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145 of Our Reviews Mention Kolaches. We Are a Shop With “Donut” in the Name.
9 October 2026 · 4 min read
We did not set out to be a kolache shop. The name on the building says Donut Run. But when we counted how often our own customers bring them up, the number was not close.
Google tags reviews by what people mention in them. Across our three listings, 145 reviews name the kolaches.
What that number is, and what it is not
It is not a popularity poll and we are not going to dress it up as one. It is a count of how many people, writing about us unprompted, thought the kolaches were the thing worth mentioning. Nobody asked them to. There is no campaign behind it.
What makes it striking is the comparison inside a single listing. On Spanish Fork, kolaches are named in 71 reviews. Cake donuts: 11. Old fashioned: 8. Blueberry cake: 4. The savoury pastry is mentioned more than every donut style on that list combined, at a shop with “Donut” in the name.
What people actually say
The two things that come up are the bread and the filling, in that order. An Ogden customer put it better than our menu does:
“Kolaches were perfect-like grandmas homemade buns with a good portion of eggs, bacon, cheese and potato.”
— J L, reviewing our Ogden shop
“Grandma's homemade buns” is the right instinct. It is bread dough, not pastry, and that is the whole character of the thing. If you want the cross-section, we drew it: what is actually inside a kolache.
What it changed
Honestly, it changed what we pay attention to. A shop reads its own counter and assumes it knows what sells. Reading 145 reviews that all land on the same item is a different kind of information, and it is the reason the kolaches are no longer a footnote on this website.
It is also a fair warning about mornings. The kolaches are baked in one go with the morning bake, in the same kitchen as the donuts, and when they are gone they are gone. We are not going to invent a time for you — it moves. But we open at 5:00am six days a week across all three shops, and earlier is genuinely better.
Where to get one
- Spanish Fork — 1306 E Center St. The busiest of the three, and the listing where kolaches come up most.
- Ogden — 554 Washington Blvd. The only shop with The Soda Run dirty soda counter alongside it.
- St. George — 922 E Brigham Rd. Forty minutes from Zion, open at five, which matters if you are trying to be on the trail at sunrise.
Small kolaches are $2.50, or $26.50 a dozen. Large are $4.75, or $49.50 a dozen. Every filling we make is listed here.
Common questions
Which Donut Run shop is best for kolaches?
All three bake them the same morning. Spanish Fork has the most reviews mentioning them (71), Ogden has 39 and St. George has 35. Ogden is the only shop where The Soda Run dirty soda counter sits alongside.
Are kolaches popular in Utah?
They are unusual here — most of Utah has never had one. What is measurable is that when people do try ours they tend to write about it: kolaches are named in 145 of our Google reviews across three shops.
What do people say about the kolaches?
The filling combinations and the bread come up most. One Ogden customer described them as “perfect-like grandmas homemade buns with a good portion of eggs, bacon, cheese and potato.”
Do you sell kolaches by the dozen?
Yes. Small kolaches are $26.50 a dozen and large kolaches are $49.50 a dozen. For a couple of dozen on a particular morning, call the shop ahead.