It was billed as Yelp's London Final Event, so was expecting it to go out with a bang, but instead,…read moreit sort of fizzled out, may be it was because we were feeling the sadness of the occasion!
To be honest, it felt like a very toned down Yelp event, as I was expecting 100s of Yelpers not just a handful of Elites, that Yelp HQ would sponsor being the last one! Also it may be largely due to the fact I somehow missed the steel drums music, the face painting, the rude Christmas cards, because when I had finished my meal of delicious jerk chicken with rice and beans, and the spicy-sweet homemade reggae sauce, we were ushered upstairs to see the anti-panto, like no other. The elf and Gary were funny, and the story was quite mad, but unfortunately the two other characters did nothing for me.
Then we had a rather emotional speech from Alex. So sad. I do not want to say goodbye!
So after the panto, everything seems to have finished, no more face painting, music etc. However, I did catch Bad Santa in his saucy grotto afterwards, even though the lady organising it was not sure, when I asked has Santa gone (cos everyone else has!)? He was hilarious, and we shared a shot, heard some really bad accents, songs, had a good laugh and then were given some rude presents (well he called it his balls but really two small chocolate eggs and a condom) to take away.
The ones with their face painted had their photo taken with a 360° degree camera which looked a lot of fun. I wanted to join in, but could not as I had missed the face painter. Although, I managed to take our own group photo with other Christmas jumpers, which looked awesome, instead,
To sum up, the food and drinks were good, the panto interesting, bad Santa was fun, and the Elite company was excellent as usual. Great meeting some more Elites!
The marks I gave is no reflection on Different Breed who laid on the alternative night before Christmas event in an interesting warehouse full of over 300 beers, but for the Yelp Event, which I felt disappointed with.