Kolache Shoppe x burger-chan “Burger Kolaches”

Available on Saturday, May 15, 2021

6pm until 9pm or sell out

at “A Night Market” event @ 4100 Montrose. Blvd.

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Two words: burger kolache.

This Saturday, May 15, we will be teaming up with Kolache Shoppe to serve freshly baked “burger-chan x Kolache Shoppe” #burgerkolaches from 6pm – sell out.

Kolache Shoppe makes a phenomenal kolache, so we are pumped to collaborate with them on this. To ensure maximum freshness, the burger kolaches will be baked at Kolache Shoppe right before the event.

Preemptively, we want to say that we understand that a kolacky/kolach/kolace/kolatch/kolache is “a bun made of rich sweet yeast-leavened dough filled with jam or fruit pulp” [definition from Merriam-Webster (@merriamwebster)]. With that knowledge in mind, we will still call our product a burger kolache--and not a burger klobasnek—without quotation marks or clarification, so please don’t @ us.

While we normally offer pre-ordering, we apologize that we cannot do so for this event. For those who cannot make the event or cannot wait in line … maybe y’all can convince Kolache Shoppe to run a special in their stores??

All proceeds and tips will go toward funding “Food is Love” staff meal swaps for food and beverage industry workers.

EVENT DETAILS

“A Night Market” is an outdoor evening event hosted by Underground Creamery and Tatemó. From 6pm until 9pm, pop-up tents will line the parking lot of the Freed-Montrose Neighborhood Library—right next to the large outdoor chess set and in front of the former The Black Labrador space. Plenty of street parking is available near the University of St. Thomas.

We are truly honored to be included in the star-studded line up that includes Tatemó, Underground Creamery, Click Virtual Food Hall, Lush Puff, Neo HTX, Two Headed Dog, and the Texan cheftestants of Bravo Top Chef: Dawn Burrell, Gabriel Erales, and Sasha Grumman.



Mark your calendars, and see y’all soon.

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