Robust Coffee Lounge

Robust Coffee Lounge is the coffee shop of Woodlawn, at 63rd and Woodlawn Avenue, and the room fills with laptops on weekday mornings and families on weekends. The kitchen cooks breakfast and lunch alongside espresso drinks, matcha, smoothies and iced coffee, and there is an app for ordering ahead. The cafe is wheelchair accessible, caters events and rents the space for private gatherings. The 63rd Street Metra Electric station is a short walk east, the Obama Presidential Center is about six blocks away, and the shop’s site notes appearances on WGN’s Chicago’s Best and The Steve Harvey Show.

What to know

• The cafe is at 6300 S. Woodlawn Ave., at the corner of 63rd Street.
• The menu is coffee drinks, smoothies and a cooked breakfast and lunch, with an iPhone app for ordering.
• The shop caters and rents the room for events.
• The 63rd Street Metra Electric station and Jackson Park are within walking distance.
• The cafe has been featured on WGN’s Chicago’s Best and The Steve Harvey Show, per the shop’s site.