First Watch

First watch was great it was my birthday lunch and I got an omelet my request were of many but the waitress did not get agitated and annoyed like waitresses in the past have her name was Carly and I highly recommend her to anyone who wants to eat there

I love the atmosphere of this restaurant. It’s very relaxed and colorful. I ordered the oatmeal with a side of turkey sausage. They give you whole grain toast with the oatmeal and it’s surprisingly delicious! My fiancé ordered the Croque Madame. It had two Sunny Side Up Eggs on thick toast with ham and Gruyère Cheese. When you order coffee, they bring you a thermos of it so it’s always hot!

This is a two part review!
The first part is the food. The food great when it comes out right, which it usually does. Food is always hot and seems fresh, as it should. This is the main reason we come here, healthiest food around when we don’t feel like cooking.
The second part is the service, mostly the waitresses themselves. They are usually all rude and make you feel like an inconvenience. The waiter you have there is good, he is always happy it seems but the girls are not. You can here them bad mouthing people in the back while they put orders in, they only come by when you flag them down to get or they give you the check and lets hope their friends don’t come eat while you are there. They will sit down with them and for some reason, their food comes out way before yours.
Please keep up the great food but please fix them service. Only saw our waitress twice on this visit, once to take our order and then to give us our check.

First Watch is one of my favorite spots for brunch with convenient locations all over Tampa Bay in Palm Harbor, Clearwater, South Tampa, Downtown Tampa, St Pete, Largo, Carrollwood, New Tampa. If you haven’t been yet you really owe it to yourself to try them out! You’re probably not too far away from one! For the health conscious, they have 8 healthy options to choose from! On my most recent visit I had the über healthy Power Wrap which consisted of egg whites, turkey, spinach, house-​roasted Crimini mushrooms and Swiss in a sun-​dried tomato basil tortilla, served with fresh fruit and a side of housemade salsa and my Mom had the Chickichanga which consisted of whipped eggs with spicy all-​natural white-​meat chicken, chorizo sausage, green chilies, Cheddar and Monterey Jack, onions and avocado rolled in a flour tortilla, topped with Vera Cruz sauce and sour cream, served with fresh fruit and fresh, seasoned potatoes. They were both amazing! On another visit I had the Tri-​Athlete which consisted of an egg white omelet with house-​roasted Crimini mushrooms, onions, tomatoes and green chilies, served with housemade salsa, a dry English muffin and fresh fruit. Our waitress was super nice and the food has never taken too long to come out. There is a parking lot on-​site with plenty of parking available. When I come here for lunch always getteh Baja Turkey Burger and add bacon. Its just like the Monterey Club but with ground turkey instead of sliced. Along with the bacon it has avocado, lettuce, housemade salsa, and (not too spicy) pepper jack cheese. I use ranch instead of mayo and sip the fries and it is the best healthy burger ever.

The Belgium waffles are awesome! So light and fluffy… and FILLING! You will not leave hungry!

This has become my go to for a fairly quick, healthy option for lunch and breakfast. It is a little yuppy but overall the staff is friendly and welcoming.
Food
The seasonal options can be amazing. My wife and I are addicted to the AM SUPERFOODS BOWL which is chia pudding with fresh seasonal berries, a coulis of berries, granola and a side of multigrain toast w almond butter. I substitute the bread for two scrambled and they never balk at my request.
The quinoa bowls are very tasty Great for lunch.
The pick two are a bargain. The Ham and Gruyère melt is rockstar choice– w dijonnaise and a salad or soup. Lots of combos there that rival and I think best Paneras.
Eggs and such– lots of choices of frittatas & omelettes, pancakes, Etc. Bacon is first quality.
Drinks– they have fresh squeezed juice options that are very healthy and tasty!
Overall, give it a try. It’s solid!

Great place for breakfast and brunch. The food is all very fresh and they have healthier options available. I actually had lunch today for my free birthday meal.(Which is a great bonus) The roast beef was delicious along with the vegetable soup. We will be back. Coffee is a little pricey but they bring a whole pot. Staff and manager are friendly and helpful, customer service is a big plus in my book.

We have had breakfast here a few times and its never been anything spectacular, not sure what all the hype is about.

I’ll keep this short and Sweet. Tried again after I was sent a gift certificate after another bad experience. First Watch use to be one of my #1 choices to eat, but the food has really gone downhill.
Ordered lemon ricotta pancake trifecta. It arrived with Fermented old strawberries on top, brown/​black mint shriveled up garnish that I picked most of it off before the pic, and scrambled eggs that were not cooked all the way through. Raw! If you look at the pic, you can see the slime. Ew! Didn’t eat the eggs, told the server, and just had it replaced with fruit bowl which had rotten grapes in it.
The only thing good was the coffee and service. Guess how much I paid? $ 13.89! With tip add another few bucks to that. Almost $ 20 for for 1 pancake, 2 pieces of old bacon, raw scrambled eggs, and coffee!!! Really? Why?! Because that meal was so special? Hell no.
I’m done with First Watch. They’re Not as good as they use to be like back in the day, before they started switching the menu up with new items. They Should have stuck with original, when the food was good, like 10 years ago. 1 star for coffee, 1 star for service. Goodbye. I will never eat a half ass meal again.

This is an amazing place to get healthy breakfast and lunch fare! I recently started a diet with a focus on healthy proteins and veggies, when all of a sudden, I had to travel to FL. It can be really hard to eat healthy while traveling, so I was so glad when I discovered this place! I had so many choices for a healthy breakfast — from a quinoa power bowl with eggs to a healthy egg-​white veggie omelette (ate here two days in a row!). Of course, they serve pancakes and such, too, but I was very glad to have a variety of healthy breakfast/​lunch options that tasted great, and weren’t just salad!

I love the food here. It’s always the best quality and quantity. I love the way its decorated which is refreshing and calming. Best place to eat.

Let me start with the service. Our server was quick to seat us, take our orders and keep our drinks topped up.
The food. Oh my goodness! I had the roast beef and havarti sandwich with horseradish sauce and a bowl of tomato basil soup. That was yesterday. I went back for the same today. I’m taking a friend for brunch there tomorrow! I will try to order something different on the menu, but feel I’ve already had perfection.
First Watch is my new bff for breakfast, brunch and lunch.

The food here was simply delicious! Lots of healthy choices on the menu. The atmosphere was just right and the wait staff are friendly. There is usually a decent wait here but on a rainy Sunday morning we were seated within minutes. They had a coffee station set up outside for those waiting, a nice gesture.

Love their coffee! This is a great place to come for breakfast if you’d like an alternative to greasy spoons. They’re always fresh and delicious. We love their lunch options too.

I came looking for something to eat, I’d been here in the past and was hoping for something GOOD. What I got was Ok.
I decided I didn;t want breakfast fare, but opted for Coffee to drink anyway. No less than 3 people touched my table in some way or another. First, I watied more than 5 minutes to be seated. Not because they were busy, I came at 1:30 pm. I waited because there was no one on the floor. The waitstaff was doing end of day work, the one lady bussing tables was busy and finally the Manager sat me. He asked me what I wanted to drink, I told him coffee.
A few minutes later, a waitress comes to my table and asks what I wanted to drink. I told her coffee too. *shrug* Ok. Anyway, the coffee was delivered, and it smelled and tasted rich and decadent. When I ordered my food, I opted for an open faced chicken salad sandwich (Topped with mozz cheese and tomato slices) and a bowl of tomato/​basil soup.
The food came quickly and was delivered by the third person, a gentleman, who I asked for a glass of water from. That came quickly too, but no in the standard milk bottle, he just brought me a glass.
The food was tasty. The Basil tomato soup was good, but lacked depth. What could have made it better would have been croutons and parmesan cheese. I asked for some, and the waitress said she didn’t have any parmesan cheese in the place — this despite their menu having one or more dishes offering that cheese as an ingredient. The sandwich was tasty, nothing to write home about.
All in all, the food is Ok. I might try again, i might not.

I don’t know why it took me so long to find the Palm Harbor location just down the street, used to drive all the way to Countryside! Perfect breakfast spot, I’ve tried many daily specials and often order their banana pancakes, everything is fresh and delicious. Fast good service — immaculately clean — huge menu — I love this place! I only wish it was open all day! Can’t go wrong here for breakfast or lunch, you will love it!

I was expecting much better, breakfast isn’t hard to get right.
came here twice and left feeling ripped off. my son can cook better than they can.
no respect for your food

Very friendly staff, very clean. The eggs, and bacon are very good. The home fries are also good but very salty. I don’t recommend the crepes. Unless you enjoy cold crepes filled with cold fruit covered in strawberry yogurt. Individually excellent ingredients. But they don’t go together. At least not for me. Nice place, but not worth a return trip…

Clean and pleasant, short wait, friendly staff, just the right portions, and breakfast made the way we wanted it. My daughter had ½ a waffle with chocolate chips, sausage and fruit. My husband had the triathlete omelet, salsa, english muffin with fruit. And I had the pumpkin pancakes with crispy bacon. The portions were perfect and no food was wasted. And they also prepared our order just as we requested.

First Watch is OK. In my opinion, I could take it or leave it. The food is healthy, portions are a good sized, and the price is OK. I don’t really feel it has much of an atmosphere, but it is located in a shopping plaza, so maybe that has something to do with it.
One thing that does stand out for me is the staff. Every time I have been to this location and a location in Orlando, the staff has been friendly and gracious. Additionally, it seems like a very clean establishment.
Additionally, I am Gluten Free and they have no substitutes for bread or pancakes (well since the last time I was there). Just a note for those who don’t eat Gluten.
I want to like it because I have never had a bad experience, but nothing about it really stands out to me. In my opinion, First Watch is good for a quick breakfast, but I wouldn’t go out of my way to go here.