Edmonton’s First Elite Event at Flirt

I have been dreading writing this, so bitter/​sweet.
Lets start with the bitter, I have a few bruises and bumps I can’t place and was ill for the next 4 days.
The sweet was well a night of fun and excess. I am not a cupcake person, but this event was great. The owner of flirt was very hospitable and even shared his last bottle of wine with me well after the party had ended.
Food was provided by Flirt of course and Packrat Louie’s brought some shrimp and fantastic crab cakes. Sister Gray (which was very black) provided entertainment and all the ‘cool’ kids hung out in the kitchen.
With the exception of being cornered by cat people showing me pictures of these evil creatures, it was a very fun event.
Thank you Brittany, Flirt, other sponsors and of course my fellow Unilocaler’s.

So Much Awesomeness!!!
I had the pleasure of coming to this event and it was seriously freaking awesome! I don’t even know what I liked the best. the free mouthwatering cupcakes? The free cupcake wine? (If your wondering if you just read cupcake wine, you are correct!) The free live show by the gorgeous girls of Sister Gray? (Check them out!) Or the awesome people I got to meet! Thank you Brittney, our most wonderful Community Manager! I even got some free swag which I shall treasure always.
The owners of Flirt were amazing. Great people to meet and get to know! Thank you for the awesome event guys! I will definitely be singing my praises about Flirt to anyone that will listen! Check this place out and don’t forget to try the Red Velvet cupcakes mmmm!

Flirt Cupcakes was an awesome host! This was my first Unilocal event. Similar to Twitter, it allows you to actually meet your friendly neighbourhood Unilocalers and get intimate with local businesses!
It was so fab to see Brittany, our Yeg Unilocaler, and to meet the Ms. Crystal H. from Vancouver! The two very best hostesses for sure!
The night was filled with Unilocaler friends, yummy cupcakes, wine, oh hello, door prizes, ya I won a GC for CUPCAKES, and LIVE LIVE MUSIC from Sister Gray! That was totally unexpected and so very welcomed!
We steamed the place up pretty good. The sounds of sexy music and x-​rated cupcakes. Pack Rat Louie’s came by as well and dropped of some jumbo shrimp and crab cakes. I had to ask 11 foot Gord to reach over and spear one for me ;)
Great night. Great friends. Great hosts. Great biz. Great music. Just great greatness all around!

That was fun! Can’t wait for the next one already.
Rick from Flirt has a lot of great stories about places they’ve been invited to bring their sweet treats to, and has pix to show off the rockstars that love Flirt.
The mini cupcakes were my fave, I think I need to try more red velvet to make-​up my mind up about those lovely little tastes. What is red cocoa anyway?
The buttercream icing was perfectly balanced with rich cream and just enough sweet. No achingly overachieving sugar highs.
The crab cakes were nearly gone by the time I made my way to Packrat’s samples, they clearly were a big hit with the Unilocalers and I agree. Mmmm. Will have to find a way to have more of those little crispy and crabby bites. The prawns didn’t hit the same great note, but might have been overshadowed by the other tastes I tried first.
The cupcake wine was surprisingly good. Red Velvet gives no hints of what varietals make up the vintage, but was a lovely blend of something I’ll be looking try again.
Loved meeting the Unilocal peeps in person, an interesting and lively bunch. Like I said, already looking forward to next time. Great job Brittany, especially adding the music from Sister Gray!

First Elite event in Edmonton and a good time was had by all!
It was nice to be able to meet Crystal as she was greeting everyone at the door, and then chat with Brittany before checking out what was going on in the space. I met Rick from Flirt right away, and saw him buzzing around throughout the night. He filled my wine glass nice and full, had so much energy and was a really nice guy! The cupcake wine was a cool touch — red and white — and if you didn’t want wine, they had some Red Stripe as well. The cupcake making station in the back area was cool — chocolate or vanilla with three different kinds of icing and a bunch of different sprinkles. Yummy! The appetizers provided by Packrat Louie were amazing as well. A raffle, a band and lots of mingling all around. It was really nice to be able to put real faces to internet faces and get to meet some of the people I chat with and follow on Unilocal.I didn’t expect so many people to be there!
Brava to Brittany and everyone else who had a hand in planning this event. Can’t wait for the next one!

Boohoo! I wish I could have gone to this. Sounds like it was a good time. No fun being sicky poo. Next time!

Every guest was greeted by Crystal, «Yelp Ambassador» from Vancouver and Brittany, Edmonton’s very own Community Manager. After mingling with these two you were shuffled to the back to get yourself a drink, Red Stripe Beer as well as Cupcake wine, red or white! I didn’t get to have a glass until the end of the night (red) but I really enjoyed it. I’m not much of a wine drinker but I am pretty specific as to what I like. It was really smooth, I’d even say silky to drink and it was sweet just how I like it. Not cupcake sweet but it was definitely up my alley. After getting our drinks we moved even more into the back, where the magic happens ;). With a selection of vanilla and chocolate cakes (may have been more selection but that’s all I saw) you were also given the selection of butter cream icings to choose from, vanilla, chocolate, and strawberry. AND THEN. you could even sprinkle them ! Now my last experience at Flirt was horrendous, I was at the newly opened Londonderry mall location and the icing on my cupcakes was very plasticy tasting. Last night was a whole new experience, it was sweet delicious and *gasp* butter cream! And everyone knows how much I despise butter cream. but it was really good ! Not too sweet, didn’t hurt my teeth at all!
Food from Packrat Louie’s was great, the crab cakes were awesome and addicting so I won’t say how many I ate ;) With a great performance from Sister Gray the night was soon over. Can’t wait for the next elite event this one was awesome !
** I agree with Jacqueline… I missed out on that high five !

Last night was awesome. I left full of delicious sugary treats. And wine! It was awesome to get to meet a bunch more Unilocalers, and the hosts were excellent. Thanks Brittany for a great event!
Although I did not get this free high five…

Had an awesome time at the very well organized Unilocal Elite event at Flirt Cupcakes today. Kudos to Brittany for this awesome event!
Elite guests entered through the main door and after some chit chat were drawn to the «dress your own cupcake» counter in the kitchen. While most of us spent time mastering our great cupcake skills and having deep and meaningful conversations about soccer, the stage was being prepared for the beautifully two-​toned Sister Gray, a local Edmontonian band, to belt out a few of their awesome numbers in this acoustic setting. I really enjoyed the music and it seemed to fit in very well with the theme of the evening.
With yummy cupcakes, came awesome niblets from Packrat Louie’s, down the road. Their crab cakes were the tastiest I’ve ever had! They also served a pretty formidable platter of spicy, coconutty Moroccan jumbo shrimp. I ended up drinking a lot of cupcake wine, both the red and white varieties. Cupcake wine doesn’t have anything to do with cupcakes, apart from the name. They’re from a vineyard in the Soledad-​Carmel wine region of California. Red stripe beer was provided by the Caribbean restaurant next door, Irie foods.
All in all, the atmosphere was great and everything was planned perfectly. I’m never lucky with these door prizes and although Crystal had a lot of prizes to give away, I didn’t get any :-(. haha! I guess many of us ended up hanging around in the kitchen because there was a lot of rush in the front part of the store! Hooray for Unilocal