Hruska's Kolaches Is Now The Kolache Place — What Happened After the Show?
Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, Season 29 Salt Lake City, Utah
Current status
As of October 2026, thekolacheplace.com lists this address as The Kolache Place; reviewed by our team on September 7, 2026, not yet independently confirmed through direct contact.
What the source shows: The Google Places match for this address currently identifies the business as The Kolache Place, and its own website (copyright 2026, checked 2026-09-08) shows active multi-location operations, indicating a rebrand from the originally featured Hruska's Kolaches. How we decide a status →
- Episode Season 29, Episode 10
- Aired
- Address 1751 S 1100 E, Salt Lake City, UT 84105
- Now called The Kolache Place
- Website thekolacheplace.com
- Show map
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What happened after Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives?
Part 1 — Season 29, Episode 10 Aired
Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives visited Hruska's Kolaches in Salt Lake City for the episode "Handy Helpings," which aired 2019-01-25, featuring the bakery's hand-folded Czech kolaches filled with fruit, cheese, and sausage. The bakery began as a small, family-run kolache shop on South 1100 East in Salt Lake City. According to the business's current website, thekolacheplace.com, checked 2026-09-08 and copyrighted 2026, the bakery now operates as The Kolache Place, a family-owned, multi-location fast-casual breakfast business with locations in West Jordan, Orem, Provo, American Fork, and Salt Lake City. The site lists Saturday hours of 6:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., or until sold out, and an active online ordering and catering system, indicating the original Hruska's Kolaches location continues to operate today under the new name.
Part 2 — Season 33, Episode 3 Aired
In "Takeout: Global Comes Local" (aired 2020-09-11), Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives returned to Hruska's Kolaches in Salt Lake City's Sugar House neighborhood. According to the Deseret News, the family-owned Czech-Texan bakery, founded in 2014 by three Hruska siblings, serves savory kolaches stuffed with sausage and gravy or jalapeno alongside sweet versions topped with raspberry cream cheese and cherry. Dinersdriveinsdiveslocations.com notes Guy Fieri first featured the shop in a 2019 episode titled "Handy Helpings."
The episodes
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Season 29: 36 of 58 still open · 3 renamed, moved or under new owners
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Ep 10Rreal Tacos
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Ep 11Laziz Kitchen
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Ep 11OneTaco
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Ep 11Yakitori Jinbei
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Sources we checked
- thekolacheplace.com https://www.thekolacheplace.com/
- deseret.com https://www.deseret.com/2019/1/28/20664498/hruska-s-kolaches-appeared-on-diners-drive-ins-dives-here-are-other-utah-restaurants-featured-on-guy/
- dinersdriveinsdiveslocations.com https://www.dinersdriveinsdiveslocations.com/hruskas-kolaches-utah.html
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Record ddd-1092 · checked by Cal Marchetti.