Uprising Breads Bakery

There is so much about this place that I love including their wonderful salads, samosas, breads and neighbourhood vibe. Weirdly though, I find that some of their cookies fall short of my expectations and their pie crust is just awful — doughy not flakey. For a bakery, I’d have thought pie crust would be easily nailed.
Still, big props to them for being a great little neighbourhood lunch place. Keep up the great work but consider reworking your pie crust recipe.

Had their ‘Hot Cross Buns” from a Whole Foods. Whole wheat and just enough sweetness from the dried fruit and honey. They were magnifique. Oops, did I just try to speak French because I’m Unilocaling about something from BC, and fail at it? Yep!

Love this place! It’s my go to for lunch when I’m working. Its just down the street! Fresh everything!
My only complaint is that the staff can be extremely rude and off putting, it’s a total «better than you» attitude EVERYTIME I go there. Like all the customers are an annoyance or dumb… everytime! Besides the staff, I love this place and it’s definitely the food that keeps me coming back.

Love this place. The owner needs to stop licking his fingers when he grabs a bag (eww!). But otherwise I absolutely love uprising breads!

I was buying tires for my mom’s car and I had nothing to do so I walked over to Uprising Bakery for a coffee and a muffin. I have been to Uprising before but that was many years ago. I’m usually not around this area but since I was I dropped in.
The shop is still as I remember it. Bustling busy and lots of freshly baked goodies to temp the palette! I didn’t want to eat too much so I settled on a coffee and their egg nog white chocolate muffin.
I know this bakery is health conscious so they don’t use a lot of oil and preservatives. Normally, I would say the muffin was dry and hard but I know better! When washed down with black coffee the muffin was perfect!
This place is pretty cool for you health conscious people out there. Give it a try if you’re in the area!

Irish soda bread, enough said
They used to sell their irish soda bread at whole foods, but now you can only find it here
It’s delicious. a slice with butter is a good accompaniment to a cup of tea
Seriously good bread. a taste of home

Baked goods would get at least 4 starts from me, but their savoury food items are so bland. I had Mexi Veggie wrap (kudos for vegeterian food), veggie chilli and happy planet happy smoothie which was the best part of the meal.
The wrap was reheated in the microwave (dear lord, why!!!) and the chilli was room temperature with a cold pocket (here’s a tip if you insist on using a microwave, heat the soup for few minutes, stir it and then blast it for another minute or so).
Service was so indifferent I actually regretting tipping them. Next time I will stick to cherry scones.

The baked goods are so good. I love the different breads they make there.
I don’t think the service is that great, I find most staff or the same staff members every time I go there to be quite rude and «too good» or something.
I thought it was kind of expensive and not really worth it to eat there, depending on what you got. I mean its a really nice bakery, the atmosphere isn’t super friendly, the goods are good, but you could probably find something just as good somewhere else with a nicer atmosphere.

Spent the day walking the drive and then grabbed some coffee and dessert from this local bakery. They have great baked goods. Had the rhubarb pie, sweet yet tart.

I work around the corner & love coming here for a great cup of coffee in the morning or a salad and sandwich in the afternoon.
The sandwiches are around $ 6 and the coffee around $ 2 for normal drip.

A trendy and cozy shop tucked away at the edge of commercial drive district that a cycling friend introduced. I’m almost 100% sure all their products are made in house. Not all items are daily fresh however, like their prepacked items, but the ones under the glass counter are. Regardless, what I like most about this bakery is that prices are reasonable and desserts are not overly sweet which is extremely difficult to find around town. I bake myself as well and usually half the sugar of recipes I find online so it’s a godsend when I find a shop that mirrors my preference.
Anyway my favourite here is their chocolate spelt muffin. It’s not your typical chocolate muffin– obviously not as sweet, but also it has some heft and not just a fluffy cake mix.
Their apple pie, though a tad pricey at $ 12, it is prettily handmade with a traditional a lattice top crust and NEITHER their top or bottom crust is sauce soaked mushy. In other words the crust is 100% hard and crispy. I just can’t stand a crust that falls apart when a slice is removed. Enough of my rants. Go out for a taste!
Side notes:
I’d like to mention that their breads are sold throughout specialty supermarkets, cafes and specialty grocery stores, delis around Vancouver.
Price range is from $ to $$ (compared other venues). eg.: Muffins, croissant $, Breads, corn bread, $$.

I like to support businesses that not only provide quality products, reflected in the price, but also good, friendly service. I experienced very rude service that makes me not want to spend my money there. I wanted to like the baked goods, but the assorted muffins and bread I purchased were dry and had very little taste. Perhaps they were stale.
Anyway I wont be coming back here. I wanted to love this place but the service and quality of baked goods is really not worth coming back.

I love Uprising and have been buying my bread here for longer than I care to remember, and missed it terribly when I lived away in the U.S., where so much added sweetener turns their whole grain breads into veritable dessert confections. In those years Uprising transitioned from a co-​op to a quiet entrepreneurial endeavour, and I really noticed the difference in product freshness. For a while you had to actually look at the expiry dates to make sure you were getting that day’s bread, which in a bakery, is unforgivable. While this appears to have stopped, there have still been too many times that I’ve noticed the Uprising bread I buy at other stores can be fresher than the loaves I buy at the bakery itself. And yeah, I agree with many comments here, why no gluten-​free breads and treats?

YUM!!! Was close to where we stayed while visiting Vancouver. Scones were excellent, especially since they have savory which I prefer. Had something from here several times while in town. Would def recommended if you are a local or tourist like us.

Sandwich Brownie and Coffee I had for lunch here were good. As store they post lunch specials on there menu but unless you see yourself staff do offer the special at the till. A similar tactic that fast food chains use where they have sales on the outside windows but not posted at the till were you order.

Nice drop by spot before or after downtown, without the corporate feel of a starbucks.
personally i enjoy the quietness between lunch and dinner, can work in the back, & good corner view too. Plenty of parking on the side streets.
Order their hot chocolate lots ;)

Frequent coffee buyer card that rewards me for drinking all the tasty coffee I can handle. Soy milk to accompany said coffee that actually gets to hang out on the counter with all the «normal» milks free of charge. THIS MAKES ME WEIRDLY HAPPY. Get the vegan chocolate chunk cookie.
Service is usually fairly slow and unapologetic about it. It’s like it’s always Sunday morning in there… which is totally cool with me, I think we could all use a little more Sunday morning in our lives.
Sit on the patio, it’s lovely.

I walked by here on the way to grab sushi. I saw the word «bread» and just had to walk in. The word «bread» is a dangerous word for someone who is gluten free, however, my culinary curiosity got the best of me. I wasn’t expecting any gluten free options, however, what I did see was a nice, clean, presentable and approachable bakery. It’s more of a coffee shop than a bakery as the selection was decent. In comparison to space ratio vs. available baked goods, there wasn’t much to take home for me. If you don’t care about being gluten free, there are a lot of quality products at reasonable prices including rum bread for mom. My mom could use some rum bread… perhaps she’d relax more if she had a loaf or two. Happy Mother’s Day.

Yumm! Baked goods!
This places makes the BEST gingersnap/​ginger bread cookies i’ve ever had! They are big, chewy, and real tasting!
They have a wide selection of baked goods from carrot cake and banana bread to pastries.

When dad came here back in the day when they first opened up to cater the hippies and the health nuts, this was great bread and great food.
For awhile we stopped coming becuase it seemed that their reasonable prices went through the roof and it no longer catered to those who first shopped here for bread.
Over the years, we’ve come and gone as customers, but more recently it’s been refound. Resurfaced back into our family and we are enjoying their whole grains and heavy breads like it used to be.
There are other items served now, but it’s mainly that stuff that brings us back to our hippie days and tie dye shirts.
Uprising is a staple of this community and that community is growing and supporting something that is iconic in this neighbourhood.
Great stuff.