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    First Watch

    4.0 (24 reviews)
    Closed 7:00 am - 2:30 pm

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    Brian M.

    Generally would be a 5 star but the glasses were very dirty with water (I hope) streaks. The food is expensive but overall on par for the quality of food. It is always packed so be prepared to wait. Smaller shared parking lot so be prepared to have to hunt for a spot when busy hours. Good customer service.

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    Joseph G.

    First watch is a super popular, trendy and always busy breakfast and brunch spot that has several locations popping up all over Lousiville. This particular spot is located In the fern creek portion of the city just of Bardstown road. Crammed in a very small but busy newer shopping center the parking is limited and difficult to find a spot for this popular spot. Inside it is like most first watch spots with any southern home country cooking feel and decor. The service here is very good and very friendly. The menu here is traditional breakfast with some different variations of your normal breakfast favorites. The food here is always fresh and has good flavor hence the popularity. My biggest turn off for first watch honestly is they are always so crowded and I'm not a big waiter. Food is on the higher priced scale for most normal breakfast places but flavor and portions are pretty nice. Overall you can't go wrong with first watch. Just show up early before you're starving and for this location be patient when looking for a parking spot.

    Shermaine T.

    This location has a warm and cozy ambiance. It is also less busy compared to the other branches. 5 have the new chilaquilles, which is my now current favorite. I love that this restaurant offers healthy menu items without compromising the flavor and tastes.

    Jeremy J.

    We stopped in here for breakfast this morning. It was good. I've never been here before the food was tasty. The service was good. The ambience was nice. The place itself is a good solid spot. It's a little over priced or something. I couldn't eat all the time, but overall it was a good experience.

    I usually love and enjoy the food at First Watch but Wednesday was an exception. I called in an order we leaving Baptist Eastpoint after a shot in my foot. We ordered some carry out to be picked up in 10-15 minutes. Great! Well not so. We arrived 15 minutes later and it only took my husband 3-5 minutes to be waited on to checkout. When we arrived at home I opened the food to plate it and my omelet only had bacon and cheese in the center area and the avocado slices were mostly gray and turned the egg gray where they touched. The fried cubed potatoes were so black and hard that over 1/2 were inedible. Looked as if the pan was scraped and all the loose burned garbage was thrown into our containers. Sad. If I had been sitting at a table I would not have eaten the food and I would have sent it back. Very Disappointed.

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    Brittney H.

    I really wanted to love First Watch because the service was great and their whole grain toast was some of the most lovely bread I've ever eaten...but all the other food was mid at best. The best way I can describe the reason for my dislike is that the menu was just uninspiring. All the food was plain- stuff I could easily make at home. Nothing was seasoned particularly well. It really is a shame because of the great ambiance and welcoming staff, but I think I'm gonna stick to Wild Eggs. I'd rather drive across town for more interesting food.

    Scrambled eggs with cheese and grilled onions, blueberry pancake with blackberry purée, crispy bacon the bacon was so good! And potato's.

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    4 months ago

    Ordered off DoorDash. Sealed bag. They left out the entire breakfast entree. The cup of grits was good though. Morons.

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    1 year ago

    The food was great! Looked just like the pictures on the menu. Make sure you get added to the waitlist!

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    Food is amazing! I have several favorites. Service is top notch. Wish it was open for dinner also!

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    Service was great, and food came out real fast!!! Food tasted great and came out just like I asked!!

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    Great food, great service! Server was attentive and we never ran out of hot coffee! Love this place!

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    This place is so consistent, and my fave dish is the Pesto Chicken Quinoa Bowl!

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    From the outside, this place looks like a normal house in the Highlands of Louisville, which…read morehonestly adds to its charm. You enter from the back, and right away the staff greeted us warmly. We had a party of four and were seated quickly. The inside was beautiful with a great atmosphere definitely a cozy and welcoming vibe. Our server came to us in under a minute very fast, professional, and attentive. I ordered the cinnamon roll as an appetizer, and for my main breakfast I had the banana bread French toast, biscuits with eggs and cheese, and orange juice. The orange juice was amazing super fresh, natural, and sweet. The cinnamon roll was good (not the best I've ever had, but still enjoyable). The food overall was solid. The banana bread French toast was really good, the eggs were cooked well, and the biscuits and gravy were also very tasty. On the downside, one of the plates came out a little dirty, which wasn't great to see. Other than that, the place itself was clean, the staff was friendly, and the experience was enjoyable overall. Rating: 4/5 stars

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    Went here for lunch because we had tickets for a free drink or dessert. I just love the ambience of…read morethe Brown hotel very a very classic historic vibe. I love that they had cute fresh flower arrangements at the table. Our server was very friendly and personable. Surprisingly my husband did not get the hot brown. He got the shrimp and grits. They looked amazing. I dont eat shrimp but I did sample the grits. They were delicious. I got the fish sandwich with fries. They were really good.

    Maybe we had a super off day, but based on this lunch, there's a reason why the Hot Brown has…read morestayed in Louisville and most people haven't heard of it. My top-tier chum who literally went to the school of hospitality and I came here two Fridays ago ahead of a bourbon tour (thinking, correctly, that we should probably have a hearty meal beforehand so we didn't end up face-first in a gutter somewhere). Several Kentucky natives told us that we had to try a Hot Brown during our visit, and since it was literally created at the Brown Hotel, this seemed like the logical spot. The actual Hotel has some gorgeous interiors, especially upstairs in the lobby. We didn't see that area until after our meal, so when we laid eyes on the Lobby Bar & Grill, we knew immediately that that was where we SHOULD have gone for this Hot Brown dish. J. Graham's, I'm sorry to say, doesn't have the history and personality of the rest of the building and just looks like a generic breakfast spot you'd find in any hotel. It probably exists solely because the other dining options in the hotel aren't open until later and they want to give tourists and their own customers a place to eat at all times of the day, which isn't a terrible reason in my book. But it's also unfortunately not very good, and the dirty walls and overall meh appearance of the establishment just make it very clear that the hey day for this hotel overall was decades ago. The service was the biggest miss here. Our waitress was scatterbrained, often not around or around but hanging out with co-workers or talking up other customers. It was honestly pretty mystifying because when she DID come by, she was often overly apologetic and trying to make amends. But the best way to make amends is not to have to keep doing that throughout the meal. She forgot my friend's coffee (didn't write anything down when we ordered, which is fine if you remember everything but...) and when my chum asked what was in the hummus (one of just three apps), she didn't know and had to go ask someone in the kitchen. That's arguably a nitpick and she DID try to figure it out, but the lunch menu is pretty small and it was a little odd that her menu knowledge was that limited. The bigger problem was that we were in there for over half an hour longer than we wanted to be because she wouldn't come by our table. I actually actively looked for her on the way to the bathroom so I could remind her to come to our table, but instead found her off to the side gossiping with other staff. Not a good look at all. So this might have been an overall positive experience if some of the hospitality from the hotel had spilled over here. We actually both enjoyed the apps, which were the only real positives of the experience. The Bourbon Barrel Fries and the Two Timer, featuring Smoked Bourbon Hummus (bourbon tends to be the theme of your days in this town, I've found) were both really good, and I probably ate more of those than the actual entree. The fries were cooked perfectly and were well seasoned/addictive. The Hot Brown was fine for what it was (we split it to try). It's basically a dramatic turkey melt, with slices of turkey coated in cheese and other sauces. It also came with strips of bacon on top, which on a personal palate level I didn't think really helped the dish so I barely nibbled on those. It's definitely a solid entry but it wasn't mind-blowing for either of us. Maybe it's just from where we come from in the Northeast, but I'm conditioned to like my turkey with accompanying stuffing, and usually in the latter part of November. I think it felt kind of weird to be eating turkey with warm cheese. But I'm glad we tried it and got the context at least. You might have a completely different experience with better service, but I'd still recommend going upstairs for any dining. It's a much better atmosphere and you can really appreciate where this hotel fits in the chronology of Louisville. You're not going to get that from going here.

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    Omelette Bar! This does turn into something else for the afternoon hours.
    Omelette Bar! This does turn into something else for the afternoon hours.
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