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Yelp Atlanta Celebrates the Season with Sushi with Santa!



4168408472_4356ae32a9_o4168408888_d185b8d88c_oMince pies and eggnog are great and all, but what the Atlanta Elite Squad really wanted was SUSHI. And they got just that at STEEL Restaurant and Lounge in Midtown. Nearly 125 Elite Yelpers and their guests came out for one last fling for 2009. Attendees were some of the first in Atlanta to get their hands on Haamonii, a premium shochu, and let's just say it was well received!

4167640733_cb09175ddb_o4167648383_965762b33e_oDress code was "festive" and Yelpers took it to heart. Zack  E was bedecked in the ugliest Christmas sweater of all time while Katie W brought along a Midtown-appropriate Georgia Tech santa hat. Yelpers exchanged gifts with one another and Erin D's brother may have been the winner, if we had to choose: "Whoever 4167644509_9146d676bd_obought the gift my brother picked (a Santa hat that said "Squeel" and a pig hand  puppet) should know that I have never seen him laugh 4168405470_f8d2fe4c53_oso hard. He wore the hat the whole ride home! Thank you!" Other gifts included The  Parent Trap (Lindsey Lohan style), a 6-pack beer sampler, and three pairs of chopsticks 4167642169_07fe855ac5_oalong with a set of fake eye lashes. Not sure how those go together, but we'll roll with it! 

Speaking of rolls, Emily K's already plotting 4167641343_73cf2bb784_oher return to STEEL for their spring rolls, and and Jason R found the strawberry-wrapped sushi to be "shockingly good." Jeremy A's experience is  gonna stick with him, as the "mango and crab spring rolls will haunt his4168407248_0cb97211c5_o dreams." Uhm, hopefully that's a good thing!

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No holiday party would be complete without Santa: who knew the big man  looks a whole lot like Yelp's very own Kevin L?! How bizarre! He and his lap were available for shots in the fantastic photo booth provided by Atlanta 4168405514_8f4ac891d8_oPhotography. You can see all of their great pics here!
 

If you'd like to hear more (and I know you do), all of the reviews are posted here and you can find the talk thread reliving all of the shenanigans here.

Thanks to all of Atlanta Yelp for a fantastic 2009 and I'll see y'all in 2010! Happy Holidays!
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                        Kathleen M

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