Binks Yard — Restaurant in Nottingham

Me and a friend bought tickets for the Pride event on 27th July. After a great day at Nottingham Pride, we headed to Binks Yard to carry on the Pride party. As soon as we arrived, we were a little taken aback at how small the venue was, having been to many other Pride events over the years but we thought we would still head in as we had bought tickets.

As we had our tickets scanned, we noticed that our backpacks were not searched which made us feel anxious, especially considering the level of hate crimes against the LGBTQ+ community. This was an amber flag and we continued into the event.

It took us about 5 minutes to walk around the entire space and there was one stall, selling the same tacky items that street vendors had been peddling all day around Nottingham. There were a couple of places selling food, which we didn't try so can't comment on that. We decided to get a drink and try to settle in.

I myself do not drink alcohol and my friend was not drinking either that day. The bar we headed to only had one non alcholic option, a peroni 0%. I asked if they were doing any mocktails and they said I could get those types of drinks inside. We headed inside and when we finally got round to ordering, we were told that they were not doing cocktails or mocktails that day, it was the same offerings as the outside bar so again, just the 0% peroni. My friend bought a coke zero but I decided not to bother.

We headed back outside to watch the DJ who was on at the time and I cant fault them and the stage set up was very good. It was the vibe of the place and the people there that made us quickly realise that this was just a place for people to come and get rowdy and very drunk. There were staff walking around with trays of shots and it was obvious that people were here to just drink. The point that we decided to leave is when someone in the VIP area took their top off and had their breasts out and the security and staff did nothing about it.

There was also not many places to sit, unless you had paid for a VIP ticket so after a long day at Pride, we had to stand.

We spent about 15 minutes in there and felt so uncomfortable that we had to leave.

We contacted them and gave our feedback and asked for a refund and we were so shocked at the rude and unprofessional reply from someone called Nick Howdle, which I've added a photo of. It's almost unsurprising after the vibe of the event to receive such a terrible response to our feedback.

All in all, a total waste of money and I would not visit again, especially based on the...

We booked this place for our annual Xmas meal as it was last minute there was only the option of "Xmas tapas"which was £25pp when we arrived there and hadn't had much to eat all day, so after the first meals arrived we eagerly wolfed them down, but after the first 4 dishes there were no other dishes coming out and we thought that was all the dishes done, a few more dishes turned up but shared between 9 of us, so long story short there wasn't enough food IMHO and the only Xmas element was pigs in blankets and so called festive pizza which consisted largely of a pizza with a bit of cranberry and small pieces turkey. Cocktails were an exorbitant £12 each and were basic to say the least, the bill came to nearly £1000 for 17 of us when you consider that most of us were couples that equated to £170 for a meal and a few drinks, I know it's Xmas but why should we have to pay a premium for the privlage of endulging in these festivities. You could enjoy Michelin star dinning for this kind of money,it's clear this place is dinning out on it's location, the service was poor with waiting between dishes being overly long and random dishes sent out in an odd order ie roast potatoes with chips but nothing to go with them. All in all this was a disappointing experience and I for one won't be rushing back there in a hurry,plus they charged us £100 for service charge which didn't take in to account the deposit cost we had already paid so charged us 10% for the entire bill,which was shocking considering...

We had an absolute blast here for my daughters leaving do. She’s emigrating to Australia. We booked a table for 20+ a few months ago hoping that there would be an event on the day, well the event was 90s revival!! Absolutely fabulous!! The food was out of this world. The bang bang cauliflower ( can’t believe I’m saying this about the humble , farty cauli) was an inspiration!! I’m gonna be trumping forever now cos I’m seriously gonna make it. The service was amazing The food again was gorgeous, hot and very abundant. The only drawback was the lack of communication We paid £10 deposit pp and expected to pay £10 pp on the day. But there was a small service charge of £3.75 pp that was not discussed and this caused my daughter to panic as we were not aware of this. It’s not a lot in the grand scheme of things and we were happy to pay. It would’ve been less stressful to have known about it beforehand. Not a criticism at all, just a heads up to yourselves for future parties. I did feel for the lady who was taking individual payments. She had to take the required amount from a bunch of inebriated tw*ts 🤣🤣 All in all a great night and the more able of the party were allowed into the mosh of 90s celebrations while us more geriatrictricles ( not a real word. But you get the gist ) got a train homeward bound. Goodnight Binks. In the words of Arnie “ we...