Valentine’s weekend is the time to impress. That’s when you have the bring out the big guns: roses, chocolates and Wagyu tartare – obviously ...
Valentine’s weekend is the time to impress. That’s when you have the bring out the big guns: roses, chocolates and wagyu tartare. With the goal of impressing your date, Midnight Rambler and Japanese sando pop-upThe viral and much-beloved, nomadic sando shop Sandoitchi is setting up shop for a two-night dining event at Midnight Rambler, the subterranean cocktail bar at The Joule. The collaboration will offer a five-course tasting menu with cocktail pairings on Friday, Feb. 11, and Saturday, Feb.
Usually, Sandoitchi is a takeout operation when it pops into town, but for Valentine’s it’s a fully fleshed-out sit-down dinner. Titled “YES/NO/MAYBE,” calling back to a time where’d you anxiously await an answer back from your crush, chef Stevie Nguyen’s menu will include wagyu tartare sando, silken tofu, wagyu katsu sando, wagyu don, and a strawberry cream sando.The menu is accompanied by a seven-part cocktail flight curated by Gabe Sanchez, Midnight Rambler’s award-winning cocktail expert.
“We wanted to go all out for the cocktail menu. I mean, it’s Valentine’s weekend so it’s time to impress, right?” says Sanchez in a press release. “The cocktails are Japanese inspired, but through an inventive lens that incorporates ingredients like truffle butter-washed whisky and matcha syrup. The pairings travel from that first rush of meeting someone through a rocky breakup and bouncing back.”
For those unfamiliar, Sandoitchi is a Dallas-based experimental pop-up shop that first launched in February 2020, inspired by sandos, the sandwiches found at Japanese convenience stores called Konbini. Sandoitchi’s partners-in-love, Midnight Rambler reopened after a pandemic nap in 2021 with Sanchez onboard and have been on a hot streak of pop-up collabs lately, most recently having worked withThe tasting menu for Valentine’s dinner is $125 per person with an optional $75 cocktail pairing.
. If it’s too late to grab a seat at the table, a la carte options and wagyu sandos will be available both nights starting at 9 p.m., it has been defined as the free, independent voice of Dallas, and we'd like to keep it that way. With local media under siege, it's more important than ever for us to rally support behind funding our local journalism.