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| - Oh yeah, this place. I've actually been here before, not this one in particular but the one in Miami Beach on a blistering hot day. By myself even and only because I mistook it for Yardbird where all the cool people like Anthony Bourdain and Questlove eat fried chicken. Nope, Yard House is not where the cool people eat either in Miami Beach or Glendale. How would I know? Because I was eating there, and I was with colleagues for a work dinner, mostly male colleagues who probably thought a sports bar would make a good, non-threatening bonding environment. There were other tables like ours. Bonding. Talking shop. Asking me about sports teams I don't know and then having to fake a response of interest.
There are apparently 66 Yard Houses across the country. It feels like that kind of place, packaged with way too many options on the menu for an indecisive crew. Of course, that meant huge platters of finger-food appetizers to tie us over like the $12.25 Chicken Nachos, excessively over-accessorized with beans, cheese, red & green sauce, tomato, cilantro, onions, guacamole and sour cream, as well as the $11.25 mound of Fried Calamari with both spicy tomato sauce and roasted jalapeño tartar for dipping and the $12.65 Poke Stack with marinated raw ahi, crispy wontons, avocado, and wasabi soy sauce (photo http://bit.ly/29YG26H) There was certainly plenty to go around, although none of it was all that memorable to the palate. Keeping it real.
For my entree, I chose the $16.65 Nashville Hot Chicken which offered one good-size fried chicken breast topped with fried sage and accompanied by a short stack of sweet potato pancakes, and pickles with ranch dressing and honey hot sauce on the side (photo http://bit.ly/2aatqea) I only knew to order it from my trip to Nashville with Jamie W. last year when we had Hattie's. That was awesome. By contrast, this was just pretty good with the pancakes a bit of carb overkill. I think I fared better than most of my tablemates who were feeling rather bloated from all the food and beer. I have to say the waitstaff was extremely attentive throughout our meal, something I appreciated since I needed to go back to the hotel and do some work. Guess I didn't embarrass myself too badly. I still have my job.
FOOD - 3 stars...mostly passable bar-level food and way too many choices on the menu
AMBIANCE - 2.5 stars...a sea of TV screens with big party booths aimed at them
SERVICE - 3.5 stars...attentive considering it is a sports bar after all
TOTAL - 3 stars...if you've been to one Yard House...
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