A Delectable Afternoon

Sepetember 13, 2009

If you've been reading my blog, you know that Pamela is my creative partner-in-crime. In the last two months, we have been happily photographing a variety of events and have been networking as much as possible. After shooting Joella's dinner party, we became friends with Michael Kay of Kitchen 12000. When we received the email inviting us to shoot Yelp's Sweet September Elite Party, we were delighted. The Sweet September Elite Party is a shindig strictly for Elite Yelpers.

The event was held at the Los Angeles Meeting & Event Center. There were several other photographers at the event. As such, Pamela and I coordinated with one another to ensure we had more well-rounded coverage of the event. Since Pamela's forte is shooting people and atmosphere shots, she photographed the servers, make-up artists, and overall party. I covered the food and its preparation.

Here are the passed hors d'oeuvres

Crustless Pizza shooters - Buffalo Mozzarella Balls in Tomato and Tomatillo Bases


Chicken Breast Cubes with Thai Peanut Sauce


Grilled Pear with Sour Cranberry Reduction and Feta Crumbles


Smashed potato medley in filo shells with red onion marmalade and queso fresco


Seared Tuna topped with Seaweed Salad and Tobiko in Filo Shells


Open-faced ciabatta rounds topped with Asian Pulled Pork topped with Mango Cole Slaw


Citrus Soy Marinated Baby Portobello Mushroom caps filled with a 3 cheese blend topped with truffle oil

Yogurt Blend topped with Pop Rocks


Blueberry, Acai, and Mangosteen Juice with candied Ginger

Since this was Yelp-sponsored event, there was some awesome swag.

Yelp Special Edition lunchboxes


Kitchen 12000 had favors made-up to look like illegal paraphernalia. They were filled with oregano, sugar, and syringes filled with pomegranate syrup


Choclates from Essential Chocolate Desserts

Here's some photos of the Kitchen 12000 crew in action.

A few photo ops with Dawson from Yelp L.A.

Here are the awesome event vendors:

Yelp

Kitchen 12000

Essential Chocolate Desserts

L.A. Meeting & Event Center

Floral Fields

DJ – Armando Jovel

Lillian Vicky, Makeup Artist – lillianvicky@yahoo.com

As always, please check out Pamela's blog for more photos from this event.