The Village Bakery in West, Texas’ first Czech bakery and the home of the state’s original kolaches, has been sold and will reopen, the new owner said Wednesday.
Shelly Miller, owner of the Village Shoppe next door to the bakery at 113 E. Oak St. in the McLennan County town, bought the 75-year-old bake shop.
The Village Bakery has been closed five years since owner Mimi Montgomery Irwin died suddenly. A former vice president at Macy’s in New York, she came home in 2003 to run the bakery her family founded in 1951.
In a 1986 interview in the Waco Tribune-Herald, founder W.O. Montgomery was quoted as saying, “I am the kolache king. The other bakeries in town — well, they were just babies when I started. I was the first.”…