Free Food is Cool in Any Country.

Monday 19 October 2010
During the day, I worked at Think London doing research. I looked up information for almost 100 companies yesterday. I finally finished the list. I know it's not truly finished; I'm sure there will be more work to do tomorrow when I get into the office. I know I am also working on a briefing for the CEO of the company. I am writing/editing a document he is going to use at a huge event in November with global companies. I don't fully understand what this event is for yet, I'm sure I will learn about it soon.

Last night, my friend Christine and I went to a Yelp festival near Notting Hill in London. Yelp is an online restaurant, entertainment, bars, etc. rating site. It is mostly used for restaurants. It's pretty simple and really useful. Anyone can write a review for any business on the site. Since our lives revolve around food, Christine and I have been using it a lot for recommendations of places to try. A couple weeks ago she discovered they were having a free food event. All you had to do was register online and show up! Of course we were all over that!

We got to the event a little past 8pm (it started at 8pm). We got some free junk (chapstick, tube card holder, temporary tatoos, etc.) and a nametag. It was in this outdoor facility where you just walked from one booth to another to get free food. It was soo great. We had some delicious Mexican nachos (which was my favorite!), sushi, cookies, rice and greens (and something else, I'm still not sure exactly what that was that I ate), crepes and smoothies. They also had free drinks. They were giving out samples of free beer (I didn't recognize the brand name, and I didn't really like it that much anyway..), Maker's Mark whiskey, bagged wine (yes, single servings of wine in a bag), Saki (not much of a fan, too strong for me) and another kind of organic alcohol. I had no idea there was even such thing as organic alcohol. While we were eating, this woman next to us, had a bit too much of the free alcohol. She was about 45 and was dancing around the facility. It was so hilarious. I wish we could have videotaped her. I'm not sure if she was there by herself but that is what it seemed...

It was a really sweet event. We are all about free food anytime. :) Below are a few pictures of the night.