The Yard is a street food influenced restaurant and 'foodie heaven', based in the city of Ely, Cambridgeshire. The venue is the latest brilliant offering from the owners behind the much-loved Silver Oak Coffee.

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Spread across five shipping containers, The Yard features both indoor and outdoor searting, a children's play area, bar and restaurant. The vision was to create an exciting and vibrant space that both serves the existing community, but also helps to attract visitors to historic city.

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The completed scheme is a colourful and relaxing space that oozes energy and life. It is a space for families to relax and enjoy food together, for friends to meet and socialise under the dramatic canopy, and for dog walkers to call in for a morning pastry and coffee - with an emphasis placed on shared space and community.

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The individual shipping containers are all unique, and were designed bespoke for the client. The canopy was also made to fit the site, and work all five surrounding containers.

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Using shipping containers is a sustainable choice - they were all previously used, and require fewer raw materials to turn them into usable spaces.