their ice cream has to be the best 🍦

Lovely little store, with fantastic Ice Cream, unfortunately there is nothing highlighting that this family has been running this store for over one hundred years. I wouldn't have known or visited if I hadn't heard about it from a local attraction. If you love ice cream they have some unique flavours and have mastered the classics.

Probably the most famous shop in the area, their icecream is fairly famous, with people visiting from all over to try it. It is perhaps best described as a local convenience store wher you can buy everyday essentials. But the icecream is certainly the best I've ever tasted, I may be a bit biased, my mum used to work there under Billy Hawkins, the original owner, I believe his sons run it now, but that was back in the 60s. However if you are anywhere in the Larne or Carrick area and fancy and icecream, then go here, doesn't matter if you have to drive 10 minutes, we'll worth it. You'll find it just down from the Gobbins cliff path visitor centre

Ice cream to die for yum yum yummy

Lovely ice cream and strawberry milkshake definitely worth a visit

Well there you are an ice cream shop fantastic great selection try it

No cafe anymore but still Rinkha ice cream. The plain vanilla is the original and best option in my opinion.

Some of the best ice cream I've had at some of the best prices. Entirely worth the trip.

Very Tasty ice cream here definitely worth the visit. Super shop as well with plenty of toys and hardware.

Pengalaman yang sangat menyenangkan bersama dengan pasangan , semua nya sangat membantu memberikan kesan yang sangat baik

A fantastic shop. We stop here every time we are passing or even close to the area. Fantastic Ice Creams and vast range of store goods, toys, hardware, sweets, gifts & more !!

Have been coming here since a child. My own children now come regularly and enjoy it.

This is a great wee local shop. A nice ice cream shop inside, some tables outside to sit and eat as well as inside, a small car park on site. Lots of children's toys and summer/beach type equipment

Their ice cream is to die for and so many flavours. Delicious.

Love this place.. like a treasure trove of goodies... the best....

A great place to go RInka the Irish name for Dance it been there for a long time you can hear the war years dance music and the GI's American accents as you walk across the maple dance floor and it creaks to the foot steps of Jazz as they swing the local girls around the dance floor. Then jump aboard there 3Ton Dodge truck back to Redhall and there Nissen huts before leaving to Fight in the Liberation of France 🇫🇷 And free Europe from Tyrany.

Great in house made ice cream, friendly staff

Best ice-cream and value for money

Delicious homemade ice cream the milk shakes are amazing

Had some chocolate icecream while sitting under the hot sun. Nice weather.

Best ice cream in Northern Ireland, bar none. Can get busy on good days, but well worth the wait.

This place has been here for eons. It's all about the famous ice cream, but there is almost everything here. A proper old-fashioned country shop that sells everything you could need and more on a given day. The gift shop part maybe needs a little more stock, but other than that, on a good day of weather, kick back and grab an ice cream (or two) and take a seat on one of several outside tables watching the traffic arrive from the 'mainland' onto Islandmagee...

Surprising selection at what is in effect, a local mini mart. Friendly and polite staff and good choice of food, toys and other goods.

Wonderful Ice Cream. 30 mins or so from Belfast. I'll definitely be back.

Still the best ice-cream in the country

Ice cream and Amazing pineapple sorbet Excellent Queued out the door as ever but great service and wonderfully polite staff. If you have never been make the journey. You will not regret it. Added - one of the. East toy stores in the country. Along with hardware you cannot find elsewhere

Ice cream over-rated. It was recommended to us and we were told the long line was worth the wait but don't bother. Much nicer ice-cream found elsewhere. It tasted like ice-cream does when it has thawed and is refrozen.

Good ice cream and coffee plus all the basics for the home and a surprisingly large lego section.

Lovely ice-cream, very friendly staff.

Ice-cream is nice, but very expensive.

Amazing ice cream, worth the stop!

Ice cream is homemade alot of flavours, good for paper, mags., and home hardware, toys and go for coffee, tea and a wee snack. Sale lemonade, juices, bread, milk other groceries.

Joined a queue for the ice-cream. Worth the wait for a poke and slider. Loved the honeycomb and chocolate ice-cream.

Some of the best ice cream in NI

Been coming here for years, and will continue to do so for many more!

Friendly service, great ice cream.

Amazing choice of ice cream 🍦 😋

Ice cream to dye for only place. I'll eat ice cream now.

The ice creams are second to none.

Best ice cream around and worth the drive to it

Visited the Rinkha after many years having moved away. Ice cream was still delicious.

Ice cream is ok bit on the powdery side Maids ice-cream is nicer more creamier

Lovely variety of ice creams available

What a lovely shop. The ice creams are glorious. Highly recommended.

Excellent choice of home made ice cream from pleasant informative staff 👍

Always a great place to call in for an ice cream or coffee. Staff are very friendly and helpful.

I believe this is the best ice-cream in n Ireland always delicious and always have to queue which shows how good it is .

Lovely ice creams great selection. Definitely worth a visit

The best ice cream in Islandmagee

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Great ice-cream BUT staff leave a lot to be desired! 4 assistants - queue out the door- girl eventually put on gloves to get my ice-cream but then rubbed her nose on the back of her glove! Not sure I'll be back!

Was planning to get ice-cream today but completely put off by the grumpy woman's attitude ☹️

Loved it went with my kids and really liked it, never been before but will make journey again! Recommend.

Great wee shop ice cream is fantastic. I have been going here for years.

Ice cream is the best! Staff super nice

Ice cream went down a treat there coats hair faces but loved them thanku

Best ice cream in Northern Ireland.

Good, friendly service and excellent ice cream with an excellent of flavours.

This icecream shop is like a treasure trove! It's one of those shops that just keeps going its got one of everything too. The icecream however was outstanding, try the watermelon sorbet! I've never even seen watermelon sorbet and it didn't disappoint! The rest of the family have various flavours and we're all super happy. Jill our tour guide from the gobbins walk recommended it! She was absolutely right 😊