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Your A-List: Best WiFi Hot Spot

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Jo’s might want to amend its slogan — hot coffee, good food, cold beer — to include ideal WiFi access. With 27 percent of the vote, the two shops, which are home away from home for Downtown and SoCo workers, yuppies, hippies and yippies, win the Your A-List Best WiFi Hot Spot poll.

Located in the heart of SoCo, the original Jo’s is packed with runners, workers, students and slackers looking for their morning jolt of java. The small coffee shack next to Hotel San Jose hums throughout the day with sandwich eaters, ‘Net surfers and locals wiling away their lunch hours, or sometimes the entire day. Whether checking their MySpace messages or Craigslist for job openings, or creating PowerPoint presentations, patrons seem to always enjoy the sidewalk cafe that offers benches, chairs and tables that serve as a perfect setting for people watching.

With the emergence of downtown as a destination for eating, drinking and socializing, Jo’s put up its shingle in the trendy Second Street District, attracting office workers, tourists and window shoppers looking for a caffeinated oasis in the downtown grid. Much like its flagship, the downtown spot offers wireless access along with unlimited people watching, and delicious sandwiches, salads and assorted beverages of all varieties.

Whether your work and play take you north or south of the river, Jo’s has got you covered.

Jo’s [site]
242 W. Second St.
512.469.9003

1300 S. Congress Ave.
512.444.3800

Others receiving votes: Freebirds (23 percent), Whole Foods (18 percent), Austin Public Library (10 percent), BookPeople (7 percent), Round Rock Public Library (6 percent), Flipnotics (5 percent), Capital Metro buses/park and rides (2 percent), Austin Convention Center (2 percent), Wooldridge Square (1 percent).

Write-ins: Austin Java, Galaxy Cafe, Homer’s Bar and Grill, Java Jive, Mozart’s, Pluckers, Ruta Maya, Spiderhouse, Third Base

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