BREW Five Points — Restaurant in Jacksonville

Bro, the food straps harder than Brian Shaw!

I got the “brisket sandwich” and a “ginger plumb” tea which was fantastic for 11:30am. The sandwich ingredients from the menu reads: “tyler's smoked chopped brisket, housemade pimento cheese, pickled red onions, cumin pickles, griddled on our bread” and you get every bit of that flavor. Perfection on bread made in-house with love. With pimento cheese oozing down the sides, thick chopped brisket, and the pickles are actually “cummin’ pickles.” That’s because its what you do as you eat them (all jokes aside the pickles are fire!). The service is always great! Every time I’ve came in, the same smiling faces are there and they all work together like a well oiled machine. Start to finish, it may take 6 minuets to get my food on a very busy morning. The food is fresh, hot, and flavor packed when it arrives always & you feel the love put into it. The ambiance is always great inside with low music, people always chatting, and doing coffee shop things. Do yourself a favor and stop in to check them out! Check their hours anywhere online and if you’re an introvert, just order online. They have a great online platform for ordering and it’s very fast service.

Their food is great, the service is superb, and the ambiance is that perfect...

A Fair Coffee Stop, But Nothing Special

I stopped by this independent café in Riverside (Five Points), hoping for a standout local experience, but it left me underwhelmed. The coffee was decent but nothing particularly memorable, and the atmosphere felt pretty average. Outdoor seating is very limited, just a couple of small chairs and two tables, with no shade whatsoever. In Jacksonville’s summer heat, that makes sitting outside almost unbearable. It's a missed opportunity, especially when other nearby spots offer covered, more comfortable patio options. I’ve noticed this café is often busy when I drive through the area, and I’m not entirely sure why. While I do appreciate supporting local businesses, the iced mocha I ordered was just okay and cost about the same as what you'd pay at a major chain nearby with comparable (if not better) quality and more inviting seating. If you're already walking through Riverside and just need a quick caffeine fix, it might be worth stopping in. But don’t expect anything exceptional when it comes to the coffee, service,...

I've been to Brew a number of times, it's one of my more liked cafes in Jacksonville, and certainly the best in Five Points.

I'm generally pretty pleased with the coffee's I get from them, and for the most part they seem to do what they do really well. My main gripe with Brew (and the thing that sometimes makes me go out of my way for other shops) is an often felt air of pretension from some of the baristas — which is at a level rarely felt outside of sketch comedy shows. I've had more than one ocasion where a barista has corrected me or made a comment that was just unnecessary and/or felt ill-willed.

I'm not a "the customer's always right" type person, but I've been around the block. I believe one of the most important jobs of a good barista is to translate what a customer wants into their terms, while still staying kind and efficient.

I really do like Brew, but interactions like that keep me...