Yard House — Restaurant in Raleigh

My wife and I double dated here last night. Our experience was great, and we already have a 2nd date planned with another awesome couple.

Drinks: The smoked old fashioned was the best I have ever had. (No lie, and no exaggeration) Apps: The onion ring tower, and queso were both large portions for apps and delicious. Tip: try dipping the onion rings in the queso. Entree: I had the bone in ribeye cooked medium rare and it was perfect. She had the filet and had 0 complaints as well. Service: Our waitress was attentive given how busy they were. I never was without a drink, and the timing of food was spot on.

Can't wait to go back! 5 star visit

Update for 2nd visit; We came here again with another friend. The bone in ribeye was delicious, and although I typically do not use steak sauce, the steak sauce they have is unlike any I have had before.

I found 2 extra alcoholic drinks added to our bill, which I almost paid without checking. Glad I did, and the server removed then quickly.

I will say, it is WAY TOO LOUD in this place. If the music was about half the volume, a typical conversation would be much easier.

4 star rating this visit due to the noise and extra drinks on the tab.

Update for 3rd visit; Last night triple dated here, and we had J as our server. Dude provided excellent service. He was there when we needed us, and not bugging us when we didn’t. It was the perfect balance of never running out of a drink and not over bearing. Both other couples even made comments about his service being so good. Props to J for taking great care of us, and realizing we were enjoying a night out without kids and in no rush at all. He went with it and we never felt like he wanted us to leave so he could have another table.

Food: Between the 3 couples we had Miguel’s queso, bang bang shrimp, a pretzel, spicy tuna stack, and calamari. Only mild complaint was there was a bit too much sauce on the bang bang shrimp. Everyone was quite happy with all of the apps. 4 of us had steaks, with 1 pizza, and 1 beef noodles. I didn’t hear a single complaint about any of the entrees from anyone.

Drinks: The drinks were flowing! And the bartenders here haven’t really disappointed me yet. The ONLY recommendation that I can have is when smoking the old fashioned to make sure there are a decent amount of smoke chips and to let the lid sit on for a few minutes.

Dessert: We ordered 3 desserts for everyone to try, the lava cake, cheesecake, and banana pudding. The cheesecake was the favorite amongst everyone, but all 3 were very good, and we would order again.

5 star visit...

I visited with my family on a Friday around the start of happy hour. We've been here before at that time as it allows us to get a booth before the restaurant gets busy after work hours and still enjoy the scenery at North Hills. The wait staff smiled a lot and were very personable. We arrived during a shift change, but there were no issues with delays in getting our drink/food order placed. Our waiter was very attentive in refilling our drinks and checking on us to see if everything was ok. We appreciated that. The main reason we came during happy hour is for the half priced appetizers. They have a decent selection of items for half price during that time. My wife, son andhalf-priced daughter and I all were able to find something that we liked. We just ordered a bunch of appetizers and shared them. We had the calamari, cheese pizza, bbq chicken pizza, Korean boneless wings and the chicken tenders. My wife had to go rouge and get the Firecracker shrimp (not eligible for the happy hour discount). I don't blame her for ordering it, as it is very, very good! My apologies for not providing a detailed description of the shrimp, but it is good and my wife and I would recommend it to anyone who likes some slightly spicy shrimp on a bed of sweet rice cake. The calamari were lightly fried with just the right amount of salt. Crispy and not overcooked. The kids had the cheese pizza and tenders, which was, well... cheese pizza and tenders. Not much to say there. They enjoyed it. The Korean boneless wings were very good. I'm not sure how authentic the flavor was, but I enjoyed them nonethelessin. Crispy chicken breast bites fried and tossed with a sweet chili sauce. Our waiter mentioned the wings would be spicy. She was correct, spicy, but not hot. The sauce was just right, not very sweet, but had a nice chili spice to it. I will definitely get that again. The BBQ chicken pizza was also good. I had that before. The size of the pizza (all of the pizzas) was nice for $8. The chicken was breast pieces were still tender after cooking in the oven. The bbq sauce as the base was good, not too sweet, a bit smokey, and just the right quantitiy on the pizza. Red onion was a nice counter to the sweetness of the sauce and the cilantro provided some brightness to the pizza. Overall, we had a nice time out there. Except for the shrimp, nothing we ordered was over $8. As Bob Barker said, "The price is right!". The TVs were showing various games and the music was not too loud (easy to hold a conversation at the table). We'll be...

If I could put 0 stars I would!! My 3 friends and I for the first time wanted to try this restaurant. First the table was dirty. Secondly, he didn’t greet us at all. The waiter threw the coasters on the table. He asked us about drinks and seemed to be in a rush. I was still deciding on my drink, two of my friends had ordered a water and he asked did me and my other friend just want water I told him I would like an Arnold Palmer and the last friend didn’t see any drinks on the menu he was no help he didn’t know where they were as well. He left and said he was going to get our drinks the last friend still at this point has not chosen a drink. He just ended up bringing her a water instead of being patient with us. He told her like 3 different pages that the drinks were on he seemed very confused, she still didn’t find them and just ended up guessing if they had a strawberry lemonade and he literally brought it over spilling it all over the floor we believed he was drunk just the way he was looking and his actions spoke for itself, and in the mist of all this he’s eating and drinking right where employees are walking in and out of, we were sitting at the high top so I’m assuming that was the kitchen walkway straight ahead and not once did he wash his hands! The strawberry lemonade was brought out way too fast for him to have washed his hands before he bring the drink out. Before he brought the drink out he was eating and drinking he seen us starring at him waiting for him to bring out the drink then decided to come over to see what drink she wanted. When he brought the drink over spilling we told him we’re actually going to leave because that was just the last straw for us and he proceeded to say “okay that’s fine!” and shrugged his shoulders. I believe we just had a bad waiter because everyone else seemed to be enjoying themselves and we also talked to another waiter she was very understanding and the other waiters were smiling so I think we just had someone that shouldn’t be working here. I just don’t understand how you could be rude to someone who is spending their money with you. He was a short white male with had black hair and appeared to be a...