Kolache appears as a signature dish in 1 Czech Republic cities. See each city's local variant and where to eat it.
Kolache · Prague
Bohemian sweet bun with a soft enriched dough and a dimple of filling: poppy seed, plum jam, sweet curd cheese or apricot. Round, palm-sized, baked golden on top.
Kolache (kolac) date back to medieval Bohemia, originally a wedding cake the entire village shared. By the 19th century they had shrunk to individual buns. The poppy-seed kolach (mak) is the canonical Czech version; the curd-cheese version (tvaroh) is the Moravian alternative. Eska and Antonin Bakery bake the modern Prague version daily; the Saturday Naplavka stalls sell the rural family version.
Where to eat in Prague:
- Eska Karlin
- Antoninovo Pekarstvi Karlin
- Antoninovo Pekarstvi Namesti Miru
- Eska Letna