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Czech fruit-filled or savoury-filled yeasted pastry buns, the central Texas Sunday-morning bake. Sweet kolaches carry apricot or poppyseed; savoury klobasniky carry sausage and cheese.
Kolaches arrived in central Texas with Czech and Moravian immigrants who settled in towns like West, Caldwell and Round Rock from the 1850s onward. The sweet version uses a rich yeasted dough rounded with a thumbprint of fruit filling; the savoury klobasnek, a Texas innovation, wraps sausage in the same dough. Round Rock Donuts and the Round Rock and Caldwell area shops run the canonical Texas-Czech bakeries. The Austin city version threads into breakfast-taco and BBQ culture; kolaches and breakfast tacos are equally Texan morning options here.
3 editor picks for Kolaches in Austin, ranked by editorial score. All Austin signature dishes · Kolaches across every city.
Round Rock Donuts in Round Rock is the Lone Star doughnut counter since 1926, a 4:30am opening Liberty Avenue shop famous for its egg-yolk-yellow yeast.
TipThe original yellow doughnut beats the colossal Texas-size one; arrive by 8am for the morning batch.
Quack's 43rd Street in Austin is the Hyde Park neighbourhood coffeehouse since 1983, a full-service cafe with from-scratch pies, cakes, macaroons.
TipThe patio runs morning through 9pm; the cake-by-the-slice counter goes fast on weekends.
Bistro Vonish on East 53rd is a vegan food truck with vegan kolaches, BBQ seitan and a back-yard fire pit, run by an ex-Uchi pastry chef on a punk-DIY vibe.
TipThe vegan kolaches are the room's most distinctive plate; closed Monday through Tuesday.
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