BAR + COFFEE SHOP
Open seven days a week.
As well as being your friendly neighbourhood music venue, we’re also your friendly neighbourhood bar + coffee shop, open indoors (and outdoors, if the weather’s nice!) every day. Now it’s even easier for you to join us for a drink or a bite to eat, without the need for constantly watching weather forecasts!
We’re open 7 days a week, 10am to 11pm (later on Fridays and Saturday), so there’s plenty of chance for you to get a taste of the full Future Yard experience. If you’ve already been here to see us then you’ll have seen the versatility of our coffee shop and bar areas, and already have an idea of how relaxing the space is for an afternoon latte or a few pints of Dazzle Ships Lager as the sun sets over Birkenhead.
Serving a full range of coffee, beers and cocktails, our indoor bar area has ample space to welcome you. We regularly have DJs setting the vibe on Friday and Saturday nights from the raised indoor booth, both when there are shows in the Live Room and when there’s no show. It’s important to note, you don’t need a ticket just to come for a drink or some food in the bar or outside area; you only need a ticket to get in to the Live Room when there’s a show on. Lots of our weekend events across the whole building are free entry, but it’s worth checking our Listings page to see what events are on.
We’ve also just launched our new pizza kitchen, serving up a great range of sustainable, eco-friendly Neapolitan style pizza. The kitchen is open every Friday and Saturday night from 6pm PLUS on every night we have a live show. The kitchen is also open Sunday daytimes 12pm-3pm after our Sunday morning Mosh Tots shows. You can also order pizza for collection – and when the kitchen isn’t open, we have a good range of snacks available, including some fresh bakes from the kitchen (but don’t hang around, they’re too good.
Our Garden is accessible all year round for those who want to go outside – but the garden bar is only open for special events. You can still order food and drink from the front bar and take it outside if you want, but we’ve got plenty of seating in the always warm indoors! Our fully accessible live room is only open to the public for gigs, and physical tickets for all gigs are able to be purchased at the bar. You can find all of our live listings here – and they’re all up on the listings board in the bar area for your perusing pleasure.
Don’t forget, our weekly Open Mic is also hosted in The Yellow Room every Tuesday – find out more here!
Anyone for a Schöfferhofer and a slice?
Opening hours
Monday 10am-11pm
Tuesday 10am-11pm
Wednesday 10am-11pm
Thursday 10am-11pm
Friday 10am-12am
Saturday 10am-12am
Sunday 10am-11pm
Kitchen hours
Please see our Kitchen page for the latest serving times.
*The kitchen is open on ALL gig/show nights from 6pm
We don’t take any bookings or reservations; we’re a cashless bar, with all orders taken via contactless payment; we’re family-friendly and dogs are welcome (so long as they’re on leads). Check our FAQ page for any other queries.
POURING
- A superb range of local craft beers and brews, from the likes of Glen Affric, Chapter Brewing, Black Lodge, Cloudwater, Top Rope and ShinDigger.
- Great coffee from incredible roasteries working closely with farmers, and teas made with 100% natural ingredients.
- An extensive range of soft drinks and fruit presses.
- Refreshing cocktails.
We’re keeping our suppliers as close to home as possible. Partly because of our commitment to keep our carbon footprint as low as possible, but also because there are so many incredible independent brewers, roasters and mixologists on our doorstep!
Glen Affric are a craft brewery situated a stone’s throw from Future Yard, and have been brewing award-winning beers from their Birkenhead home since 2017. We’ve teamed up with Glen Affric on three corking beers which will always be available on our pumps (with cans coming very soon – watch this space!): Dazzle Ships lager, Pale House Futsal and Dreaming Of Brew IPA. All are perfect to sup on while the sun beats down on our beer garden, as are a range of other lines on rotation from some of the region’s finest craft breweries. We’ll be mixing up our beers regularly, so you’ll have to check back in to see what’s on offer. Keep an eye out on the Currently Pouring board in the bar whenever you’re inside with us.
Our coffee is served fresh from a gleaming La Marzocco machine (😍) which puts out some of the most beautifully consistent espresso you can get. Our house espresso is provided by ALL CAPS, a speciality coffee roastery based in Chester who are committed to transparently sourcing tasty coffees in a sustainable way. Supplying Brazilian, Kenyan, Peru, Salvadorian, and Colombian beans roasted on a Giesen roaster, with the ultimate aim of presenting the intrinsic and distinctive qualities of each of the carefully selected lots they source – all resulting in one of the best coffee experiences available this side of the Mersey.
We’ll be getting the best milk from local dairy Peckforton Farm, and Bates Dairy will supply us with an oat alternative. Almond and coconut milk varieties are also on offer (Alpro). Filter coffee is available as batch brew, Chemex, or Aeropress. Currently we have two filters by our neighbours just through the tunnel, Neighbourhood Cofffee, and we’ll be updating our guest filters on a regular basis.
Now serving some refreshing cocktails, perfect to enjoy on weekend evenings when enjoying the hustle and bustle on Argyle Street, with some great selectors playing in the bar. We’ve teamed up with Wirral’s one and only artisan gin distillery Tappers Gin for some of the very best gin based cocktails,; like the sugary-sweet Big Pink (Tickled Pink Gin, White Wine, Sugar, Grapefruit and Soda), the fan-favourite Ginger Spice (Hydropathic Pudding Fruit Cup Gin, Strawberry, Lime and Ginger Beer) and the one with the extra kick to it – Darkside Fizz (Darkside Coastal Gin, Sloe Gin, Lemon and Soda).
And if you’re not a huge gin fan, well fear not (!) as here at Future Yard we try and offer you something different, something you haven’t experienced before, and nowhere is this more evident than on our own-brand cocktail list, including, but not limited too, the north of the border inspired Dundee Jaguar (Jagermeister, Blood Orange and Irn Bru), the homegrown Leisure Peninsula (White Rum, Amaro Montenegro, Pineapple Juice, Orange Juice and Soda) and the ‘go-on-I’ll-try-it-if-you-do’ Girkenhead (Four Roses Bourbon, Pickle Juice, Cucumber, Bitters and Girkin). Fun for all the family (as long as that family is all over 18 of course).
For the easy goers, drivers and people just chilling, we’re stocked up with a massive range of teas, fruit presses and soft drinks – because not everyone wants a caffeine or alcohol hit in the sun. Our range of teas comes from ZIGZAG, so you can sip on an Earl Grey, a zesty Yunnan Green or a good old fashioned English Breakfast tea. Punchy produce a range of characterful, natural punches that will still give you a little boost – and a percentage of proceeds from each sale are donated to charities through Punchy’s brilliant sustainability arm. We’ll also have kombuchas and iced teas to pick from – and for those who want a halfway house, Schöfferhofer’s 2.5% ABV grapefruit wheat beer will be served on draught.
SERVING
Sustainable pizza!
Our new pizza offer supports both the planet and your taste buds. Made hot and fresh in-house each day, our menu uses the best ingredients sourced from independent suppliers in Merseyside and beyond. The result is a classic Italian pizza handcrafted in Birkenhead, with a tasty new twist.
Find our full menu, serving times, and details about what makes our scran so special over on our Kitchen page. Plus, you can check out the front bar for daily specials, including vegan treats baked in-house. We’re serious about shaping the future of our eating habits here, and we’re really proud that we can offer this menu without compromising on taste!
MATCHDAY DISCOUNT
We’re now offering Tranmere ticket holders a 10% discount on all our food and drink at Future Yard, all day, every time the Rovers play at home. Just show your season or match ticket at the bar to redeem.
#TRFC #SWA
This deal is not available in conjuncture with any other food and drink deals available at Future Yard.
ACCESS + IMPORTANT INFO
75 Argyle Street, Birkenhead
CH41 6AB
Future Yard’s bar + coffee shop is open seven days a week, from at least 10am. On Mondays to Thursdays we’ll be open from 10am to 11pm; on Fridays and Saturdays 10am-12.30am; and on Sundays it’s 10am-11pm. Please see specific times for kitchen service.
There’s no need to reserve in advance, just pick your table when you arrive at the venue. We’ve got loads of room and loads of tables, inside and out, so we’re sure we’ll be able to fit you in. If you’re looking to host a specific event or come down with a large group, then you can hire the space out (more info here) or drop us a line and we’ll be happy to arrange something for you (see our Contact page for details).
We are operating a fully cashless service. Service and payment is done at one of our three bars, with all food orders placed at the front bar. Staff will also be on hand to assist with taking orders.
All food orders are placed at the front bar, with a buzzer given to you which will ring when your food is ready to collect from our outdoor kitchen service point. All payments are made by contactless or chip-and-pin on any of the bars.
All public-facing facilities at Future Yard are fully accessible with ground-floor, step-free access.
The main entrance on Argyle Street takes you straight into the immediate bar area, with a wide access point to further seating to the right of this space. The accessible toilet is situated in this area. Entry to our live room is through the immediate bar area, opposite our main entrance. The garden is accessible through a side door in the bar’s seating area. Staff are always on hand to provide assistance if necessary and you can email cath@futureyard.org with all queries and information related to accessibility and your visit to Future Yard. Full accessibility information available here.
You can view and download our full risk assessment and operating procedures regarding COVID-19 here.
Thanks in advance for your cooperation. We genuinely hope you can come along and relax and have a boss time here with us, and we’re pretty sure that you’ll feel at home as soon as you’re sat down. If you have any further questions then you can get in touch with us on enquiries@futureyard.org – but we won’t answer any emails asking about booking a table!
See you soon, and stay safe.
FY x