Hotspot Cafe

Great service… nice and clean. Food is good. I was say 1 step above café but still welcoming

Good spot downtown for breakfast or lunch meetings but I don’t think I would have any reason to come here by myself or if I was with others and looking for a good dining experience.
The food at Hotspot is okay but completely unexciting: a limited number of standards constitutes the menu both at breakfast (omelettes, oatmeal, breakfast meats) and lunch (soups, salads, burgers, sandwiches).
The service is good and while the price isn’t dirt cheap, it’s definitely inexpensive fare.

Great spot to sit and chill with a coffee.
They have their own parking! Bonus!
Free wifi
Charging stations at some tables!
Nice open space. Nicer then a typical diner
Nice staff
I had eggs/​toast/​bacon/​home fries. & coffee. Paid $ 9.16
It’s a typical tasting b-​fast. However I am not a fan of the sourdough bread, which is their white toast. Bacon is good and eggs done perfectly. Nice regular coffee.

If you want traditional home-​cooked meals with good service and a cheap price, then come here! I am so satisfied with this restaurant

We were looking for a quick yummy breakfast before heading out of town, and we found exactly that! Stayed at the Hilton Garden Inn just .1 miles from here, so it was a quick walk. Breakfast for two included an omelette with 3 ingredients, home fries (sliced potatoes), toast, and coffee. Came to just under $ 20 with the 10% Unilocal check-​in discount! Fast service, great food, A+!

We came to Cleveland for one day for an Indian’s game. We stayed with our 3 kids at the Hilton Garden Inn next door. I wanted to try a local place for breakfast before leaving the city.
We ordered–
–tall stack of french toast w/​bacon
–tall stack of blueberry pancakes w/​bacon
–regular stack of blueberry pancakes w/​bacon
–simple breakfast (2 eggs, toast, home fries and bacon)
–a two egg bacon and cheese breakfast w/​home fries
–side of sausage
For drinks we all got waters and one had a milk.
Every meal was excellent. The pancakes were enormous. I got a regular stack (3) and could only eat one and a half. The pancakes are on the heavier side. So if you prefer very light pancakes, these wouldn’t be your thing.
The bill came to $ 39 for five hearty meals. They have a Unilocal online deal where if you check in you get 10% off. I honestly felt a little guilty taking advantage of this. The prices were already insanely cheap.
With tax included we spent $ 39 for a hearty sit down breakfast for 5 people. The service was excellent. It was a Saturday morning and the place was fairly full. The food came out fast and our server seemed to have quite a few tables and still paid excellent attention to our needs.
They have free parking and Wi-​Fi and are only a tenth of a mile from Progressive Field. If we ever make it back to Cleveland, we will definitely be back here.

Nice little café in downtown Cleveland. Food was good and customer service was great!

Good hot food, basic breakfast stuff. Good and quick service. Nothing fancy, but if you want a good quick basic meal at a reasonable price, go here.

Great rainy day! Met a friend for Brunch. I had the simple burger with fries. Asked for well done, still a little pink in center. Burger is huge, so be hungry. Asked for tomato and mayonnaise. Tomato on it was the top with the green and part of core. Yuck! Asked for another.
Friend got 2 eggs over easy, home fries, ham and wheat toast. Omg, ham slice is thick and good size. He asked for sharp knife, don’t have them. Just regular dinner knives.
All in all, as usual food is delicious! Staff is attentive!

There was absolutely nothing «hot» about this place. The food and ambiance was mediocre at best. The menu was simple; no major options or signature/​specialty items. I ordered the 333… pancakes, scrambled eggs and turkey sausage. The pancakes were over cooked and the sausage was undercooked. The only thing I can say positive about the place was that it was clean and the service was good, but I would never return unless the menu and/​or cooks are changed.

Our waiter, Damonte, was the best part of this visit.
We both had the corned beef hash and eggs. Too many potatoes! Eggs cooked perfectly but I ordered my English muffin «toasted well» and when the kitchen put up the dish, the line man commented… is that toasted well?, and it wasn’t even brown at all, so it had to be sent back causing a delay for me, since I already had my breakfast. If it’s not right, don’t send it out.
Corned beef was tasty.
My pet peeve is, why, why, why do all restaurants carry Smuckers jam when it has high fructose syrup in it? Delete it! Carry a better quality jam.
I’m just passing through town but next time I stop, I’ll try someplace else. This just didn’t stand out as special enough to go out of your way for.

I really enjoyed my recent trip to Hotspot Café. For 11am on a Sunday morning it seemed too empty for the quality of service and the great breakfast! It started off with a big mug of great-​tasting coffee plus a water with lemon and only got better when the breakfast sandwich with sausage on croissant with hashbrowns got to the table.
I like that their menu specifies they use farm and/​or organic eggs. The croissant was yummy and the hashbrowns were good, cooked well and not greasy in the slightest. I was a little disappointed the sausage patty tasted like the classic store-​bought over-​processed fare but that’s a minor issue that didn’t take away my overall enjoyment of the (quite delicious!) sandwich.
I think would be an excecllent spot to study or read in the morning/​afternoons. I’d definitely return sometime.

Don’t let the fact that market themselves as a an internet café turn you off. I’m not sure why they do that. Sure they have WiFi. But doesn’t everyone have WiFi. Its at least 2015 (depending on when you are reading this review).
This place is just a nice diner. The breakfast food was actually very good. Its very standard, but thats what everyone in our party wanted and thats what this place delivered. It was almost empty on a Sunday around noon. I assume because of the location? We walked from the Hotel Garden Inn as we are out of town guests, and it was maybe 200 yards away?
While we were there, the ceiling was leaking in maybe ten places. Its still a nice place; they just need to fix the ceiling. Nobody got wet, and if anything the effect of so many leaks was an entertaining fountain show while we ate. Not quite the Bellagio, but it stimulated conversation. Hopefully its fixed by the time you go!

Charging stations, excellent wifi, and amazing coffee. This has to be my new favorite breakfast place.

You need to eat here! Consider this establishment the 8^th wonder of the world!!!
The pancakes are made just right and they have an Ohio maple syrup that’s to love for. And if you really want to see fireworks, check out their crème brûlée French toast! Fireworks like the 4^th of July will resound!
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!!

We stopped by Cleveland en route to New York. It’s roughly halfway between Chi and NYC so it’s a decent spot. We looked around Unilocal and found Hotspot Café.
This place was a short walk from our hotel and it was a nice place. The staff was very friendly and attentive. We were able to order a mickey mouse pancake off the menu for the little one. We definitely appreciated that and so did she.
The free wifi was a good addition. I got an omelette which I enjoyed very much. If I go back to Cleveland I will definitely go back here.

My middle name is Bacon, and this is some of the best. Food was so good but service was so so. I wish I had more water and more coffee more quickly and I’m still not sure what took our server so long because the place wasn’t busy at 12:30 on a Saturday. Either way I would definitely go back, a little off the main area of downtown on Carnegie, kind of in between the Wolfstein Center and Progressive Stadium (across the street), but worth the short walk for a good, cheap breakfast in a contemporary, clean and casual place.

Came here after seeing so many good reviews on Unilocal.Unfortunately this spot does not live up to the hype. Service was decent and fast. Breakfast food is breakfast food. Decently done with good portion size. Eggs done nicely, bacon crispy, potatoes seasoned properly. Skip the cronuts. Or at least buy them on your way out. They are cheaper to buy at the front door than ordering them while dining in. In my opinion, they were dry and stale and not worth 2.25.

I’m a girl that loves her breakfast. Hotspot Café did not disappoint!
The restaurant is nice and quiet. It has «charging stations» set up at the booths. It’s wireless doesn’t always work, but I’m not writing a review on internet connections.
The waitstaff is attentive and hospitable. The manager always makes sure we are taken care of. It is obvious that he takes pride in his establishment.
I have come here for breakfast and for lunch and the food was fantastic both visits.
On my first visit, I got the pancake sampler as I was very intrigued about adding coconut to my pancakes. The sampler came with 6 smallish pancakes, you can pick up to 3 flavors. I picked standard buttermilk, chocolate chip, and coconut. I was a little hesitant on the coconut. I’ve never heard of coconut. Oh my goodness, that coconut pancake was one of the best ever tasted! Perfectly cooked. I ate every single pancake on my plate, it was that good. I also got some breakfast potatoes that were to die for. Unlike most places, these hash browns met a potato.
It has been a good while since I have visited this restaurant, but I can’t wait to come back for more.

Once upon a time in NYC, a donut and a croissant walked into a bar. One thing led to another and the donut was knocked up by the end of the night. 9 months later, Chef Ansel delivered the exciting and delectable hybrid of the two and named it the Cronut (trademarked it actually, so the rest of the review will refer to this version as the C-​D since I’m too lazy to type out the croissant-​doughnut).
So, CD’s have been popping up everywhere now, but I had yet to find one in Cleveland. THEN, I came across the menu for Hotspot the other day and they ever-​so-​subtly listed CDs under their pastry menu! So, I headed over there today to check it out (and to grab lunch). There’s a chance I may be the only one that was SO excited about the CD b/​c the waitress was taken-​aback by my enthusiasm when she confirmed they had CDs in the display case.
ANYWAYS, the café itself is cute. It’s spacious and nicely spread out. There are a ton of booths along the walls and in the middle and tables that fill the rest. EVERY booth has a charging station! AMAZING! I ordered the Caprese grill on sourdough bread with fries. The turnaround time between me ordering my food and actually receiving my food was NOT EVEN 10 minutes. They were amazingly fast! I’m used to caprese sandwiches with Mozz, but tried this one anyway b/​c who doesn’t love provolone– the sandwich was DELISH. Whatever pesto they use for it was crazy flavorful. The sourdough bread tasted like italian bread — so, not sure if their sourdough just doesn’t taste like sourdough or if they swapped the breads by mistake.
THE CD’S– soooo, as excited as I was for these, I had a bite of them when I got home and ALTHOUGH DELICIOUS, they were pretty dry. I’m really hoping it’s because I was there at 1:30pm and they may have been sitting out in the case all day. I really home they’re softer earlier in the day b/​c they are DEF delish.
Service was quick. In the beginning, the waitress was kind of short and kept acting like she had to run somewhere else instead of answering my questions– I could have very well scared her with my CD enthusiasm — but she warmed up and wasn’t in that much of a rush after my food was put in.
PS they DO serve breakfast throughout the day. I originally wanted to order bfast food but was only given a lunch menu so assumed they didn’t serve it anymore, and later found out that they just don’t hand out the menu after a certain time. Next time.
I KNOW i’m going to have a love-​hate relationship with this place. It opens at 7am and is right on my way to work… soooo, i’m going to LOVE stopping and grabbing breakfast OR CDs on my way in but i’m going to HATE what it does to my diet.
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4 days later– went back in the AM for a croissant donut and it was soft and yummy :) def not as dry! and their breakfast is delish! (got carry-​out this time– veggie skillet with egg whites YUM)