Yardbirds — Restaurant in Birmingham

Having now attended Yardbirds on three occasions, I have sampled most of the burger options, with my favourite being the gravy chick. The burgers are filling, meaty and full of flavour, they are well prepared and presented and you can tell fresh quality ingredients have been used each time.

They also offer a range of sides, from loaded fries to frickles and wings. The drink selection has a wide range to offer from craft beers to cocktails. They also do a white Russian here which I don’t often see in many other restaurants and its one of the best!

Also on offer is a range of desserts that differ slightly to the norm with their key lime pie being another favourite.

The staff are very friendly and helpful and a good atmosphere is present within, never feeling rushed or left waiting for too long. I can’t say I would turn down any opportunity to go back, this was also agreed by the group I was with who all loved the burgers and our time at yard birds.

Occasionally I hear some say, “oh yeah, that place is pretty expensive” well, yes it is more costly than going to a Wetherspoons and ordering similar however, is a Wetherspoons burger that memorable?

Yardbirds now also offer monthly deals which can be viewed on their social media and this is a great move, If you find the costs off putting why not try going on a Wednesday or Thursday for their buy one get one free burgers? How can you argue with that which is a great deal for quality food! Give it a try and you might just have found your new place for a...

Damn good chicken, downright odd service. First time at Yardbirds tonight. Couldn’t have had a more split experience. Food was amazing, could say worth the wait? However what’s not clear to me is whether the wait was down to the service or the kitchen. We waited half an hour to be served food on a one and quarter hour booking that they allocated. I did fancy dessert but according to their booking rule, there wasn’t enough time. And to be honest couldn’t be bothered to go through the rigmarole of asking for something and waiting for an eternity to receive it as we had done throughout the meal.

My partner ordered another drink when the food was served. But he never received it despite the same waiter fulfilling an additional drinks order to the table behind us.

Also felt like I was working a second job - after asking for and then receiving the bill promptly, we ended up going to the counter to pay it in the end because no one bothered to come over with the card machine, even though the table who’d arrived after us ended up paying and leaving before us.

I would happily eat Yardbirds food again - but maybe it would be better to have it via a delivery service rather than eating there, as we saw numerous online orders going out the door while we agonisingly waited...

My partner and I ate here yesterday, and I was really looking forward to indulging in a tasty fried chicken burger along with fries and anything else my greedy eyes desired. I sampled 4 items (technically 5–more on that below):

|Dirty Clucker|—this was ok but it needed a bit more salt to bring out the flavour (a common theme) |Hash Burger|—same as above |Wings w/ mango habanero sauce| —the sauce isn’t cooked but blended and put on the wings. You can tell because they are different temperatures. Did not like the raw onion put in the sauce. Very unlike most mango habanera sauces I’ve tried in that it was unpleasant |Wings w/ buffalo blue cheese|— this is the only item where the balance of flavour was correct. Maybe the vinegar in the sauce helped. |Mac and cheese|—lacked salt to bring out the flavour and the ‘crust’ on top seemed to be from a light blowtorch on cooked pasta.

Service- absolutely no complaints here. Great and very pleasant service. In fact, after biting into the mango habanero wings, we discovered they were undercooked. We alerted the server and she apologized on behalf of the chef and got us a new order (I changed to buffalo sauce at this point to give a fair chance to the wings).

Overall, some tweaks in flavour could make this such a...