Bennu Coffee Lounge an Austin Great

Bennu Coffee Shop is one of Austin’s Top places to enjoy a cup-a-joe. What’s cooler than hearing Bob Dylan in Austin’s coolest coffee shop Bennu. Bennu’s definitely has the ideal coffee shop feel. Bennu is located south east Austin on MLK Blvd close to the UT Campus but far enough away to not only have college student patrons. This coffeeshop in Austin won, Austin’s Coffee Shop Twitter Coolness Award and needed a independent review.

Bennu Coffee Shop Counter Logo

Visiting Bennu in the morning, you will find a good mix of people from all walks: professional, hip, tattooed, band members and just regular ole Austinites. It must be noted, the gene pool appears to be above par.

Bennu Mocha Drinks

Bennu’s Coffee: On to the coffee, I tested a Grande Iced Chai with two Shots of Espresso and it was damn tasty. Bennu Coffee Lounge has all of your regular coffee shop coffee options with dark, light coffee, espresso, french press, and a variety of loose leaf teas, including mango tea. Austin’s Bennu also has their specialty designer mocha coffee’s like the house favorite, “Pride & Prejudice” which consists of a blend of sweet chocolate powder and sauce topped with home-made whip cream and dusted with chocolate powder. Bennu also has, Don Quixote on the menu  Azteca D’Oro Spiced Chocolate Mocha topped with home-made whip cream and dusted with Mexican Spiced Powder. Wow typing all of that made me a bit thirsty for the ole’ Don and Bennu is open 24 hours.

Bennu Coffee Counter

Bennu’s Food: Bennu also has a wide variety of food options for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and late night snacks. The morning I visited, they had already run out of breakfast tacos, so I had a pastry. An almond cinnamon crusted croissant which was outstanding! The Parmesan bagel seemed to be popular as everyone was ordering one. During lunch, I had a turkey and cheese which had a fancy name, but forget what they call it. Bennu’s Coffee House also serves pizza folks! Some of the food vendor’s Bennu works with and has avaliable are: Torchy’s Tacos, Russell’s Bakery, Fricano’s Deli, The Green Cart, & Hoboken Pies.

The staff is hip, professional and most importantly friendly. The music is picked by the staff and not your general radio station music. Obviously, this can be good or bad. If you don’t like the CD or station playing, it might be a little uncomfortable. Example, Bob Dylan’s first few songs was super cool, the entire CD was a little much. No big deal if you have your iPod. Not mentioned yet, but obviously Bennu has free Wifi.

Bennu Coffee Seating

Bennu Layout: There is a variety of seating options, cosy couch, extra high bar stools convent for laptop work and coffee shop observation or your regular table and chairs. Bennu is very spacious with a variety of different types of seating options, one has to work for you. I actually moved around three times while working to change up the scenery. I fell in love with their long coffee table and the red leather couch.

Summing Up Bennu: Overall Bennu Coffee Lounge is not only the Austin’s Coffee Shop Twitter Coolness Winner, but this coffeehouse may very well be the best coffee shop in Austin. It is almost exactly what you think of when you think of a real coffee shop. When I have friends or business associates come in town who enjoy coffee, when I want to drink coffee and relax with my wife, when I need to bang out a few hours of work I am going to Bennu’s Coffee Lounge. Bennu is not overly fancy, the colors are soothing, the people are Austin and the coffee is exceptional.

Bennu Coffe Lounge

Special Bonus Bennu’s Bathroom Review:
Bennu Coffee House bathroom was very unique. First things first, the most important thing about a bathroom is that is is clean and theirs was. When you walk in you see a HUGE Chalk board covering the entire back wall along with a chalk tray filled with many exciting colors. Even cooler, you can lock the door and just chalk up the blackboard at your hearts desire or until you hear a knock. The funniest thing in Bennu’s bathroom is the urinal is small and almost set on the floor, not sure why. The sink is filled with soothing rounded river rocks to keep with nature.

Bennu Twitter Logo

Bennu on Twitter:

Since Bennu is Austin’s Winner of Coolest Twitter Award it is only fitting to mention a few tweets going on about Bennu on Twitter.com. Here are a few Tweets relating to Bennu Coffee:

- @BennuCoffee suggests our cold brewed iced coffee or iced Bennu. It’s hot out there!Cool down while waking up. Perfect.
-@summersmichael Bennu coffee reading a great book.
-@juliosteen Coffee at Bennu while I work on my spec for what I plan to call “Web 1.9″.
-@hookem12387 @BennuCoffee just started #lawschool. Already need a cappaccino. I need to find $3 in the couch cushions and cone over
-@alifesheloves I’m @BennuCoffee my favorite way to start the week! Coffee + pizza = sounds strange but it totally works!
-@texeyes Haha I actually use Shazam to remember songs I hear and I just happen to hear Mr Dylan while @BennuCoffee

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