Strudel Artisan Bakery

Strudel Artisan Bakery BAKERY OF THE YEAR 2019
(Independent Retail Awards)
Blas Na HEireann Bronze Award 2021 for Seeded Do

We make fresh sourdough breads, sweet and savoury pastries and strudels on site and serve with the best coffee around.

Went to see a friend yesterday, he was making poppy seed buns for today's market. There was one or two imperfect ones (l...
25/04/2026

Went to see a friend yesterday, he was making poppy seed buns for today's market. There was one or two imperfect ones (love those), so got treated well.
Poppy seed as a filling is very (VERY) popular in the Eastern European countries, we fill pies, strudels, christmas logs, you name it with it. It was divine.

01/12/2025

I bumped into one of our lovely customer om my way out and she wrote a piece, I'll just put that in here, I think it describes everything abd require no further.

Goodbye Strudel

Half awake in my morning, had I walked into Gulliver’s Travels?
Before me a bread mixer the size of a man strapped to a flat-bed truck,
The baker behind him, dwarfed in his blue little car,
The frozen air takes its white shape as he speaks,
‘That’s it’ he says.
In those words end a near-decade of rising in the darkness, flour-covered hands and wafting warm smells,
The daily crunch of joy in the butter-laminated croissants, falls silent,
Inside the black and white tiles sit empty, pining for the busy feet.
‘It’s strange how quickly something becomes nothing’ he writes.
The baker drives away into the blue Dun Laoghaire sky - sun and sea at his back,
The Patrick Street shop lies fallow, waiting for its next incarnation.

04/11/2025

Hi all,

I also have some none transportable supply left if anyone interested (no, I don't have a list, sorry), from oiling spray through packaging material, dried fruit, blowtorch canister, spices, nuts, baking agents, etc, if you're interested, get in touch and we'll arrange a meeting.
I'd love if someone took the lot.

Hi guys,I need to move my equipment to a storage unit and looking for recommendations for a company that would be able t...
02/11/2025

Hi guys,
I need to move my equipment to a storage unit and looking for recommendations for a company that would be able to help me doing so. A tail lift truck is a must, preferably someone who has the expertise and provides pallets and packaging as well.
If you know any such company, please let me know.

Thanks
Tibor

01/11/2025

Last bake today guys. we have plenty for everyone (I hope), come and say goodbye. Lot's and lots of messages, cards are coming in, I think we did alright in Dun Laoghaire.

31/10/2025

Guys, the love and support we've been receiving this week is just so overwhelming, Kellie has a weeping bucket underneath the counter and she doesn't share it with anyone.

If I had known that we would sell out every day by 10am, I would've announced closure every week.

All jokes aside, you guys are fantastic, you really are.

Tomorrow is our last bake and to make sure that we have enough for everyone, we'll do an extra bake and extend our opening times.

I'm not sure how long for, it's hard to predict at the moment, so we're just going to wing it but we'll have extra pastries, sausage rolls, cinnamon rolls, croissants, etc, so we'll see you from 8am tomorrow.

Tibor

26/10/2025

Hi,

I've received tons of beautiful, heartwarming wishes, messages, emails since the closure announcement. People offered me various things like hugs, financial advice, even money to keep the doors open.
I'd like to thank all of you out there whishing myself and the team the best, I'm humbled and moved by your kind words and gestures.

The reason I'm closing however is not financial at all. 
I simply ran out of steam. 

It came from a variety of issues.

Sure, the government's inability and unwillingness to listen to us when we begged them to lower the VAT back to 9% did not help as all ingredients prices, services, packaging , everything we need went up and they keep going. Just one example is chocolate. We used to buy 2.5kg for €24, we currently pay €63 for the same bag.

The inflation and the minimum wage increase also took its tall. Although we never paid minimum wage to our staff but if the minimum wage goes up, everything else does.

Despite of the financial challenges, we were able to balance our finances by increasing our prices and thankfully our customers were willing to pay the slightly higher price for the premium quality.

Where I failed was to secure a loyal, resposible night time baker, to train someone to be my right hand who I can rely on, who doesn't see Strudel as a stepping stone.

Being a baker is tough. I'm sorry but being a baker at the supermarket is not the same as being a baker, it's a baking job with the "perks" but not the hardship of being a baker (also lacks of the essence of being a baker in my opinion , which is to know the people you bake for). Supermarkets seldom make anything from scratch, I've had several bakers with shockingly shallow knowledge about baking.

Don't get me wrong, I don't judge them, if it was easy to be an artisan baker, all bakers would be. But it's not and why would you work harder than you need to to make money?

So the hardest part was to take someone "half ready" on, train them, spend money and time on them just so they find out that it's difficult and leave after a month or two.

To be continued in the first comment...

24/10/2025

Hi guys,

It's with a heavy heart that I announce the closure of Strudel Artisan Bakery.
There were a lot of contributing factors that led to this decision that I won't get into in this post.

I can't really put into words what I feel, what these years have taught me and how grateful I am to have been able to serve the community in Dun Laughaire and our wholesale clients. Your continued support meant the world to us and to me personally. I'd like to thank all of you for these past 8 years.

Our last trading day will be the 1st November, next Saturday, please come down and say goodbye.

Tibor and the team

We'll have some cardamom buns tomorrow from 8am until stock lasts.
17/10/2025

We'll have some cardamom buns tomorrow from 8am until stock lasts.

Fresh in store!!Apple, oat & berry!!
09/10/2025

Fresh in store!!

Apple, oat & berry!!

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Dun Laoghaire

Opening Hours

Tuesday 8am - 1pm
Wednesday 8am - 1pm
Thursday 8am - 1pm
Friday 8am - 1pm
Saturday 9am - 1pm

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