

These cookies ensure basic functionalities and security features of the website, anonymously. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. Kolache Factory, 14091 Newport Ave., Tustin, 71 “Growing up in Texas, we didn’t have doughnuts,” Skaff says.
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There’s a full espresso bar installed at the Tustin bakery, still in component parts when I visited but undoubtedly up and running for Tuesday’s opening. Skaff told me everything’s made fresh in-store.Īnother Texas import, free-trade small-batch roaster Katz Coffee, is part of the mix. I saw a small mountain of gorgeous, soft dough being portioned into perfect, tennis-ball-sized pieces with a dough divider. Kolaches, traditionally sweet buns made with yeasted dough, are generally topped with fruit or filled with poppy seeds, But Kolache Factory does savory as well.
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A Kolache Factory corporate trainer was on site, demonstrating how to make the namesake buns. When I stopped into Tan Hoang Huong for banh mi Sunday, I noticed Skaff and staff hard at work in the not-yet-opened shop in the same center. Her store is the first in California for the 46-store chain.

Skaff’s own franchise of Kolache Factory, opening Tuesday in Tustin, aims to correct this. The single-serving-size Czechoslovakian pastries are a big deal in Texas and surrounding states, but little seen in California. When Aliso Viejo resident Kathy Skaff decided to make her entry into the world of food, she went with something she knew and loved from growing up in Houston: kolaches (ko-la-chees).
