Blazing Bagels — Restaurant in Bellevue

I was able to customize a DIY meat sandwich here. After picking a pizza bagel as the base, I went with lox & an egg as the proteins, garlic herb cream cheese spread, a swiss cheese slice in the middle, salt and pepper seasoning, and lastly black olives The customization options here are pretty wonderful, and this is especially the case with the bagels. There's more bagels than you can count available to pick from at this place

I found the bagel sandwich I got to be superb. The strong highlights here was the lox - which was probably the best lox I've had on a bagel. It didn't have that super-fishy taste, rather, it tasted like perfectly smoked salmon cut evenly throughout. This was complimented incredibly well by the egg, which was also amazing. This egg was so soft, floppy, and layered in a way that combined so well together with the lox. Even though double protein costed extra, I don't regret it at all

The next thing I really appreciated was the cream cheese. They're very generous with the cream cheese, slathering it all over both sides of the bagel, so that it coats a significant part of the stuffing. I thought the garlic herb cream cheese was really good; giving that fatty cream cheese flavor with a decent-sized hint of garlic flavoring on top of that The swiss cheese was also melted really well - less so than you'd find on a burger, but the level it was melted at was basically perfect for this sandwich. It also tasted fantastic

When I asked for black olives as a toppings, I did not expect so many olives on the sandwich, but I did appreciate it. Certainly a case of delicious compliance

So, about the pizza bagel itself. Their toaster was broken, so instead of toasting, they had to microwave it slightly to make it warm. I thought this affected the quality of the bagel as it did get somewhat soft as a result of this. The flavor of the bagel itself was great, but I am very excited to come back and try this place once I can actually get the bagel toasted. For now, it's the only demerit I have

The sandwich costed me around $15, and that's on the expensive side for a lunch. If I didn't add the extra egg, it probably would've cost around $12 or so, which is more reasonable. I thought it was somewhat filling, but not overly so. If you're looking for value, this isn't quite the place

Appreciated that they cut the bagel in half to reveal a beautiful cross-section

Overall, an incredible & nearly perfect bagel sandwich fueled by fantastic...

Recently, I went to purchase Bagels from Blazing Bagels in Bellevue, WA. I entered the store with my registered service animal for the state of Washington. Upon entering there was a heavy set, bearded, older man at the counter speaking with cashier and wearing a Blazing Bagels t-shirt. He never identified himself as an employee, or potentially an owner. However, he told me that I would have to leave, unless my dog was a service animal. I told him that it was a service animal, and then he asked me if the animal was a pet. I was confused and repeated that it was a registered service animal. He asked a third and then a fourth time, in what I assume is him trying to trap me in a semantic argument that I defined my dog as a ‘pet’ and a service animal so that he could refuse to serve me. Upon the fourth time of this round and round questioning he squinted his eyes at me and said, “I guess you can stay.” He then turned and continue to speak with the cashier. I decided that I didn’t wish to provide Blazing Bagels with my business and decided to leave before I said something inappropriate. If this had been the end of the issue then I wouldn’t be writing this complaint, however, my fiancée wished to go in and order from Blazing Bagels. When she entered the store she heard the owner talking about how annoying people with “service animals” are and how he can’t stand ‘those’ people. While I don’t mind being insulted, I find slander and bigotry to be a serious issue. Especially since I suffer from documented anxiety issues, and depression. I wish that I could express the pain and anger that I felt when my fiancée returned to our car and told me what had been said. It’s one thing to refuse service to someone that is different from yourself, it’s another thing all together to speak poorly about someone you don’t know and have no knowledge of their situation. I’m writing this as it has been several weeks since the incident and want to make others aware of this practice and protect them from being confronted in this manner. If they are, just remember to keep repeating that you have a documented service animal and do not allow someone to trap in some sort of semantic reason to refuse you service. I’d hope that Blazing Bagels would be better than this but I guess...

This whole experience was awful.

You walk in and are immediately at the register. You cant see the large wall menu very well from the register, you just have a tiny build-your-own bagel sandwich list taped above the register where you block everyone trying to order while you read it and try to make decisions. (Plus it didnt even have all the options on it). Handheld menus would be helpful. You have to yell to be heard through the plastic barrier between the customer and register. The young man behind the counter couldnt answer most of our questions and seemed annoyed the whole time.

The same young man eventually called out our name and was so annoyed it took more than 2 seconds to get up and go over to collect our bag; not sure why he even had to wait with it if it had our name on it. All the other food was set down, name called, then the employee went back to what they were doing.

All that aside, we were certain the food would make up for it. Nope. Americano and soy latte both were some of most bland awful coffee we have ever had. We didnt finish them. The vegan patty that we were told by the kitchen was a breakfast patty just tasted like really thick Field Roast slices (the tomato flavor) and the vegan cream cheese was boring. Lastly, the bagel was sooooo disappointing. What we wanted was a pumpernickel everyrthing bagel packed with flavor; what we got was bread that sorta tasted like pumpernickel. No chew or springy-ness in the texture whatsoever. The only thing that salvaged the sandwich at all was some salt.

Our two coffees and sandwiches were $34. That is insane.

When we left, there was a line out the door. I dont understand. Maybe Bellevue needs more breakfast options...