Inside Fox Bakehouse, with bread and pastries filling the display cases

Wahroonga, New South Wales

Bread and pastry, made by hand every morning.

A small neighbourhood bakehouse on Redleaf Avenue — best known for an apple strudel that is rolled, filled and baked one at a time.

6:30amFirst tray out of the oven
In‑houseEvery item made on site
Six daysTuesday through Sunday
WahroongaOne shopfront, no chains
A lattice-topped apple strudel on dark slate with one slice cut
A golden apple strudel beside two fresh red apples
Pastry cooling on a wire rack beside a floured rolling pin

The one people come back for

The apple strudel

$12.50 whole · $5.50 a slice

Granny Smiths, peeled and cut by hand each morning, cinnamon, a little brown sugar, and pastry rolled thin enough to see through. Rolled, scored, baked and dusted — then left alone.

Every strudel is built individually. That is why no two look quite the same, and why the filling reaches the ends instead of collecting in the middle.

  • Hand-rolled and filled one at a time, never portioned by machine
  • Australian Granny Smith apples, cut on the day
  • Serves six — about $2.08 a serve
  • Gift box available, made to carry a whole strudel flat and intact

Side by side

Ours against the one in the freezer aisle

The honest version. There is one row down there where the supermarket beats us, and we have left it in.

Fox Bakehouse apple strudel compared with a typical supermarket apple strudel
  Fox Bakehouse $12.50 · serves six · $2.08 a serve Supermarket strudel Around $6 · serves four · $1.50 a serve
Rolled and filled by hand, one at a time
Apples peeled and cut on the day
Baked this morning, never frozen
Filling reaches the ends, not just the middle
You can ask the person who made it
Gift box built to carry it flat to a lunch
Still available at four o’clock on a Saturday

We make a fixed number each morning and stop when they are gone, so on a busy Saturday the supermarket genuinely does win on availability. If you need one for the afternoon, ring ahead and we will keep it back.

What people say

Wahroonga regulars

★★★★★

“I took a whole strudel to a lunch and three people asked me where it was from before we had even cut it.”

Marina H. · Warrawee
★★★★★

“You can tell straight away it is not the supermarket version. The apple actually tastes like apple.”

Daniel P. · Wahroonga
★★★★★

“Been going every Saturday for two years. Get there before nine or the strudel is gone.”

Sophie L. · Turramurra
★★★★★

“Ordered one in the gift box for my mother’s birthday. It arrived at her place looking exactly like it did in the shop.”

Anh N. · Waitara
★★★★★

“My kids will not touch the shop-bought ones any more, which is either a compliment or an expensive problem.”

Rebecca T. · Wahroonga
★★★★☆

“Only complaint is that they sell out. Rang ahead the second time and had no trouble at all.”

James M. · Normanhurst

Reviews shown are written examples created for this concept campaign, not real customer reviews.

A basket filled with freshly baked loaves and rolls

Our story

A small kitchen, on purpose

Fox Bakehouse is one shopfront on Redleaf Avenue with one oven behind it. We are not trying to be anywhere else. Keeping it small is what lets us shape every loaf by hand and still open at half past six.

Alongside the strudel we bake sourdough, croissants, scrolls, cakes and a short savoury list — all of it made here, all of it made that morning.

More about us

Come and see us

Still warm when the doors open

We bake in small batches through the morning, so the best time to come is early. Whole strudels can be set aside if you call ahead.