A-Rise-Above Bake Shop

Best birthday cake I have ever bought for any of my kids, and loved by all the guests. Best part? it was reasonably priced, unlike the bakeries I have tried in the past. Oh wait, the best part was the delicious coffee I drank while picking it up…

I needed a «sweets» fix. If I had ordered a jazzed up waffle for breakfast down the street rather that an egg white omelette, I wouldn’t have found myself in this predicament.
I waked into A-​Rise-​Above Bake Shop and the smell of fresh baked chocolate chip cookies immediately drew my attention. I asked the baker for a pound of hot cookies —
any kind will do! In my bag was a smorgasburg of chewy, gooey, yummy, deliciousness
Peanut Butter, Chocolate Chip, Fudge, and a few others that quickly found there way into my mouth.
Mission accomplished! I’m set! Thanks!

Very good at what they do. Scones, cookies, not that much more. Bread comes in from Orwasher’s in Manhattan (a great shop, I used to live in Orwasher’s neighborhood). Like my review for Reinhardt’s — excellent for what they have, but they don’t hit all the points.

This is one of the places that makes Huntington feel like a village. Everything tastes homemade and not commercial. Great pies and cookies and scones to die for. We have friends who will only have their Sour Cream Chocolate Cake for their birthdays, they love it so much. (We like to eat it chilled … yum!)

I’ve been there a few times.
Never tried the pies or cakes yet. or the coffee.
I love the chocolate raspberry scones! and blueberry scones! (With real, fresh blueberries!) The apricot bars, good. The chocolate chip cookies are crispier than I like. The chocolate chewy cookies — awesome! The brownies are good!
They have a shelf of 50% off items (because they are day old), but the scones I’ve bought, still felt fresh, you can toast them, yumm!) and the rolls you can toast also, still taste good.
They pack everything very carefully. They will take the time to answer your questions.

A cute little local bakery on main street. They’re chewy chocolate cookies are to die for. I always try and go here for my go-​to sour cream chocolate cake. I get it with the walnuts on the side and it is one of the best chocolate cakes I have ever tasted. I’m not kidding. I have a sweet tooth and have gone to bakeries around long island and new york city and A Rise Above’s Sour Cream Chocolate Cake is one of the best. It has the the perfect balance of sweetness and cocoa so I can eat as much of it as I want without being on a sugar high. Amazing!

Cute little bakery, but the only thing I’m really into are the Chocolate Chewy Cookies. Those are AWESOME though!

Great scones! Go early and enjoy.

Another reviewer remarked about the great coffee here and that is absolutely correct. You can purchase a 10 oz cup of coffee here for exactly $ 1, and it’s gourmet quality and fresh. It is hands down the best deal on coffee (exclusive of 7 – 11’s $ 1 coffee Wednesday, however, it’s a better cup and not a massive corporation and available EVERYDAY). The bakery smells phenomenal but my diet needs are too strict for me to try anything else but coffee!

Oh no Oh no, what has happened here. Came in two weeks ago a half hour before closing to grab a quick cup of coffee and was told by one of the young workers that they had dumped the coffees for the night. What? Okay maybe if I had walked in five minutes before closing I could understand but you are a bakery! You sell coffee and baked goods. Don’t ya know you should at least have a pot of decaf going at all times! That way you can give that to people who ask for both regular and decaf, restaurant secrets!!!
Well, that was two weeks ago, I forgave them and wandered in this morning around 8:30 am, again looking for that cup of coffee I was unable to get before. Well I grabbed a large hazelnut roast and headed back into my car. I was taken back by the aroma since it is usually so pleasant. I took a sip and it tasted soapy. VERY soapy as if the pot was cleaned but dishwasher liquid was left in the pot along with the coffee that tasted very old. Couldn’t believe it but I immediately pulled into a different coffee shop and dumped my cup in the garbage. Needless to say it will be a while before I venture back into this bakery again…

A Rise Above has the best homemade cookies like your mother (or grandmother use to make). Try the raspberry squares and chocolate chip cookies.
And for my dinner parties I aways get one carrot cake (white) and one sour cream chocolate cake.
Go early to order those Thanksgiving pies, cookie platters for holidays as the orders fill the bakery.

Really love their scones, especially the strawberry, honey and buttermilk versions.
Nice coffee to go, and yummy cookies.

This is my favorite bakery in town. Their sour cream chocolate cake is SOOO good, I always serve it when I have a dinner party and it’s ALWAYS a HUGE hit! One friend says he loves coming to my house for dinner because he hopes he’ll get this cake!
In fact, I love this cake so much we had them make it as our wedding cake; simple, with whipped cream «frosting» and a beautiful bouquet of fresh flowers as the topper. RAVES!!!
Oh, and their cookies… the company I use as my printer for my business is my friend for life and they give me discounts, in part (I believe!) because I bring them A Rise Above cookies!

They claim to be the oldest bakery in town and it shows. A very small place with not even a place to sit, old décor and old display cases, A Rise Above is a quick bakery that feels more like a takeout place than a bake or coffee shop. I ordered a coffee. You get to choose the size of the coffee you want, pay and serve yourself. I went for the hazelnut coffee. While serving myself, I looked around and the cakes and cookies look good. I ordered 3 peanut butter cookies with chocolate chips.
When I walked out, I took a sip of my coffee and it was disgusting! I took a second sip and literally threw the coffee out in the next garbage bin I found. YUK! It was just horrible! As for the cookies, they were good.
I rather go to Classy Coffee or somewhere else for coffee… the one at this place sucks! As for the bake goods, I might give it a second try but that is as far as it goes. You won’t see me coming back here again soon.

Amazing cookies. I went in here on xmas eve hoping to get something for dessert for xmas and i bought their last pie. I subconsciously thought it was the runt being left there all alone but it was soooooooo good. It was marketed as lower sugar but you wouldnt know it. It was truly a perfect apple crumb pie. The crumb pieces were large and plentiful.
Walking into this shop its almost like taking a trip back to… i dont know… a long time ago.

Not your usual bakery cookies but the only place I’ve been able to find that makes chocolate chip cookies like I wish Grandma had made – only place I’ve found to make shortbread cookies that aren’t bone-​dry but yummy!

I worked here all throughout highschool and college, and if I wanted to come back now and take a few shifts, I could. That’s what its like there– like a big family. Great place, love it. The customers are all regulars– we know them by name, and they still keep tabs on some ppl – very old fashioned. The owner, Mary, is a very generous person, which I think is the key to her success :). My favorite is a hot raspberry scone right out of the oven. :)
And YES this is the oldest bakery in town– before it was A Rise Above, it used to be The Well Bred Loaf (Mary was the manager then, before she bought it).

Local bakery.
This place is just outstanding — they make the best cakes and cupcakes hands down.
I’m not sure if they are the oldest bakery in town as another reviewer wrote, but they have been here for some time now and for good reason.
I like to go early to get the stuff fresh out of the oven — but mostly because it smells so damn good in there — you are salivating by the time you get your box and leave…
When I used to work in the area, I would grab a bunch of goodies and bring them to work and watch my coworkers attack them like hyenas on a crippled wildebeest… those miserable fat bastards.
Definitely a place to try.
Parking on the street in front or lots around town.

Huntington is great because of places like A-​Rise-​Above – it’s local, small, real, independently run and always has friendly faces from the staff. It’s like going into your grandmother’s kitchen. I go here to get cookies for my dad all the time! Growing up we would go here for chocolate scones before school – amazing! And it’s a rare day when I go in and DON’T see someone else I know from town in there! A sweet little shop (no pun intended?)

A charming little pastry and coffee shop that’s supposedly the oldest bakery in town. You’ll believe it when you walk in — it’s quite antique inside. You’ll also notice a very tempting, sweet aroma that’s sure to bring a greedy smile to your face. In addition to their freshly baked, homemade breads, pies, cookies, scones, muffins, cakes, and other goodies (selectively low-​fat and/​or sugar free), they also sell coffee beans and brewed coffee.
NOTE: Go in the morning while the baked goods are still warm and moist!