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.