Johnny Kolache

I wish that SLC had treated this little better or that they were in a better location. I miss it so much! Salt Lake needs Kolache’s!

The food is amazing and the owner is about as much of a personality as it gets. He will make anyone feel welcome and laugh. He usually gives out samples because he knows once you try it, you will be hooked. They have breakfast and lunch kolache’s and also fruit filled. My favorite is the bbq pork and the little smokie kolache’s.

Awesome and unique food! The dessert type kolache’s are baked in your dreams! seriously you will look down on donuts from everywhere once you have one. Price is okay for what you get. If I lived closer I would get one every morning! Now that I think of it… They need a drive up window, pretty sure they don’t have one.

I hope the folks in Salt Lake know how lucky they are to have such a jewel like Johnny Kolache in town.
Kolaches (a Czech, sweetbread) are wildly popular in the Texas hill country and Johnny’s would hold their own against the best in Texas.
Johnny is the friendly and talkative owner.
Stop in, say hello and have yourself a real treat!

Johnny Kolache’s is a great place to grab a quick and delicious breakfast. If you’ve never had a kolache then you are missing out big time. If you stop by and Johnny is there (which he almost always is) he will let you try a little something for free. He is a funny guy and really personable. He makes you feel welcome in his shop. There are meat kolaches and fruit kolaches and both are great.

Yum! Kolaches are great! And Johnny is a cool cat. He’s super friendly and helpful. I had the «Phillypeno,» which is a Philly with Jalapeño, and the cheeseburger Kolache. Both were really good. The meal deal is really a great value. It was 2 Kolaches, chips and a drink for $ 5.95. Sweet! The place is definitely off the beaten path, but it’s well worth the effort to find it and enjoy it. We didn’t try any of the desserts or cinnamon rolls, but they all looked fantastic. Next time.

Little morsels of heaven. Seriously. This place is the best. I cannot overstate how tasty those little breakfast rolls are. Nothing I say here will do them justice. Just go. My personal fav is the sausage, cheese, and jalepeno. Insanely tasty. I could go on and on about how much I love this place — cause it really is that good — but I’ll leave it at that.

OMG, this was my first visit, and I will most defiantly be back. My roommate and I went this morning around 11.
We both got one of the 100% all beef kolache — he got his with just jalapeños on it, and I got mine smothered in chili, cheese and onions. Personally, I think the chili may have overpowered the sweetness of the kolache dough, but it was still great. I also had a pulled pork kolache, which was to die for. I am not usually a fan of pulled pork, but this was done just right. We split a blueberry kolache, which just melts in your mouth.
The parking lot is a little cramped, but you can park on the street, or hop on Trax, the 900 South station is just a ½ block east of Johnny Kolache.
This is a MUST VISIT in Salt Lake City.

Great new place to try! The service was fantastic!

I love the kolaches, I had a veggie and a cream cheese, jalapeño and cheese. My wife had a cinnamon bun. They are just delicious pieces of doughy heaven. Service was quick and easy. I can’t wait to go back.

So, I’m pretty divided on this place. I’ve been there twice now, and I can’t quite make up my mind. The best way I can describe this is as «The Junk Food of Kings». If you really like junk food (and I mean that affectionately) then you will LOVE LOVE LOVE this place. However, I suggest against bringing your salad-​eating girlfriends.
Thinking about it, I guess half of me hates it (the half that hates French’s mustard) and half of me loves it (the half that begs my husband to make nacho sauce from scratch). So, it gets a three from me overall.
If you’re using my review to decide what you think, I’d say just go for it regardless of your stand on junky food. The kolaches are cheap cheap cheap, and you’ll have a good time chatting with Johnny, who is a reason to go all on his own. Get a BBQ kolache, a vegetable kolache and a drink and enjoy watching the game with Johnny. :)

Service was excellent, and those little pieces of bready heaven stuffed with random goodness was the perfect way to start a day at noon. The raspberry ones are sweet like an inside out jelly donut, the philly cheesesteak with jalapenos was killer, and the pulled pork was perfect. Nice price and bring a sharpie to say hi on the walls of fame.

After hearing so much hype about this place, I decided to give it a try.
I dragged my adventurous dining companion with me to the little building in Salt Lake. The parking is limited so we parked on the street and walked, no big deal. Plenty of space for parking on the street.
We told one of the women running the counter that we had never been in before, so she gave us each a pork kolache for free!
She then proceeded to heat it up in the microwave. Disclaimer: I hate microwaves. I was worried that this would make the kolache chewy, but it was soft and fluffy and had just the right amount of salty butter on the top.
We also tried the cream cheese dessert kolache. It was decent. Tasted like a cheese danish.
Overall, I expected to be blown away by this place. But, it was just… okay. Not something I would rave about, but not something I would never eat again.

I was so bummed, I got here Friday afternoon about 1:30 and the place was picked clean. Nothing left in the glass case, The nice lady working told me she could make me a sandwich so I ended up with a good pastrami and took a couple back for the guys in my office. We were all happy with our sandwiches, but still disappointed we didn’t get to try the Kolache. My brother wont shut up about this place so it sounds like I need to get my rear end over there a little earlier next time.

2^nd time eating here-​both times fantastic! I’m from out of town but will make this a must every time I’m in Salt Lake. $ 5.88 buys you lunch-​2 kolaches drink and chips. Had the Philly cheese jalapeño and sausage jalepeno — both fantastic. Eat here.

Visited the actual store and were waited on by Johnny himself. We were given some mini’s to taste as we decided what delectable morning goody we were going to treat ourselves too. We decided on two savory and one fruity kolache each (what piggies we are!) and were pleasantly surprised when we were treated even further at the cash register to one free kolache each for being first timers. Can’t beat that!
The kolaches were amazing, and johnny has a positive attitude that is simply contagious. What a wonderful way to start out the day.

Yeah, thats right five stars. I feel like for this kind of food, it doesn’t get much better. I stopped in on the way to work and got my order to go. The gal running the counter was friendly but efficient. When another guy came in, someone else came out from the back to help him.
The sausage, egg, cheese with jalapeño was awesome. Great amount of spice. If you don’t like spicy, you can get w/​o jalapeños. The blueberry with cream cheese was good too, but i prefer savory to sweet in the morning.
I have a sweet roll thats saved for my wife… but it might not make it. They had what looked like scraps of sweet rolls too. A big pile of the ends of the roll? The Czech morning version of Burnt Ends?
For the same price, there is no reason to get breakfast at McDonalds. Come here instead. I think at our next morning meeting, kolaches will be involved.
If it’s your first time, be sure to tell them. They give you your first kolache for free.

When I was a kid I worked for two Czech brothers who made kolaches and fed them to me as payment for doing chores. I know, it sounds like a foreign film, but everything was on the up-​and-​up.
Based on my kolache history and the other great Unilocal reviews, I decided to give Johnny’s a try.
The location is very simple and really all you’d want for locating, capturing, and then devouring the wild kolache. You could take your kolaches and sit in front of the Coffee Garden if you wanna look cool I suppose.
The counter person at Johnny’s is very friendly, and can’t wait to fill you up with carbs and happiness. Based on her suggestions I left with 4 of the various kolaches: egg & bacon, egg/​suasage/​jalapeño, philly cheese w/​jalapeño, and pulled pork.
A special note on the kolaches with jalapenos: these are real jalapenos, not the tamed kind you get at Chili’s or some other Caucasian shrine. They have just the right amount of kick.
The kolaches were uniformly excellent. The dough was soft and chewy, and the fillings were savory and seasoned just right. I could make the sausage/​egg kolache a daily fix. I’m guessing that fix would lead to an angioplasty though. Better keep it under control.
Next time you see someone running out the front of Johnny Kolaches with a steaming white sack it just might be me on my way to shangri-​la.

Not your typical bakery. Your first impression upon entering is that of a very spartan bakery with not much of a selection. It looks like all they sell are perfectly-​browned rolls. But it’s much more than that. The kolaches are awesome. I went there for lunch and tried the ham and cheese as well as the pulled pork kolaches. The ham and cheese was my favorite. Their cinnamon rolls are also very good. Don’t go in expecting much for ambiance (people write all over the walls, and they use outdoor patio furniture for their tables), but the food makes up for it.

The moment I mentioned this place to my girlfriend, the obsession began. Her family heritage traces to Old World Poles in Nebraska, and her great-​grandmother used to make her own kolaches with an utterly secret recipe. Nobody in the Wojtasek family has quite been able to get it quite right since, and kolaches are hard to find outside of Polish/​Czech communities and Texas. We ambled on down one morning, and took on a couple of buns. Her face lit up, as it turned out that these fresh kolaches were one of the closest approximations to her great-grandma’s recipe she’d tasted — full of butter, with a delightfully sweet dough, and quite possibly made using potato water. Thank you, Johnny: for moving to SLC from Texas, for being such a wonderfully nice person, and for accommodating our confusing order of two dozen assorted kolaches.
A word to the wise. They only make so much fresh dough every day, so the store sells out by the late morning or early afternoon. Ever since a Tribune article came out about these treats in December, they’ve been flooded with customers. So come early, and come hungry. These are heavy, but so, SO worth the coma.