Maybe the title is enough…Kolache Saturday.

But you know what? We can’t leave it at that, without some explanation. Thanks to certain Houston "kolache establishments", the "kolache" has become this enigmatic, dough-ey thing that can have meat (usually bad hot dog wieners accompanied with fake plastic cheese) or fruit (usually canned preserves that at their best are still pretty bad), held in a warming drawer until ordered. Read: Delicious.

Every Sunday, Morgan’s grandmother cranked out dozens of kolaches in a wood burning oven, in anticipation for "company" coming by later in the afternoon. Apricot, cream cheese, poppyseed, plum, everything was made from scratch. That idea is hard to find even in some of the kolache empires in the metropolis of West, Texas. Now, Morgan didn’t pay much attention to his Grandma’s kolache-making technique so our good friend Victoria "the kolache queen" Rittinger and Chef Ryan Pera worked on recipes all week (thanks Victoria!). This Saturday we are paying homage to those old-fashioned, Czech-style kolaches. We won’t have 19 different flavors, but we’ll get you taken care of.

We will also be offering klobasneks, also known in the Yoakum-part-of-the-world as a pig-in-a-blanket. In Houston, "kolache establishments" refer to klobasnek’s as kolaches as well. That would just make Morgan’s grandmother sad, and we wouldn’t want to do that. Instead of a mushy hot dog weiner, our housemade smoked sausage will be filling the klobasneks on Saturday, as well as delicious and real, farmstead cheese.

Starts at 8am. Happy Memorial Day.

Special Memorial Day Hours: 9am-2pm

The case has got tons of options for Memorial Day. The crown jewels? Eden Farms Acorn-fed Pork Rib Chops, Augustus Ranch Beef, and Eden Farms pork for the smoker or grill:

Make a day of it. Do some grilling, crack open a cold one and enjoy a nice day with friends in your backyard.

This weekend in the case, Revival Meats lamb. Thats right, lamb. You thought we were all about pork, but we raise lamb as well. This breed is indegineous to the Gulf Coast, aptly named: Gulf Coast Native Sheep. Characteristically, they have really mild and tender, delicious meat.

In addition to the Revival Meats Lamb, we’ve got limited quantities of the Texas T Wagyu Beef (both full blood and Wagyu/Angus hybrid). Texas T’s beef is easily the highest quality stuff we’ve seen in the state. Dry-aged 30 days, it is stunning.

We’ve been trying for months to get Big Spoon Roasters’ nut butters from Ryan’s home state of North Carolina. They were featured in the same Bon Appetit article that we were a few months ago: The New Southern Pantry.

In their own words:

"We make handcrafted nut butters from scratch in Durham, North Carolina.  Our carefully selected nuts and wildflower honeys are sourced from local and like-minded farmers who share our dedication to authentic quality.  Each small batch is roasted, ground, and packaged while still warm to produce nut butters that are uniquely fresh, delicious, and nutritious."

Here’s what we have:

Regular Peanut

Peanut/Cashew

Peanut Pecan

Peanut Almond

They’re seriously the best nut butter’s we’ve ever tried.

Leave the office late and have no time to cook? Drop us a line and give us an hour. We’ll have a piping hot, roasted chicken waiting for you when you get here. We’ve got you covered.

713.880.8463