620 Café & Bakery - Round Rock

620 Café & Bakery - Round Rock

Written by Jim Dawson Monday, 07 August 2006

620 Café & Bakery ensures high food quality

When we first discussed writing a restaurant column for Community Impact, one of our goals was to introduce Round Rock and Pflugerville residents to restaurants that were locally owned and operated. 620 Café and Bakery is a perfect example. Each time we visit, we always see owners Scotty and Jeri Stroup or daughter Brandy Jones in a red apron working the kitchen or dining room making sure that all customers are happy and ensuring that the food is the highest quality possible.

Scotty Stroup wasn’t born in Texas, but he got here as soon as he could and quickly learned the proper way to serve a real southern breakfast. The Iron Skillet Breakfast ($8.29) is scrambled eggs, layered on home fries, with a choice of Cure 81 ham, applewood smoked bacon, or special 620 recipe sausage, over onions, green and red peppers, mushrooms and covered with chili con queso, all served in a heated cast iron skillet.

The Redneck Benedict ($7.99) is another one of my favorites and is what I love to serve to company at home. Homemade buttermilk biscuits are topped with scrambled eggs, patty sausage and covered with cream sausage gravy with home fries or grits on the side.

If you are really, really hungry or maybe don’t have time to eat again for the next 24 hours, try The Big Deal. ($9.29) Two eggs, prepared your way, with two buttermilk hotcakes and a choice of pork chops, chicken fried steak, New York strip steak or hamburger steak.

620 Café serves breakfast all day, but 10:30 a.m. until the 3 p.m. closing, you can choose from a long list of lunch specials for $6.99 including roast beef, smoked pork loin, meat loaf, chicken fried chicken or steak, liver and onions, or fried catfish all served with a choice of two sides. I’m not sure if you would call this comfort food because I’m usually too stuffed to really be comfortable. If the truckers ever find out about this place, we would have a serious traffic jam on IH 35.

Since bakery is part of the name and a large part of the business at 620, don’t leave without ordering something sweet even if you have to get it to go. Cakes and pies are available for $2.75 per slice or $11.00 - $18.00 whole. Try the coconut cream pie or my favorite chocolate Italian cream cake.

• Mon – Sat 6:00am – 3:00pm
• Sunday 7:00am – 3:00pm
• Breakfast served all day • Lunch Specials 10:30am – 3:00pm

Available for special gatherings

• Bridal showers
• Baby showers
• Ladies’ luncheon
• Corporate meetings
• Weddings
• Rehearsal dinners

Entire restaurant available for evening events. Ask for Brandy Jones, event coordinator

620 Cafe, 910 Round Rock Ave., Round Rock, TX 78681, 512-244-1009, www.620cafeandbakery.com