Looking for a unique bakery with delicious pastries and bread? This is your place! On the Rise is a quaint bakery located in a quiet Cleveland Heights neighborhood. With this said, parking can be slightly difficult. If you come here on a non-busy weekday, there are plenty of street parking nearby!
I ordered the Jennifer cookies (one of their most popular items!) and banh mi. The Jennifer cookies bring your homemade chocolate chip cookies to a whole new level! Each bite was filled with multiple chocolate chips and nuts. Mmmm mmm good :) These cookies are also quite dense! Even though they were so delicious, I could barely finish one cookie in one sitting! By the way, these cookies are NOT available on Tuesdays!
I'm pleasantly surprised by how delicious the banh mi turned out to be! It's made similar to a Vietnamese banh mi. The only differences are that On the Rise salted the pickled carrots/radish (rather than sweetened), used chunks of beef (rather than slices of meat), and used French baguettes! The baguette was so soft and the beef was spiced just right! The only downside about the bahn mi was that the salty pickled vegetables were tooooooo salty! I ended up picking out half of them in order to thoroughly enjoy my sandwich! Also, this one banh mi costs the same as 3 banh mi's at Park to Shop. Expensive? Yes. Worth it? Yes.
I'll definitely be coming back for some more yummy treats!