A few months back, I was in a Subway and saw that they had breakfast items on the menu. I thought that was interesting because I had never seen that before, but I just figured they had been serving breakfast for a while and didn’t think anything of it. Apparently, I should have thought something of it because within the past couple of weeks, I’ve seen several articles out there, including this one, that say that Subway is rolling out their breakfast menu nationally on April 5th. So, I guess Indianapolis is a test market for foods yet again. Odd.
Anyway, being the dedicated food blogger that I am, I was compelled to try this out and here are my results.
What I Got: Western Omelet Sandwich Combo (comes with coffee) for $2.50 and the Black Forest Ham Omelet Sandwich for $3.00
First up was the Western Omelet Sandwich. Subway offers you the opportunity to have the sandwich served on an english muffin, flatbread or their traditional sub rolls. Since I at least wanted to pretend I was eating something similar to breakfast, I chose to get mine on an english muffin. The sandwich does include egg omelet and you can get the “omelet” as an egg white omelet or a traditional omelet (using the whole egg). I chose to be semi-healthy and get the egg white omelet. Also included on the sandwich was their traditional black forest ham, green peppers, red onions, your choice of cheese (I chose pepper jack) and your option of the other traditional Subway vegetable options (I added a couple slices of tomato).
Basically, just like all Subway sandwiches, they give you the base of the food item and then you build this yourself. As far as taste was concerned, my english muffin was slightly stale but the eggs were actually not that bad compared to my expecations. I fully expected them to be rubbery since the SANDWICH ARTIST (so stupid, Subway) just pulled pre-made “omelets” out of a warmer box and threw it onto my muffin but they were somewhat soft and fluffy instead. Even though I was surprised that the eggs were not awful, they were also not good either. The melted cheese (they place the muffin in the toaster prior to serving it to you) was nice but everything else on this sucked.
Next up was the Black Forest Ham & Cheese. Since I wanted to try for some variety, I got this one on flatbread. Also included on the sandwich was the egg white omelet and I elected to have them add tomato and banana peppers as well.
For this one, I would classify this as an epic failure. The only thing that made this even remotely resemble breakfast was that it had the omelet on it. Everything else was just a normal Subway sandwich on a piece of flatbread. Boring, stupid, tasteless, etc. I’m not going to waste any more time describing this one because it isn’t worth it.
Would I Buy It Again? No way. Unlike WIBIA, I generally like Subway and am not biased against it, but I don’t know why they felt the need to get involved in the breakfast battle with all the fast food joints. They should seriously re-consider either getting out of the breakfast business by April 6th or completely re-tool what they are offering because this was stuff was just bad. Not only that, but it was overpriced as well. If you really want fast food breakfast, stick with McDonald’s, Burger King or Hardee’s where you can get more variety and also better value.
Oh yeah, one more quick note. Subway serves Seattle’s Best coffee in their restaurants. It was the first time I’ve had Seattle’s Best coffee and it was just awful. I have had gas station coffee at Village Pantry or Circle K that was light years better than this.
This meal actually ruined my next few hours because I couldn’t get the taste of the coffee or the crappy Subway breakfast out of my mouth.
-IndianapolisEater
Ick. Their breakfast always looks so gross. I’ve seen the premade egg and sausage patties sitting behind the glass before, and it just looked nasty!
No, thank you!
Can you believe Seattle’s Best Coffee is a Starbucks subsidiary? I had no idea until I read about them recently. (Though I’m not sure what your thoughts are on Starbucks.)
Many of Subway’s “precooked” items look scary to me. I always stick to their cold cut items (turkey usually.) My friends will get a chicken sandwich many times, and every time I take a look at that pale plank of preprocessed “chicken” complete with faux grill marks I wanna barf. Why would you ever eat that thing? LOL So I can only imagine about the eggs… gah.
fwiw subway is phasing in cage-free eggs for the breakfast items… but yeah, that doesnt really put me over the top or anything
How are the eggs ‘omelettes’? Does not look appealing. This looks like the Taco Bell school of new item creation – maybe add 1 new ingredient and otherwise rearrange current ingredients. Works wonders at Taco Bell – I think Mexican cuisine (if you can call it that there) lends itself to that – not so appealing at Subway.
Still not a fan… I agree with Erin, what makes it an omelette?
I guess the fact that it is made of eggs and sort of shaped like one is what makes Subway consider it an omelet. Basically, they just creatively named it to make it sound more appealing.
That flatbread one looks horrific.
That looks terrible. I haven’t had Subway in a long time. You could have just put the pictures up w/ the text and I think we would understand. Awful!
I didnt know you drink coffee.
@Taco: Just started drinking it within the past few months to help me stay awake during the day, thus my limited experience with varieties of coffee. Still haven’t had Starbucks but that has more to do with the principle of paying $3+ for a freaking coffee as opposed to ~$1 at the gas station or free at work.
thanks for the review and comments. I was wondering what it would be like. not much, apparently. they just rolled this out in nc. I just could not imagine how they could do that. especially since none of the chains have drive through that I know of; , which is a significant portion of fast food breakfast . plus the branding is wrong. hey, lets stop by pizza hut for a buscuit? or long john silvers for a doughnut. what? no thanks. and I like subway. for lunch or supper. but for breakfast? no thanks. plus if I have to go inside, I’ll look for a waffle house or shoneys, or dennys, or ihop. thanks for the review.
I read a consultant’s take on Subway breakfast on the QSR magazine website that basically predicted it would be successful because Subway has a “healthy image” and that Americans tend to eat healthier at breakfast than any other time of the day.
While I can see that working out for them, personally for me the problem is that Subway doesn’t cook any part of breakfast. If I’m paying for something that I can make easily at home, I at least want them to cook it! My sister tried it and gave it a “thumbs down” as well.
Starbucks coffee is only $1.50 for a small, up to $1.89 or so for a large (venti.) (Still not as cheap as the $1. coffee, I know.) But it’s not $3. The $3. and up prices you hear are all about the lattes and mixed hot beverages. Now THOSE can get a tad expensive.
I had a double bacon and cheese on an English this morning at the Hopkins Eatery. It was AWFUL.
A preccoked slab of eggs was thrown on a muffin with the cheese and bacon and reheated in the microwave and was lacking in taste. I got has browns along with it which were even worse than the sandwich. The were soggy, limp and tastless and again thrown in the microwave not the deep fryer to reheat them. All in all one of the worst breakfasts I have had at a fast food outlet in a long time.
McDonald’s doesn’t have to worry about any competetion here.
I had no problem with my Subway breakfast. You have to customize it properly.
The best fast food breakfast I have had was from Canada. I went to a McDonald’s, and right on the bag, they tell you that they use real, fresh eggs. When you eat your sandwich, you know it’s real. You can taste that yolk. You can’t do that in America unless you go to a diner like Denny’s.
The burgers also taste much better in Canada.
subway’s breakfast is nasty, the english muffin tastes like crap, the only good is the cheese. everything else sucks!
I just tried their western omelette muffin sandwich this morning and I’m bored so I figured I’d google what the interwebs thought of it. Frankly I’m shocked, I for one (and apparently only one) thought it was delicious. I’ve been eating out for breakfast for a couple weeks since my employer [in their infinite wisdom] cancelled breaks. It’s been a McDonalds kind of week but I needed a change. I plan to hit Subway again tomorrow and would have likely gotten the same sandwich again tonight if thru served breakfast all day.
The post by Jason above is suprising to me. I guess, to each is own. Personally, my muffin sandwich was so WAS SO DISGUSTING, I had to get up and write this blog after one bite.
Mind you, this is first thing in the morning and we have no eggs at home, and I am starving. My husband managed to choke it down, but he will eat anything. This was worse than anything I have ever had from Taco Hell at three AM.
My stomach is now growling…Who were the idiots who taste tested and approved this nightmare? Hope people read the blogs first before they waste their money!
Just to add to the above post…sorry for the misspellings…Just an idication of my current hunger.
After I eat something, I will literally write a letter to Subway corporate, which is something I usually never do!
t\The coffee is the worst, –the worst — I have ever had. It is warm dishwater on a bad day. Watch out!
I respect those who have actually tried the product and then stated their opinion good or bad. Reviews based on looks, hearsay or a “no thank you” are not helpful. I know it can be hazardous:) I tried the Blackforest Ham, egg and cheese plus the usual vegetables on fresh Parmesan oregano bread and it was quite good. Got to get the whole egg instead of the egg white only omelet.
I just had an English muffin egg and cheese from the Subway in our university’s cafe, and there was a piece of (what looked, tasted, and felt like) leather in the bread. I don’t wanna go so far as to say it was once part of an animal, but if it wasn’t then I have no idea what on earth it could have been. It was an inch square in size and BAKED INTO the English muffin. Do they make their own muffins like they do the regular bread? Or is that just from a vendor?
Love the western on a wheat roll with American cheese. I am shocked nobody likes this! I haven’t tried the muffin though. I actually googles this because I wanted to know how they cook their egg whites. They were amazing.
Free breakfast day here in Canada…just awful. I ended up throwing out half of the sandwich, it was so soggy and the coffee was, as stevie said, “like warm dishwater.” Bad move Subway, bad move.
Pre-cooked egg whites. Sorry, can’t get past that part.
I got the Breakfast Duo this morning. $2.99 for a coffee and breakfast sandwich seemed like a good deal. The egg looked like a thin yellow sponge and when I asked the person behind the counter how they made it, he answered “it comes to us like that”. The coffee was fine, but I threw out the sandwich after a few bites. The cheese was the only part that was warm, everything else (egg, english muffin, and sausage) were cold. I actually found this website by googing “subway breakfast is disgusting”. I actually like Subway, so this was disappointing.
Forget Subways breakfast- the “egg” is a pre-microwaved dried out frisbee-like disc that gets microwaved again when you have your “custom” sandwich made. freshly made eggs are the only way to go..subway is even worse than mcdonalds egg mc muffin egg.
I have had subway breakfast years ago. Only one store offered it and it was on a navy base in new orleans area. It was quite good. I just tried the new subway breakfast(still in the store)
What the he’ll are they thinking. My soft drink was the only appealing thing. Microwaved hash browns that are soggy. A flatbread sandwich with almost no meat is only surpassed by the fact the sandwich had no taste. Never again. I will enjoy my mr pibb at least
I had the western omelet on the whole wheat English muffin (left off the green bell pepper) and I thought it was really good. Much healthier than the Mickey Ds or Burger King alternative and only 180 calories…you can’t beat that if you are watching your weight. I agree the coffee leaves something to be desired, but at least Subway is trying to give healthy alternatives. Good for them.
I had a subway flatbread breakfast sandwich this morning and it was so horrible. It wasn’t fresh-tasting, and the bread was inedible. I should have taken the hint when there were no other people without 100 ft of subway at breakfast time. I hope they discontinue this soon, so another sap like me doesn’t waste 5 bucks on a sandwich and coffee.
The only thing I liked was the style of coffee cups they used. The coffee was horrible and cold
I wished I would have came here before I went there!!!! I decided to stop in on my way to work this morning because from the commercials, they seem to know what they are doing.
I was truly disappointed. I had the steak and cheese on a bagel, I should have know better when I wanted an onion bagel and he said we only have plain, the steak was I guess the crumbles they use on regular sandwiches and the hashbrows, if you can call them that, 3 hard microwaved pieces of potato. I can guarantee you I’ll never eat their breakfast again, they should just stick to what they know, sub sandwiches!!!!
A truly waste of money.
I decided to try breakfast @ Subway. I could not get past the first bite. An employee saw me through it in the trash and waved me over and w/o asking gave me a refund. He said ” Dont tell me I know” I was the only one in the store @ 8:30 ..
Subway food is a ‘healthier’ fast food the same way a low tar or nicotine cigarette is a ‘healthier’ cigarette.
Regarding breakfast at Subway, who here cooks up a dozen eggs on a Saturday morning when you have more time, wraps each one of them separately, throws them in the freezer, then pulls one out each day for the next 12, slaps it on an English muffin, nukes it, and calls that breakfast?
That’s what Subway apparently does. Except they probably cook a few thousand egg patties every day, I guess at a precooked egg patty factory, then ships them out on precooked egg patty delivery trucks to Subway locations.
And I wonder how long a Subway precooked egg patty can go before being eaten, if kept frozen of course. A week? A month? A year? I doubt they’re made of 100% eggs. They gotta add stuff to it for industrial processing, handling, shipping, and preservation.
You wouldn’t cook up a dozen eggs, 50, 100, or a thousand at one time so you don’t have to bother doing so again for the next week/month/year, do you? So why would anyone go to Subway to get the same?
And that food poisoning deal in Illinois last year makes me wonder how long Subway keeps their ‘fresh’ veggies on hand. All those salmonella cases happened over almost a month-long period. So what was the deal, did all those Subway locations in all those different counties repeatedly get batch after batch after batch of salmonella-tainted produce delivered to them over that period, or did they each get one big batch of bad produce at the beginning and keep selling it, weeks after the first case of food poisoning surfaced? And would have kept selling it if not for the food poisoning.
Gees, how long do you keep produce in your frig at home? And what’s the first thing you do with produce such as lettuce and tomatoes when you get home from the supermarket, shred or slice it ALL up at one time so you don’t have to bother doing it again till you run out? A better question is how long Subway keeps theirs. At home you’d throw something out at the first sign of it being bad, but you know any business would go broke if they did the same. The same goes even more so for luncheon meats. First sign or whiff of it being bad at home you toss it out.
The outright food poisoning episodes grabs everyone’s attention but when I think of all that precooked, preshredded, and presliced stuff Subway sells, which is everything they do offer in between two pieces of bread, besides shivering I wonder it there’s a link somehow to IBS which is in the news so often. Specifically, I wonder if repeatedly eating something that’s not bad enough to give you outright food poisoning but often does jangle your stomach and intestines results in a cumulative inflammatory response over a period of months or years. Then if that hits, IBS, you wonder, gee, where did that come from? If you have something with a whole bunch of precooked, preshredded, and presliced stuff (meats, cheeses, ‘fresh’ veggies), would you even be able to tell by taste or smell that any one of those things was bad, particularly if doused with some dressing, which itself sits in an uncapped plastic squeeze bottle on the Subway counter? I keep all my salad dressings in the frig, and take them out only long enough to use then put back. Same with olive oil, keep it in a cool dark cupboard, and put it back after use.
On top of all that, what you do get at Subway costs about 3 times what you could make real-world fresh at home. Between the frozen precooked egg patties, how long the preshredded and presliced ‘fresh’ veggies and meats may be kept on hand, and the extra cost over what you can make better at home, you have to be stuck in a pit of ignorance or self-loathing to think a Subway breakfast or sub is a good idea. But hey, I was there too, in the ignorance pit regarding Subway subs. And climbed out rather than descend deeper into the self-loathing section!!!
I really like Subway and I eat there often. However their breakfast sandwiches are just no good. The food doesn’t match, and I think the egg isn’t that great. If I went there for breakfast I’d rather just grab a BLT insted.
I was given half a Black Forest Ham on flatbread with white and yellow egg omelettes, american cheese, and a good dose of chipotle sauce from my teacher and I instantly fell in love and found my new favorite fast food breakfast. I expected it to taste terrible but was pleasantly surprised. You guys must go to low quality stores because mine was terrific. I had bought some for my friends before our AP test and they too loved the sandwiches. I used to think Jack in the Box made the best fast food breakfast but I have found a new gotta-have-it fast food breakfast. The one thing I can say is that it is a little overpriced especially the 6 inch sandwich but I’ll tough it out because it really is that good. Ooohh, I live in Stockton, CA if any were wondering where I got my food from. I plan on eating there every Friday morning now.
I just had the Breakfast BMT – it was cold and awful…I would NEVER get anything for breakfast at Subway again. Terrible eggs, flatbread was tasteless….total disaster for 3.50 – don’t waste your time or money. She heated the egg she brought out of a fridge and then put the whole sandwich in a toaster oven – did not get hot – but i did not know that until i was already at work. She surely knew it – since there was no warmth to the lousy thing….Great quality control – subway girl….It seemed obvious at the time – that you couldn’t care less.
Never had Subway Breakfast until last week. Had a coupon for a free flatbread bk sand with purchase of drink, so thought I would try it. I got bacon and egg, got one piece of bacon torn in half and half of a pre-prepared (scrambled) egg patty (or egg product) placed on the 3″ wide flatbread and then heated somewhat in their oven. It had no taste, even with salt added. Wondered how long ago that egg was made. Had a bad stomach problem the rest of the day!! Will never again eat at Subway for breakfast. Worst sandwich ever!!!
Odd; the Subway store I patronize cooks omelettes to order until 11 am. They’ll put whatever veggies you want *in* the eggs as well as on top, but the price is time: it takes a long time for the eggs to cook, and they only have two frying pans, so if there’s a line you’re SOL. After 11 they go to the pre-made patties, which, having asked, the employees agree are terrible and not to bother.
That said, there’s no egg-white-only option for the fresh ones. Regardless, I find $2.75 for a 6″ freshly-cooked omelette on flatbread to be an amazing deal. Might need to find a new Subway!