I've been going here since childhood, The meat pies are the best I've ever had. Bridies are my favorites and the sausage rolls are great too. I love the selection of imported goods as well. Their shortbread also deserves a mention. They've recently developed a full website with online ordering to have these tasty items shipped to wherever you may be, or to have your order ready for pick up at the store. I had to hold back one star due to the sometimes crabby nature of one lady behind the counter. The other ladies are always pleasant. But truth be told, even if she yelled at me and called me names, I'd still come back for my Bridies. read more

I've been to the Scottish bakery a few times. As everyone notes, the tarts and tea cakes are EPIC. I think $5.25/6 is well priced to make them a special treat and not a candy-bar replacement. The scones are wonderful, when I go, I pickup a dozen so my wife and I can have them for breakfast the next week. I have a real love for the scotch white bread. The key is to slice it very thin, because it is so dense that it can overpower sandwiches if you slice it like a regular loaf. The peanut butter sandwich I make with this two slices is thinner than a single slice of Wonder bread... Very Yummy!! read more

Sketch neighborhood but great traditional British bakery . Crazy expensive British grocery/candies but reasonably priced pasty case and other meat pie choices. read more

Disappointed....I tried their chicken pasty and it was so dry and flavor-less. I also was frustrated that so few of their imported items were marked with the price. The store is very small and when I went it was crowded (about 8-10 people fit in the store and then they are shoulder-to-shoulder) therefore, I didn't want to keep pushing my way through the crowd or standing in line repeatedly just to ask what the price of everything was....so unfortunately, I ended up paying $10 for one bar of chocolate. It tasted terrible. It was not gourmet chocolate by any stretch of the imagination. It was uncomfortable to shop in such a small store especially when crowded and I was disappointed with the price and quality of items purchased. read more

A Scottish taste treat! A local family favorite of mine in Redford, Ackroyd's Scottish Bakery does not disappoint. The crusts are flaky perfection and the meats seasoned just right. The tea cakes rock and are delicious. Favorites include the beef pasty, cheese and onion pie, the sausage roll, the date bar, the lemon tart and the butter tart. Prices are very reasonable and the the location easily accessible. read more

Product arrived a day late and was all spoiled. cant get response form them for a replacement or refund

Just wow!! I have been eating food from this place my whole life!! And every time I come in it brings back such good memories!! The food there has always been amazing and I would recommend it to anybody who wants to try something new or has not had a good Scottish food experience!!! Please give them a try you will not regret it I promise!! Long live Ackroyd's! I hope to take my future kids in there one day!! read more

I think this is a gem I wish they had one in Chicago. Those yummy pies and English snacks that I have always missed I have not tried their sweet tarts etc though , are they good ? read more

My sister fell in love with Millionaire's Shortbread when we were in Scotland, but with COVID, we haven't been able to travel. I ordered some for her birthday from Ackroyd's and it was a huge hit! She said it tasted just like what she enjoyed while traveling in the Highlands. read more

I grew up in Detroit Michigan, every Holiday my parents served pies and cakes from Ackroyd's Scottish Bakery! Now, at the age of 62 and living in Southern California I am so blessed to be able to enjoy the same items my parents served, and more! I have ordered twice and both times the items arrived FedEx and the perfect temperature, cold! They packed it with more than enough ice packs! Fern cakes, Meat pies, Millionaires Shortbread, and much much more! I could not be happier with my orders! Emails from Ackroyd's kept me up to date with my order! read more

I think about the meat pies and the butter tarts on a daily basis. Everything they make is amazing.

I ordered a load of pies and they were scheduled to be delivered on Friday. UPS didn't deliver until the following Monday. Needless to say the product was room temperature when it arrived. I contacted Ackroyd's and they sent out a whole new order, no questions asked, even though it wasn't the their fault. Great customer service, we'll be buying more in the future. We've tried several meat pies, scones, and soda bread. We are very happy with the taste, quality, and appearance of everything we've tried thus far. Keep it up. read more

We lived in Michigan for 16 years this was always a go to place for us. We now live in S.C. and have items shipped to us. Authentic meat pies that I ate with my Scottish granny back in the day. Generations of our family enjoy their meat pies and bake goods. Their customer service is excellent as well! read more

--------------------------200th Review------------------------------------------ I was reading Yelp this am & read the ROTD about Ackroyds. I spent my formative years in England & developed an affection for such delicacies as Dripping on toast( you don't want to know what this is) Marmite, Crumpets, Lyons Midget Gems & pastys. Now i have lived in Michigan for 3 years & never knew Pastys were a Yoopy thing!!! anyway i told my wife we are heading to Ackroyds i need a Pasty & Sausage roll fix. We purchased the Chicken, the Beef & 2 Bridies, a couple of the large sausage rolls & for dessert some Eccles cakes.& the conclusion is............................................................... Pretty good, I'm not a fan of the Chicken but loved the Bridies, felt the beef was pretty good & am kicking myself that i didn't buy half a dozen more Sausage rolls. Plus as we were waiting for service a couple of people were applying for jobs. how nice is that to find a place that is hiring. So thanks to ROTD & Liz W i have fixed my Pasty lust, at least temporarily. read more

We have been enjoying the meat pies for many years but with the huge price jump this year I regret we will no longer buy them.

I love Ackroyd's. The food is delicious. My family is Scotch Canadian and I always try to get my uncles some shortbread and desserts from Ackroyd's for the Christmas season. Definitely worth your time and money. read more

I grew up eating shortbread cookies and butter tarts. My great-grandmother was from Scotland and every Christmas we'd go to Canada and visit her and she would have homemade shortbread cookies and butter tarts ready and waiting. So, I'm pretty picky. The shortbread and butter tarts here are the closest I've had to that from my childhood. And the pasties... words can't describe. I've only had the cheese and onion but my colleagues have all raved about them as well... with the exception of the chicken. I was told the chicken wasn't that great. But I won't let that tarnish my review. This is the same Ackroyd's that used to be on Hamilton Row in Birmingham. I used to go there after every hair salon appointment and I missed it. The good news: the girl behind the counter told me they're looking at locations in the Royal Oak/Clawson area to open another store. Beyond excited. Until then, I will gladly go to Redford for my butter tart fix. read more

I love this place!! I grew up on the meat pies and cookies here, which is over 40 years ago! I remember coming in to this place when I was very young. My grandfather was born in Scotland and he always liked the stuff here. My mom still gets a box of assorted cookies for holidays for me and my brothers to share after the holiday meal. The meat pies are great for lunch as they heat up in a microwave just fine...make up some mashed taters and you have a stick-to-your-ribs meal! I don't mind the 30 minute drive from Ann Arbor to score some Ackroyd's when I get a hankering for some traditional Scottish fare!! read more

I drove 60 mikes to visit this bakery for the 3rd time. Most everything was very good although I was disappointed in the currant bars...tasted more like raisins....and the fern cakes at 16$/doz ended up being thrown away they were so stale. The meat pies are absolutely wonderful as is the Shepard's pie. I'm told by a Scottish friend that the plain loaf doesn't look authentic. I will go back but will check the freshness of the pastries before leaving for home. read more

Once upon a time, not so long ago, a young girl from the metro Detroit area moved to the land full of Scots. There she fell in love with a ginger colored concoction ...Irn Bru! The citrusy taste, the sweet smell, the radioactive orange color; it was love at first taste! But alas, the young lass had to move home and leave her love behind. Yesterday, lovers were reunited as the young girl (that's me, folks!) found Ackroyd's Bakery via Yelp's sales & offers page. Through rainy downpour my man and I drove over to Ackroyd's. Inside the bakery, I found all kinds of goodies and treats that took me back to my time in Scotland, including my beloved Irn Bru (and diet Irn Bru...gotta watch that girlish figure!). As expected, I stocked upon my favorite ginger, as well as ketchup crisps. I mentioned the Yelp ad and received a free piece of shortbread. The shortbread was perfectly sweetened that allows it to melt in your mouth. I also got a chicken pasty for myself and sausage roll for the man. They warmed them up for us so we could enjoy them immediately. So so so good. The pastries looked absolutely delicious, I'll definitely be back to try some more. I also have to try their cinnamon rolls which I have heard so much about. Minus half star for not having the Irn Bru in a cooler on the sales floor, I had to ask for chilled bottles. Minus another half star for the following reasons: The sales floor can also become cramped because of their small space. While I was there, up to five people were shopping, and it did seem it would get super cramped if a couple more walked in. I would also like to see a larger selection of UK sweets, such as other varieties of Dairy Milk, Bounty (!!) bars, Yorkies etc. Gotta satisfy my sweet tooth! All in all, my trip to Ackroyd's was ace! I will be back! read more

Last year, I traveled to Scotland on an epic whirlwind of romance, castles, rugged isles, and Irn-Bru. The national drink of Scotland, Irn-Bru is right up there as an iconic symbol of the country along with thistles, plaid, angry men in skirts, and Mary Queen of Scots. A suspiciously nuclear concoction of orange on the spectrum between traffic cone and Orange Crush, this jealously guarded brew tastes like neither and quite possibly nothing the American palate can possibly recognize except -maybe- Faygo Rock and Rye. And not even then. Its secret ingredients probably include radiators, local water from a blessed faerie well, and remnants of heroin or some other controlled substance. As the case may be, once you've had Irn-Bru, chances are you will long for more. This craving increases proportionally to your distance from the country and, sure enough, once I hit Chicago I wanted nothing so much as that blasted bottle of orange damnation. As luck would have it, the third largest city in the United States had approximately one source, a dodgy gas station 60 minutes via three tollways from me, and that hardly guaranteed to be in stock. Shipping of a 12-pack would have cost roughly what it took me to fly to Edinburgh. So when I landed in Detroit, lo, I immediately searched for Scotch bakeries, Scottish stores, or anything remotely close to my cherished vacationland in hopes of finding Irn-Bru. Where I grew up on the West Coast, I could have thrown a rock in any direction and hit a Scot in the head and their granny's bakery on the rebound. Here, not quite so much. Behold Yelp's choice for my perils: Ackroyd Scotch Bakery, endowed by the Irn-Bru website as a retailer of the coveted drink of the gods. At once I hopped up and down, asked the beau to convey us there immediately, and learned the hours of this lovely vendor will ill-conducive to my whims. They shut 30 minutes before, and kept limited weekend hours. Drat. I've noticed several places in the metro Detroit area are closed Sundays or shut earlier on Saturdays and weekdays, which limits us wage-slaves from dropping in easily. But the next weekend, we ventured forth with the sole intention of getting Irn-Bru and possibly sampling other wares. Committed, my vision like that of a junkie promised a hit of something that kills the shakes and withdrawals, I zipped in before he'd even shut the car off. Ackroyd did not disappoint. A small bakery adjacent to a hair salon with some pretty tricky parking, it pretty much breathes Scottish bakery in the US (per my limited American experience). An obligatory map of Scotland and all its monuments, great and obscure, sits on the wall. I entertained myself immensely by noting how many I'd been to, rather to my delight. Being of British English -- and therefore the enemy (you know what I mean! Lovingly said.) -- descent, I have to take pleasures in these things. No sooner was I through the door than a 12-pack of Irn-Bru was snug under my arm, and the ladies very much amused by this. Expect the usual survey of British goods here from Yorkie chocolate bars (it is too for girls) to PG Tips tea and Scottish flag bumper stickers. The space is small but tottering racks have plenty of those hard-to-find items, like HP sauce, and the employees stuff the chocolate in the cooler on hot summer days. Much appreciated, nothing worse than spending $2 on a chocolate bar to find out it's liquified cocoa-goo. The bakery also does a busy trade in pastries, particularly those which were staples in my house around Christmas time for entertaining: sausage rolls, pasties, shortbread, and tarts filled with every sort of artery-clogging, workout defeating goodness imaginable. It is always a good sign when regulars are popping in the door for their heart-stopping pasties and square of shepherd's pie. Quite a few people were stocking up for themselves on the hot summer day I showed up, and the prospect of a lemon tart detached me from my Irn-Bru for a few minutes. They didn't survive longer than the trip to the car between the beau and I. Naturally tarts are doomed enough, but the flaky shortbread pastry shell and the pretty flower floating in lemon curd beg to be eaten *now*. My beau popped half of one in his mouth, and I was soon enchanted by the heavy lemon flavour and buttery sweetness of the shortbread. Delicious. The downside is the expense of these luxurious treats. At close to $5 for a half-dozen, they aren't to be purchased by the boxful except on special occasions without a hit to the wallet. One tart was not enough for my beau or I, nom! Certainly two or three sausage rolls won't do it either! Obviously as a specialty store they can command their prices, but the pasties and shepherd's pie could benefit by being a little less spendy. Ackroyd also ships within the US, so fellow consumers can enjoy tasty homemade goods by ordering from their online store. * Note: Updated per comment below verifying price. :) * read more

Good local bakery. Scottish bakes goods, had the nut tart and butter tart and both were very delicious. Also enjoyed the Sausage roll which satisfied. They also have a selection of the store for Scottish food products but no eating area. read more

Cute little bakery with a great variety of sweet and savory goods, plus imported items. I haven't been back to sample the meat pies yet (they looked yummy), but we got a selection of tarts and they were all delicious. Somebody at my Butter Tart, though, so now I have to go back. Don't you hate that? Oh, and the woman working the counter was very friendly and helpful too. read more

i do believe i am in love with the small potato cheese pies. fantastic. the owners are warm and welcoming and with a lot of variety or sweet and savory scottish delights it's hard not to try more and more things. i should also mention the selection of scottish potato chip in flavors like steak, scotch bonnet pepper, aged cheddar and onion and others. i got all savory things but will definitely be back for the shortbread and other various tarts. also the crust/dough used in the savory pies are to die for. the beef pasty was especially good. great job guys keep it up, I'll be back! read more

I go here for the shortbread cookies, fern cakes and pasties. The shortbread cookies taste exactly like the ones I used to buy in Edinburgh Scotland. I really have to control myself to not eat them all on the way home and to make them last. Delicious!! Staff is very friendly also and the prices are great. No one else around that I can find make shortbread cookies anywhere near as good as these. read more

This place is always 5 stars! We get pork and meat pies there always delicious- basically Pastry wrapped around meat and baked to perfection. And the yummy Swiss tarts (which is a little pie pastry with apples inside with a generous portion of powdered sugar on top). The Fern cakes are very good too ( 2 cookies with a layer of raspberry jam in between with the top layered with icing) both desserts are good with a cup of tea or coffee. Delicious food always, every time!!! People that work in the bakery are always pleasant too which is a plus!!! Heard they were looking to open another bakery-sweet! read more

We love Ackroyd's and have enjoyed it for my entire life! My grandparents and father used to get it for us a couple of times a year. We still do the same! Scotch meat pies and sausage rolls are my favorite! My husband just picked me up some cheese and onion pies- oh wow- delicious! The location looks the same as it did when I first got my license, 17 years ago, and drove myself there! read more

I was in Ackroyd's with my daughter last Fall. I hadn't stepped foot in the bakery in over 30 years since I was a child myself. I remembered going to the bakery with my dad and him ordering the meat pies for dinner. I explained the nostalgia and the memories of their wonderful family bakery to the owner. She was very kind to my daughter and I explained to her that I was looking forward to eating the meat pies and introducing them to my family, and my in-laws who were also Scottish. I bought several dozen meat pies and they kept very well, on a 2 1/2 hour car trip and froze well. They tasted just as I remembered and brought back a lot of memories. I am always amazed how the power of taste and smell can transport you to a different time and place. I felt young again !! read more

My family has been going to Ackroyd's for years for their meat pies! They are absolutely wonderful and I myself have been eating them since I can remember. But $40 for a dozen of meat pies is absolutely RIDICULOUS! I don't know how they can expect people to pay that much!!!! I definitely don't believe the pies are worth that much money read more

I love this place. When I lived in Detroit , I went here all the time. I love all the meat pies. The pork pies and sausage rolls are my favorite. Every time I go back to Michigan I stock up. They have a variety of Scottish items and sweet items. But I always just get the meat pies. I can't seem to find any this good any where else. read more

Love it... Great authentic Scottish food.... I thought I would surprise my Dad by discovering this place only to be told "We have been going there for years" oh well.... Great staff too ... very nice ! read more

This is the best bakery in the Midwest! I have been enjoying there specialty sweets and treats for 23 years! Can you say, wonderful and consistent? I had the lovely opportunity of decorating cookies and baking cinnamon rolls in my preschool class... 23 years later I still love and incredibly enjoy them! Absolutely the best! If you are looking for the best cinnamon rolls around you will need to special order them (they are not on the menu)- get ready to enjoy every last bite! read more

I send my husband to Ackroyd's to get my comfort food fix. Their mac and cheese pies are crazy good! It's also a great place to get hard to find candy and chips. read more

the ONLY reason i'm giving ackroyd three stars instead of four is that i'm a long distance customer and they haven't jumped into the online/shipping world fully. i was thrilled to find this scottish bakery b/c i love meat pies, shepherds pie and steak pies. yummy yummy yummy! the food didn't disappoint but the shipping method and packing did. the shipping cost more than the food, it was packed in bakery boxes surrounded by what i guess is paper for baking, a huge foil bag with a layer that consisted of a crushed take out box over cold packs. and....b/c they are so new to the online world, you have to call and place an order during their business hours and i'm in a totally diff. time zone. what i also didn't know was that they don't ship during the summer months (i have a groupon). major bummer b/c my discount expires in early sept. which they say is still summer. i'm not totally twisted about it, but they also said they would call with an expected delivery time and the cost of shipping. instead, the box arrived at work on a day i'm not there and again, the shipping was more than the food. so, i'm gonna do it one more time but after that....until they get more savvy, i, like many good scots, am going to save my pennies. but, if you live within driving distance, GO! the food is great! read more

My husband and I co-host a Yule party every December with a dear friend and this year nobody had time to cook for it. Because Yule is seeped in Celtic traditions, Ackroyds was the first place that I thought of for food. It's a very busy time for them with all of the orders that are coming in for the holidays, but despite that they were still able to take and fill a last minute order for me in a matter of a day and a half. I should note that we aren't having a huge party, but we did order a couple dozen of each of our selected items. This morning I walked into the most quaint bakery that I had seen in several years. The staff was polite and friendly and we were quickly on a first name basis. The store had all sorts of UK delights and even the fruity version of HP sauce. I didn't even know that existed! It felt so homey and comfortable and being there reminded me of all of the good times that I've shared over their food with Anglophiles and Scotophiles alike. I couldn't possibly be biased and give a particular food recommendation because I truly think that everything their is so good. The puff pastries are so light and fluffy as they perfectly surround varieties of spiced sausages and beef. The cheese and onion pies are a favorite along with the bangers. As for the desserts, I haven't sampled them all but I can tell you that the empire cookies are a sure thing. And who doesn't love short bread? If you're looking for friendly people who provide excellent food that will make you savor the flavors of Scottland, then Ackroyd's is the place for you. read more

Placed my order yesterday and can't wait for it to arrive! Looking forward to enjoying their buttery shortbread and yummy fern cakes!! Haven't tried the corned beef pasties before, but I'm sure theyll be as good as the beef or chicken paties. read more

Love these little meat pies... Get them every time we go up to Michigan!

Wow! This is for sure a quality bakery! It's vey clean, and super nice people working. I believe this a family business, and I think if your a restaurant owner, this is the quality of product that can make you stand above the rest! The yelp coupon is a genius move!! Come in use your coupon and judge for yourself!!! read more

great food horrible management. rude. argumentative. downright disrespectful to curbside customers. lost a 3rd generation customer today.

Purchased online and received very quickly. Easy online instructions to serve them nice and fresh!