Yard House - Rancho Mirage

Calamari was excellent. Perfectly fried with no rubbery texture. Tenders were surprisingly delicious. Crispy on the outside, juicy on the inside. We got the 3 cheese pizza which was also really good. Nice crust, flavorful tomato sauce, and the threecheeses went well togetherm my wife got a moscow mule, which she enjoyed. But she loved her second drink more, the strawberrymargarita. Service was great, quick and attentive. Definitely coming back for happy hour.

A great meeting place for Happy Hour is the Yard House located in the The River Shopping complex. They have patio seating as well as a huge sections within the building. Prices are very reasonable and if you are like me and don't get pizza often, thesingle pizza is the perfect size.

My boyfriend and I used to frequent Yard House for its good vegan gardien selections. However the last two times visiting.. things got a bit weird. Our recent visit, we went with a few omnivores. My boyfriend and I ordered the steak fries that didn’t have truffle cheese on them. Our waiter rashly exclaimed there was NOT steak fries. A few minutes later he arrived with steak fries... We continued ordering and our 2 omnivores ordered the orange chicken and we specifically, (and made sure) that my boyfriend got the VEGAN gardien orange chicken. When the food arrived, all 3 orange chickens looked the same! No difference what so ever. We all opened the chicken up and compared the textures; it was obvious and apparent to us all that the vegan chicken was not vegan at all. We brought it up to our server and he INSISTED the food with the stick in it was the vegan chicken. He did it in such a rash manner too. I calmly explained what all of us had concluded. He responded to that with, “I can’t bring it back.” but luckily a manager stopped him and said he could in fact bring it back. After 20 mins or so of waiting for the remake of the hopefully, vegan chicken to arrive. A new plate of chicken arrived. Not gardien chicken, but new chicken. It was yet again, obvious that it was chicken. The waiter took it away after we decided we no longer wanted it. He wasn’t very nice about it either. Our latest time visiting, we had the same problem with the orange chicken. We’ve gone to Yard House numerous times and have gotten the vegan orange chicken lots of times; it was obvious we got the gardien one every time before these two incidents; there is a distinct difference. Now we’ve decided to stray away from Yard House or at least this specific one.

Nice vegan selection which include sandwiches, salads and main dishes.

My boyfriend and I were ecstatic to find out that Yard House had a whole Gardein Menu. We were so hungry driving there and were looking forward to the wings until the waitress informed us that everything was fried in the same oil meaning that traces of other **** (meat/chicken, etc) would be in our food. I was so bummed and left without a bite.