Rise Authentic Baking Co.

The quality is just not there. I visited this bakery over the weekend and purchased a bagel, apple tart, and a batch brew. The bagel and apple tart definitely were several days old as they both were very difficult to chew and lacked flavor. The coffee unfortunately was lukewarm. This was a disappointing experience.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 1

Service: 4

i always love coming here it never disappoints!! 💜 love that it is all soy and gluten free and all vegan! 😍 everything tastes amazing too :)

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Amazing pastries and super cute shop!!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 4

Recommended dishes: Cookies

Updated for 2025. OMG. They perfected our custom order lemon rosemary Coraline cake with themed earl grey sugar cookies. Ask them to get creative and they will! 👏

Don’t miss this place. I ordered 7 totally different things to go. Every single item was A+. That is not the norm with vegan and gf. A new GR fave.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Birthday Cake, Cake, Cookies, Avocado Toast, Buckeyes, Quiche

Such a cute vibe and lovely, clean pastries/coffee/tea!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Purchased a pre-packaged Rise GF Chocolate Chip cookie at a local market. Unfortunately, the cookie was loaded with rock salt -- literally -- and it was inedibly salty. What I thought was a sprinkling of coconut inside the package was in fact chunks of salt. Not a good or tasty idea to coat a cookie with salt. $3.75 down the drain. Never thought I'd find a bad cookie, but turns out there is such a thing. Read the label and avoid the rock salt cookies.

Food: 1

A great little shop outside downtown Grand Rapids, MI (near the Zoo) that caters to Gluten Free, Vegan, Soy Free, etc... treats. The shop is small but always bustling with happy customers sipping coffee and eating snacks or lunch. Service is quick and kind. Everytime we are in Grand Rapids we stop by for a few GF specialty treats. They have a great selection to choose from varying from donuts, whoopie pies, to the best buckeye ever. We find parking a little tight but there is parking on the street and a spot in back. Great place to get some great treats.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

The bakery is also a coffee shop serving Squibb coffee. Friendly staff, good coffee, and hot chocolate.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Nice little place. Stopped in on a whim to get a coffee because it's only about a 5 minute walk from my house. Picked up a chocolate chip cookie dough donut as well and I wasn't disappointed.
Friendly atmosphere, large selection, and I was pleasantly surprised how reasonable the prices were especially considering the quality of the product.
Highly recommend. I'll be back for sure.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

I’m so glad I was able to get a cake in time from them but the vanilla cake is terribly dry, of course moisture is always a struggle with gluten free cakes but the entire cake crumbled when I cut into it, the flavor of the frosting and my cake crumbles was great though! lol

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 2

Service: 5

If I could give this place 6 stars, I would. Excellent baked goods and delicious coffee.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

The cookie monster donut might just be the best baked donut I've ever had. My goodness, it was so tasty! And the cookie bar is delicious. I really loved their baked goods, tasty tasty!
Came in at about 1p on a Thursday and they still had a relatively good selection to choose from, which I was pleased to see. Thanks y'all!

Food: 5

Found this place with chatGPT and was not disappointed. Finding a place that cares about what they use and put in their food is very important to me.

I was surprised with the flavor with the yumtart and blueberry glazed donut. Highly recommend it. Price was not bad for what you get.

Service was great, parking on the side street is easy. If you care about what you put in your body, this is the spot.

Gluten-free, vegan, soy-free AND Dye free? I’ll be back for more.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

We come to GR from Kzoo specifically to come here. Absolutely fantastic place from the food to the staff and the atmosphere.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Mid afternoon the cashier put out the oddest sign stating - “Barista on Break”

This wouldn’t be a big deal; however, they put it out when there was a line with 5 customers. Thankfully I had gotten in before she went on break but I would have been disappointed to have come out to this cute spot and just to be told she was on break. The girl working the register did turn down multiple coffee orders after the sign went up.

Super odd. There were other staff on - hopefully in the future they can train the rest of the staff on the espresso machine or finish taking orders before cutting for a break