Cafe 605

Convenient shop for quick bite when staying at Van Zandt Hotel. Had the Lox and Bagel and it was both inexpensive and surprisingly good. Wife got Blueberry muffin that she said was really good. The service was also very efficient and friendly.

While staying at the Hotel Van Zandt, our group used Café 605 as our daily morning meeting place as its within the hotel. As guests of the hotel, we received unlimited free drip coffee from the café between 6:00-10:00AM each day which was a nice perk! The café itself is cute and has a great selection of items for coffee, breakfast or lunch. During my stay, I tried the following: - Drip Coffee - Good coffee with your basic breakfast blend (or something similar) - Strawberry Cream Cheese Danish - so delicious! A favorite here! - Ham, Egg and Cheese Breakfast Croissant - every bit of this as perfect! A second favorite here! - Blueberry Muffin - very soft and not overly sweet - Plain Croissant - super flaky and soft! One of the best I've had! - Chai Pudding - Average chai pudding with fresh fruit- Espresso Martini - Ok tasting and not very sweet. Go across the street to Electric Shuffle for an espresso martini instead The food items and drinks aren't cheap but are what you would expect for a hotel café! I would definitely go back if staying within the hotel or if I lived on Rainey Street but wouldn't go out of my way to visit!

Located in hotel van zandt near Rainey street. It has a modern Austin vibe with a small drink and food menu. They have gifts, souvenirs and food in the go. It's a great place to hang out or have an informal meeting. They have valet or street parking. We ordered chai lattes and cold brew. It was decent/average. The baristas were friendly.

Coffee tasted solidCappuccino was executed wellExecution of the latte art was lackluster Plenty of seating inside Great ambience, connected to a nice hotel Would give it a try, tho you can find better places

Cafe 605 is located inside of the Hotel Van Zandt on the ground floor.It's a convenience store - but does not have a lot of selection. I picked up an Italian sub one evening. plus potato chips and cold bottled water. The sub was a bit skimpy on meat and cheese - it was mostly sub roll. Disappointing.Service was good.#Cafe605

Easy, quick and efficient! All things I love from my local coffee spot. The staff here are always super kind and helpful, and they make a mean lavender oat milk latte! Great decor and little gifts to buy while in ATX as well.

Okay, keep in mind what this is.This is the coffee house inside the Hotel Van Zandt.Anyone who has ever stayed in a hotel and has wanted coffee knows that the average hotel coffee house is awfulness on a stick.It is generally a Starbucks, in some small and ungainly location that represents "extra space" that gets rented out.The food offerings are smaller than those of a normal Starbucks because they don't have the backspace needed to keep the offerings good.You "can" if you want get a coffee from the hotel main restaurant.Expect to pay $$$$$$$$$$$$$$ for nothing special.* * *Cafe 605 is way better than that.* * *Okay, Keep in mind the neighborhood.Rainey Street is a coffee desert.Rainey Street is about drink drink drink party party party.There are some decent food trucks.There are a few upscale restaurants.What do you do if you are staying in the area and you want to drink coffee and get some work done?At the price of a long long walk, you can get to Wright Brothers Brew and Brew.Other hotels have an in-house Starbucks etc etc etc with all the badness previously described.* * *So by Rainey Street standards, Cafe 605 is the last housely home in an orc-filled wilderness.* * *What do you get for your trip to Cafe 605?a) Their own house brewed coffee. The espresso is a unique mix of half mud-half bitter. My own taste is for all out bitter, and my next-best favorite is all out mud. But I can go with their distinctive 50-50 hybrid. b) Really really good food. The menu is limited but what they have is first rate.My accompanist and I both had the BBQ brisket sandwich.It was honest FATTY brisket!When do you ever ever see a hotel serving fatty brisket?The sauce was good and the whole sandwich came together nicely.Much more interesting than the microwaved paninis available you-know-where.c) A fantastic giant wood work table made from some huge tree trunk and varnished nicely. Sockets discretely available under the table at every other seat. Classy leather barstools to sit in with lots of cushioning to make them really comfortable. I could have worked there for hours and hours and hours.* * *The person I was with said this was his favorite coffee house in Austin and that he wanted to come back.You have to pay for Rainey Street parking if you are a townie wanting to visit - and the prices run towards the high side.(But not to the extreme rip-off levels typical of the worst of the top-line hotels.)However, if I was staying at the hotel, I would practically live in this establishment.If I lived in a Rainey Street condo, Cafe 605 would be my home coffee shop for sure.There is no reason why premium hotels have to have coffee shops that are as bad as they are.The Hotel Van Zandt is schooling the rest of the industry in how to be cool.

We stopped in last Saturday to cool off with some iced coffee. I really love the decor of this place - modern and trendy with rustic touches (the live edge wood table is gorgeous). The menu consists of coffee, drinks, and food. The pastry case is displayed next to the register, and the far will is filled with souvenir items in lit display cases. The girl behind the counter was friendly and fast. We ordered 2 iced coffees and a glass of wine, and the bill came out to roughly $25, which isn't terribly surprising given the location. The coffee was good - my husband seemed to like it more than Starbucks, but he's no coffee connoisseur. I can't speak for the food, but overall, a pretty cool place to hang out for a bit.

Amazing coffee. I got a caramel macchiato and it's one of the best I've had in awhile. I got a pastry which was average. But great service. Great atmosphere. It'd definitely come back for a coffee

I used to enjoy coming here for the $6 ham, egg, and cheese croissant. They now over doubled the cost to $13 and it didn't even have egg on it. Guess they joined the Rainey street rip off