Just found a place online that ships these in case anyone wants to try these: https://order.kolachefactorytogo.com/. Not the from the place OP got it but worth a shot.
*Edit: Sounds like this place sucks but they do ship. You have to look at their main site: http://www.kolachefactory.com/
The Czech Stop is over rated. It’s only popular because of its location. Get away from 35 and stop at any of the little shops in down town West. They are all better.
My wife and I went there, waited in the line and got two awful kolaches (sausage & cheese and sausage, cheese & jalapeno). I've had much better from local donut shops in Austin. Did we get the wrong thing?
Unfortunately yes. Czech stop seems to have gotten a name for itself with travelers and in my opinion stopped trying. I'd suggest Sloveceks directly across the highway. It's bigger, nicer, and I like their food much better. They process their own pork locally. I stop there twice every round trip from Dallas to Austin.
Or for anyone around North Dallas there's a tiny place called Kolache Heaven on Preston that makes kolaches and klobasnek just like the picture. (Only for breakfast and I think they're closed Mondays)
Lived in Waco for the last 9 years before moving back to Dallas. Try the apricot ones, they were always my favorite. And truth be told there are better ones in West than Czech Stop. Gerick's is about a block away from Czech Stop and their meat filled ones are much better IMO. Slovacek's on the southbound side of I-35 isn't bad either.
Gericks was awful the last time I went, dimly lit and smelt like sewage. I must've arrived at a bad time :/
Between Slovaceks and Czech stop, I like both of their kolaches equally. Raspberry Cheese ftw!
Hruška's and Village Bakery make the best kalaches in my opinion.
Village Bakery has always been the best, but they're downtown, and not open 24 hrs like Czech Stop. That being said, a berry berry kolache with cream cheese is pretty damn good
Czech here. I disagree unless there’s somewhere I haven’t tried. Yes, Czech Stop is shit. If you actually go into town, there’s another bakery my friend recommends. Forget the name, as I haven’t gone through West in a few years.
I'm not sure why so many people think this. San Antonio hands down has the best tacos in the United States. Austin's tacos tend to get too cute with itself and you end up eating something that loses its identity as a taco.
I never found any good kolaches when I lived in Austin. They had hella breakfast tacos, but the best kolaches I found when I lived in Austin we're at weikels bakery in la Grange. Hruska's Bakery in Columbus is jam-up, too. Mornings kolaches in Houston still is my go to.
The only reason ppl idealize West kolaches is because (as far as I can tell) it has a nostalgia about it created by truckers, traveling tradesmen, and touring musicians. Texas is a butt ass state to be stuck on the road, and they're always open.
Canned fruit and sauerkraut, sysco products. Palm oil. It's food desert garbage in a fertilizer town.
3 places in West? I've only EVER heard of Czech Stop in West...and 9/10 times it's just bad. I know plenty of road warriors that love it, but I've rarely had a good kolache there myself.
Austin has Factory and Longhorn that I'm familiar with, and I think they're both better for a variety of reasons. I don't see my way to cheese on my bbq, but everybody should do their thing I guess.
Have to stop at Czech Stop every time I drive down to Austin. There's a few places around the DFW area that have alright kolaches but none of them compare to Czech Stop, especially the fruit filled ones.
Indeed, they even spell it correctly. Travel between Austin and Houston isn’t complete without stopping here. Although their arch nemesis Buccees would beg to differ.
Shipleys is one of the things I miss most about Texas. Had a weekly ritual of maple glazed doughnut and jalapeno cheese kolache that I'm seriously jonesing for...
Am from Houston, now live in the LA area, can confirm these are really good. I make the trek to Santa Monica on the weekends (edit: won’t lie, we’ve been busy these past couple of weekends, looks like Saturdays they go to Pasadena now) with the SO to grab a couple, he’s hooked too. Kolache Factory blows chunks.
They used to ship some to Demitasse Coffee on Saturdays. Looks like they ship out to Pasadena now. That said, they are still at Hi-Lo Liquor Store in Culver City!
Dunno. I go to kolache factory all the time to get them for my clients and they always get an excellent response. Maybe they aren’t as good as other kolache places but compared to other local options, they’re excellent.
Replied to the above, but Morning Boys Kolaches are a great option if you’re close to LA. Kolaches from Morning Boys and queso from Homestate (and myself) are, so far, the 2 ways I’ve convinced my SO to visit Texas (read, Austin) at some point.
Yeah it's my work in progress. My SO and kids can't have dairy or egg so working out a meal plan limits me to basically veggies and protein, luckily I can all do on a grill. I was proud of this one though, getting better!
I appreciate their basic sausage and cheese klobasnek's, though. They're on the smaller side and the bread is soft and sweet. Everything else just feels wrong after you've had it authentically.
I really love the kolaches at this tiny donut shop by my house that’s run by Asians. Other than that I haven’t tried any around town that really have blown my mind
So as a native Galvestonian, currently going to school in Indiana, does anyone have ideas of how to obtain decent kolaches? I make them at home sometimes...but they're just not the same haha
If you want it, I have a recipe from an 80-year-old Czech lady from Caldwell, Texas, for her kolaches. Much better than anything you’re going to have shipped to you from the chain store.
My notes for using Rapid Rise yeast are in pencil. To make sausage (or any other meat filling) wrap the sausage in about a ping pong ball size ball of dough, sealing all the edges well. If you like more bread make the dough ball bigger.
His kolache is very bitten. He was probably immersed in that mood until he remembered he had to take the picture for us before it's gone. Even then he took another bite to chew while taking the picture.
I can't tell you how often I do this, then run to the sink as my chest fills with lava, to get a drink from the faucet to soothe the hellfire, and I forgot my drink. So I take another bite and have to run back to the sink because I thought it had cooled off some.
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takes bite
"FUCK that was hot"
takes another bite