Pink Box

a shop · TXRound Rock Donuts

also: Lone Star Bakery

about 97 miles across
Round Rock Donuts and the counters around it.

A Texas counter trading since 1926, known for an outsized orange-yellow donut and a queue that starts early.

Written down by The local paper or alt-weekly (1976) · Bon Appétit (2010) · Other named recognition (2013)

When they’re open

MMonday: openTTuesday: openWWednesday: openTThursday: openFFriday: openSSaturday: openSSunday: open

open closed not published · Cited · osm · why so many close Sunday

The story Cited · wp-round-rock-donuts

Established in 1926 as Lone Star Bakery, it moved to 106 West Liberty in 1970 because the old spot at 101 East Main had nowhere to park. A second Austin location opened on Burnet Road in January 1977. A second modern location opened in Cedar Park in 2022.

Today Cited · wp-round-rock-donuts

It has turned up on best-of lists for fifty years: Texas Monthly in 1976, Bon Appétit in 2010, The Daily Meal in 2013, Yelp in 2022, TasteAtlas in 2025.

The particulars

stateTX
statusopen
founded1926
doughboth
stylesThe Texas kolache counter
regionTexas
address106 West Liberty Avenue, Round Rock, TX · Williamson County Cited · wp-round-rock-donuts
where30.5095, -97.6799 (street) · OpenStreetMap · open in maps Harvested · osm-nominatim
confidencehigh · updated 2026-09-16

Near here

Crow-flies miles; the road is always longer. The finder sorts every shop in the country from wherever you're standing.

Who it runs with

stylesThe Texas kolache counterThe style around it.and of this page it says: A Texas counter big enough to be a landmark.dishesKolacheWhat else a Texas counter sells at that hour.

Where we got it

Where it came from: Cited a source we name · Harvested pulled from an open dataset · Tradition what the tradition says, hedged · Inference this project's reasoning · Field somebody stood there. This record as JSON.

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