First Watch

Love this place for breakfast. Love their avocado toast and their morning meditation juice is out of this world. My daughter loves their blueberry pancakes. Prices are fine and their food portions are big.
Service is great and food is good!

One of my favorite places to go for breakfast! Everything is fresh and organic and I’m totally not an organic person. Prices are high but you won’t care once you bite in and the portions are freaking huge! My favorite meal is the Monte Crisco French Toast, it isn’t on the menu but you special order it and it’s the best thing ever!

Had the blueberry lemon butter pancakes with quinoa. Anytime you put lemon blueberry butter in a sentence, that’s a win. The bacon was just so so. Kind of dry and bland. But the ‘cakes were solid. Sunday morning wait was about 45 minutes but we beat that by taking seats at the first come first serve community hightop table. Decent prices, creative spins on breakfast standards.

Always the place I take my out of town friends. The food and service never disappoint. The avocado toast is both delicious and filling and if you get pancakes, the real maple syrup is worth the extra charge.

Awesome healthy food. Had the eggs Benedict with spinach, tomato and avocado topping. Love that you get to choose. And their kale tonic was delish! Will definitely seek out more of these.

This is my second visit to First Watch. My first visit was not good at all, so I thought I would give it some time and try it again before writing a review. Its been a little over a year. This review is based on food, service, cleanliness, atmosphere, and value.
I ordered the Eggs Benedict Florentine, and my daughter had the kids chocolate chip pancake. My daughter loved the chocolate chip pancakes, obviously. My Eggs Benedict Florentine was just okay. The hollandaise sauce was bland, and the flavors just didn’t seem to blend well. My potatoes were also flavorless.
We sat at the community table, which was convenient because we were able to skip the wait to sit and order. The service was fast, friendly, and thorough. The dining area was clean, and had a lot of natural light from the big windows. The atmosphere is casual, and relaxed. As for the value, considering the price and quality of my meal, I would say it’s a big fail.
Other things to note, the fourier is small, and doesn’t have enough seating. The customers attempting to pay their bill are blocked. It’s just a big mess. A simple fix could be to put some more seating outside. A no smoking sign in front of the door wouldn’t be a bad idea either (super gross and unappetizing to walk through a bunch of smoke to get inside).
Overall, it’s not terrible, but unless they make a drastic price change, I don’t think I’ll be back.

I love having breakfast/​lunch at First Watch, but this location in Brandon is sooo busy. For myself, I had to wait 20 minutes. I ordered a coffee and the «you pick 2» with the ½ BLT & ½ honey pecan salad. The food came out quickly to my surprise. The salad was amazing!!! I ate that first and was too full to eat the ½ sandwich, so I took it home. Also, make sure to tell them if you want the bread on the BLT toasted, as they had to bring me out some toasted slices to replace what was on my sandwich. I paid almost $ 14 not including tip which is pretty expensive for one person’s lunch, but don’t come here often. Food is always excellent though so of course will be back again.

Very disappointed with this place. It was our first time there and they some how managed to mess up on my order 2x before it finally made it out to me the 3^rd time. Manager never came to apologize. And waitresses were all in the back laughing and goofing off while it took forever to get my food/​drinks. Not going back here for sure

This updated review downgrades First Watch further.
As much as we want to like this place there is always something, always an issue or two. This time there were several. We got notice from them that pumpkin pancakes were being featured for fall. Wife couldn’t wait to get there as this is right up her alley. She ordered the trifecta with bacon and the pumpkin pancake. Her meal came out with burned bacon. The waitress tried to excuse it as that’s the way their bacon cooks up. I’m sorry, burned is burned and no excuse will unburn it. The pumpkin pancake was flavorless. All this and my coffee, I like strong coffee, tasted burned too. It was so strong and burned I couldn’t drink it. Fot $ 2.59 I want coffee I can drink. The ice water continues to be an issue. I don’t know why it’s so hard to bring us ice water when we ask for ice water. They still bring you a milk bottle filled with chilled water. I didn’t ask for chilled water, I asked for ice water. And the prices. Our breakfast bill came to $ 24 and change. Two trifectas and two coffees. Premium prices. I don’t mind paying premium prices for premium products. I’m not getting that here. Sadly I think we have paid our last visit to First Watch.

The breakfast food here was pretty great. The portions of the entrée were decent. Unfortunately, the breakfast options didn’t come with an option for pancakes on the side (at no additional cost), like some other places do. However, I did order a pancake which was huge and very good. So I would say that it was worth the extra charge. I’ll likely return.

The service was very good. We used an app called no wait which was helpful for weekend seating. My Latino, French/​Italian family found the food to be too «bland» not enough «kick» for them. Its rather hearty and wholesome great for light meals.

I had a fab omelette with ham and Gruyère cheese — I like the greens they put alongside it. The coffee was good too, the only problem I had was the burnt bacon I received. The excuse the waitress gave me was that I asked for it crisp and since it was cherrywood that’s how it comes out… See pic. Wte on that

I have been eyeing this spot for breakfast. After a long friday night my sister and I crawled in here for Saturday morning breakfast. It was crowded but due to our small party of 2 we were seated in about 5 minutes. I don’t drink coffee anymore but chose to indulge and was very satisfied with the coffee, creamers, and splenda available. I was able to fix myself the perfect cup. I chose a veggie omlette and of course requested no tomatoes. There is no upcharge for selecting all egg whites. The side of multigrain bread was so delicious and so was the preserve. The side of dressed greens rounded out my meal perfectly. I am so glad I was able to make it in before my trip was over. Our service was quick and attentive. This place is a no brainer for breakfast.

Another excellent brunch. Have been to the restaurant in Tampa and first time in Brandon. Had a short wait and then seated. Great menu selections of mostly pretty healthy options and daily special. Able to order lunch or breakfast at 11:00 so had an even harder time deciding.
I had the breakfast tacos which were yummy. Came with 3 and beans. I could only eat one. Very filling with excellent flavor.
Others with me had waffles and eggs and chickichanga. Not a chimichanga but chickichanga. He said it was great with chicken, chorizo sausage, eggs, and seasoning. Came with fried potatoes.
Service was great and food very good. A little pricey but worth it.

Delicious! Love coming here. Staff always has a smile on their face and I’ve never tried anything I didn’t like. Sad I have to move away. Their in house granola is amazing!!!
I also highly recommend the avocado toast and kale tonic! Yum!
Bring First Watch to Tennessee!

We’ve eaten here several times and by and large we’ve enjoyed the food and the service is good. I usually order the Parma Hash or Market Hash, both very good. My wife is a mixed bag, when ordering, this morning it was the Multigrain Blueberry pancakes, which to her did not taste very Multigrain. When she ask the waitress about the pancake, the waitress did not seem very informed about what was in the pancake. A little disappointing for a healthy option themed restaurant. To add to our disappointment we discovered that the «fresh juice» really isn’t fresh, it is prepared that morning and served all day verses made fresh to order. Why is this important, it’s not if you just want fresh juice, but if you want the goodness from the fresh juice and vegetables it should be consumed within 20 minutes of being made. So as long as you know what you are getting go for it. Just know it’s not as healthy as it could be.
Otherwise, this is a good breakfast and lunch place, with healthier options than most places out there.

Food is really good and finding healthy food is so difficult. This place hits the mark. Siesta cocktail, fruit, granola, yogurt and muffin. Super yummy.
Husband had the trifecta but healthier version with egg whites.

I absolutely enjoy eating breakfast at First Watch! The food is always prepared to perfection and I’ve never had a bad experience. I love the app feature as well. Once you check in, you can see how many people are ahead of you and you revive a text once your table is ready.
I love their selection of fresh squeezed juice. The kale tonic is my favorite by far. Try a glass on your next visit and let me know what you think!

I am sooooooo disappointed. I gave this place 5 stars the first time I came, no where near as good this time. Would have given it 2 ½ stars if it were possible
I ordered the Greek omelet. It said it came with spinach, feta cheese, roasted red peppers, onion and black olives. What I got was eggs with a few leaves of raw spinach and a spattering of feta on the inside, with three raw onion rings on top and a few black olives sprinkled on the top as well. (I told them to hold the peppers, wonder where they would have been). Now I don’t know about you, but when I see ingredients for an omelet listed on a menu, I expect them to be IN the omelet. This came with home fires that were cold and awful and an over toasted English muffin. Yuck. I couldn’t eat any of it, so pushed it to the side.
Our waitress was great, no problems with service. She wanted to bring me more feta but this omelet was way to sorry for a little more feta. I had her take the change off our bill, which she did without question. I ended up eating a little of my husbands cranberry pancake which was just as yummy as last time. They do have awesome pancakes, thus the three stars.

Amazing! I absolutely love this place. So sad that Miami does not have one. So many healthy and tasty selections to choose from. Staff was polite. Nice calm atmosphere.