Recently, I had the opportunity to photograph another Yelp Elite event. Yelp is a huge part of my life. Whenever I want to go out to eat and want to try a new restaurant, I will always consult first with reviews on Yelp.com to figure out where to eat. Or to find a dentist. Or a tailor. I trust my fellow Yelpers. And I even have my own Yelp page, where prospective clients can read reviews of past clients.

This Yelp event was off the hook! The Vegas Community Manager, Misti Y, and her crew did an awesome job organizing the event. One look at these pictures, and you wish you were a part of the Yelp Elite crew.

This event was held at Red Rock Casino, an upscale hotel and casino. We were lucky to sample food from not just 1 or 2 Red Rock restaurants, but 3! Here’s some of the amazing food from T-Bones, Cabo, and Hachi. They came in the cutest bamboo dishes and the food just kept coming out. They also took care of us with a range of speciality drinks. I’m getting hungry just looking at these pictures again!

Then we moved to Red Rock Lanes, the bowling alley inside the casino, where dessert was waiting for us. There were dozens of assorted cupcakes and cheesecake pops! I was blown away at how many desserts were displayed. At first I panicked because I thought all the cheesecake pops were taken before I could get a picture, but then I found out later that there was an entire separate display of just cheesecake pops. I was only looking at the cupcake display. Wow.

Free swag included Yelp bags, a Yelp watch, Gavin Degraw tickets at Red Rock, and some other Red Rock discounts. Yelpers were happy to show off their swag!

..and did I mention that we got to go bowling?! The bowling alley is huge and has 30 lanes. They turned off the lights for cosmic bowling and it was really fun! I even bowled a game in between taking pictures.

See all the photos at Yelp’s Flickr site or read about the event on the Yelp blog.