About Alana Bakehouse

Alana Bakehouse is a family-run home bakery based in Lismore, baking fresh in small batches using simple ingredients and familiar methods. Our baking is inspired by classic, everyday favourites – honest, well-made food that people recognise and enjoy.

Alana Bakehouse takes its name from our home – a place many people in Lismore already know.

We're a Dutch family who have lived in Ireland since 2008, spending many years in Cork before settling in Lismore a few years ago. This is where our children go to school, where we've put down roots and where everyday life happens for us.

And now, it's also where we're very happy to bake for our neighbours.

Our approach is simple. We make the breads, cakes and treats we genuinely enjoy ourselves, in small batches and without trying to turn a home bakery into a factory.

That means proper family bread made for sandwiches, toast, butter and jam, homemade cakes that don't need a special occasion, and celebration cakes made individually for the people they're celebrating.

A Proper Little Bakery

Alana Bakehouse may be based at our home, but it is set up and operated as a food business.

Our bakery has been inspected and approved, and we follow food-safety procedures covering hygiene, cleaning, allergens, traceability and safe food handling.

We have also completed the relevant food-safety training.

So while we're deliberately starting small, we take the important stuff seriously.

Community Matters to Us

Our Christian faith is an important part of our family life, and one of the values it teaches us is to care for our neighbours. We'd like that to be reflected in how Alana Bakehouse becomes part of the community around us.

As we grow, we'd like to introduce local delivery, particularly for older people and others who may find it more difficult to get out and collect an order themselves.

We also don't like seeing good food go to waste. When we occasionally have perfectly good bread or bakes left over, we'd much rather find a way for them to go to older neighbours, local families or others in the community who can enjoy them.

We're not looking to grow Alana Bakehouse overnight. For now, we're keeping things simple: small batches, limited availability and collection from Lismore by arrangement.

And we'll see where it takes us.

Simple, fresh and made with care.