Quaint little place with great coffee and amazing baked goods. be sure to try to new york crumb cake if you want something sweet.

My husband and I loved our experience here! The staff were very friendly and informative. The store is super cute, filled with plants and is inviting and open.The cold brew coffee with mocha is absolutely delicious!! Its sweet, fruity and delicate! We are absolutely stopping by for more before we head out of town.We were suggested their scones and lemon poppy seed muffin. The muffin had a zesty, tangy citrus glaze and moist, tender cake.Overall this was an amazing start to our day! :)

VERY DISGUSTED. Whichever man was working on 10/3/21 at 7:30 am was EXTREMELY RUDE. I live in the neighborhood and was appalled at the level of attitude and disrespect when I asked a question about their items. Tone and patience were not something the employees exhibit here apparently.They’re also not dog friendly, the employee went on to be rude to a girl asking what their dog policy was for her SERVICE DOG. For a shop having house made dog treats I was absolutely shocked. All the people in the shop were immediately turned away, some walked out. I don’t want to give my business to a shop whose employees verbally ABUSE customers wanting to ask questions. The owners need to do something about their service training.

Come here for my morning coffee most days. The staff is awesome and I love how reasonably priced the drinks are!Pastries are delicious, my only constructive criticism is that the last couple of times Ive been there Ive ordered cookies that ended up being raw in the center... Not great, but honestly something I can overlook. I think the other pastries are definitely a win.

I accidentally stumbled upon this lovely little spot, while pulled over looking for directions to another spot. And, boy, am I glad I did!!! Their baked goods are the only menu item I tried, but they’re all I needed! I purchased 3 cookies, 2 muffins, and a brownie, and every single item was amazingly scrumptious!!!

It baffles me how the Starbucks across the street stays in business with slow hand so close. Ive made a Friday morning tradition of enjoying a bourbon vanilla latte and a jalapeno corn muffin. If youd like a pastry, get there early. They will sell out quicky.

Baked goods to die for! Excellent coffee. Don’t miss the jellies/jams.

The pastries are excellent! Ive also had the biscuit egg, bacon sandwich and it was super tasty.

Great place! Love the iced bourbon vanilla latte, and they have house made dog treats!

If you are waiting in line at Starbucks, do yourself a favor and walk across the street to this place instead. This place has the BEST cheese danish. Light and fluffy with a hint of lemon and a vanilla cream cheese in the middle that will brighten even the gloomiest, rainy day. Coffee, lattes, cappuccino and some specialty drinks. Oh and if they have the breakfast biscuit sandwich (they sell out so fast!!!), ya just have to cause they are so damn good! Absolutely can not recommend this place enough, plus they are local.

They always have the most amazing coffee. The scones get sold out super fast 🙁 but why is there always just one person working. Be prepared to wait

Went in this morning to grab a quick bite and some coffee. Ended up getting a Bourbon Vanilla Latte and several pastries. The coffee was absolutely delightful and the perfect temperature. Hands down, the lemon best poppy seed muffin Ive ever had.

Really amazing spot with incredible biscuits, coffee, atmosphere.

Our first visit definately didnt disappoint!! We ordered the egg & cheese biscuit to-go. The biscuit was absolutely delicious!! Perfectly cooked, delitefully seasoned & generous portion sizes. Great addition to the neighborhood. Well certainly be back.

Scones were fabulous - biscuit sandwiches great!!!!! Service good - limited seating - only took credit cards today no cash!!! Limited parking

This place is great! Im always amazed to see people at the starbucks across the street when this place exists 100 yards away. Bourbon vanilla latte, Amazing! Banana bread, Amazing! Breakfast sandwiches, Amazing! Sticky buns, Amazing! Cookies, Amazing! Everything here is great. Shop local, and support this great Nashville gem.

Best. Biscuits. In. Town. Get the bacon, egg, and cheese on a biscuit.For more reviews on coffee, food, travel recommendations and more:Instagram: @lovealwaysla

Cheese Danish. So yummy. Friendly employees. Me and family tried several things everything was great.

Great coffee and attentive service.

Vibey place with great espresso and a vast option of baked goods

Ive been to master coffee shops up and down the west coast and everywhere in between. This is THEE best coffee and atmosphere in Nashville. Expert baristas, and out of this world delicious baked goods!

Incredible local bakery with great coffee

HANDS-DOWN the most amazing pastries and baked goods in Nashville! The cheese danish is the best Ive ever had in my life - no joke!!!

Just moved to the neighborhood and already love their bourbon vanilla latte and scrumptious baked goods!

Salted caramel latte is ridiculously good. Fresh-baked and inventive cookies and treats.

Very cool coffee shop with some great food.@wanderlustmoonduo

The salted carmel latte is ❤❤❤ friendly staff and love supporting a local business

I own my own business so I always try to support other small businesses as well and this place has really amazing baked goods but I have made my last visit there and will not return, I’ve never left a negative review before on a individually owned small business but on numerous occasions I’ve driven 10 miles from where I live to purchase items and they will be closed I’ve looked at the hours on the door but they have not always been accurate and the times they have been open they are out of everything I need ( mostly cookies ) I’ve questioned it and was told they bake only a few and run out most every day before they close. I’ve witnessed 4 times when I’ve been in that others have walked out the door when I have with nothing in hand after driving over there. Today I called and ask what time will you close today the gentleman who works there said 1:00 I told him I was on my way and would be there about 10 til, ask him what was left and available he was super nice told me what he had.... I get there at 10 til 1:00 he boxes me up $32.00 worth of cookies (of course out of the cream cheese cookies again) as usual and handed him the money he says we don’t take cash....what? It’s closing time I’m buying most all of what he has left in cookies and they couldn’t take my payment so I left for my last time after rushing over to get theses things. You the owner just lost a nice sale. Earlier on the phone I ask again as I had in the past if I could preorder he said yes so he took my name and number but I have no expectations of ever hearing from the owner because I’ve left two voicemails in the past to order and never heard back. I dont have to spend my money there but I choose to because of the quality product but it’s now just not worth the hassle & disappointment. In conclusion to this I want to add that I have 3 friends and 4 clients I’ve sent there who all have the same complaint. I wish you well with your business and I hope you find this helpful going forward.

One of my favorite places to get coffee

I have opened cafes and managed restaurants for years and now I am a location scout. I make it a point to try different places regularly.This was by far the worst experience I’ve had, all around. Service was so terrible and so incredibly slow for simple breakfast food, it’s sad. The cold brew clearly wasn’t brewed long enough, food took 45 minutes and was awful, bland and made me feel sick. On top of everything, the place was so dirty that I don’t know if they have ever swept since they’ve opened.Besides being dirty... the build out simply lacks thought or care. The corner welds are just waiting to stab a child’s in the head. There are so many things that could have been done that would have made this place just that much better but again, what they call a “labor of love” is not the kind of “love” I’d ever want to be apart of.The only thing that makes sense for this place is their name. Slow Hand is literally what you will get here. Just don’t waste your time or money, I beg you.

Love everything about this place! Amazing treats! Always different variety. And the staff is sooooooo nice!

I love going to Slow Hand for brunch or a pastry. The decor and overall vibe is very cozy! Especially if you sit at the counter, where you can watch the food cook on the fire. Our order has been messed up a couple times, but other than that, I only have positive things to say.

Walked in, no one to be seen to order. We stood confused as to what to do until a table cleared up. Of course, because no one could be found the table was dirty. 10-15 min passed and we were not able to order coffee or breakfast. The only person we ever saw was a guy cleaning.Updating to clear some doubts. When we walked in, there was no one at the register. While we waited we sat down, but no one ever came out. We even saw two other couples come in, wait, and leave. And no, we were not in the restaurant next door.

I wanted to love this place. I stopped by to grab biscuits to take home for breakfast. I read the reviews and it seemed that the biscuits would be well worth it. As a baker and lover of biscuits, I was excited to try them since theyre so close to my house. Unfortunately, the chicken biscuit I got for my husband lacked flavor (despite all the things on it) and the biscuit itself was doughy. The fried chickens breading was falling off pretty seriously and it was overfried to the point of tasting a little too done. I got the sausage, egg and cheese biscuit which tasted much better, but the biscuit still had the issue of being slightly undercooked and a tad doughy. I think that the issue may come from the biscuits size. They are so big to accommodate the sandwich stuff that I think the outside gets cooked much faster than the inside, so you get a crispy brown exterior and gummy inside.On the bright side, the blueberry muffin was pretty delicious and was baked well and the iced lattes were fine (though Dose holds my coffee trophy at this time). I am not sure if the biscuit mishaps were just a bad baking day or the usual and others just arent as critical because they arent bakers. I might be willing to try again, though for a $10 biscuit, Im not sure if its worth it.

Loved everything about this place! We got the biscuits and they were 👌🏼. Also, excellent coffee.Here are their new hours #covid19 #shoplocal

This is THE BEST biscuit, breakfast sandwich in Nashville, and there are many amazing option around town. They should call it the X-ray biscuit; so much butter you can see right through! Bacon was incredible. I hope St. Peter hands these out at the pearly gates. 🙏

Its relatively new and nice place. You can easily walk through the shared space to Pelican and Pig restaurant next door. The coffee is good, wide selection of pastries. The staff is super friendly and quick. The design is simple, yet cozy. Will come back.

One of my favorite breakfast bakery’s.

Had a late breakfast this morning during their soft opening. The food was amazing. Huge, fluffy biscuits with offerings varying from house made sausage, local bacon, to steak cooked over their wood fired grill and all with cooked to order eggs. Mine were perfectly overeasy, just as I ordered. Counter Culture coffee and a great pastry selection for something quicker looked great. I cant wait for them to go to a regular menu after their soft opening to see what else they have in store for Slow Hand and the adjacent Pelican and Pig.

Yummy pastry selection!

Very impressed. Ham biscuit was delicious and HUGE. The blueberry lime jam was great. I sampled my daughters breakfast plate. Her eggs were cooked and seasoned perfectly, and so were her fries. The dipping sauce they serve with the fries was outstanding. My only negative comment is that there was only one small breakfast menu and it was sitting in front of the cash register. Hopefully they will post the menu on the wall where everyone can see it or print several that people can look at while standing in line. Looking forward to returning and trying more options!

This place is awesome and one of my new favorites in East Nashville. The biscuits are amazing and made from scratch. Just make sure your computer has a full battery if you plan on bringing it. They dont have power outlets!

Their breakfast sandwiches are the bomb. My only wish is that they had an option for sausage.

Slow Hand is SO good! There baked goods are amazing, the coffee is excellent, the atmosphere is cool, and the people are lovely. So glad theyre in my neighborhood.

Tried a salted caramel latte, London fog, and the sausage breakfast sandwich. All were delicious! It looks small, but youre able to take your treats to sit in the restaurant that is connected - great vibe.

This place has great potential but they seem ill equipped to handle crowds. I was there this morning waited nearly 20mins for a single biscuit with jam and when I got it home, it was completely raw. The service is slow and inefficient. Might be great for a small customer base. They should consider sticking to baked goods and coffee.

AMAZING eggs and potatoes, i loved the latte as well, definitely drop by!!

I sent this to their FB Messenger ( see below )They read it .....and did not even bother to respondWhich makes my experience there even worseI travel a lot for work. When I’m at my office in East Nashville I come here and bring people from my office. I absolutely love your vanilla lattes. However today the wait times have been ridiculous. I was in at 7am and ordered 2 of the chicken biscuits to go ( we were the only ones in the place ). It took over 35 minutes. I brought people back for lunch and we ordered 2 of the brunch entrees. It took 42 minutes. People seated before after us got food before usI spent over $65 dollars today. Nobody once came over and said anything about the wait or apologized. I was almost made to feel crazy for asking the wait time. Just wanted to let you know. Not a good experience at all. I come here as the product is superior to most coffee shops. However, service matters !Today was a complete fail

I cant say enough for your restaurant I didnt know you were down there and I ate there one morning (because of Google maps reviews)and Ill tell you that was best bacon egg and cheese biscuit everI tell everyone about your great restaurant i drive for a ride share had the chicken biscuitthe next time you are awesome keep up the good work

Tried to go here for lunch. We stood in front of the cash register looking at the food menu for several minutes before our presence was acknowledged by anyone. When someone eventually came to the register and we tried to order food, the cashier looked at us like we were putting her out and told the kitchen was closed. The employee saw us look back over at the menus and just said “sorry, those shouldn’t be up” before removing them. We were completely flabbergasted. What kind of coffee shop stops making food at 2pm? Why do you have menus on display if the kitchen is closed? Why isn’t this information on a website somewhere? Oh wait, this place doesn’t even have a website.Needless to say, we won’t be back.

Great and affordable coffee and baked items. Mushroom toast is 😍

Came in at the end of the day on a Sunday. My baked goods were a bit dry but creative flavors and as a former bakery owner, clearly made with decent ingredients.I watched the girl closing transfer all the baked goods into one cake stand display struggle and then struggle to wrap it all up with plastic wrap. This means two things: food allergy sufferers beware, and, they resell day(s) old goods.This is locally owned and operated which is always a plus. The owners are a husband and wife. If Im in the neighborhood, I might give this a try again on a different day.

Based solely on service, we won’t be returning here. Our last three visits, over the course of a month, resulted in terrible service. Food waits of over 30 minutes for simple things, like bacon or eggs. Customer service is indifferent at best. On one of our visits we told someone that a large wooden corner was split and had scraped our knees as we slid into the booth. The response was “Yea, everything is kind of falling apart.” Today I visited with my toddler and we ordered the simple breakfast plate with a side of toast. After waiting 35+ minutes, there still wasn’t any food. That’s a long time to wait with a little one, and we weren’t the only ones not getting our food. I requested (and received) a refund - minus gratuity (a joke). There are better run places to visit for breakfast in East Nashville, and I’m sad to say I wouldn’t recommend anyone visit Slow Hand (note: review written in extreme hanger but based on multiple terrible experiences).

Great service and delicious meal, pastries and of course coffee, I ordered breakfast tacos, gluten free, double corn tortillas top with scramble eggs and cheese and bacon and on top crispy French fries with avocado green dressing, so so good, we met there with other moms friends and brought our children, they have a lots of space we had a great time, very clean place too and lots to pick from the menu for breakfast or brunch my friends got the chicken breast biscuit, it was huge, looked delicious too! Totally recommend this place

I would absolutely give them zero stars. Customer service was TERRIBLE and the food was far worse than terrible!! Literally was dripping in grease!

First visit was on a weekend brunch, so the line was huge the whole time we were there and the staff was a little frazzled. There were some minor miscommunications but they recovered well. I spent many years working brunches myself so I can relate. The chicken biscuit was outstanding, and that sauce on the Hey Jude tacos made that dish. The plates we saw on other tables looked fantastic so I will be back.

Man this was phenomenal. The coffees and pastries were hard to beat. Most important, the service and wait times were some of the best Ive seen in the area.

Fries were over cooked and hard. Crust of toastwas extra cridypy and hard to bite on. Mushroom toast was good to enjoy. Great chill atmosphere.

Very good ham and cheese croissant!!

Slow Hand has the most delicious baked goods, and their coffee is great! I love all the details, from the fresh flowers to the cute mugs.

The cold brew was really solid, and the sausage/egg/cheese biscuit was incredible. Will definitely be coming back.

Good food. Large portion. Very friendly service. Get there early.

Coffee and food are good enough. Food is a little slow, but they tell you the wait in the menu so just be aware. That’s said I will NEVER go back here. As my wife and I were leaving, we noticed a car had parked in a no parking spot blocking our way out. I went inside and one of the workers came out with me to look at the car so they could try to find the owner. Turns out it was an employee’s car. When she came out to move it she did a lot of arm gesturing and said there was room to get out. I said I didn’t want to take the chance and hit her car or scrape my car against the wall. She said a few more things and I asked if she was going to move her car. She gave me a look and said she wasn’t going to move it and started walking back inside. So I headed back in to talk to management and she started cursing at me. When I told management this they got her to move the car, but they were laughing about it. She did finally move her car, but called me more names in the process. I was mostly upset with the management not taking it more seriously. Not the parking, but being called names by someone for no reason and then not even getting an apology is bad business.

This is a nice little coffee shop. The biscuits are good and big!

Best coffee in town coupled with the best pastry chef in Tennessee. This place is a must. Dont even think. Do.

Great coffee and food, bit of a wait for it but it is worth it! Service is always good too, friendly and cheerful

The best coffee in town an very friendly staff!

Coffee was great, I had the brewed and it was smooth and flavorful. I also had the sausage and egg biscut. The biscut was very dense but it was good. The sausage is house made and it was good. I think that the addition of gravy or the option to add gravy would really make this dish a home run.

LOLOL! Quick bite, fast service. Do not be misled. This place is aptly named: it is bafflingly, inexplicably, painfully SLOOOW.Be prepared to stand in line for 20+ minutes just to place your order for a pre-made pastry or coffee from a thermos. I cannot fathom how the simple operation of placing a couple cookies in a box and pouring some coffee into a cup can take as long as it takes here.If you want to order something from the menu, plan on waiting an additional 30 minutes until you can eat it.These are not exaggerations. They are observations made during the four visits Ive made since it opened.Made-to-order breakfast can be a great thing, but promoting such a place as quick/fast is absurd, and making customers wait in a long line just to order (when the majority of the seats are empty) is unacceptable.With those complaints lodged, the pastries are pastries, the coffee is weak and bland, and the single made-to-order hot breakfast option I had the patience to get once upon a time, was far too salty.I recommend stopping by Slow Hand only to confirm this review. You will have plenty of time to get to know the folks you are in line with. I will not be one of them.

I have only gotten baked goods and coffee here but both have been great.

Breakfast was delicious and very filling! We had tacos with fries and a sausage biscuit and both were very tasty.

I ordered the egg and cheese biscuit along with a cup of coffee and, my god. It took me by surprise. The biscuit was dense and crispy on the outside with the soft, buttery, pillowy inside absorbing the melty, cheesy scrambled eggs, flavored to perfection...ever so slightly as to create a burst of flavor and a substantial, satiating chew from bite to swallow. 10 out of 10 will do again.

Delicious coffee and baked goods. What a pleasant surprise this place is.

Good coffee and food. The chicken biscuit was delicious!

The coffee here is incredible.

A beautiful place of servitude.Lady Neil is one of your best workers.

My absolute favorite go to cup in Nashville( I go multiple times a week) but unfortunately employees make you feel like you’re inconveniencing them by simply walking through the door. Delicious food (big tex burrito rocks) and coffee await once you break through the barrier of consistently awful customer service.

The baker there...she is just phenomenal! I have not had anything bad there.

Visiting family in Nashville, stopped in for coffee which was great; however, their cookies were out of this world!!

Great coffee and breakfast sandwiches

Tried this place out for lunch today with some co-workers. The breakfast tacos were drowning in undercooked fries which were topped with a green sauce that looked like a toddler had just eaten peas and then spewed them all over the plate. The fall bowl was decent but seemed underwhelming for the price paid and had hardly any sausage in it. Id say the best thing served was an aioli on the basic breakfast plate which also had undercooked fries. Experience at the register was bland and left much to be desired. Overall we will not be back. The bougie atmosphere can be experienced at too many other places on this side of town and they have far better food and customer service.

Their baked goods are delicious. Coffee is good. Kitchen? Service...!!! I got eggs, bacon, and french fries today. Pretty basic right? Ive had it all my life...but this was really salty. The bacon was stiff as a board too. My husband had bacon on his biscuit sandwich that was a normal cook. So I very discreetly asked one of the people behind the counter if I could get it remade. She insisted I had to see the cashier. Ok. Fine. I waited then quietly asked the cashier. She asked what was wrong I said its way too salty and the bacon is hard. Her response? You can go ask the kitchen. WT??? I was reluctant so she started walking over that way, indicating that I should follow her...mind you there are other customers coming in... iI decidedt wasnt worth it and just went back to our table. The woman came back and said that shed just tell the kitchen for me (what the first person, let alone her, should have just done in the first place) and asked me 2x how I wanted my order cooked. She was loud and insisted, when I simply said not salty and the bacon not hard, that was how they cooked their bacon. At that point there were 4 other customers standing around. I said nevermind Its fine. I had to tell her that 3x then. And at that point we just got up and left. We didnt even finish our coffee. I was really polite and respectful so I dont get the poor service, which, even if I wasnt, should be better. And for $10 bacon eggs it should be edible. Its a cute place and this was our second time there. But there are lots of good places in East, so after this, we wont be back.

Great biscuits!!! Staff are super nice and the cookies are great.

I spent four days in Nashville with my mom and we went to Slowhand four times. We tired the biscuit sandwiches, the breakfast burrito, the toasts, the jam biscuit, and the chicken biscuit and everything was delicious. Were at the airport now and we already miss Slowhand. The coffee was great, the people were great, and the food was great. Thank you, Slowhand!

The chicken biscuit wrecked my life!!! Fantastic food and a great atmosphere!!

The biscuit sandwich was very good, the place itself seems slapped together, a little sloppy. It also has the smell if East Nashville Hippster attitude

Ate with some friends here over the weekend. Ordered an apricot scone. Received cranberry pecan. Ordered a biscuit with jam. Recieved biscuit. Ordered vegan banana muffin. Received muffin covered in bacon??? Ordered a cappuccino. Barista forgot. The folks were sweet, but damn did they struggle.Food was fine.

Pecan Sandie was fantastic. The coffee was excellent.

Friendly staff, good food and coffee.

Wow I just started eating and forgot to take a picture of the BEC that was a really good biscuit it was not dry it was a nice size super fresh MUST TRY

Great food and service

Super good coffee, toast and pastries

Slow down life and grab a cup at Slow Hand! Casual, Hip, Comfortable!

Avocado toast is the best I’ve ever had.

They have egg nog lattes. They have other delicious things, also, but I am leaving this review for the egg nog lattes.

Coffee is excellent and the baked goods.....off the chart crazy good! Go there already!

Excellent Hey Jude Tacos and fries!

The sausage, egg, and cheddar biscuit was ridiculously good

Pleasant with good coffee and pastries.

Fantastic coffee, food and baked goods!