The interior is dark and filled with typical SoHo swank: plush, high-backed booths upholstered in gold fabric an open kitchen and two separate bars with rows of premium spirits lit in mellow blues and purples.

When the weather is nice, it's almost mandatory to sit on the patio and enjoy the breeze. Large, distressed copper panels serve as both weather and noise blockers as well as aesthetic counterpoints to the clean wood slats marking the patio perimeter. Just like a fenced-in, backyard sanctuary at home, the SoHo Backyard features tree shade, a nice open-air breeze and plenty of privacy and isolation from the chaos just a block or two down the road. From anywhere else on Armenia, Swann or Howard, you'd never see it. Heading down Armenia, you'll need to pull into the parking lot for the Gourmet Pizza Company and drive through to the end, where a new lot opens up and the SoHo Backyard comes into view. ALSO NOTE: If youre using hand dyed yarn, like our Posy, its always a good idea to hand wash each skein in cold water before winding it into a ball. If you're looking for the place with nothing but an address, you might not even find it. But it's also a somewhat literal name: the Backyard is tucked away, hidden in the back of a lot between Armenia and Howard - a backyard to the main Howard Avenue strip. Everyone loves hanging around in their - or maybe a friend's - backyard, sipping drinks and shooting the breeze, and the SoHo Backyard is designed in some ways to replicate the experience.

The name is as plainly descriptive as it is evocative.

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