About Us
What We Do
Welcome to Rise Baking Lab, where baking expertise meets passion. Our offerings include specialized bakery consulting, hands-on in-person classes, and versatile online courses. We provide comprehensive guidance for bakery startups and existing businesses, covering everything from layout planning to recipe development and efficient operations. Our in-person classes are perfect for hands-on learning of artisan baking techniques, while our online courses offer flexibility and convenience for bakers at any level. Join us to elevate your baking skills, whether you're starting a new bakery venture or simply seeking to enhance your baking prowess.
Who We Are
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Mark Hart
Mark Hart is a baker, educator, and consultant specializing in artisan bread and Viennoiserie. He is the co-founder of Rise Baking Lab, a baking school and consulting company in Chilliwack, BC, which he established in 2023 with fellow baker Luis Cabral. At Rise, Mark teaches hands-on workshops for beginners and experts, including the popular Bread Camp, which attracts students from across the world for a week-long intensive course on artisan bread.
Mark also works as a consultant across North America, helping entrepreneurs open new bakeries and guiding established bakeries, restaurants, and pizza shops as they expand their product offerings and streamline their operations. His consulting emphasizes both technical expertise and efficient production systems.
Earlier in his career, Mark served as Head Baker and Manager at an acclaimed artisan bread and pastry shop, and as a technical baker for an organic flour mill, where he gained in-depth knowledge of ancient and organic grains, local milling, and recipe development.
Mark also shares his work online to a wide audience, and has built a following of more than 113,000 on Instagram, along with a large and engaged community on TikTok and YouTube.
Luis Cabral De Luna
Luis Cabral’s love for baking began in Mexico, learning from his family at a young age. He spent his high school years working in a commercial bakery. After studying Kinesiology at Western University, he returned to the craft with renewed focus, apprenticing under Mark Hart and developing a specialization in artisan breads and viennoiserie.
His career later took him to Toronto, where he joined one of Canada’s largest artisanal bread bakeries. There, he gained valuable experience in large-scale production, learning how to balance precision and consistency with the soul of artisan baking.
In 2023, Luis co-founded Rise Baking Lab in Chilliwack, BC, alongside Mark. Rise has quickly grown into a hub for creativity and education—offering immersive programs such as Bread Camp and Lamination Week, and drawing students and professionals from across North America.
Beyond teaching, Luis works as a consultant, working with bakeries, restaurants, and food entrepreneurs to design recipes, streamline systems, and build new concepts. His approach blends technical skill with creativity, helping clients innovate while keeping production practical and efficient.
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Where We Are
We live and work in beautiful Chilliwack, British Columbia, on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the Stó:lō Coast Salish peoples.
We travel nationwide for bakery consultations, and offer many online classes, and classes in person at our Chilliwack baking studio.