We were going to make a grand tour of Texas to view the bluebonnets and hunt up the top five BBQ purveyors. My wife’s collogue suggested we hunt up a town famous for bakeries and kolaches.
Well in advance of that, we saw a shop on the outskirts of Austin advertising them in it’s name. We stopped on the way out on the road to get a feeling for what they actually were.
The bakery was very small. The woman at the counter was Korean and spoke with a heavy accent. The baker to whom she shouted our order was Hispanic and spoke Spanish to his helper who gathered up our order. As I was paying, I noticed in the corner what was obviously a Thai shrine. I mentioned it and the Korean lady told me yes, the actual owner was a Thai lady but she hadd not come in yet.
So what we actually got was nothing like actual ChechTex Kolaches we sought as a reference
just keeping Austin weird.
when I 1st moved to Tx, I was told of the wonderful Mexican food.
it was all texmex, made by Asians..
You should have traveled further east to La Grange and the other small towns out that way.
Go try Blacks and Kruetz in Lockhart, pretty darn good que.
Make sure you eat the dinosaur bones, good stuff.
Was it West? For such a small town, West sure has a lot of really good kolache/klobasnik bakeries. New Braunfels has some good ones too.