We’re known as the home of buttermilk fried chicken – and we love nothing more than a feast of booze, birds and beats.
Many of you cluckers will already be familiar with our Mates Rates card, which can bag you up to 50% off your bill, depending on which of our restaurants you flock to. Well, we’re taking it even further, so that you guys can save even more moolah and get even more freebies when you come and see us.
First thing’s first, we’re giving everyone a free pint of Yard Pilsner when they sign up for Mates Rates – no strings attached. All you have to do is click the relevant button below for your local Coop, fill in the form and we’ll email you a voucher that you can use when you come and pick up your Mates Rates card.
You may have also noticed that our Mates Rates card was previously only available to people in Liverpool and Leeds, but we’ve now extended it to our Manchester restaurant as well! You students in Manc can now get 20% off your entire bill Sunday-Thursday.
Sign up today and start reaping those buttermilk fried chicken rewards.
We know your Mum’s Sunday dinners are unbeatable but let’s give her the day off and treat her to the next best thing.
Not one’s to opt for the traditional, we’ve taken the classic cream tea and flipped it dirty bird style.
That’s right, our three-tiered fried chicken feast is fit for any Queen in your life served with one of our most loved dishes, the Dirty Bird. Our afternoon tea also includes some of our signature sides, sweet treats and a selection of all our homemade sauces for dunking.
A Feast Fit For a Queen
Our ultimate buttermilk fried chicken pile up is made of a Dirty Bird for two: A bowl full of fries loaded with cheese sauce, buttermilk fried chicken and crispy bacon. Smothered with our spicy Bee’s Knees, Dr Pepper BBQ and blue cheese sauces.
The middle tier has mini burger buns with buttermilk fried chicken and adobo chilli mayo, Grandma’s stuffing balls and our signature Amaizeballs served with a selection of our homemade chicken gravy and Korean sauces.
The top tier will finish you off nicely with an assortment of cupcakes, fresh strawberries, a mountain of marshmallows and chocolate dipping sauce.
Sweet Treats
Now it wouldn’t be very Yard & Coop without adding some booze would it? Yes oh yes, our Dirty Bird Afternoon Tea also comes complete with a gin cocktail.
Grab this fried chicken delight for £20 per person in:
Liverpool & Leeds: all year long
Manchester:exclusively for Mothering Sunday, 22nd March.
We’re all a little bit Irish when it comes to Paddy’s Day and in our experience, this day is best celebrated with chicken and booze.
This year we’re bringing you a total Jameson’s takeover…
INTRODUCING OUR STICKY JAMESON’S WINGS
We’ve taken the best-known tipple of Ireland and created a tantalisingly sticky sweet sauce. That’s right, our famous wings just got a brand-new glaze.
It wouldn’t be very Yard & Coop unless we smothered our chicken in something sexy, so find our double cooked and rubbed wings drenched in this lucky sweet treat and garnished with coriander, sesame seeds and diced orange pepper – it’s a little bit us.
Grab these wings from Friday 13th – Friday 20th March at a Coop near you. It will also be available FOR FREE on Wings Wednesday, and to get you going we’ll be handing out tasters during our Friday Club.
MORE BOOZE? HELL YES.
Not one’s to turn down an excuse to party, we’ve also created a selection of Paddy’s inspired cocktails to sip alongside your chicken.
Check out the full menu below…
The JGL
POT OF GOLD 8.00 A delicious classic with a little extra… We have mixed Jameson’s Irish whiskey, fresh lime and sweet ginger beer. Finished with lime, mint and a whiskey & apple chaser. Sip it or mix it!
POGUE MELONE 8.00 Our twist on the ultimate party cocktail to celebrate the green white and orange.Beefeater Blood Orange & Midori, combined with egg white, angostura bitters, lemon and apple juices. Finished with fresh mint and orange. Perfectly balanced and delicious!
The only way to win the heart of your chick is through irresistibly moist buttermilk fried chicken, mind melting cheese and hard booze.
In our experience, this is best served at the home of buttermilk fried chicken (us – obvs) and you better believe we’ll be here with the easy loving times all week long this Valentines.
Amuse your sexy chick’s bouche with a fried chicken fondue.
That’s right – devour a mix of buttermilk fried chicken thighs, double cooked wings and everybody’s favourite DR Pepper BBQ drums smothered in melted cheese. Double dipping encouraged.
Fondue you love me?
No date? No problem.
Our cheesy special is available as ONE plate for £15 or TWO plates for £30 so all you independent boss chicks need not miss out.
As proper booze pros, we’ve also created two sexy cocktails to add to the all round good times.
Book your table or pop in on the night – we always leave plenty of space in the restaurant, so you’ll never be turned away.
Our Valentines specials are available from Monday 10th February until Sunday 16th February at a Coop near you.
Scroll down for the full menu…
‘Kiss From a Rose’ Cocktail
FRIED CHICKEN FONDUE ONE FOR £15 TWO FOR £30 Buttermilk fried chicken thighs, double cooked and rubbed wings and Dr Pepper BBQ chicken drums with indulgent melted cheese
KISS FROM A ROSE 8.5 Absolut rhubarb with Chenin blanc, Briotette rose, honey syrup and lemon juice topped with soda. Built with rose petals and finished with a sprig of mint
LIMP BIZKIT 8.5 Absolut rhubarb with cream soda, lemon juice and angostura bitters. Topped with a scoop of vanilla ice cream, custard cream biscuit and sprig of mint
As you know here at Yard & Coop, we’re all about bringing you the best product with the biggest smile. As we enter 2020, we carry on supporting those who want to eat better meat but also look to champion those who want less.
That’s right, the home of buttermilk fried chicken is celebrating Veganuary 2020 with the launch of 3 sensational specials… Let the plant times role.
Not ones to compromise on quality, we’ve worked carefully to pick a plant-based alternative to satisfy meat-eaters and vegans alike. We will be serving up credible and authentic vegan fried chicken coated in our secret recipe crumb then deep fried to golden perfection; it’s a little bit Yard & Plant magic.
What to expect?
Devour your vegan fried chicken feast with skin on fries or salad, a pickle and sweetcorn relish and your choice of sauce.
Or why not take on the rebellion and tackle a Greta Thun-burger? A vegan fried chicken burger stacked with not so chicken tot patty, hash brown, vegan cheese, rainbow slaw and lime salsa. Smothered in garlic mayo and siracha sauces and served with skin on fries.
Like it hot, quick and cheap? Grab our Gard ‘N Coop fries lunch special to dine in or takeaway Monday – Friday between 12-5pm.
As a chicken shop we know we’re not changing the world, but we hope this is just the veganning of doing our bit.
Check out our vegan fried chicken menu from 1st January at a Coop near you.
VEGAN FRIED CHICKEN 12 Served with skin on fries or salad, a pickle and sweetcorn relish and your choice of sauce…
SIRACHA
KOREAN
GARLIC MAYO
DR PEPPER BBQ
GRETA THUN-BURGER 14 Vegan fried chicken stacked with not so chicken tot patty, hash brown, vegan cheese, rainbow slaw and lime salsa. Smothered in garlic mayo and sriracha sauces and served with skin on fries.
GARD ‘N COOP FRIES 7
Available Monday – Friday 12-5pm A basket of skin of fries, vegan fried chicken, rainbow slaw and your choice of sauce: sriracha, korean, garlic mayo or Dr Pepper BBQ
We’re proper party pros and it wouldn’t be Christmas at Yard & Coop without fried chicken and festive booze.
This year, you’ll see mommy eating Dirty Santa… but don’t tell Dad. That’s right, Santa joins our dirty bird line-up featuring two buttermilk fried chicken thighs, homemade stuffing balls, fried sprouts, sticky bacon jam and cranberry sauce served with lashings of homemade chicken gravy piled on a bowl of skin on and sweet potato fries.
Going dirtier? Grab a portion of Cheesy Brie Bites, deep fried to perfection and served with cranberry dip.
Deep Fried Brie
Hey sis, it’s Christmas. You can cross a sexy cocktail off your wish list. We’ve created 3 mouth-watering cocktails to pair with your festive foodie faves featuring Absolut Rhubarb, Beefeater Blood orange and Plymouth Sloe gin.
Rhub the Roost
Not drinking? No problem. Hit up our Designated Sleigh Driver and head straight to the top of Santa’s nice list.
You can walk in and grab any of our Christmas specials at a Coop near you from now until Sunday 22nd December. See the full list of our festive specials below.
Still looking for the perfect place to host your festive gathering? We offer amazing parties from 2 to 200 people and our team of festiveobsessives are here to take away the stress of organising to make it a Christmas to remember.
DIRTY SANTA
14 A bowl full of skin on and sweet potato fries loaded with two buttermilk fried chicken thighs, homemade stuffing balls, fried sprouts, sticky bacon jam and cranberry sauce. Served with lashings of homemade chicken gravy.
CHEESY BRIE BITES
5.5 Deep fried brie served with cranberry dip.
Spice Up Your Life
RHUB THE ROOST 8.5 Hey sis, it’s Christmas. Absolut Rhubarb shaken with cranberry juice, vanilla and caramel syrups, lemon juice and magical meringue powder. Garnished with a meringue nest and a dasher of Peychaud’s bitters.
SPICE UP YOUR LIFE 8.5 Drink it to the left if you’re having a good time. Beefeater blood orange gin with cranberry, apple and orange juices, orange peel, cloves and star anise. Stewed and stirred to festive perfection and finished with flamed cinnamon and dehydrated apple.
GINGLE ALL THE BAE 9 Before anyone else. Beefeater gin, Plymouth sloe gin and Franklin’s rhubarb tonic built with freshly squeezed lime and raspberry jam. Topped with cherries, a rosemary sprig and finished with a sugar bae dusting.
DESIGNATED SLEIGH DRIVER 5.5 Santa would approve. Cranberry juice, vanilla syrup and lime juice topped with ginger beer. Garnished with strawberries and a rosemary sprig then finished with gold spray to make it proper posh.
Winter has come and we decided it was time to brighten things up with a bangin’ new food menu. Expect a classic Coop twist on a number of dirty dishes and the smothered and saucy to be taken to a whole new level.
Chick out our menu highlights…
CHINESE TAKEAWAY BURGER Get that Saturday night takeaway feeling everyday with our Chinese Takeaway burger. Devour salt & pepper chicken along with pulled chicken in Chinese chip shop curry sauce, crispy seaweed, onion, chilli, peppers and iceberg lettuce. Topped with a deep-fried wonton and served with a fortune cookie.
The Lone Star Burger
THE LONE STAR We went deep, south and dirty for this one to make a burger the ‘Deep South’ would be proud of. Buttermilk fried chicken breast and thigh with mac and cheese, maple bacon, crispy onions, BBQ pulled chicken, American cheese, sweet potato fries and lime salsa all in a brioche bun. Topped with a Dr Pepper BBQ wing.
Dirty Katsu
DIRTY KATSU You know we love a Dirty Bird so we’ve decided to double up and double dip our Chinese chip shop curry sauce with homemade creamy ranch to create the Dirty Katsu. Expect the loaded bowl of fries we’ve all come to love served with buttermilk fried chicken Ma’ Clucker would be proud of.
FETA & HONEY KEBAB This one’s for the veggies. You loved our Feta & honey salad, so we’ve taken it to the large plates. Fried feta drizzled in honey and sesame seeds with rainbow root slaw and fresh coriander on a warm naan bread. Served with minty buttermilk sour cream and our kebab sauce.
Maccie’s Brekkie
MACCIE’S BREKKIE You ain’t seen muffin yet. That’s right, never worry about missing breakfast again because we’ve created the ultimate meaty muffin stack packed with two buttermilk fried chicken thighs, sausage meat patty, crispy bacon, American cheese, fried egg and hash browns and served with loaded tatties. It’s breakfast done proper, and all day.
Massive Cock MK V
MASSIVE COCK MK V And finally, it wouldn’t be a new menu without a bigger, better Massive Cock burger. That’s right, over 12 inches tall you definitely need to get your hands round this! A double stacked burger with buttermilk fried chicken breast, chicken thigh, Yorkshire puddings, lashings of cheese sauce and chicken gravy. Piled with pea and onion fritter, chicken tots, bacon jam, hash brown and mac and cheese. All in a brioche bun topped with stuffing balls and served with fries and sweet potato fries.
If this isn’t enough for you, you’ll find some of our best hot sides yet begging to join your table including Chicken Tots, Pea Fritters with hot brown sauce and Carrots & Snips served with a homemade rosemary infused honey.
Our new menu is available now at your nearest Coop.
That’s right, Yard & Coop are heading to Manchester’s Christmas Markets!
Not ones to miss a party, you’ll find us frolicking on Albert Square and serving up the best buttermilk fried chicken in Manchester. You can catch us there for the whole of the markets run, from Friday 8th – Sunday 22nd December.
Our legendary Chick In Cones will be making a triumphant return alongside an array of saucy buttermilk fried chicken trays and house favourite Buff Daddy burger. Expect us to be loaded, smothered ‘n downright dirty.
Vegans just wanna have fun, right? Tis’ the season of meat free alternatives and we’ll be smashing out vegan pulled chicken drenched in everybody’s favourite Dr Pepper BBQ so that one and all can eat and be merry with Yard & Coop this Christmas.
What to expect…
Chick in ConeDirty Bird
CHICKEN TRAYS
ALL SERVED WITH SKIN ON FRIES:
TENDERS 8.00 Three tenders and a sauce of your choice.
DIRTY BIRD 8.50 Three tenders loaded with cheese sauce and smothered in our homemade spicy Bee’s Knees, Dr Pepper BBQ and blue cheese sauces.
JAMMY SANTA 8.50 Three tenders loaded with chicken gravy and bacon Jam
CHICK IN CONE
6.00 Fried Chicken in a waffle cone loaded with fries, cheese sauce and spicy Bee’s Knees, Dr Pepper BBQ and blue cheese sauces
BUFF DADDY BURGER
10.00 Fried chicken with iceberg lettuce and pickles. Drenched with buffalo and ranch sauces and topped with a chargrilled red chilli.
BLOODY MARY JACKFRUIT FRIES (VG)
8.00 Jackfruit pulled in our homemade Bloody Mary sauce with chips
CHOOSE YOUR SAUCE
DR PEPPER BBQ Everyone’s favourite, perfect for dunkin’ chicken
THE BEE’S KNEES Our signature hot sauce with cayenne pepper, lime and honey
BLUE CHEESE Silky and dreamy, crumbly Devonshire blue cheese and stilton
BUFFALO The classic hot kick to any fried chicken dish
RANCH Garlic lovers rejoice! Creamy mayo, garlic and chive
(extra pots £1)
Want the full chicken shop experience? Relish in the market mood then head over to our Northern Quarter home where you can treat yo’ self to a Dirty Santa Afternoon Tea* and plenty more.
*Dirty Santa Afternoon Tea is available on a pre-booked basis only. Chick out our Christmas offer here
You want it don’t you? Oh, of course you do… and there’s cotton candy1. That’s right, get ready to Chick ‘N Treat yo self this Halloween at Yard & Coop.
As the legend goes, a storm blew Pennywise and the whole circus straight to the Coop causing a crash of taste to hit the Yard. Yep, this Halloween we’re treating you to a smothered n’ saucy burger and hell loads of booze with a classic horror twist.
Let’s ‘ave it! A beetroot bun with sweet mustard skelter, two buttermilk chicken thighs loaded with chilli honey glazed bacon and smothered in ghost pepper marinaraand cheese sauces. Oh, and there’s candy floss too. Not forgetting a balloon of everybody’s favourite cherry pop with a trio of booze – rum, rum, gin. A faultless blend of nostalgia and adultness, the ultimate grown-up trick and treat.
Our Halloween specials are available from Thursday 24th October until Sunday 05th November at a Coop near you. Scroll down for the full menu…
‘Ave It Burger
‘AVE IT BURGER 12.00 Can you smell the circus? Beetroot bun with sweet mustard skelter, two buttermilk chicken thighs loaded with chilli honey glazed bacon and smothered in ghost pepper marinara and cheese sauces. Oh, and there’s candy floss too. Served with fries.
CHERRYWISE 8.50 We all drink down here. Havana especial rum, Malibu passionfruit and Beefeater blood orange gin stirred with lemon juice and cherryade. Finished with candy floss and a red balloon.
1 Barbara Muschietti, Dan Lin, Roy Lee, Seth Grahame-Smith (Producers), & Andy Muschietti (Director). (2017). IT [Motion Picture]. United States: New Line Cinema
Introducing the Garlic Ranch Cheese! Our latest special is hot out of Coop-ifornia with a classic Kiev twist.
It’s a total mind melting sauce sensation.
This garlic ranch cheese chick is smothered in garlic butter and drenched in creamy ranch and cheese sauces, sprinkled with parmesan, then stick a pickle in her because she’s done. You’ll want to gar-lick it all over.
Go the extra Yard and pimp yo’ fries or savour the sip of our latest BOOZE additions to get your ultimate Coop fix.
See something you like? Our coolest special is available from 2nd September, so head on down to your nearest Coop ASAP.
GARLIC RANCH CHEESE 12.00 Brioche bun with a buttermilk fried chicken breast, garlic butter, creamy ranch, iceberg lettuce, cheese sauce, parmesan cheese and pickles
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