“The Barnyard Venue is an outdoor restaurant/bar and live event venue which offers outdoor dining with table seating with umbrellas on the spacious patio areas, a covered bar area with seating and a space for live artists/bands to perform their music. The patio looks very nice and inviting, and great place to chill and enjoy food and drinks and live music. It's located off NH 101 Exit 3 on Candia on the west end of the same property which also has the The Town Cabin Deli & Pub and Candia First Stoppe Country Store and truckstop. The food menu offers a variety of sandwiches, burgers, wraps, lobster rolls, fried seafood, pub appetizers, salads, chowder, chili, and a few desserts. The bar menu offers beer (draft & cans) and mixed drinks. The food is served on paper plates/containers with plasticware and non bottle/can drinks served in plastic cups. I stopped by The Barnyard Venue for dinner recently. I headed to the bar to get a menu to look over and sat myself at a table on the main patio in front of the performance area to watch a local classic rock band. There is also more seating on the opposite side of the building with plenty of room for more seating expansion towards the cornhole play area and the replica of the Fenway scoreboard. For food, I started out with New England Clam Chowder ($6.49 plus tax) and a Haddock Sandwich ($12.99 plus tax) with a bag of Lays Potato Chips. The big cup of clam chowder was not thick, but still had a creamy broth with potatoes & minced clams. I used the potato chips in the chowder. The Haddock Sandwich had a breaded fried filet of haddock on top of leaf lettuce, tomato slices on a thick toasted buttered burger bun, Ken's tartar sauce on the side. Additionally, I ordered the Barnyard Classic Burger ($11.99 plus tax) served with hand cut fries. The burger had a grilled ground beef patty topped with melted American cheese over pickled, red onions, leaf lettuce, & tomato slices on a thick toasted buttered burger bun. The golden fried hand cut fries were salted and firm. I enjoyed my food as the Old Gold Band played classic rock cover songs. The meal check with tax and before tip was $34.14. The food here was pretty good tasting, though the burger and fries were not too hot. The service was laid back, essentially taking my order and dropping off things to my table. I did enjoy the feel good vibe here with the live rock band playing at dinner in the open air. This place felt less crowded than other outdoor dining venues in the area including that very popular restaurant & bar with the big outdoor deck on Mammoth Road in Manchester.“
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“The Barnyard Venue is an outdoor restaurant/bar and live event venue which offers outdoor dining with table seating with umbrellas on the spacious patio areas, a covered bar area with seating and a space for live artists/bands to perform their music. The patio looks very nice and inviting, and great place to chill and enjoy food and drinks and live music. It's located off NH 101 Exit 3 on Candia on the west end of the same property which also has the The Town Cabin Deli & Pub and Candia First Stoppe Country Store and truckstop. The food menu offers a variety of sandwiches, burgers, wraps, lobster rolls, fried seafood, pub appetizers, salads, chowder, chili, and a few desserts. The bar menu offers beer (draft & cans) and mixed drinks. The food is served on paper plates/containers with plasticware and non bottle/can drinks served in plastic cups. I stopped by The Barnyard Venue for dinner recently. I headed to the bar to get a menu to look over and sat myself at a table on the main patio in front of the performance area to watch a local classic rock band. There is also more seating on the opposite side of the building with plenty of room for more seating expansion towards the cornhole play area and the replica of the Fenway scoreboard. For food, I started out with New England Clam Chowder ($6.49 plus tax) and a Haddock Sandwich ($12.99 plus tax) with a bag of Lays Potato Chips. The big cup of clam chowder was not thick, but still had a creamy broth with potatoes & minced clams. I used the potato chips in the chowder. The Haddock Sandwich had a breaded fried filet of haddock on top of leaf lettuce, tomato slices on a thick toasted buttered burger bun, Ken's tartar sauce on the side. Additionally, I ordered the Barnyard Classic Burger ($11.99 plus tax) served with hand cut fries. The burger had a grilled ground beef patty topped with melted American cheese over pickled, red onions, leaf lettuce, & tomato slices on a thick toasted buttered burger bun. The golden fried hand cut fries were salted and firm. I enjoyed my food as the Old Gold Band played classic rock cover songs. The meal check with tax and before tip was $34.14. The food here was pretty good tasting, though the burger and fries were not too hot. The service was laid back, essentially taking my order and dropping off things to my table. I did enjoy the feel good vibe here with the live rock band playing at dinner in the open air. This place felt less crowded than other outdoor dining venues in the area including that very popular restaurant & bar with the big outdoor deck on Mammoth Road in Manchester.“