Tom Sandoval and Tom Schwartz's bar, Schwartz & Sandy's, opened in 2022, but it didn't happen in spring 2022 as they had anticipated. At BravoCon 2022, Sandoval revealed that it took them a long time to set it up due to a series of unforeseen setbacks.
"There's always things that come up," he shared. "There's things that you know, that you don't know. Then there's things you don't know you don't know. One of the things we didn't know we didn't know is how hard it is to find back-of-the-house staff, cooks, right now. So that has slowed us up."
Luckily, they were able to find solutions to those road bumps, and come November 2, 2022, Schwartz & Sandy's was finally open to the public. "The day has finally arrived," a post from the bar's official Instagram account read. "We open tomorrow [November 2] at 5 pm. We will be open Wed, Thurs, Fri and Sat at 5 pm. Accepting walk ins and reservations." Meanwhile, in Schwartz's Instagram post about the launch, he described the process of opening a bar as "a nightmare & a dream Come true all rolled into one."
