Sugar, butter, and flour. These are three simple ingredients that can make a lot of magic together. At Uprising Breads Bakery Café, it’s their literal bread and butter!
Since 1976, this local Bakery Café on Venables Street and Commercial Drive has been delivering Flour Power in the form of fresh baked honey sweetened breads and a variety of traditional pastries, cookies and pies right in the East Van community.
If you’re curious to know their track record, for over 45 years, Uprising Breads Bakery Café has served nearly three generations of customers, four major renovations, five different espresso machines, and over 2.5 million muffins!
Freshly baked ham and cheese croissants. Photo: Uprising Breads Bakery Café.
Baking from scratch on site, Uprising Breads Bakery Café offers new twists on traditional baking for a fresh variety of local baked goods, such as:
- Seasonal pies and scones made with B.C. berries and other local produce,
- Key Lime Pie and other decadent cakes,
- New Zealand butter (“the good stuff”) blueberry cinnamon buns, and
- Rotating house-made artisanal breads, served with soups and sandwiches.
Photo: Uprising Breads Bakery Café.
With outside patio seating available all year ‘round, you can sit down for lunch and enjoy Uprising Breads Bakery Café’s homemade soups and salads, sandwiches on fresh breads, homemade wraps, hot focaccia slices, and of course, desserts! Sweet treats include cheesecake, carrot cake, lemon tarts, pie slices, cookie bites, and much more. Full-on barista coffee service is also available, with local roasts from Salt Spring Coffee Company.
Want to get your bread fix right now? Uprising Breads Bakery Café also produces a full line of wholesale whole wheat and multigrain breads, such as the Grainful Bread, their flagship high-fibre multigrain, and Heather’s Buttermilk and Honey, an irresistible spin on your average plain old white bread.
Whole wheat and multigrain breads are available in grocery stores throughout the Lower Mainland, including Donald’s Market, Santa Barbara Market, Choices Market, Stong's Market, IGA, Whole Foods, and Meinhardt's Fine Foods. For the full list, visit uprisingbreads.com/where-to-buy.
So what are you waiting for? Go on and break some delicious bread!
Uprising Breads Bakery Café is open 7 days a week from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. For more info, visit uprisingbreads.com.
