Lone Star Kolaches

Came here a while back after ditching on a horrible dentist visit next door (DO NOT GO TO THAT DENTIST’S OFFICE BTW!!!). Great coffee and kolaches. Excellent selection and variety. They seem pretty popular, so you might want to get there early.

Mmmm, yum! And the service was great, too. Youngish guy who was working when I went in gave me lots of suggestions for savory (for hubby), was really friendly and helpful. Price was right, too. Thumbs up, Lone Star Kolaches!

This place is great. We’ve order from LS Kolaches for work parties but I’ve never actually been in the store until today.
The place is clean and the staff are incredibly friendly — offering suggestions based on what you like to eat.
Today, I got the pepperoni roll and chopped beef kolache. Delicious and very affordable!!!
I love it that this gem is right around the corner from my business.
Yes! I will be back.
Best

They have a huge selection but a lot of it is stuff I would never try. A Philly Cheesesteak kolache… Seriously?
The customer service is borderline bad but the egg stuffed Kolaches are pretty good which is why I sometimes come here. Even though they close at 2:30pm show up by 11:30am or they’ll be out of product and won’t make anymore.

Overall nice clean place with great service. Just a lot of kolaches are not worth trying at all like the sausage and cheese.

Went here one time. They were out of everything except for a few fruit koloches I bought those they were dry and awful and I would not return to buy anymore.

Let me start by saying I don’t think the kolache is the pinnacle of the culinary world and as a result, I am simply looking for a tasty breakfast treat when I seek them out.
The atmosphere is fairly sterile (a lot cleaner than close by kolache shops) and the staff was… meh. ok. I do like that they have a full array of both savory and sweet kolaches. I ordered a cheese & polish sausage and a jalapeño, sausage and cheese kolache.
The polish sausage kolache was pretty good. The sausage had a nice snap to the casing and each bite left me facing the sheen of fat spilling out of the sausage.
The thing that struck me immediately is that this is the first place that used actual cheddar cheese!!! The second is that the kolache contained actual pickled jalapenos!!! I was a little disappointment by the ratio of sausage to bread, mostly because it was slightly awkward to eat. I basically folded the bread in half to tuck soundly around the sausage. The sausage was basically a hot dog, but between real cheese and jalapeño, it had a decent flavor. The funny thing is that when I went back to the polish kolache, I found I enjoyed the ratio of the cheese, sausage, jalapeño kolache more than the polish.
I have two kolache shops closer to my house, but I look forward to being in the area again to stop by.

I’ve become a huge fan and if I keep eating their kolaches, I’m going to become an even «bigger» fan, literally! I don’t know much about kolaches but these have a thin, sweet layer of bread over the filling, and they are packed with with eggs, cheese, chorizo, etc.
They have become my go-​to Saturday morning treat for eating like crap the rest of the week. Yeah, I’m a very good rationalizer. I think they are terrific and I look forward to enjoying them every Saturday morning.

Overall this place is amazing! I tried this place out because it’s open early before I go to work. Great selection of kolaches stuff all sorts of stuff, today I went in and saw that they had ham n cheese stuff croissants… had to get one. I was disappointed that it was 90 percent bread :(I’m glad my other selections haven’t been like this. I will keep going back but def won’t get that again.
Enjoy!

I think there are some people here being a little too critical of this place.
I have been a fan of Lone Star Kolaches for years, and have only recently started frequenting this location due to it being on my route to work. In my opinion, one of the best places to get kolaches in Austin, definitely better than the Kolache Factory.
I enjoy this place for many reasons, not just their great kolaches. In my experience, everytime I come in, I get a welcoming greeting from the one person that seems to be running the show there. Usually with no line, I am able to jump right up to the register and get my Ranchero or Chubby fix. I am usually only inside for 2 minutes before I’m walking out the door with hot, delicious breakfast.
I am all for the classic jalapeño and cheese, but the egg filled varieties are so good. You definitely need to try them out. The ranchero has egg, ham, cheese, jalapenos. It’s like a breakfast taco in a bun. The chubby is similar with egg, bacon, potato and cheese, or if your a fan of chorizo, be sure to try and chorizo and egg buns.
Sure, no place is perfect, but Lone Star has treated me right many times over at all of their locations. I will continue to have them feed me when I’m in my morning rush, and if you don’t go, that just means one more chubby for me!

Although they have a huge selection of kolaches, they’re Not all that great tasting. I felt it was necessary to come here more than a couple of times in order to give it a fair review. I’ve slowly working my way from the fruit filled to the meat filled to the egg breakfast stuff filled. But bottom line the old saying continuously comes to mind, «Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should.»
When you get down to it, you’re eating mostly bread and Not Much Filling whatsoever; except for the bean & cheese that puppy was stuffed but I Don’t recommend it. The roll they use is Good & Tasty, kinda reminds me of a Hawaiian Roll but not as sweet. In my opinion that’s what you’re really paying for, a Lot of Bread stuffed with something.
Sooooo here’s my take on what I’ve tried…
Bean & cheese: Mehh… If you like the flavor of canned beans and a squirt of cheese then this is for you! If Not, Definitely SKIP It!
Pan Sausage & cheese: So-so…big chunk of sausage but not really that tasty.
Crème Brulee: Awesome. Really Sweet!
Cream Cheese: Good with coffee, but not worth raving about.
Philly Cheese Steak: Very Tasty, but Very Very Little filling, Lots of Bread. :(
Bacon Egg & Cheese: You can definitely see the egg and taste the bacon but I Never saw a piece of bacon in there. Once again, Very Little filling… Lots of Bread.
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Come try it out for yourself. In the morning the place smells wonderful! But at the end of the day, I’m pretty sure you’re going to walk away with the feeling as mine…“that was a Lot of Bread!”

We stopped into this appetizer shack for a quick bite. Because it was nearby was the only reason it was lucky enough to get our business.
As we opened the door we were greeted by the delicious smell of bleach. We noticed that the remaining selection was limited, which gave us the impression that the baked goods were flying off the shelves. We were later told by the «happy» employee that this was because they were about to close. We would later find out by reading the times on the door, that this meant an hour and half later.
I ordered the «sausage and cheese» and asked what kind of sausage was being used. She told us that she didn’t know but was sure it was link sausage. Apparently that means hot dogs. My wife ordered the jalapeño and cheese. It was the best part of the trip, and the pastry was adequate.
While this place is okay I know of a better one down the road… my house. We won’t be going back anytime soon.

I tried this place out after the gym. That was my first mistake — buying high calorie goodies after I’ve just busted my butt at the gym. Hhhhanyways, I was hoping to get a little taste of my Czech stop bakery that I only get when going to Dallas.
Disappointment ensued. The kolache was dry, bland, and lacked the cream cheese (despite my ordering a cherry and cream cheese kolache).
Get serious. I will stick to the Czech Stop.

These Kolaches are the only thing I miss about living on Brodie lane.
I used to come here at least once a week for the egg and cheese kolache or the bean and cheese. Their sweet, buttery dough is what makes them so good! When I’m feeling extra indulgent I’ll get a cream cheese or fruit kolache also.
I’ve been eating the Little Czech Bakery Kolaches in West my entire life and while those will forever be my favorite, Lone star is a really close second.

Some people dig donuts but everyone I happen to know is a salt lover so they will prefer a kolache anyday over something sweet.
So since that is my situation, we ended up here this weekend.
I will say this is the perfect compromise, though, when trying to decide on a place, since the salt lovers can enjoy it but those with sweeter teeth can enjoy the sweetness of the kolache breading.
We got here later in the day between 12 – 1, and the pickings were slim at that point. That is not a bad problem to have, though. This was due to our timing, not theirs.
We tried the chubby which was the potato, bacon, egg and cheese. No thanks. Too much of a good thing is well, that.
That chubby was just keeping Austin weird.
I have learned that I am the type of person who likes the kolaches to generally have less that three internal ingredients. When there are more than three, it tends to turn into a dough ball of mush, and I am just not into it. Simplicity is key for me on these lone stars. I was disappointed by the chubby. I will leave it at that.
However, we also got the ham and cheese kolache, and may I suggest that you must remember to try this kind… It was like a little unexpected great surprise, kinda like how I felt when I finally watched the 21 Jump Street movie and determined it was surprisingly funny… I don’t know about the ham and swiss they offer since they only had one left but they had a handful of the ham and cheese ones available at the time, and when heated, they were REMARKABLE. Hands down, the ham and cheese (minus a quirky name like chubby) were the best ones out of what we ordered.
I am not even a huge fan of ham but the way the cheese mingles with the ham in that sweet kolache bread makes it become a total Love Connection. Commit to trying it!
Remember to have your kolaches heated up if they have cooled way down. We asked that the girl just heat them up a bit, and the woman working there listened and did that perfectly.
Remember to watch that parking lot. I always make it a point to park on the last outermost spots. You will see why if you don’t already know.

While I consider myself lucky to have such easy access to kolaches in Austin, the best kolache bakeries (in my humble opinion) happen to be en route to Houston (Hruska’s in Ellinger) and the crème de la crème, king of all kolache crafters — Czech Stop and Little Czech Bakery (in the small town of West en route to Dallas). Don’t get me wrong, the kolaches hailing from Lone Star are better than no kolaches at all, but I’m still left with an aching hole in my kolache-​lovin’ heart after the last crumb is gone.
So this is imperative — you MUST arrive by 10am or most selections will be gone. No surprise, as kolaches are a commodity even in Austin where we’re blessed with several outposts of this local chain. Because they were out of my go-​to choice, the sausage, cheese and jalapeño, I opted for the sausage and cheese and also a strawberry so I could gauge a sweet one.
I firmly believe that the dough is what puts the great in kolaches. Lone Star seems to use a sweeter dough then other bakeries I’ve been to and the ensuing pocket of pleasure wasn’t as light and airy as others… may be a result of overworking the dough. Though I still enjoyed these yeasty treasures, the overly sweet and somewhat hard roll makes these basic and not favorites. I’ll certainly return earlier in the morning to give them another chance, but for now, I’ll get my kolache fix on my next roadtrip to Dallas or Houston!

Envelop sausage
Inject cheese
Don jalapeño ring
Bun in oven
Bliss evermore
¿Xalapeño Haiku? ¡Moete se kladiti va slatki kolache! ;)

Preface: I am not a kolache guru. I know many who are but I will still leave my two cents.
Good dough. Where I really think kolaches vary and their skills shine is the bread. It’s what I think is different between each of them. Their bread is soft and ‘fluffy’? I like it
The sausage is ok. Not a lot, but not MIA either. I tried the regular, the cheese, and the cheese jalapeño. The latter two are my preference. The jalapeño wasn’t too spicy, if really at all. But can taste it enough to make a choice worth getting.
Price, about $ 1.70 a kolache. Reasonable. The staff, ok, not the reason to stop by. They do sell dinner rolls, which from what I’ve tasted would be pretty yummy.

I have been thinking about kolaches lately… I only have them when I go home to Houston and my sister is along (she is a kolache freak). On my way to work I pass Shipley’s which as I understand has kolaches… but thats like getting Chinese food at a donut shop… anyway, so I was home recently, and I keep passing the sign that says kolaches, so they’ve been on my mind.
So, when James F. posted on FB that Lone Star had opened up near my work, I literally stopped everything, and drove straight over there.
It was 11:30 and they had plenty of options left, and lucky me, one ranchero left (thanks James for not taking the last one!).
It’s $ 2. And it’s filled with eggs, cheese, ham, and jalepeno. It’s spicy. The oh-​so soft bread is slightly sweet.
Damn.
And, I’d forgetten how cute they are.

Ol’ Rooster is a self confessed kolache addict; like you might actually see me on one of those intervention shows one day. They might say «James, you have a problem when you drive an hour one way out to 38^th and Lamar just for a kolache» Well my friends ditch the camera crew and the piles of Kleenex because Lone Star has came to my hood!
But, its not that simple at least for me. There is a Lone Star closer to the ranch in Westlake; somehow they don’t make the grade on my poison of choice the ranchero. I’ve begged them on multiple occasions to add a bit more sauce to the mix to make it identical to the Lamar store; didn’t do it. Add in some complaining on Unilocal,emails to the owners, and still no dice. Instead I just kept driving North on Mopac.
Today was the test, would it be as good as its sister store? YES YES YES! I had to have two just to make sure, you know for quality purposes. Little Rooster ended up with two apple and cream cheese and downed almost both. Our first visit totally rocked and I didn’t spend $ 22 in gas to get my fix.
Today South Austin is a step closer to a perfection thanks to this new LSK location. If you saw me crying over my ranchero, they were tears of joy. Today’s service was friendly and the customers flowed in and out smoothly. Third Unilocal review in the books and its five stars all the way