First Watch

This place is excellent for just regular old bacon and eggs but also fabulous for specialty breakfast items! One of my all time favorite avocado toast places. It’s served on a «Texas toast» thick type of multigrain bread and has the perfect amount of salt and lemon. This morning their special convinced me to stray to a smoked salmon cucumber toast. Served with a chive cream cheese spread and capers and onion, I didn’t even miss the bagel!
They also have a really nice fresh juice selection.

Always love First Watch, especially on vacation.
They don’t have my favorite fruit crepes anymore but if you ask, they will normally make them for you.

A great place for breakfast
Through the years we have often visited First Watch restaurants and this one in particular since it opened back in 2012. Every time we stop in we receive a friendly greeting, excellent service, and very good food. Our visit today was very good, as we have come to expect.
Once I find an item on a menu I tend to stick with it every time I visit that place, but today I changed up and ordered an omelette called The Works. The omelette included ham, sausage, bacon, mushrooms, onion, and cheese with a dollop of sour cream. It was a nice change. I was a little surprised the sausage was not ground sausage but rather sliced sausage links, but it had a noticeable good flavor and that worked fine for me.
On this particular visit it took a little longer than usual for the food to arrive, close to 20 minutes. I suppose a downside with reviewing a single visit is you may have an experience that is not typical. Typically the food arrives in less time.
First Watch tends to be our ‘go to’ breakfast place and for good reason. It is a great place for breakfast.

Wow. Wow. I mean, really! Absolutely superb food, clean restaurant, excellent cheerful and quick service. A tiny bit high price for breakfast, but worth it completely.
Some wonderful waffles, and their pancakes were the best any of us had ever tasted. Literally.

The food is really good, but I find it very odd & unaccommodating that they don’t have unsweetened ice coffee or any non dairy milk options…

I am a big fan of breakfast food, so this place didn’t disappoint. The menu has a TON of options, some for those with a sweet tooth and some that are healthier but still really tasty.
I had an egg, bacon, arugula and avocado sandwich with breakfast potatoes. It was pretty yummy (unfortunately I got a stomach ache a few hours later… I’m thinking it could have been the egg but no way of knowing for sure I guess)
The atmosphere of the restaurant is great and I’m a big fan of them using farm-​fresh ingredients!
We felt a bit neglected by our server, but to be fair it was pretty busy.
Great café! I would definitely go again :)

Absolutely delicious and healthy! The place no longer had their Reuben so the manager offered for me to try something on him to open my mind to more of what they offer and it was the best sandwich ever!!! The place is very classy and BUSY (as they should be) but very efficient. Will definitely come back again when I am back in town!

my dad liked his food and we went there twice I got also my food to go. if you in the area it is good food. I enjoyed breakfeast. also there

I love this place. Organic and locally sourced makes all the difference in the world.

Excellent food and great service! The waitress helped the gluten free members of our party find something and made us all feel so well cared for.

I’ve heard a lot of good things about this place in Georgia and since we were in Sarasota for the weekend and couldn’t choose a closer breakfast or brunch place, we decided to come here.
When we got in, there was a 20 minute wait that we were willing to wait for, so I put my name and number down. Immediately, I got a text stating that my name was put on their list and they’ll call us when our table is ready. So we walked around the corner to the Starbucks to get something to drink while we wait.
We sat outside and were conversing and we didn’t notice that it’s been 45 minutes already since we’ve waited with no notification that our table was ready. So I decided to call in case the wait just got ridiculously longer than expected. A female answered the phone, I told her that my name and number was put down and that I didn’t receive a call. For whatever reason, she handed the phone to someone else. I had to explain again that I didn’t receive a phone call cause that’s what they said they would do. The male asked if I received a text stating that our table was ready and I said no, besides the one stating that my information was put down for a table. He went ahead and tried to explain that he did hit the button so that it would notify me with a text. What I didn’t understand was the next thing he said, «You’re the third person who has said you didn’t get the text.» Okay. so if you’ve already had two other customers complain about the same thing, and our party doesn’t show up… wouldn’t that be a clue to go ahead and call to make sure we’re still coming instead of trusting the fact that your system is working? He didn’t sound sincere at all and said to come over because he was ready for us. When we got in, he didn’t apologize and just showed us to our table.
Overall, I was a little disappointed with the above and the food wasn’t worth going back for and it sucks because now I wouldn’t want to go to one back home in Georgia. I ordered the Parma Hash; the potatoes were under cooked and the sausage pieces were a bit big and seemed like they just threw everything together quickly.
Only reason for the 2 stars is because they do have a Starbucks next door, a lot of parking, and half of us enjoyed what we ordered. Which were their ham, bacon, eggs, and I think their pecan pancakes.

Pathetic service. Rude experience placing order for take out. The waitress taking the order did not know their own menu. Wanted a tri athelete omlette that comes with fresh fruit (as advertised in their own website) and house potatoes instead of English muffin. I am happy to pay an upcharge, if there is that is fine. Instead, she insisted it comes with potatoes and all I could get was English muffin and potatoes. Or if the muffin cannot be substituted for potatoes (even with an upcharge), then let me know in a professional courteous manner and I would have been fine with it. Instead she was just short with me. You are in the service Industry in case you did not know.
Her attitude was condescending at best and rude at worst. I am not paying my money to you to be insulted. Thank you very much. I am staying away from this place.

I recommend the Avocado Toast instead of the Trifecta. The wait staff is all super — friendly and helpful.

I will be brief: superb!
I had two things: the avocado toast w two basted eggs, which was most generous and plentiful and healthy too. The other was one of their juices, which was totally deelish.
Sweet staffers too.
Only wish there was one where I lived.

Met for a quick lunch here today. Great service, wait or kept bringing iced teas before I could finish the one I had. Didn’t try to refill and upset that delicate balance of sweeter that some people add. Food was Soso, tomato basil soup was great. Good spot, convenient location to i75.

Always good and great variety of pancakes and egg dishes but also great brunch items fresh brewed coffee drinks and always a light menu offering

The First Watch in LWR is in my neighborhood, this was my first time at the Cattlemen location. I was surprised how big it was when I walked in. Lots more booths and a very nice vibe. Although a very busy Sunday morning, I got seated right away and waitress came by immediately to see if I wanted coffee. For as many times as I’ve been to First Watch I normally get the pancake, blueberry — for an extra couple of bucks they will give you a small bottle of real maple syrup. One pancake is huge and worth the $ 3.99 — the coffee keeps coming out hot and fresh. This past Saturday I was at the LWR location and got a pumpkin pancake — same thing. I’m always looking what other guests are being served and it looks good. This is a place that I am also comfortable going to eat alone on a Sunday AM. As Frank M. said it’s a great «meeting place».

One of the best places in Sarasota for breakfast! Great meeting place. Staff is always friendly, and food is good and fresh.

The food at First Watch is fresh and delicious. This is the perfect place to go for an early lunch as their breakfast (or brunch) items are a true hit. The service is quick with friendly staff. The egg omelets are always cooked perfectly.

Healthy options combined with regular hits. Great breakfast, hot coffee, awesome staff.