Blazing Bagels

About the Business

Specialties

35 types of bagels - 12 flavors of cream cheese - Pastrami sent in from New York - The best Challah around - We sell wholesale and retail - We offer Catering for any occasion

History

Established in 2001.

Owner, Dennis Ballen, began selling bagels and cream cheese out of a handmade bagel cart to local businesses during breakfast and lunch time, post being laid off from his office supplies sales job of 30+ years. Turns out, people in the Seattle area really do like bagels. Leading to more accounts, Ballen hired a handful of senior citizens to push bagels around to more businesses. As routes grew and Ballen continued to be unsatisfied with the bagels he was purchasing from a small bagel shop in town, Ballen hired a consultant and learned how to make his own bagels. Nothing was going to stop Ballen now. The first retail shop opened in 2001 in the same space where he had invested in bagel making equipment. A few years later, Bellevue Blazing Bagels opened and then the brick and mortar location at Safeco Field, Sodo Blazing Bagels soon followed...