Harvest Thyme Cafe

Gainesville, United States

3.6

Closed now

20 reviews

Accepts Credit Cards
Free Wi-Fi

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Telephone:
+1 352-519-5344
Website:
www.harvesthymecafe.com
Address:
4780 NW 39th Ave Ste 1, Gainesville, FL, 32606
Nearby public transportation stops & stations:
470 ftMagnolia Park Plaza
920 ftNorthwest 51st Street
0.2 miNorthwest 51st Street & Magnolia Park Plaza
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Takes Reservations
No
Delivery
Yes
Take-out
Yes
Accepts Credit Cards
Yes
Good For
Breakfast, Brunch
Parking
Private Lot
Bike Parking
Yes
Wheelchair Accessible
Yes
Good for Kids
Yes
Good for Groups
Yes
Attire
Casual
Ambience
Casual
Noise Level
Average
Alcohol
No
Outdoor Seating
No
Wi-Fi
Free
Has TV
Yes
Dogs Allowed
No
Waiter Service
No
Caters
Yes

Today

Today 9:00 am – 3:00 pm
Closed now
Local time (Gainesville) 18:46 Sunday, 22 June 2025

Business hours

Monday 8:00 am – 3:00 pm
Tuesday 8:00 am – 3:00 pm
Wednesday 8:00 am – 3:00 pm
Thursday 8:00 am – 3:00 pm
Friday 8:00 am – 3:00 pm
Saturday 9:00 am – 3:00 pm
Sunday 9:00 am – 3:00 pm

Description

Specialties

Harvest Thyme Café serves freshly made sandwiches, wraps, soups, pasta salad and fruit. We have daily soups and specials that include seasonal ingredients. We also offer delivery with no minimum order and no delivery fee! You can check out our menus, both in store and catering on our website. Magnolia Parke location now serving Burgers & Brunch! Everyday until 2 pm.

History

Established in 1999.

Harvest Thyme Café and Catering Company was established by Jennifer and Mike Davidson in 1999 in Downtown Alachua. They opened up the Downtown Gainesville location in 2001. The husband and wife duo were both Olympic Swimmers and graduates of Alabama University. After a job offer on the coaching staff of the Alabama Swim Team, Jen and Mike sold the restaurant in 2012 to the management team. In the Spring of 2013, construction began on a new location of Harvest Thyme at Magnolia Parke in Northwest Gainesville. The new location of Harvest Thyme at Magnolia Parke opened in August of 2013.

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20 reviews of Harvest Thyme Cafe

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Place rating: 5
Fort Walton Beach, FL
Menu offers a broad selection of fresh choices. We were pleased with everything we ordered. Friendly staff, to boot!
Place rating: 2
New York, NY
Overpriced and strange food for what you get. Really wanted to like this place but the croissant egg sandwich was worse than Starbucks hot sandwiches. Waffles were tiny and blah. Convenient location, though. Inside looks like a cafeteria really awful all around.
Place rating: 3
Gainesville, FL
We were here for brunch and sampled that menu. It was just ok. My friend had the St. Patty’s day skillet/​scramble and thought it was just ok. I had a make your own skillet with bacon, spinach, mushrooms and cheese. There was barely any cheese, a couple of mushrooms, a few spinach leaves and mainly potatoes. The potatoes are seasoned nicely, so there’s that. The staff was very nice, quickly making more coffee when I discovered all the canisters were out. The lunch items sounded good, but then, so did the items we chose. Took me a long time to get here, may take a while to come back around, though I’d give the lunch menu a try.
Place rating: 5
Tampa, FL
A delicious and refreshing change from the usual! If I could, I’d give six stars to this great restaurant! I have ordered lunch delivered to my office at lightning speed and everything was fresh, generous portions, and quite delicious. They have very healthy options ! Fair prices ! They do not charge a delivery fee allowing me to give a better gratuity to the driver. The food comes to you as if it were a home packed lunch from your moms kitchen. It doesn’t have that fast food delivery «feel «to it. My new favorite lunch delivery place. They also have very nice staff answering the phone and taking your order. The young man named Charlie was patient and helpful. Six stars!
Dr Y. C. Leon
Place rating: 5
Pompano Beach, FL
Love this place. Good vibes as soon as you walk in and a very friendly staff! The food was great and not expensive at all! You place your order at the front and sit wherever you want. There is also a drink machine to get your own refills. We will definitely be coming back.
Place rating: 5
Atlanta, GA
Great bagels! Since there is no «real bagel» place in Gainesville GA, this is the next best thing.
Place rating: 5
Gainesville, FL
Close to devils mil-​hopper tried it on our way back. Had a falafal wrap and it was delicious and filling! The service was very nice and quick.
Will definitely go back!
Place rating: 2
Edison, NJ
This place is OK at best. The bagel I had was really stale, even though it was toasted. Usually, toasting a piece of bread of any kind will make the staleness go away, but not in this case. I had to put in a lot of effort to bite off and chew this bagel. My jaw was tired from eating this thing. I had the waffles too, which were decent. If you want gluten free waffles, this place might be for you. Service was friendly.
Place rating: 1
Gainesville, FL
Never mind that I had to search for the tiny piece of cheese they put on my bland tuna sandwich — It was so thin and so much smaller than the bread, I didn’t taste it — I came back a couple months later to order a sandwich and I heard the manager speaking very rudely to a young female employee behind the counter. I don’t wish to support a business that treats its employees this way — no matter how trendy the place is. Reading these reviews, I’m glad to see I’m not the only one who feels this way.
I also might add, that I’ve worked in many different restaurants over the years, in food prep, bussing, dishwashing and hostessing, family owned and chain — and I have NEVER been spoken to like I heard this man speaking to the girl. This is NOT normal treatment.
Place rating: 3
Gainesville, FL
I struggled with assigning a rating to this place. I mean, I had a turkey /​ham and stuff wrap. it was gook. It was a-​ok, but it wasn’t great. I mean, it was simply a good wrap. The unsweetened tea was just liptons tea, and the chips were in a bag chips. Do I like the place? Yeah, it is a good sandwich shop, but it is also a bit pricy for what you get. Oh, it is a lot bigger on the inside than it looks from the outside. The décor is nice, the people were friendly. To be honest, I would love to give it 3.5.
Place rating: 5
Gainesville, FL
Fast and friendly service! Came here for first time and took awhile to order and they didn’t hurry me up. Great place for sandwiches and wraps. Quality food! Would love to come back and try their soups.
Place rating: 5
Gainesville, FL
Short and sweet, this is the place to go for a good sandwich and soup lunch, or brunch favorites. They even serve breakfast. The staff is very pleasant, the menu complete and tasty.
One of the cleanest establishments I’ve been in, in a long time. Colleen greeted us with a smile and enthusiasm, made sure we perused the new menu, even offered a sample of the sarachi chili yummy… So I ordered a Ruben that was stacked with corn beef a slight amount of sour kraut on fresh marble rye, it would rival a new York deli, the bowl of sarachi chili was very tasty, loaded with beans and beef, high lighted by little strips of fresh carrot and a beautiful picante flavor that was a delight to the palate.
It was all topped off with a sample of fresh fruit that cleansed and refreshed my mouth. Seriously yummy food, try it, you’ll like it.
Place rating: 5
Gainesville, FL
I’ve been here twice for breakfast and I’m super impressed. The morning manager is accommodating and friendly. I’m gluten free and their GF waffles are amazing, and there’s a lot of choices. The breakfast options are inexpensive and endless. I strongly recommend!
Place rating: 2
Gainesville, FL
It was my first time ever going there and it was a horrible experience. I had a one hour lunch break, and it took almost my whole lunch break for food. I ordered a sandwich and lobster soup, and was sitting there waiting for 20 mins, only to be told that they gave my order to someone else and that they had ran out of the soup that I wanted. I am sure that it was a rare instance where this happens, but I was highly annoyed of the situation. The sandwich was alright, and the oatmeal cookie was pretty good though.
Place rating: 3
Archer, FL
Fantastic food. Fresh, GREAT vegetarian options. It has 4 stars because service is so slow. Even with the restaurant half full, it took 45 minutes to get our food.
Place rating: 2
Gainesville, FL
Super overpriced. I sat there and watched the owner or maybe manager (but I’m going to guess owner) of this place demean the young girls that work there. I felt so sorry for them as I saw their confidence decrease as he talked to them like they were dogs. The food is okay but that man was way too mean to those girls for me to ever go back.
Place rating: 3
Hollywood, FL
we atopped for a quick bite for lunch. Great café with lots of healthy options. We loved the tuna apple melt croissant with side of pasta. The sweet potatoes chips were delicious and generous portion of fruit we ordered on the side. Great staff. Lots of options
Place rating: 5
Wellington, FL
Stopped in for a quick lunch… Glad we did. Many patrons means this place is popular with the lunch crowd. Place your order, they bring it to your table. Sandwiches were so fresh tasting, salad and homemade dressing (as well as homemade croutons — bonus!) was fantastic! Fast and fresh … A perfect lunch. Thanks Harvest Thyme!
Place rating: 2
Gainesville, FL
We stopped here based on the Unilocal reviews. After both getting a breakfast sandwich and bagel, we are both baffled at the high reviews. The biscuit sandwiches are just ok, the cheesy hash browns were not good at all, the bagel was tiny and was so hard/​dry it was practically inedible. Also the coffee was very weak. We won’t waste anymore time or money here. You would be much better off at Panera.
Place rating: 3
Gainesville, FL
This is a quick review to second Aqua J.‘s experience. The food I’ve had here has been great, but both times I’ve come to this location, I’ve had to listen to employees being reprimanded and borderline demeaned in front of me. I have no idea if the person doing this is their manager, but given the way he talks to them I assume he’s in a managerial position. The treatment isn’t even the kind of thing that I think is fair for employees to receive in the back away from customers. It’s made me feel pretty uncomfortable, and feeling sorry for the people that work here.
The food is good, the staff is great (and patient), but the toxic atmosphere created by one individual demeaning the employees is ruining the experience for both the customer and I imagine the employees as well.