Eques — Restaurant in Bellevue

Eques is my favorite weekday breakfast spot in Bellevue. I go once a week after dropping my son off at school. If it's just me, I always get the buffet so I can immediately dish up and start eating. The buffet area isn't huge and only varies slightly day to day, but the quality is excellent. It's very clean, well-stocked, and the other guests tend to have good buffet manners. It has a bit of a fresh/healthy food bent, which I appreciate. I usually get some combination of scrambled eggs, bacon, salmon salad, salmon bagles, steel-cut oats, pastries, fruits, and yogurts. Each station is small but has the key fixings. Today's rotating buffet items included chorizo quesadillas and chicken sausages. I wish they had offered guacamole with the quesadillas. The servers have always been exceedingly polite and efficient with me.

The buffet is $31.96 after tax, so I end up paying about $39 after tix. Yes that's a lot, but it's worth it for me since the food is much better than nearby weekday breakfast buffets I've tried. The price includes coffee and juice. You can pay extra for a cooked-to-order omelet, but I haven't done that. I might if it was free. They make great scrambled eggs, and the buffet includes all sorts of things you can mix in (bacon, salmon, Beecher's cheese, sausage, tomatoes, etc.)

I've also gone here with my family where we ordered off the menu. It all came out great! If I get bored by the buffet, I might start doing this more.

Parking in the underground garage is free on weekdays with validation, and always free on weekends. Their hours are longer for weekends to accommodate brunch, but I don't think the buffet or menu really change. Eques is just as good on those days, but it doesn't stand out as much because there are tons of other great weekend brunch options.

Keep up the great food, Eques, and I'll keep...

The staff was in such a rush that they forgot the orange juice I had ordered for my breakfast. They also asked me if I would like butter for my French toast and.I responded yes. The butter never came and my meal was later finished. I waited over 20 minutes for my check and I explained to the same server that he never brought me my butter or my orange juice. He gave me the orange juice free and apologized for no butter, and also reduced my bill in half. Nice guy, but why he didn't take down notes when I gave him my order perplexes me. No host or hostess I know of can keep track of 5 different customers orders mentally. Please use a steno pad or some sort of sticky pad to write down orders and get back to customers quicker. Food was excellent and fresh, just wish I had gotten my complete order without having to say to them that my order wasnt all there. Might be...

When you call, Eques asserts they are the best game in town for breakfast and they are very busy. So a poor attitude over the phone. The service was extraordinarily poor and slow: left coffee cups 10 minutes after asking for coffee but did not bother to fill them until we asked for it 5-10 minutes later. The server was generally nowhere to be found, did not ask how things were, did not check the accuracy or quality of our orders, and overall did less than the bare minimum. The buffet was very poor in selection and quality. The omelette was small was not cooked to order and tasted average. Overall not worth the time, the money, the experience. I am a resident of Bellevue and used to frequent the place and highly recommend it: no more, Eques has lost my business, and the business of everyone I know. Not that they act like they need my business or...