2nd Annual Potluck UYE

Ahhh Potluck,
How I love thee? Let me count the ways:
1– I love thee for all of the fun, amazing company I get to have in my presence.
2– I love thee for all of the delicious, divine, home-​cooked meals that walk through my door.
3– I love thee because I get to eat like a pig and not feel guilty about it.
4– I love thee because I enjoy throwing parties, and best of all, ones with tons of food!
5– I love thee for being the essence of what Unilocal is all about.
Looking forward to the next Potluck!
Love,
SabrinaAnna*

Yup, I’m that really LATE guy to the party, but I’ll blame it on my Cuban wife; we’re always late. :)
Being my first UYE Potluck I was unsure of what to expect. I’ve heard fables about scandal and fun of Unilocal UYE Potluckxxx so I was pretty excited to make my way over con mi esposa. Sabrina and John have an amazing place cast in stone, it’s open and urban appeal lives in an unassuming area of 123 Potluck St. It was perfect place to host, providing plenty of space and easy access. Bonus points for having an autograph wall out front (P.S. If you sell my autograph, I’m not making you anymore chili!).
All UYE’s have my favorite Unilocalers and I love hanging out with you all so it goes unsaid that the company was great. With that behind us, let’s get down to really what’s important. The rippin’ and the tearin’ (rib meat off the bones! GEEZUS!). This one dope ass dude from Texas brought some meaty (insert awesomely inappropriate Orlando comment here) chili with some fire behind it thanks to some habaneros. NOM! The other stuff was ok too… Andrea F. Your shrimp was amazing and next time I won’t be so polite and refrain from devouring it all in a single gulp. Patrick L., aka Brew Master, I’ve got a really bad habit of straying from beer on the nights you bring these hoppy delights and I just can’t have that any more. I must partake in the brewed libations! Brent B. & Lena… your snacks were creative and delicious. Honestly who wouldn’t want to devour little RoethlisBurgers besides young college girls? And Green Bay-​be Back ribs are going all the way to the Super Bowl! Tom W. & Vanessa S. your KIRF (Keepin’ It Real Fake) Sports Grill Special Grill wings were pretty dope. I agree with you that they weren’t perfect knock-​offs BUT they were so could that I couldn’t keep from burying my face in it.
It’s a safe conclusion that I enjoyed my first UYE Potluck on 123 Potluck St. and I look forward to many more mi amigos!
Sabs y John, thanks again for hosting!!!

Thank you Sabrina and Johnny! 123 Potluck St is a swanky pad and the perfect setting for an epic potluck. The spacious kitchen welcomed us and our dishes right away. We wasted no time digging in and everything was so good! I sat by the 77 layer dip and couldn’t stop eating it. Tom’s wings were delicious, both spicy and glazed. Sabrina your cheese muffins fresh out of the oven were a treat. Jax and Will brought some kick-​ass spicy chili and even remembered to bring little bowls for it — so thoughtful! The drinks were flowing and we were already filling up when round two arrived in the form of Green Bay-​be back ribs + sliders by Brett and Lena, arroz con pollo with homemade cornbread crust by Janay and many more things I can’t recall everything! I had to try Patrick’s date cake with beer sauce and was surprised at how sweet and tasty it was, a great winter dessert.
We had a great time with some awesome people, catching up with old friends and meeting some pretty awesome new friends. Johnny thanks for the great music and both Sabs and you for welcoming us into your beautiful home. And thank you everyone for the spread of food — everything was fantastic!

I really could have saved my Sabrina-​style review parody/​flattery for this, but I think it turned out better for having come out of nowhere. Besides, I want to focus on the ridiculous food and drink that showed up.
All the Unilocal potlucks I’ve been to have been epic in one way or another, whether a tailgate, beer tasting, brunch, or anything in between. Sabrina and Johnny’s place, however, just has that wide open layout that screams potluck party. Even so, it was still easy to overwhelm the spacious island in the middle of the kitchen with food and bottles, as you can see from the pictures.
Having been to a few similar parties, I’ve come to eagerly await whatever Andrea ends up bringing to the table, as the stuff she makes always seems to nail it «right on the nuggets,» as Jack Black would say. I could have easily filled up on her caprese skewers, and I probably could have polished off the whole bowl of shrimp she brought by myself, if there had been nothing else to eat.
When a Texan shows up at a party with a crock-​pot full of chili, you have to take notice. Will and Jax did a great job of spicing it — enough heat for those of us who crave it, yet approachable enough for the more-​sane people out there who have no interest in taking a bite out of a ghost pepper.
As you would expect, Tom and I brought plenty of fancy beer, and as an added bonus, we got to consume it at perfect cellar temperature, as Sabrina had us store our bottles in her super-​cool wine cellar. Tom’s two varieties of wings were great, and paired perfectly with all the booze flowing around. Delirium Noël, Goose Island Sofie, Verhaeghe Duchesse De Bourgogne, and Firestone Walker Double Jack were among the standout bottles that were opened.
To me, the «Big Splash» award goes to new-​ish Unilocalers Brent and Lena, with their Green Bay-​be backs and Lil’ RoethlisBurgers. I just watched in amazement as they showed up and started assembly-​lining those mini-​burgers. They were seemingly gone in 2 seconds.
77-​layer taco dip? Are you freakin’ kidding me? Isn’t that some kind of world record? I kinda figured this party would be epic, but I didn’t think a world record would be broken.
Sabrina, thank you so much for hosting this incredible party!

Sabrina thanks to you and your fiancée for hosting such an awesome potluck.
The food was awesome and you made us new Unilocalers feel very welcome. Everyone that I met was great and I can’t wait to hang out again soon. All the food was delicious and the alcohol was plentiful. Thanks to Patrick L. for letting me know about some cool places to find micro brews because yes, I’m not only a Unilocal nerd but a beer nerd too.
The music was fantastic thank you Johnny. My friends can get with your friends shit we should do this every weekend!

I was going to write a Sabrina-​style letter review but Lourdes did it first :)
There’s something special about house parties. Before you could go to a club — when you’re just in school — you enjoyed the art of socializing from house parties. With that in mind, last night’s 2^nd Annual Unilocal potluck UYE was epic and am already looking forward to the next one. Sabrina and John were great hosts and I thank them for welcoming myself and the fun group of Miami Unilocalers into their beautiul house. From the huge open living room, to the DJ lounge and of course the modern looking bathrooms their crib is phat!
Their spacious kitchen provided a smorgabord of yummy grub for us to munch on, from my «freshly baked» Publix Cheesecake to Lena & Brett’s football-​inspired and decorated burgers ribs and BBQ sauce. Let’s not forget Sabrina’s delicious 77 Layer (won’t live that down :) cheese dip. The mix between the cool of the cheese and sour cream and what tasted like a hint of bean was delicious. I want to enjoy that again!
What else is a house party without good music and conversation? That we had as well, from the beats laid down by John on his vinyl turntable to us introducing Brent to Hialeah! Paula’s philosophical conversation was unforgettable as well.
I can’t thank our great hosts enough. it was a true pleasure hanging out!