Elite Event @ Louisa’s Café

Been here a bunch of times for brunch (esp. when I used to live here) but had no idea the ownership had changed hands and dinner would be served.
Such a fun little neighborhood place and a great way to say «bon voyage» to Katie S and hello to the new Katy (same as the old Katy, but no, not really).
The food was pretty inspired, honestly — and I had no idea what to expect (again, this is only a brunch place, in my mind). And interestingly enough, I know the new owner (hi Alcena!). The servers were able to get the noshes out really quickly, and the Halloween-​themed candies were a really nice touch.
My wife and I even met some new Unilocal-​friends (like Facebook friends, only tastier). So no complaints here.
I’ll definitely be back to try this place out for a «real» dinner sometime.

as sad it was to see this as an event for Katie’s departure, it really was wonderful meeting the new CM. that said, i loved the use of space and the dining experience for this event. It felt intimate and cozy, just like the Unilocal community.
great job Katie. you’re loved and will be missed.

Another super sweet Unilocal Event! This one was probably my favorite, mostly because I could actually hear what other people were saying and I had the option to sit down if I wanted to.
I missed the crab cakes at the beginning and left before the brownie dessert but I really enjoyed the salad and I ate the green tomatoes that came with my boyfriend’s steak course. Now I want to go back to Louisa’s and try some of their regular menu items!
All in all, a great night — I’m very sad to see Katie S go but excited for future fun with Katy H!

What more could a girl want? Good wine, tasty food, and fantastic company? It doesn’t get much better than that! I was excited to finally meet some of my fellow Unilocalers in person as this was my first Elite Event! The food was really good — I’m so sad I had to miss dessert… brownies are one of my favorites too! But the crabcake, fennel salad, and steak were delish! I will have to come back and try their dinner menu. I noticed they had mac’n’cheese on it and doesn’t that sound just right for a cold wet fall night? mmm comfort food!
Thank you Katie S and Louisa’s for a FABULOUS time last night!

Dear Katie S.,
You’re awesome. This event was amazing. We’ll miss you.
That’s all.
Err… oops, that’s not all. Thank you!
–Aaron E.
p. s. FEED ME MORE CRAB CAKES!!!

At training this morning, my trainer asked me, «What’s that stamp on your hand?»
I actually never knew that the nametags were stamped by hand. When I saw the stamps, I naturally assumed that they were for stamping your hand. Thus — my hand is now Unilocal Elite. Please welcome it to the Unilocal Elite squad next time you see it.
Louisa’s put on quite a show last night! The food was all delicious — and even though I tend to stay away from steak, I didn’t stop with the main course until every bite was gone from my plate. This was a chill dinner party atmosphere, which was great for meeting new people. (Shout out to new people I met last night!)
Congrats to Nori for the best pumpkin! I liked hers, but a close second was the one who created a new Halloween-​themed Unilocal compliment. If you missed it, you missed out — it was super creative!
Best wishes to Katie S on her next steps — we’re going to miss you lots! But we know you’re going to greater things…
… And you’re leaving us in good hands! Congrats (again) to Katy H /​2.0 for the big unveiling. You milked the suspense just long enough, but not *too* long that the suspense caused me to do the fake-​out stand up.
Thanks to everyone who put this on, including the fab folks at Louisa’s! Another great event!

Matt woke up in the middle of the night worried that we didn’t pay for dinner at the event last night! Luckily, I assured him that Unilocal events are awesome like that.
The food was GREAT! I am actually getting my hair done next door today and will head over to Louisa’s for a nibble after. The service was fantastic (I mean, never any empty wine glass) and my table was awesome. We played with playdough like crazy and Matt’s stay puft head was our centerpiece.
Bravo to Michelle, Katie (sniff… sniff :() and new Katy. Per usual, it was awesome ladies.
:)

The food was delicious (and never scarce), the wine kept pouring, we met our new CM (Hi Katy H!), Unilocalers were in their fall finest, and even the pumpkins were dressed up! This evening far exceeded my expectations!
Great job, Katie S, Louisa’s staff and everyone who made this a stellar event! This is the kind of evening that deserves several exclamation points!

Good lord this event was a buffet of awesome! (And I wish I could have typed the «awesome» in italics just to provide the right emphasis into just how awesome it was.)
Walked in the door and BAM! Wine glass was thrust my way and filled with a lovely, generous pour of some delicious nectar. Mingled a bit, met new people… saw old friends. The food was mesmerizing — perfectly cooked and left a fantastic impression, further solidifying my need to re-​visit this location in the future.
But enough about that, the best part of the evening would have to be the bittersweet farewell of Katie and the rise of Katy in her place. I’ll see you in San Fran! And anybody who knows where Ukiah, CA is happens to be pretty damn okay in my book…

As fun as an event gets.
People kept bringing out food, and all of us kept devouring it.
I could have kept on going, too, but I had another thing to get to last night.
There was a shit-​ton of wine and the servers and owner were SO nice.
I will totally be returning to Louisa’s. For real.

Loved it! Would like to thank the following 37 people for the name tags:
Eduardo («Who invited you?» hahahaha j/​k, Cuban fries), Danielle (no last initial, perhaps a spy?), Laura L, Ian M, Alyson L, Meredith K, Derek W, Taylor D, David A, Helen W, Gavin N, Norri (two name tags, for some reason), Rylee O, Dan S, Matt K, Jen L, Gabe A, Ron M, Shirley Y, Liz (spy?), Calvin Y, Eugen C, Alli D, John S, Inna, Julie B, Tony G, Carly L, Rachel A, Anne (spy?), Alison R, CHARLOTTEG. (Charlotte G needs to learn spaces are your friend), Sam Z, Roy (spy?), the indescribably rad Matt R, one obviously fake name Super McAwesome, and some person who sounds very familiar named Katy H.
Great event. I kept getting accused of «not being drunk enough» to be the night’s name tag person. Which is true, but that’s the way the ball crumbles sometimes.
Amazing food, great company, cozy location, fantastic event for Katie S to go out on! Katy has some serious shoes to fill.

Mmm… delicious munchies, lots of wine, good peoples wearing name tags that may or may not have been theirs– what’s not to love? Whoever did the Unilocal-​logo pumpkin– that was my personal favorite. :)
Unfortunately, I am now mildly addicted to Louisa’s bread. The owner and staff were friendly and awesome, especially when refilling our wine glasses and helping us stash our motorcycle helmets out of the way of the party.
Katie, thanks for all your amazing work at Unilocal in Seattle!

I’ve heard from a much more wiser and most likely older (just kidding) Unilocal eliter that I can give bad reviews, while giving 5 stars… will I be the first???
HECK NO… this event was awesome! It was better than awesome, it was off da hizzy!!! Do kids still say that?
Anyway, what more can you ask for… free great food, free great wine, and free conversations with great people. I usually have to pay for all these things… especially the conversations.
Although this was my first Elite event, I had a great time. No wonder the reviews for these parties are always so awesome. I’m already wondering if I’ll be invited to the next event… I better get my reviews cracking…:) Thanks everyone for a fun time!

I’m no longer a Unilocal Elite Event Virgin.
After almost two years of Unilocaling I finally made it to a Unilocal event (Julie B. thank you for letting me be your +1).
Wow — I finally got to meet Katie S, too! Better late than never. You threw it down! I had an awesome time. It was also cool to meet the NEW Katy.
So yeah, my first Elite Event. Ummm… it was a bit surreal. I’ve see all these Seattle Unilocalers from afar (I’m always peaking over the Cascades with my nose hanging over and watching all the coolness going on over here). It was a treat to see finally see & hang with the Seattle Unilocal crew in the real (vs. virtual) world! I need to get to more of these Events.
On to Louisa’s
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What a cool little spot. I’ve never really tried anything in East Lake before, but it’s a cool neighborhood. Louisa’s offered a nice and homey space for a cool event. The staff were super nice — the woman weaving around with a wine bottle offering info on her pours was hella cool.
APPETIZER: The crab cakes were totally yummy — I fought the urge to grab about 7 plates.
SALAD: Ummm… not much of a salad person. The bread was decent.
MAIN COURSE: the flank steak was scrumptious & the hidden sweet potato was a choice compliment to the meat.
DESSERT: the brownie bite and ice cream was a ying yang of rich darkness, and light creaminess.
WINE: I had a white & two reds (something from Oregon and Italy) – I’m not a connoisseur but I was down.
Such a cool experience. You Elites rock the house, and I can’t wait to crash another Event sometime!
THANK YOU KATIE S.

OOOH WHAT A NIGHT! (sing it with me)
So — first — a big giant PROPS to Katie S. Ugh … I’m sad to see her go. If only she could stay and be my partner in crime, er Unilocal!:)
What to talk about … ?
–Drinks — awesome
–Food — awsomer
–Service — even more awesomer
–People — awesomest!
Ok — let’s speak REAL English. It was a great event. So well organized, so tasteful, and so much fun. Everyone was in a cheery mood despite the recent transition from great to not-​so-​great Seattle weather.
Great to see everyone I knew, great to meet everyone I hadn’t met in person, and just as great to meet and make new friends.
Louisa’s really prepared a lovely menu and I’m stoked to go back and experience it again.
‘Till next time!

First, very sad to see Katie leaving but happy to meet Katy!
I went in with mediocre expectations. I had only ever been to Louisa’s a few times for breakfast and had mixed experiences. However, tonight was amazing!!! The wine was quite yummy. The hosts were fabulous. They did an amazing job of brining out the food in good intervals and props to the kitchen for keeping up with a group of hungry Unilocalers!
The food itself was amazing. Kudos to the chef for delicious food. I’m not a big crab fan but the crab cake with the bacon mango topping was quite yummy. The fennel/​leek salad was great too! That steak and fried green tomatoes with butternut squash purée was heavenly. I was happy that a dining companion was vegetarian so she let me share her plate with her — she took those tomatoes and I took the steak. I want more! And then dessert. The brownie was perfect consistency with a nice topping. The ice cream was your standard stuff (or so I thought), but that little pastry it was served in made the entire dessert heavenly. And the mint just added a bit of kick to it.
Deeeeelicious and yet another great event!

I’m still tipsy from the delicious wine that was served (and might I add, the perfect compliment to the extraordinarily creative dishes). Can we say yummy? Mmmm.
Rolling out the carpet for Katy H. was awesome, but saying goodbye to Katie S. was sad.
What a perfect event to showcase what Louisa’s has to offer. I’m definitely intrigued, and surely coming back on my own!

For my first Unilocal elite event, I think it was awesome!
The event was fairly intimate with your closest 75 friends or so. :) The folks with the wine, kept our glasses full until we told them to stop. The food was small plates, the first course was a crab cake on some mango stuff, and it was good, the salad had fennel and was pretty damn tasty, the main was rare steak slices on some squash and the dessert was a hunk of dense chocolate brownie with a scoop of ice cream in a pastry cup. Yum! Our plates were whisked away in an efficient manner.
It was great to go and meet a couple people I’ve only exchanged messages with (Calvin, this means YOU), along with some new friends, such as Corrine C. and Joshua/​Angie B. And of course it was great to meet Katie S. before her great departure to SF. Thanks Katie!
And Katy H, as new CM, well, we happened to become friended earlier today so I felt it was even more fortuitous that tonight was meant to be.
Thanks all, looking forward to seeing more people at the next event! :)

Like the chocolate in the Brownie Bite dessert, this was very bittersweet since this elite event marks Katie S’s last event as Seattle’s Community Manager (and WHAT A CM SHE WAS!), but also serves as a great big welcome for Katy H as our new CM.
Overall, this event was superb and classy! Very nice selection of food — mango bacon crab cake, fennel/​leek salad, green tomatoes and steak, and brownie bites and an ice cream tart! And plus, never ending wine! Of course, I must add the company was absolutely fantastic!
BIG BIG thanks to Katie S. once again and Louisa’s!!!
WE WILL MISS YOU KATIE!

Katie S rolls out the red carpet for us one last time (as Seattle CM) and, as expected, she does a fantastic job once again.
The hosts? Great! The waitress made sure my wine glass wasn’t empty until I decided I’d had enough wine. They were very much on top of everything (and the venue was great, too). It made me wonder if they had read previous Elite Event reviews so they’d know what to do!
The food? Delicious! Perfectly sized servings. I liked it all, but my favorite plates were definitely the steak and the salad.
This event was extra special because it felt intimate and we all got to sit down at tables (if we wanted to) when we were working through the different courses. I only expected small samples, so I was very happy to have gotten a full meal!
Oh, and a big warm welcome to the new Seattle CM Katy H!