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I've loved The Yard since they first opened on 7th street. Great atmosphere, great food, great drinks... good people, good service, and one of the places I always take out of town guests.
I've been to both locations dozens of times. I've never had a complaint. I would say we are more regularly there for lunch/day drinking than at night, but I've definitely had dinner there as well. On Wednesday night, a group of 9 friends & I went to the Yard for a girls night. We hadn't seen each other in awhile and we were looking forward to seeing each other and catching up. Unfortunately, within 30 minutes of arriving and being sat at our table, the live band started. Now, I understand, this is a restaurant that offers live music. You can't go to a place knowing this and then expect them not to play. However, what is unnecessary, is for them to blast the music throughout the entire venue through the speakers. The Yard is both a restaurant and a bar. People go there for a multitude of reasons. Because of this, it's important to recognize that on a Wednesday night at 7 pm, you have patrons in your restaurant eating a meal.... they are probably going to want to be able to hear each other when they talk. We were sitting in a different room, on the complete opposite side of the restaurant. I could barely hear the person sitting next to me when they talked, and everyone was yelling to try to speak. I asked our server to turn it down. He reported that his manager did, but we still weren't able to hear each other.
If The Yard was strictly a bar, I would understand. But it isn't, and especially not at 7 pm on a Wednesday. One of my friends made the comment that The Yard would be a perfect place to take a date when you know you'll have nothing to talk about.... can just blame the lack of conversation on the loud music.
I still love The Yard, and I'll still return. But I'll probably be hesitant to suggest it for girls night out, and will probably stick to day drinking there instead of dinner.
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