 Man, tear this shit out, give me some, give me some black picnic instrumentals, man. Black Marvy about to be back open. See, that's what I'm talking about. The luxury picnic. I'm telling you, man, it is laid out, beautiful. When I say picnic, how many people you thinking? No, no, no, that's selfish, selfish. That's a date, ain't it? That's a little date-nick, that ain't a picnic. Well, look here, man, it don't even matter what you think you know. Because I got an expert in here with us today. All the way from St. Louis. Yeah. Been in Atlanta, though. Been in Atlanta for a little minute. Forever. So it's kind of like half and half. Ain't your name Nellie? Yeah, well, my first name is Vanell. My family calls me Nellie. See? So yeah. Well, welcome to the black market. We're gonna give y'all right in to it. Look right into the camera and introduce yourself and tell them, I ain't want to spoil the surprise. I got all the info. Yeah, okay, so my name's Vanell and I'm the owner of the Garden Party of Atlanta. And we do luxury picnics, small events, and chicoterie boards. Come on. And so for those who don't know what a luxury picnic is, it's a laid-out picnic. Kind of a picnic on steroids. Right. So just imagine a low, kind of like this size table, maybe a little bit lower and we do have high standard tables as well. With a tablecloth, with your wine glasses, a full table skate. You got your music, your Bluetooth going. It's just a vibe. So if you haven't had a luxury picnic, you definitely have to check us out. It could be intimate, just date night for two or all the way up to 20 people if you want to do like baby showers, birthdays, anniversaries. I can ask you this. I'm a big fan of baby shower food. Just the food though. Could I book an event just for the baby shower food with no baby involved? I wear a Burberry shirt. You could do whatever you want. We got you. You want meatballs? Hell yeah. We got your meatballs. Meatballs, rotel, wings, some of them little sausages on the stick. All that to let people know that this is a baby shower. But just the food though. I might invite like two or three pregnant women who didn't get to have one. That'd be hard. Ooh, can we wrap off camera about just doing baby showers for people who don't have no baby daddy? That's dope. Give him back. You throw the baby shower. I show up with a Burberry shirt. They rent me for the however many hours she needs to get these pictures. I show up for say four hour block. You get what I'm saying? I'm hired to fill in. I like it. Yeah. And if it's a chance that her and her baby daddy might get back together, we'll do two sets of pictures. One with me, one with that. This could be big. This could be big. So what inspired you to create this? Well, I was working in corporate America in hospitality and I lost my job due to COVID. And then I really wasn't able to find another job because hospitality is all I knew. I started when I was 17 in hospitality and I ain't gonna say my age, but I worked all my life from starting on the phones as a PBX operator all the way up to the corporate level. So it's really all I knew. And then when there weren't any hospitality jobs, I had to kind of figure out what I was gonna do. And I was like, this is the perfect time to invest in myself and invest in a business. So I came up with a garden party because I like to provide experience for people and make them happy and try to take them out the norm, have them experience something different. So I use my hospitality experience, my sales and marketing, my customer service to provide a great experience for us. What are some of the strange things people have called to add to their party list? I don't get nothing strange. I don't think it's that simple. Nobody ever hits you back like, you think you can bring some of them long lighters so we can light some candles or nothing like that? No, I think the most, to me, the strangest thing is when people try to bring their own plates to get us discount, like I'll bring my own plates or I'll bring my own dishes, like that's not really how this works. Right, it's not the dishes that we're charging you for, baby. Yeah, so I think that's it, but we don't really get any strange requests. Who taught you how to make roses out of pepperoni? Well, actually, YouTube, TikTok, and I had to give a shout out to Boozy Grazer, which is my friend that has a Shakutri class. But yes. A class? Yeah, they have classes that teach Shakutri. I'm actually gonna be doing a class this year. I don't have the date yet, so I'll keep you posted. You can do it here. Do it here? Do it here. I'm gonna hold you to it. If you do it here, we'll record that shit and put it on the app. I'm gonna hold you to it. Right in here, we'll move everything out the way. This is enough space, ain't it? Yeah! It's gonna be the whole bunch of them. I can see it. So speaking of, what did you have for us today? Yeah, I brought some stuff to see if you could, you know, try it out. Have you had takutri before? Yes. Okay, so you're already a fan, so I want you to try out my favorite bite. So it's the cracker, it's the turkey pepperoni, the habanero cheese, and the strawberry with honey on it. You gonna try it? I will. Mine's the cheese. You don't do cheese? No, it's just habanero. Oh, it's all right. I got, no, try the goat cheese. This is goat cheese with everything seasoning on it. Try that. So the cracker, the turkey pepperoni, the goat cheese, and the strawberry with honey. Oh, hold on. I'm doing this show ghetto. I ain't even using my little spoon. But ain't nobody else here. J-O-N, what's your little spoon, man? I was, I wanted to offer you some takutri in my bite. Yeah, you gonna try some? Anybody that wanna come up here and join in with us right quick, this is what it's all about. Yeah. What's he, we'll turn this to a party. You bring some, hold on, wait, wait, back up, back up. Wait a minute, I ain't ready yet. You got some more of these little spoons. I do, over on that table over there. Oh, we're talking, this is the whole event, man. There's some more plates over there, too. Drop the, tell them the info where they can find you and all that. You can find me on Instagram at garden underscore party underscore Elana. So yes, and our website is www.gardenparty, I'm sorry, thegardenpartyelana.com. How far in advance do people need to hit you the book? Oh, we prefer five days in advance, but we know how. So I couldn't just be like, I'm real charcuterie today. I'm calling up Garden Party. You can do that. I ain't better. But yeah, we do do last minute, just hit us up and if we're available, we can do last minute. Tell me some good things to put on your board. Like if I was at the crib and I was just, you know, just looking around and I wanted to throw something together real quick, I might have a few little items. Yeah, you always want to do something, a little range or something. You always have to have your fruit. So definitely your fruit, your meat. This is turkey bacon and this is herb coated salami. You also have to have your cheeses, of course. You want to have a soft cheese and then a hard cheese. You can't forget your chocolate. Your chocolate and your nuts. Chocolate and your nuts. And oh, whoa, you have to have your honey. So everybody, you have to drip the honey. The honey. The honey. Yes. You gotta have the honey. You're not doing the right if you're not dripping the honey. Mm-hmm, mm-hmm, mm-hmm, mm-hmm. Talk your shit. No, but I do want everybody to come up here and get, you know, I want the whole experience. I want you to leave with just the board. You don't even have to put it back up. So we're going to invite everybody. Bring them little spoons. Did they bring the little, the little spoon? Oh, he has one there. Look, he y'all running, stop running in him. No. Give those to her. She's going to handle this for us. She's going to make everybody's- No, but y'all have to, everyone has to make their own. It's so much you could change how you want it. I don't want to- Put the hand sanitizer right here first and then we'll let- So we're going to keep this running because I want you to see how the mood of the room changes once we start getting down on this board. All types of cheese and fruit. Come on, man. Thad, you first? Yeah, I'm going to go first. All right, Bet. Here you go. Come on, y'all. Don't be shy. Everybody wants some. Yeah. Great, there's some almonds on here. You can eat the almonds. Yes, yes, yes. Yes, yes, yes. Yes, yes, yes. Some flatbread with feta and garlic, little cheese sauce. Make the one you wanted me to try. Okay. Come on, J-O-A. I do. Now, y'all going to try the honey or y'all going to ask honey? No, we like honey. Okay. I know what honey is. This is the goat cheese right there. Okay. Mm-hmm. How do you eat this all? You just pull it. I told you, man, we doing big things over here on the black market, man. The black market is incomplete without stopping through the food court. Mm-hmm. So that's a cracker, goat cheese, pepperoni, strawberry. Man, hold on, let me drip this honey. Come on. Because you know we need to drip the honey. Honey dripper. You got to drip the honey. Let me go out a little bit. How did you put this together, though? When did you find out that this was your one? Well, you know, it goes hand in hand with picnics. You got to have something. Like, your cuterie is perfect for outdoor picnics. So it goes hand in hand. This is actually our top add-on. We actually have private chefs. Shout out to my chef, Christina. And we have photographer, chef, I mean, Evan from Clever Photography. But we have several add-ons that you can add on. So, like, if you don't, you're not feeling this cuterie, we can have a chef come and cook right in front of you for your picnics. There you go. You got a chef, too? Yes. Our chef is wonderful. I'm gonna bring her up here. You should. Yeah, I have her cook for y'all. You know, this is my third cuterie board I didn't brought up here. Did you see the one I made with the 8-5? Mm-hmm. I ate off of it. You did? Yeah. Okay. I appreciate it. I didn't know that you made it. Yeah. That's why I said, y'all can't cheat on me. Y'all can't have no other person up here making out your cuterie now. You, like, go together now. Okay. Since this your favorite one. Mm-hmm. Oh, you want to do it? I ain't want to pour up too much on it. Now, I've never had goat cheese. Oh, you're gonna love it. You sure? Yeah. Let me get your, right there. Take some on the side. Oh, with some goat cheese? Yeah, you got to eat it on the side then eat it together. Here, let me get your little thing. Just to see. Eat it alone in there. Okay. All right. He want to be on, he want to be on the show so bad. I know. That's your son that know all the gangsta music. No. It's not like parenting. It's not like parenting. It's the cap county schools. Grab a, grab a, uh, boy, we'll turn this mother out. All right. I'm trying your favorite one. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. I like it. That's, uh, salami. Mm-hmm. Yeah. What's goat cheese? This is a goat cheese right there. You got to put some honey on it. Do you like it with me? You got some. Yes. The rose with turkey bacon. The drizzle. The drizzle. I see why they, why this is popular. Yep. I'm going to give you my favorite fruit to set it off. Boom. Boy, you can give me no blackberry. That's, that's racist. No, my bad. I would give you my favorite bite. Mm-hmm. You like the goat cheese? Yes. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. And the blackberry hit it with just enough sweetness to, to the palatine. Mm-hmm. I see why this is popular amongst the community. Tell them again how they can get in touch with you. Oh, man. Instagram garden underscore party underscore Atlanta or www.thegardenpartyalana.com. Well, there you have it folks. We're going to eat some more exotic cheeses, pepperonis and crackers and breads and fruits and things of that nature. The Atlanta Garden Club. Club. You didn't turn into a club. Look at this. This is it right here. Oh, okay. That's the club. It's the new late night picnic. The garden trap. Okay. Thank you. The garden trap. And I'm going to come back and teach my charcuterie class in the trap. Y'all need a DJ? Yeah. What do we do? We really set up already. I'm perfect. And I hope you come monthly and bring us some nice and keep us updated. Next time you come up with something and you need some, some people to just try it out. Send it up here. I feel like, I feel like, I feel like I went to a whole another level. I ain't never really ate cheese on a show like this. I feel like my value just went up. Stay tuned to the black market because