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| - If you ever wished you had a really cool yard, filled with fun games like ping pong and cornhole, decorated with fashionable, comfy furniture, populated with trendy cenpho families and couples, and attended by a helpful, hip waitstaff, serving delicious food and creative cocktails, then The Yard is the place for you.
Service was friendly and prompt, and they happily accommodated our seating requests for heaters/sun/light/etc.
The brunch menu (Culinary Dropout) was enjoyable, but not fantastic. I loved the Capn Crunch French toast, but the burger was just meh, and the breakfast burrito was kind of lacking.
The bar menu looked awesome, but since I'm with child, I had to be satisfied with just dreaming about their creative concoctions. I figured a bartender that dreamed up a book full of interesting cocktails and shots must be able to whip up a pretty good mocktail, right? Wrong, I guess. My request to the waitress for the bartender's choice of "something interesting without alcohol" was met with a blank stare and an offer of fruit juice. I clarified - "do they make any virgin cocktails or mocktails?" She said she would ask, but came back with a half orange juice-half pineapple juice. Not exactly the most daring of creations. Oh well.
The main attraction here is definitely the outdoor seating area (or yard, if you will). The business was originally a motorcycle sales/repair place, and the motorcycles were all showcased under a huge canopy. That canopy forms the cover for the yard and provided almost 100% shade on a Sunday morning. Under the canopy are a turf area for cornhole, about 4-5 ping pong tables, a foosball table, shufflepuck, and lots of seating. The area is really huge, and even though there were lots of customers in that morning, it was never packed. In addition, there's plenty of space for bike/stroller parking, which was really cute, and seemed to encourage many of the locals to venture out for brunch.
The brunch crowd contained a lot of families and there were plenty of kids running around the cornhole turf. I imagine the scene is a little different at night, but I can't comment on that.
I'm excited for the new seafood restaurant that's opening in one of the other spots surrounding the yard - I read somewhere that it will be an oyster bar, so that would bring a different vibe. Somebody else said a 3rd position will be occupied by a coffee-shop type place, but I can't confirm that.
Overall, another good eatery with awesome drinks and a super-cool vibe to add to your uptown rotation.
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