The Village Bakery
Kolaches Fresh from the Oven

The kolache arrived in Texas with Czech immigrants in the 1850s and early 1900s. However, it wasn’t until Wendel and Georgia Montgomery opened the Village Bakery in 1952 that a visitor to West, the “Czech Heritage Capital of Texas,” could buy a kolache.

The Village Bakery is the first store in Texas ever to sell kolaches to the public. It sells traditional kolaches with fillings native to Czechoslovakia such as apricot, prune, poppy seed and cheese, but also offers strawberry, blueberry and pineapple fillings, which are concessions to American tastes. The sausage kolache is actually a Texas twist on the kolache and the invention of Wendel and Honey Morris, his mother-in-law and a gifted baker. The Village Bakery serves plain, jalapeño or sausage-and-cheese varieties. Wendel’s invention is trademarked under klobasniki, meaning “little sausage.” The Village Bakery is open Monday through Friday from 6:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. and Saturday from 6:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.

The Village Bakery
113 East Oak Street • West
254/826-5151