As the years pass,

I wish that you were still here with us…

I often sit…

wondering…

waiting…

To see your smile…

Or hear your voice…

But long to just hold your hand.

Happy Birthday, Papa! I miss you!

Yard House at Town Square

The Yard House isn’t your usual, ordinary bar. It boasts quite an impressive menu and has over 150 beers available on tap. I LOVE THIS PLACE!

Here is a picture of THE KEG ROOM. Can you hear the angels singing? Oh yeah, they’re singing alright. Kinda like how the ice cream man in his ice cream truck can easily lure kids out into the heat by playing his annoying circus clown music… having over 150 beers on tap at Yard House can easily lure many closet alcoholics out of hiding. Using a pretty amazing siphoning system, each keg has a tube attached to it, that magically brings the contents of the keg to the bar area. I’ll save my review on the beer and their other adult beverages for another post.

Anyway… back to the food… So on a lazy Saturday, we decided to have lunch at the Yard House.

Here’s some of the dishes we ordered…

Hawaiian Poke Stack

Pretty to look at huh? Bet you’ve never seen Hawaiian poke served this way, but I’ve never met a tuna tartare dish I didn’t like. The ahi was super fresh that day – SUPER FRESH. It was so good, I could have ate the whole thing by myself. But this time I remembered what my niece Paige always tells me… “Auntie, sharing is love.” Here’s how they stacked it. The fresh ahi is marinated ever so slightly in a mixture of soy sauce, sesame oil, sesame seeds, salt, green onions and some other ingredients that I could not pinpoint. Then the marinated tuna is plated, topped with a square of won ton wrapper that is fried till its golden brown. The won ton wrapper is then topped with a marinated mixture of bean sprouts and matchstick carrots. This “fluff” layer is then topped with another fried won ton wrapper, which is then topped off with another generous heap of the marinated ahi tuna. Wasabi sprouts garnish the entire stack and the avocado on the plate is merely there for color, as it does not really add or detract from the dish.

House Salad

My lunch date was not super hungry that day, so he decided to have the House Salad – mixed greens, broccoli, bean sprouts, and carrots tossed in a peanut vinaigrette. (Yeah, I told him he had to turn in his “Man Card” when he ordered this.) This salad was awesome. It was like a Asian chicken salad, but with out the chicken. So guess what he ordered to complement the salad…

Grilled Jamaican Wings

No wings in this dish – all drummettes. The chicken drummettes were tossed in jerk spices served with a rum barbeque sauce on the side. The wings are grilled instead of fried, so they were not greasy at all. And the pieces were massive - like Costco size chicken wings and they give you about 10 of them. This could have easily fed at least 2 people, with a girly salad, of course.

Classic Cheese Burger with Garlic Fries

I was in the mood for a burger that day, so I had the Classic Cheese burger. They use natural Angus beef for their burgers and the burger is served on a potato bun, which makes a big difference. You can choose what kind of cheese you want on your burger. Since they didn’t have any blue cheese or gorgonzola, I asked for the gouda. The burger is also served with french fries, but I requested garlic fries, instead. The burger was cooked to my liking for a burger – medium well. Juicy. Tasty. And the garlic fries… FANTASTICAL! Not greasy at all and infused with garlic.

All was washed down with beer, of course…

Stop by the Yard House if you get a chance. Very kid friendly during the day – they even have a kids menu. Maybe not so kid friendly after 9 on weekends. You decide.

There are lots of great entrees (Steaks, Pizzas, Seafood and Pastas) on the menu, along with your usual bar food fare. I’m sure you’ll find something to your liking.

*****

Yard House

Turnberry Town Square

6593 Las Vegas Boulevard, South

Las Vegas, NV 89119

Phone: (702) 734-9273