The Kolache Factory - in Overland Park Kansas

Lately I’ve been on the look out for early morning restaurants.  Thanks to groupon, I found a new one to add to our list – The Kolache Factory.  Its way down south (135^th and Metcalf) but it opens at 6am every day but Sunday and they have great breakfast and lunch items.

So a kolache, in case you’re not in the know, is a type of pastry bread that holds fruit or meat.  They can be made into tiny little pie shapes with jam in the middle, or they are made into 2 or 3 inch balls filled with ham, steak, or some other kind of meat.  Since this is a bread based food, the restaurant also has cinnamon rolls, cinnamon twists, and a few other non-kolache pastries.

There are probably 25-30 different kolache’s to chose from, and for the most part they are all $1.39-$2.29...so it’s a pretty cheap meal, you only need two or three to fill up.  My boyfriend got the philly cheese steak kolache and a ham kolache (the philly one was our favorite).  I ordered a mild polish sausage (which was like a high end hot dog wrapped in their soft kolache bread – it was fantastic!) and a strawberry kolache (which was only ok – it was great bread, but the jam onto was only mediocre).

The place isn’t fancy, but it was fun to find something other than bagels, waffles, and doughnuts.