The Chicken Patio - Put-in-Bay

The chicken is amazing, highly recommend trying it. The sauce is so good. The chicken was perfectly cooked and so flavorful. Staff was friendly and the atmosphere is like being on a picnic. Great meal. Glad I tried it.

Great value and a quick meal in Put In Bay. $12 in the peak summer season got me half a chicken grilled and braised in wine, corn on the cob and a potato salad. The chicken was delicious and grilled to perfection and the corn on the cob was delicious as well. Service basically consists of them giving you the food (assembly line style, massive amounts of chicken on the grill) and you paying money and then finding yourself a seat. Not sure what the bathroom situation is (I don't think the place has one), but still 5-stars for the sheer quantity and quality of food for $12. Not a place for a fancy meal obviously, but feeding your hungry after a long day of partying at Put In Bay, The Chicken Patio can do you no wrong.

After 60 years, this joint has a line out to the street by keeping it simple; $11.50 gets you half a wine basted chicken, roll, crisp corn on the cob and fresh potato salad. Not to mention, it's right outside of the Round House Bar, and now has a small patio bar so you can get a drink quickly, even serving 3 Great Lakes Brewing Co. brews on tap. This place serves over 700 dinners on a busy day on the island and is open LATE on the weekends serving up their signature chicken. My cousins and I were gnawing on this grub at midnight and it was still perfect! Make sure you have extra napkins!!

The Chicken Patio has a simple menu. With dinner, you get barbecued chicken, corn on the cob, potato salad and a roll. After a long sail in from Amherstburg a few years back, my dad and I made a beeline for this place, and were rewarded with some of the most mouthwatering chicken I've ever had, along with an ice cold draft beer for him and a lemonade for me (I was 20, boo). The food is great and it's a nice place to grab a quick meal. Make sure to tip the grillers it's hot as anything back there and they do a good job.

This place does one thing and they do it very well BBQ chicken. This place is the ultimate in no frills. They have a monstrous open grill that I would have to say is about 12 feet long and the guys grilling do a great job. The sauce is very good but since we went there right around closing some of us in our group said that their chicken was a little dry. Mine was not dry at all fortunately and the potato salad was excellent too as I have never found one that had quite the taste of the stuff I had here. I also thought the peanut wagon was a nice little novelty. On their massive outdoor patio they have a little peanut wagon looking thing where you can get a cold beer or lemonade and some fresh roasted peanuts.