Parlor & Yard — Restaurant in Austin

I tried to go to this place because it was listed as part of the Texas Venture Crawl evening events (10/6) and so I am walking to the front entrance when the guy at the door tells me to throw away my water bottle because it's not allowed inside and that I can buy water inside. Why the hell would I do that when I already have a full water bottle in my hand? Your place isnt that important to go to or that you can treat people like that. I just went back to the main event space instead of dealing with a rude guy from the front door and because of that this place gets a 1 star rating. If you plan to host any parties for your organization use another place, there are plenty of other places where people wont be treated like that or just do private catering. Most of the bouncers just dont think when they do that kind of stuff. I already told the organization not to use this...

Rating: 3/5

This place always caught my eye whenever we walked by, so I was excited when one of the SXSW events we attended ended up being here.

Upon check-in, we received a free drink ticket and headed straight to the bar, which wasn't busy. We ordered an AMF and a Long Island, but both were light and thrown together—similar to what you'd get at a club.

Out back, the line for food curved near the entryway, making it hard to tell where it ended. A staff member had to be stationed there just to manage the crowd.

The sound quality was also terrible—we couldn't hear anything from the back. To make matters worse, they played music while the speakers were talking, making it even harder to follow.

Overall, Parlor & Yard was not a great venue for this event, and I wouldn’t come back for the...

I’ve always like coming here, however today they had 10 out of 11 TVs on the Bills (they are a Bills bar) but it’s a pre-season game there was no one was watching. The one tv was on the Olympics and had 11 people watching it, so I asked the bartender to switch one other tv to the Olympics since it was a women’s gold medal race. He refused and said not till the “male” basketball game came on. We finished our drinks and left — I’m still perplexed why you couldn’t turn one additional tv to the Olympics especially since it was pre-season and the Olympics are only once every four years. It was bad service but we ordered two more rounds next door and watched the...