Yelping Under the Big Top Elite Event

Elite event! it’s been a couple of months since I’ve been able to make one of these, and I’m so glad I was able to.
The food? Super tasty. Da Hot Dog King never disappoints. I especially enjoyed the Picnic Dog. I was a big fan of the boiled peanuts as well (especially the Cajun ones), though the others I went to the event with weren’t as enthusiastic. They’re just haters.
The drinks? Also excellent. I forget what the name of the drink I got was, but it was like a tequila sunrise, only better. The drinks were strong, though, so I didn’t dare try a sno-​cone after my first drink.
The entertainment? Amazing. All of the various acrobats made me feel horribly uncoordinated and woefully out of shape. With that in mind, I still spent entirely too much time on the dance floor, subjecting people to my Elaine-​esque moves. I hope you guys didn’t mind.
Overall? Awesomeness. Thanks again to Jeffrey for creating another super party. I’m very much looking forward to the next one!

This was my third elite Unilocal event and once again it was great to see my fellow Unilocalers and I enjoyed a unique evening.
Since I am still a huge fan of snowcones I was very much in love with the adult snowcones so huge props to Jeffrey for this idea!
I have never been to Sugar Space before but this is definitely going to be on my radar when looking for a fun evening that allows for something a little different than the usual SLC fare.
I have heard a lot about «the hot dog king» and I was very impressed! I had the Thai and the island dogs and I thoroughly enjoyed both of them, I will be looking for this cart on my lunch breaks!

This would be my 3^rd elite event, it was nice to move away from «food» main theme for a bit. My +1 and I had a decent time during this event. Thanks to Jeffrey for organizing another great event.
I had never actually been to the Sugar Space before, so it was quite interesting first time experience to see such creative artistic performances. I found the aerial performances to be the most enjoyable one. The astanga yoga performance was good as well, and it was interesting to meet a flexible male in person, as I picked up a few tips to help with my own workout routines. My +1 thought it was a bit short though.
It was nice to see Troy, Da Hotdog King again, which I am still trying to find time going to his actual cart. After sampling all of the hotdog bits, I found the Thai dog to be the tastiest one, a balanced sweet flavor (and as usual, it is never spicy for ones such as me) The boiled peanut from Chris ‘n’ Dave was another interesting first time experience since I never had much experience with southern US cuisines. The Cajun flavor peanuts were the most delicious ones, and I thought the boiled peanuts taste like ones I found in Chinese soups. The cotton candies definitely brought back some childhood memories and recent ones from my kids whining about them at grocery stores…
As with other elite events, the drinks were great and photographer was awesome. Despite my shying away from the dance floor, it was great to see other had a fun time on it. Thanks to everyone who voted «Obama Fun Laden» as the most terrible clown name, I never thought it was going to be a hit, but I suppose the real irony is the actual Bin Laden passed on a few days after the event.

I had a fabulous time, as always. Jeffrey is the best at organizing fun, creative events for us to enjoy and we are very lucky to be a part of them!
I’d been to Sugar Space once before and saw the amazing aerial performers and was very impressed, but seeing them again was even better. These people are amazingly talented and cool to boot. Sugar Space does a ton for the community and I want to see this place succeed. They teach classes for the aerial stuff, too. How cool is that? I want to get my 10 year old daughter involved in it.
The hula hoop performance was a new one and very cool as well. Such talent.
The food was AWESOME. I love Da Hotdog King and his inventive dogs. The cotton candy was a nice splurge and made me feel like a kid. The drinks were a bit on the syrupy sweet side but a little pour of sprite fixed that right up (thanks Jeffrey). I didn’t try the boiled peanuts for fear of anaphylaxis but they smelled amazing.
I had so much fun eating, drinking, being merry and chatting with Unilocalers new and old. Jeffrey, thanks for another wonderful event. You spoil us.

Elite Events are always fun, and for this allowed for some great arts with food. Four stars for the event as a whole as the performers at Sugar Space where really great. Sugar Space allows a lot of different types of arts use their space, and they also help them with funds when needed. Aside from arts at Sugar Space the space can be rented to groups for events as well. As an event Sugar Space with the artists made it worth while as the food was somewhat lacking. Overall a good experience for my plus one and myself.
Food was inventive hot dogs from Da Hot Dog King and boiled peanuts from Chris ‘N Dave’s. The owners of both those places are really cool. Da Hot Dog King made some nice toppings for his hot dogs, but still could not save a basic hot dog and bun. I liked the Picnic and Island dogs the most as the Thai was good, but sweet instead of spicy. The other two flavors the Kraut dog was a little too sour and the Dessert dog was too sweet. These toppings really need a custom bun and hot dog to really make them pop and push them from meh/​OK to great. Overall three stars for Da Hot Dog King and his hot dogs. Hope that he can progress his hot dogs to the next level. Chris ‘N Dave’s boiled peanuts sounded good to me, but a little disappointing. The Cajun and Original peanuts where pretty good flavor wise, but the peanut was not what I am used to for boiled peanuts. I was expecting a softer peanut inside the shell. It is nice to see some different food around in Utah though and two stars go for the peanuts.
As with other Unilocal Elite events the bar tender and photographer where nice as where the cotton candy helper. I cannot wait to see the photos of the event as clown costumes where pretty cool. Overall the Sugar Space and performers really made the event. The owner is really cool and helped push dancing between the performances of the Elite Unilocalers.

Wow! Having overheard some of the planning, I thought I had a pretty good feel for what this was going to be like, but Jeffrey really blew it out of the water on this one. So much fun! The atmosphere, the music, the dancing, the performers, the food, and fellow Unilocalers, all came together to make an amazing night.
Sugar Space was the perfect place for this and Brittany couldn’t have been nicer. I really admire all that she is doing there to promote arts in Utah and making that a really cool, functional, fun space.
I was already impressed with the aerial silk, trapeze and performers after seeing them at the Sugar Space during the After Dark performance earlier this year. But seeing them again in the party atmosphere and right up close added a whole new element. That is an amazing talent. It would be so fun to learn a little of that, I might just have to take a class! And really, I had no idea hoola hoops could do that. So cool!
I’ve experienced Troy’s awesome dogs before so I was so excited for the perfect bite sized samples to re-​experience it all. His creativity in putting together a unique blend of flavors astounds me. I’m thinking it’s the picnic dog for me the next time I stop by his cart.
The boiled peanuts were a new experience and it was fun to try them out. Way to go Chris and Dave for bringing something new to Utah. The warm juicy flavors were delicious. I especially liked the tomato basil as it wasn’t as salty, since I’m sort of a salt wuss. It would be fun to have a cup full of them somewhere outside where spitting would seem quite so indelicate. ha ha.
I quickly knocked out all three flavors of cotton candy before anyone noticed — shout out to Brad and Miranda for doing an awesome job spinning the sugar. And bartender and drinks were great.
Big thanks to Jeffrey for putting together an amazing night of FREE fun! And giving us the chance to try some good food, meet some awesome business owners, get to know each other better, and really, just have a fantastic time.