Chillin and Grillin UYE at Grill Em

Major props to Colleen, who did such a great job organizing this UYE with Syndee on Thursday! The $ 14.95 pre-​fixe dinner (consisting of short rib appetizer, rib eye steak to grill yourself, garlic bread, side salad or baked potato and banana foster for dessert) and $ 2.50 Skyy infused cocktails couldn’t be beat! What a wonderful turnout, and it was so nice to meet many new faces.
Many thanks to Syndee for accommodating such a large group of us! Although I didn’t stay long enough to grill my own steak, it was fun watching the men look manly around the grill. I would have definitely been in there with the guys. Now that I can change my own flat tire, I can surely smoke some meat. I’ll be back!

I drive pass this place to work everyday, so it’s great to finally check it out with the Unilocalers!
Thanks to Colleen for organizing this UYE. John and I came about 10 min past 7pm to find a healthy Unilocal crowd chitty chatting away. We orderd the $ 14.95 special, which came with either salad or potato, appetizers (which were shared), a 12oz. steak, and dessert (also shared). Sydnee, the owner, was charging $ 2.50/cocktail, so I got the Passion Fruit one, it was good!
Donna Y. and I let the guys do the grilling, while we did the eating, as we do best! :D The steak was great, the dessert was not what I expected, but I enjoyed another great evening meeting new Unilocalers and getting introduced to Connie ‘Miss Silicon Valley Unilocal’ C, yay!
Here are the few pics that I captured:

First off, thank you Colleen for setting this one up.
I have never been to this place before and my girl said it used to be an Italian restaurant when she was younger and it was her familys fall-​back restaurant. We get here not knowing what to expect and Unilocalers have the place half full so we grabbed a booth per the hostess and waited… and waited… and waited until brandon brought us the special drinks menu and we got our own menu and went up to the waitress to put our order in because we were invisible. Once we had our order in we continued to wait… for our raw steaks so we could take them to the grill. I thought maybe they felt bad and were cooking our steaks for us with as long as we waited for them, though, the appetizer did come out in a good amount of time (short ribs with great flavor that were 80% bone, 10% fat, and 10% meat). The salads came out quickly as well with my potato coming out once I had finished cooking my steak, which was very good.
The real highlight of this place was the event itself and the people. $ 2.50 drinks that were good and getting to know people were definitely the highlights of my experience at Grill em and plotting to find out about all of the girls events with an un-​named accomplice *evil laughter*
Please tell me someone got a picture of the Sky Vodka girls in their, um, noticeable dresses.

I posted a seperate review for the actual restaurant and food.
Thanks again for setting this up Colleen and yes you are famous! Thanks also to Syndee for providing the location, menu and drink specials.
It was fun to meet and talk to everyone. It was my 1^st UYE and I was very excited to put faces to some names. Everyone was great and welcoming, including the staff. The drink specials were great! I had 3 drinks and the honey was worried I got drunk. Hee. The Sky cherry coke was great!
I was also lucky enough to meet Connie and get some Unilocal stuff. I love stuff! Thanks again for setting this up!

Yay finally made it to another UYE and glad I did cuz I met the infamous Connie! Thank you so much to Colleen for putting this event together. It is always nice to come out and meet new people.
Service was a tad slow for my taste especially if all their doing is bringing me a raw steak to cook by myself but hey I’d like to think it was probably just cuz it was pretty chaotic in there.
The Sky drinks were great, hey for $ 2.50 each you can’t go wrong. Steaks were nice and aged with plenty of flavor.
Overall had a great time and enjoyed meeting new friends and getting reacquainted with old Unilocal buddies!

This was a nice event, the drinks were cheap and plentiful. We had the special which the 12 oz Ribeye and it includes spareribs as the appetizer which is excellent. Semi-​sweet with a smoky flavor. I tried the other appetizers like the calamari but it wasn’t done very well. I managed to grill my steak up to just about the right texture and color thanks to Syndee’s advice (I kinda missed out on the timing and flipped the steak around several times)
Thanks to Colleen for setting this nice event up. I did smell like smoke when I got home but thats normal since it is a BBQ place: D

The event gets 5 stars easy. The people, the laughs, the garlic bread turned to charcoal, good times. The restaurant itself I would have to give 2 stars based on our food and service, and I am hoping that that is just because they were inundated with excited Unilocalers and couldn’t handle the situation. But I’ll review them later on their site…
The highlights of the event:
–Brandon singing Lonely, I’m so lonely…
–all the garlic bread gone wrong
–the spare ribs (fatty but yummy)
The lowlights:
–having to track down waitresses or the bartender any time we needed anything

Thanks Colleen for setting up another wonderful event. I had fun with all the Unilocalers as usual. Personally I am not a big steak fan and second I can’t grill. Tried it before and well… I get to impatient for it. I think grilling is a guy’s thing. But I am always down to eat. Thanks John for grilling my steak for me. The steak was good! I was like Wow! Never thought steak would taste this good. I ate the whole thing and got way to full. This experience has really changed my mind about steak.
Thanks for all the Unilocalers and see you all at the next event.