The Cheesecake Shop Hornby brings one of Australasia's best-loved bakery names to Main South Road, trading from 9:00am to 8:00pm, seven days a week. It is part of a network of more than 250 cake bakeries across Australia and New Zealand, all carrying a mission that dates back to the brand's founding in 1991: helping communities create sweet memories.
What sets this store apart from a supermarket chiller is that every product is crafted in-store. Skilled local bakers bake fresh each day, and talented decorators give each creation a personalised touch. The brand is emphatic about ingredients, too — real cream and chocolate, and fresh, locally sourced fruit, all drawn from trusted suppliers.
Cheesecakes are naturally the heart of the range, alongside rich mudcakes and a rotating cabinet of freshly baked desserts. The shop also handles custom cakes: personalised designs for birthdays, weddings, milestones, and the everyday celebrations that deserve marking.
Handy extras make visiting easy — delivery through Uber Eats, hours that hold through most public holidays, and a newsletter that gives new customers 10% off their first order. Whether it's a last-minute dessert or a wedding cake months in the making, the Hornby team is there to make the occasion a little sweeter.
The Cheesecake Shop Hornby occupies a handy spot at Shop 3, 413 Main South Road, and it keeps generous hours: 9:00am to 8:00pm, seven days a week. That makes it an easy stop whether you're grabbing a dessert on the way home from work, collecting a pre-ordered birthday cake on a Saturday morning, or arranging an Uber Eats delivery when the craving hits after dinner.
The Hornby bakery is one of more than 250 stores in The Cheesecake Shop family, a brand that started life in 1991 as a single bakery in Rozelle, Sydney. Its founding mission was simple: to help communities create sweet memories. More than thirty years on, that purpose hasn't changed. The company describes its bakeries as belonging to their communities — not just sitting within them — and that ethos shows in what the stores do: handcrafted cakes and desserts for birthdays, milestones, weddings, and the everyday moments that deserve a little marking.
Growth hasn't diluted the formula. Over three decades, the brand has stayed focused on memorable, handcrafted sweet treats, and the Hornby store carries that same focus into Christchurch.
What separates The Cheesecake Shop from a shelf of supermarket sponges is that every product is made in-store. Skilled local bakers bake fresh each day, and decorators bring each creation to life with a personalised touch. The brand is emphatic about ingredients: real cream, real chocolate, and fresh, locally sourced fruit, all sourced from trusted suppliers. The aim, as the company puts it, is exceptional taste and quality every time.
The brand's newer store design underlines that confidence. In late 2023 The Cheesecake Shop began rolling out a fresh look that removes the walls around the kitchen, giving customers a front-row seat to the bakers and decorators at work. When the making happens in plain view, there's nowhere to hide — and the bakers clearly don't need to.
Cheesecakes are the heart of the range — it's in the name, after all. The Creamy Caramel Cheesecake is a standout with a genuine fan club: even the brand's Head of Network Development names it as his favourite dessert. Chocolate lovers have a worthy rival in the Belgian Marble Mudcake, a rich, marble-swirled classic that happens to be the pick of the company's Head of Operations.
Around those two anchors sits a cabinet of freshly baked cakes and desserts, all made with the same in-store care. Availability can vary by day, so if there's something specific you're after, a quick call to the store on 03 925 9935 will save you a trip.
Where The Cheesecake Shop Hornby really earns its place in the neighbourhood is custom cakes. Personalised creations for birthdays, weddings, and other milestones — if there's an occasion, the decorators can design a cake around it. The process is straightforward: get in touch ahead of your date, talk through what you're picturing, and let the in-store team bake and decorate it into reality.
Because every cake is made in-store, custom orders carry that handmade character rather than a factory finish. It's worth allowing lead time for detailed designs, especially around busy weekends and holiday seasons.
The store trades 9:00am to 8:00pm Monday through Sunday, and it keeps those hours on most public holidays too — including Good Friday, Boxing Day, and New Year's Day. Two exceptions to note: on Anzac Day trading starts at 1:00pm, and Christmas Day is the one day the ovens go quiet.
If you can't make it in person, the Hornby store is on Uber Eats, bringing cheesecake and mudcake to your door. And new customers can join the brand's newsletter to get 10% off a first order.
Whether it's a last-minute dessert, a milestone wedding cake, or a whole cheesecake for the fridge, The Cheesecake Shop Hornby does what the brand has done for over thirty years: bakes it fresh, decorates it by hand, and helps make the occasion a little sweeter.