Yard House — Restaurant in Brea

Update 3. Took off some stars this time. Might have to shift to another location. The food seems rushed and thus not made properly. The poke nachos had very little sauce, jalapeños bunched in a few areas, and a lot of chips that were topping-less due to the random distribution of items. The margarita pizza mozzarella seemed unmelted, yet the pizza was cooked. Beer came out halfway through the food time due to first choice being out, but second choice taking long to come out. Strangely also not 100% convinced it was actually the right beer. A hazy that while definitely was an ipa, was perfectly clear. Server was apologic, and I likely the issues were by others anyway.

Update 2. Strangely on our latest visit, there was a wait at the start of happy hour. Seemed like it was due to a lack of servers. Once we were seated, the service was good as always. The funny thing this time was the poke nachos had an absolute boatload of jalapenos for the first time ever. I like the heat, but take them off, and was floored by the size of the pile when i was done. Poke nachos were kind of also back to the normal size, but i think the amount of poke was less unfortunately. Not a surprise as i have seen this same issue everywhere due to the cost of the poke.

Update. Don't get me wrong, I still love yard house. They seem to have been hit by the same factor i see at so many restaurants now, shrinkflation. Love poke nachos for happy hour. They still taste the same, great, but they definitely have shrunk like a lot of places. Beer selection is still awesome, so I plan to keep going to happy hour.

I really wish we had one closer to us. Awesome beer, awesome food, awesome ambiance, awesome pricing, you just can't beat it. Their E-club is good also, as you get texts about weekly deals that end up being yet another reason to go their. This location in the brea center is also a nice place to walk around, great easy parking, just avoid the...

I haven't dined at YARD HOUSE in probably 4 or 5 yrs - when I started eating at the 1st as I remember - Long Beach Marina and boat dock- YARD HOUSE was ... The 1st of it's kind - w selections of FLAVOR I had never experienced - and they were ahead of anything in Southern California dining- #Unique-a Beer Bar w great eats - fun cute professional Bar keep - it was on fire 💃🏼 taking their menu-to the top It was just great - Bar Food way above - Classic Rock - circular bar in each store -Late 90's the Costa Mesa - Triangle Square store opened & LIFE WAS GOOD ! Thursday evening singles scene was loaded w beautiful OC peeps - TO- see and be seen was born! Well ... 🤔💥🔥 So long story of the one of a kind chain the Yard House -THE 90'S HIT - everyone was friends w everyone - and socially - the IT SPOT TO BE ! NOW here we are January 2023 and last week stopped in the BREA store for dinner w friends - I choose the happy hour menu selections -as did my guest -&- our kids - ok - Happy Hour -? Why does this mean ur only going to have what we want to give you & it's all cold - and ... What I was excited about was the seared ahi appetizer... It was by far the finest back n the day - but not on that day last week ! It's an appetizer -&- are we to presume if it's a special price - don't expect or think ur getting whats on a regular MENU - WHY NOT !!! Isn't that what the benefit of getting out once in a while for happy hour is all about ? Eat your favs or try something you've wanted , but waited for hh - is there a special place they stick hh food so it taste like it was on someone else's plate - u touched but sitting & .. well since it's HH serve the old stuff... HOW ... WHY is this ok- aren't you trying to fill the house during some down hours ...Create the look of FULL all the time - so folks wanna be there .. cuz it must have all the right checks - But not last week 👎🏽 into...

Yard house is my favorite restaurant and my fiancé isn’t a big fan but I’ve been wanting to go for a while so he agreed to go for our anniversary. Unfortunately it was the worst experience I’ve ever had at this location. After being sat the server got our orders in within like 15 minutes so that was no problem at all. Our server got switched to another person right after our orders got put in and it took forever to get our drinks refilled. We had been sitting and waiting for a pretty long time for our orders as well. Probably about 45 minutes. I got the salmon and my fiancé got the steak with shrimp. His shrimp was super cold but the rest of his meal was okay. My potatoes had been sitting for so long under the heater that they had formed a hard layer on top and the baby broccoli was so burnt that I had trouble chewing it. We were pretty hungry at that point so my fiancé just ate his meal but I waited for the server and it took her like 10 minutes to come check on us after the food was brought to us. By the time she was able to replace my sides my fiancé was already done with his dinner so I just got a to go box. I hadn’t been back for over a year so I had been looking forward to dinner so I was pretty disappointed in the whole thing. The server was super nice but I was disappointed in the lack of service we had received. I’m not sure if it’s because we are a young couple or what but as a former server I know that was definitely not something that should have happened. Side note: the edamame was...