Blades Restaurant — Restaurant in Ashville

"Help yourself. It's FREE!"

When was the last time you heard any business giving away something worthy for free? I was blown away. I know it's just ice cream, but it screams family business taking care of families.

A co-worker mentioned this spot. We finally found a page on Facebook with a menu. Ordering was easy, and finding the building was even easier. A dozen or more parking spaces right out front. Inside was a big space of tables and some TV's. Video games are in many corners to entertain all the ages. A self serve counter holds a Pepsi fountain machine (see pic), condiments, plates, silverware, and a soft serve ICE CREAM machine (see pic). 2 liter soda or gallons of tea (see pic) are available for carryout or dine in. Open certain days for lunch and delivery. We chose specialty pizzas and a sub. The staff was super friendly, and eager to answer all my questions. They easily split up our orders for separate payments. That's when they clued me in, all guests can enjoy a cup, or cone of ice cream (see pic). Vanilla, chocolate or twist. Also carryout guests. So worth going to go pick up an order.

I enjoyed the thin crust size (see pic), but found it's taste very good, but not yet the best. I was surprised to see the commercial upright mixer in the kitchen for dough making. Very happy they don't have sweet sauce. It was mild, not full of flavor. I wish they would offer Old World Pepperoni. No complaints on the abundance of toppings (see pic). They fully admit online that they use canned mushrooms. My co-worker said the Italian sub(see pic) was okay, but everyone wants so much more extra filling. We were all surprised to find the mini salad(see pic) came in a styrofoam sandwich box. We expected $1.75 might get us less. UPDATE Now over a dozen visits later and things have changed. The first being the customer incentives. As if ice cream wasn't enough. They added Perka points reward system through the Clover app. Points for purchase add up to discounts quick. Social media promoting specials, and new items. Emails of discounts. A new modified menu for 2019 (see pic) with a generous lunch special section. Full meals for a great price.

I wish their small business good luck. They're listening to the customers needs.

Prices are very fair. Stop in and grab some...

I liked blades until the last time we got food from here. It's nothing to do with the quality of the food it's self it's the people who work here. The manager the night we ordered was so unbelievably rude to us I was appalled to be honest. I wouldnt step foot in this place if I had too. Telling me she was right I was wrong. She didn't care what I wanted to do about the problem but she was getting off the phone. Then when my husband went in to just give the pizza back because it was wrong which one of the employees that was working agreed that it was not what it was suppose to be, she stayed in the back of the restaurant for 10 mins. She had another employee come out and tell my husband that she was very busy she he might as well leave?!?! Who does that. What type of manager doesn't try and fix the problem. All I wanted was for the item that was missing on my pizza to be put on my pizza. I tried very hard to keep calm and be respectful. I totally understand things happen and trust me I'm.not one to complain but this was THE WORST service I have ever received in my 27 years of life. If you want to treated like a decent human being DO NOT GO TO BLADES IN...

My boyfriend and I have been ordering Blades for a very long time. Everytime we have ordered the food has been really great and we loved it. We ordered tonight and got a very different experience! We ordered 2 subs and pizza. The pizza had barely any toppings and had some weird after taste. The subs which were philly cheesesteak subs were extremely disappointing! I have ordered them alot in the past yrs but tonight they were absolutely terrible. There was barely anything on them. They changed there steak which you can buy that cheap stuff in philly packs to make at home. There was barely any vegetables and the cheese was definitely different because about half way through eating it the cheese got really hard. Also there was this weird red stuff on it. It was really disappointing to have such a bad experience with a place that had so much potential. I know alot places are being affected by what's going on in this world but cutting corners will only destroy places. I hope they fix the issues soon. We probably won't order from them for awhile. Which sucks because we used to order from...