Southside Block Party

Ah… a review of the party!
The venue was great, the hotel there looked like a wonderful place to stay at and dine. It was a little confusing to figure out how to get into the event (front door of the hotel… duh!)…but once we did it was all good.
The provided music was great, low key covers of familiar songs, but with the singer’s own take. I would have tipped him if there was a tip hat.
So the way this works, you get this fashionable wrist band to wear and 8 tickets. Each ticket is good for one drink or one food item. There were 3 main restaurant vendors set up with foods and specialty drinks, an ice cream truck dude, a snow cone guy (snow cones with either gin or vodka).
Looking for vegan options was difficult (I knew this going in… no knock on the event at all). The first place we ate at was Two Ten Jacks and I was really happy with their Grilled Shishito Peppers. George was working the table and mentioned their restaurant was around the corner… after the event we did head over there and had a great dinner with vegan ramen and hot sake.
The other restaurants were more difficult because of the long lines… and one was mainly BBQ though I enjoyed the green bean side dish… even if that was still a single ticket. The other restaurant there did not have anything that was not made with meat. Good thing I like to drink! :)
One small negative for this event was that each vendor had a single line. I just wanted a drink and it meant waiting 15 minutes in a line to get a small cup of the drink… if I was setting this up, I would have added a separate drink only line which would have gone very fast right?
Positive… hanging with Stephanie and her friend at the Unilocal table and scoring those cool Unilocal bottle openers. :)