yard house

i like yard house i just wish i had better service. the food here is very good, i would categorize it as gourmetbarfood. they have a wonderful beer selection, a favorite of mine is the honey blond, and the restaurant is very aesthetically pleasing. the food is small portioned but very good. i enjoy the fish tacos and any of their huge burgers. a bit pricy but i would defiantly say it is worth it. every now and then the wait staff is less than desirable. i asked once if the truffle fires used real truffle oil or imitation (which was the case) and the waitress responded with "great i have bobby freaking flay at my table" it would have been funny but she was rather rude the rest of the night, to the point that i asked for another waitress. that aside, i would highly recommend, just don't order the truffle fries unless you want perfumed oil on them.

popular location. front of house are friendly be prepared for a wait if you haven't booked but spending time at thebarwith a massive tap list jelps kill time. food is good had the bbq bacon burger with the stack of onion rings with mac and cheese. filling and tasty.

we usually sit at thebarand don't have to wait for a table. it is very friendly and comfortable and the full menu is available. the cobb salad is huge and really good. the wine choice is really good as are the cocktails. and of course the beer selection is awesome. it is busy and noisy but you can still have a conversation easily enough. staff are great too at the bar.

fantastic we had apps and sat at the bar. killer beer selection and awesomebartending. we had the tacos, ahi sashimi, and garlic mushroom pasta. all apps and all top notch!!!

132 beers on tap. enough said. wide variety of food options and great service frombarstaff and servers.bartenders and servers all had great knowledge of the menu and offered great advice. the beer tasting offered before purchasing was also a nice surprise. would definitely recommend.

yard house is a restaurant located in downtown seattle at 4th and pike in the century square building.  they've been open three years now and we finally checked it out yesterday.  it's a brew house withbarfood and a fullbarthat dominates the room.  the menu is big with any type of food you're craving or want to pair with your cocktail.  they have a happy hour not just in thebarbut throughout the restaurant.  we took our boys and we found the place to be pretty kid friendly.  it was the perfect balance between dark and loud with great rock music playing, to the big open space and largebarin the middle of the room.  yet they had a kids menu and high chairs.  perfect.  the scene reminded me of vegas or times square and that kind of energy is just what seattle needs.  luckily when we sat down there was still ten minutes of happy hour.  so we quickly looked at the menu and ordered.  i started with a sidecar, a cocktail with rum, which i loved.  then we got the spicy thai chicken pizza, the spicy tuna roll, the pepperoni and mushroom pizza, the fried chicken strips, and the hot wings.  sound like a lot, but everything was only six to eight bucks.  plus, we had enough food left over for lunch the next day for all four of us.  i'm happy i tried yard house and i'll probably return another time for happy hour.

i've been a few different locations and to this specific one a couple times. i've always gone on busy nights so it's generally a bit if a wait but the servers have always been very friendly. of all the american restaurants/sportsbarchains out there, i think yard house is pretty high on the best list.

not family-friendly, not for the dinner crowd, not for me.. i would give half a star, or even zero stars, if i were able. my family came here for dinner on a saturday night (mar 21, 2015). admittedly, it was later than one would normally eat dinner, not quite 10 pm, but everyone was still surprised at the raucous, already-on-the-way-to-drunk status of many of the patrons there. the mood of the crowd was so off-putting and non-family friendly that my sister-in-law quickly decided to leave with her 14- and 18- year old kids. the rest of the family stayed, ordered drinks and hoped to have dinner. not five minutes later, an extremely drunk asian girl vomited in thebararea. when i say she vomited, it was like she opened a firehose, spraying thebarwith vomit, which overflowed thebarinto the ice behind the bar, splashed into my husband's and brother-in-law's drinks, and soaked my husband's back, ruining a shirt he had just purchased earlier on our vacation. the woman, who was clearly over-served in this establishment, gave no indication that she was remotely aware of what had transpired; moreover, no one in her party acknowledged or apologized for this most egregious breach of social etiquette. they simply carried out the barely conscious woman with nary a glance. what's worse, no one from the restaurant staff or management came to the aid of my husband, who had been doused in this revolting, putrid soup with chunks of regurgitated food still clinging to his shirt. the only thing anyone from the restaurant did was one security guard held a flashlight to illuminate a path so as to avoid stepping in the vomit on the way out the door. this seems to be a place that is more concerned with serving-- and over serving-- alcohol to its clientele than making things right for a customer that was an innocent victim to someone else's negligence and irresponsible behavior. i have never known of a situation where a manager's intervention was more necessary, and so glaringly absent. absolutely inexcusable that no one from the restaurant came forward to assist, apologize, or make any effort to make things right for my husband and brother-in-law. i strongly advise against patronizing this establishment.

really great beer selection, good food selection. such a tourist trap, it's hard to think of this as a place to waist time getting a table at. the staff serve with excellence, and that goes a long way bypassing the horrid wait during peak hours. suggest going during the happy hour for some cheap eats, or going to thebarto bypass the wait. all-in-all; a great experience for a tourist enriched area.

huge menu and lots of beer. i'm pretty surprise to see that so many people don't like this place! first of all, that draft list! amazing! so many great choices and at mostly good prices. a nice, bigbarwith friendly bartenders, too!

the menu is also huge! everything you could be in the mood for. burgers, tacos, pizza! also, if you're a vegetarian, you'll love this place - lots of veggie options plus fake meat! there's a whole section of fake meat dishes! i was blown away!

i've been here three times now and have always enjoyed the food. it's not mind blowing, not the best food i have ever eaten but it's well priced and doesn't disappoint. the beer is the main lure of this place to me but the food is definitely a few steps up frombarfood so if you want to have some good beers, it's a great choice. service has also always been great - friendly, attentive servers, even when i came here with huge groups the first two times!

went there recently. hard to find and did not like the welcome from the security or valet. overall this place has potential but needs to decide if its a sportsbaror fine dining. very good wait staff and knowledgable about many beers available. i would go again but the confusing entrance will probably deter others

great!. i came to hawaii and wanted poke and seared ahi. on top of that a good ipa. all delivered with decent appy portions and great beer.

i sat at thebarand with the great service i'll be back.

second visit to yard house was not near as good as the first. so, our second visit to yard house was not so great. we ate here on a friday night during happy hour.
we were seated right away but everything after that it was dead slow, especially for the food service. it took 40 minutes to get our food at happy hour! the kitchen should be cranked up and ready to go at happy hour and the dining room was only about 3/4ths full.
our server, jose, did a fine job up until we were ready to leave but it took a few minutes to get our check and then to get the bill back so we could leave. it was nice of him to apologize for the kitchens' slowness in getting the food out.

my wife had the moo shu egg rolls and she really liked them. they only give you four pieces and fill the bowl with worthless, inedible, deep fried carrot strings.
the dipping sauce was apple, ginger, plum and was unique as well as good tasting.
i had the cuban roast pork dip. it wasn't a bad sandwich. all together the sandwich was to salty. the dijon mustard, dill pickles and the ajus dipping sauce didn't go well together on the sandwich, to many harsh salty flavors on one sandwich. the sandwich needs a cheese on it other than pepperjack.
the worst thing about the sandwich was that it arrived luke wam.
it was warm on the top from sitting under the heat lamps and cool on the bottom of the sandwich. it could be a magnificent sandwich with just a couple less ingredients. the fries were a bit limp and again, not hot when served to me.
the second visit wasn't a total disaster but the slow service and long wait for our food knocked yard house down a few pegs for me after a really nice first visit.
(pictures are posted of this meal)


-----20 jun, 2013-----

yard house goes the extra mile.. my wife and i stopped in here after visiting the seattle art museum a few weeks ago on a sunday.
excellent service and good food. it's a comfortable, laid back, atmosphere.
(i've tried to go to happy hour at yard house after 5 p.m. during the week a couple of times but the place is undestandably packed.) it's located on 4th avenue, right across the street from westlake park.

we had 3 items from the appetizers/snacks menu:

1) lobster, crab and artichoke dip. happily, there was a nice amount of seafood in this menu item. sadly, this item was a bit salty for our taste. it comes with house made tortilla chips and pita bread. neither of us really cared for the tortilla chips and the pita bread was perfect.
2) fried calamari w/ spicy tomato and tartar sauce. good calimari with an only slightly spicy sauce.
3) pear and gorgonzola flatbread. carmelized onions, leeks and balsamic syrup. really, really good menu item!

our server josh was patient with us as it took us a while to make our decisions. the food came to us pretty quickly, but not all at once. i mention this because we didn't complain about the food not coming all at once but when the manager brought the missing appetizer he told us that it would be taken off our bill. that was a nice, unexpected touch.

there are many beer and wine choices. you can order your beer in serveral different glass types, yard long, pint, imperial pint, schooner.
all the beers are arranged on the menu by their "qualities". they have well over 50 beers to choose from. look up when you are there and you can see the beer delivery system. thebaris huge.

the artwork on the wall is tasteful. there are both booths and tables to sit at.

of special note: in the men's room there are handy little places to set your drink whilst you "go". i can only guess as to if there is the same in the ladies room.

all in all i'm impressed with my first visit to this chain of restaurants. at first glance i though that yard house was just a new local owned place.

(pictures are posted of this visit.)

good vibe and decent food. yard house has abarvibe but is very kid friendly. lots of music, colouring in menus for the kids and a massive menu for the adults. the food was tasty and decent quality too.

great food overall. the classic sliders were a little dry. huge beer selection. loud sportsbaratmosphere.