They only take reservations for 8 people. So we showed up with nine and asked for a table of 6 and a table of 3. Manager came out and asked us to leave because he thought we were taking advantage of covid. He came out aggressive and the female manager was a complete asshole. Never going there again... read more

The brisket tacos were good, the pear and prosciutto flatbread was really sweet and my husband could only eat a couple of pieces and the server never asked if he wanted something else or if he wanted a box. There was a great drink selection. The views are beautiful, however the service will prevent me from returning. We felt rushed the entire time we were here and the original dish I ordered the kitchen ran out of. Our server dropped off our bill and as soon as she returned we tried to get dessert but we were informed that the kitchen closed "15 minutes ago" (9:30). Ordinarily I would understand but we came specifically to see a band that didn't start until 10pm, so it would have been nice to know if there was a last call for the kitchen. Additionally 20 minutes later the family at a table next to us was served a huge plate of carrot cake (it looked so good!) Really unfortunate for such a great location in such a nice town. read more

We have always liked this place, mainly for the shrimp in a kone. They don't carry it any more. A member of our party ordered a glass of Chardonnay and it was very sweet, may have been a mispour. She asked to have it replaced and the manager sent the waitress out to tell us we would have to pay for another glass. It was tacky, first of all to charge for it but mostly to make the waitress convey the message. The food was good. Might go back, not sure. read more

Yummy food. The cod was nicely battered and the burger was good. The staff was friendly and service fast. If you are out this way you should definitely stop in for some good food and greay view of the bay read more

Really cool little place tucked away on the tip of the pinky. Pretty cool beer club concept that decorates their ceiling. I had the Mahi Tacos on my visit and they were put together very well. The service was ok but the food definitely made up for it. read more

This is always one of our favorite Leelanau spots, but especially this time of year sitting on the outdoor balcony watching the sun set over Omena Bay. My wife had the perch cone, a generous portion of perhaps the best fried perch on the peninsula. I had the newly-added Knot a Salmon Burger, which is a nice filet of salmon on a toasted bun. Dylan was especially attentive as our server, and our waits were minimal even though they were busy. read more

We found this establishment within 3 weeks of its opening in 2007 and were skeptical at 1st because of the wine bar . My son and mother LOVED the place, ESPECIALLY the FIsh & Chips. Very good value. We only visit the area once a year but we now eat there instead of at the Bluebird in Leland now. (My mom had been going to the Bluebird for over 50 years!) 5 stars all the way! Will be there again this year in mid August read more

We sat outside on the deck which is right on the water. I got an iced tea but there are beers from all over the world. I ordered the Buffalo chicken wrap and fries. The wrap was awesome but the fries were the best I've ever had. My wife ordered mahi-mahi tacos and said the portion was quite generous and it was delicious. This is a must try when you are in the area. read more

Knot Just a Bar - American Near Me - Omena, Michigan

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So sad, this used to be our go to place, fantastic view, always had really good food. But it's really gone down hill this summer, owners have not been seen since the spring. Hamburger ordered medium was cooked to a pulp! White fish sandwich, huge bun and maybe 3ozs. of fish. Service and wait staff still good. David or Amanda need to be around to bring the quality back to where it was. We'll give it some time and hope for the best. read more

Just don't do it. From the food to the cocktails.......its just not right. You are essentially paying only for the view at omena bay

Great food & service. Great view. Server was from Australia. One of the best servers ever, anywhere.

Zero stars, Horrible experience! Not surprised that the psycho Mgr/host has been mentioned in 3 of the last 7 reviews, our family of 6 didn't even sit down before this psycho chased us out... My wife put our name in for party of 6, they say 15-30mins, no problem and no mention of any rule about whole party needs to be standing at host stand before they will seat you. I sat at the bar, had a drink, and let crazy mgr/host guy know I was the party of 6 and I would be sitting alone at the bar as my wife is wine tasting next door. 15 mins later he calls my name, table is ready. I wave to him to let him know I am cashing out at the bar, he acknowledges. I cash out, give up my bar stool in the full bar, and approach the host stand. Crazy mgr says with his crap attitude "I can't seat you until your whole party is here", I say ok, (would have been nice to know that before, but ok), I look back and my bar stool is now taken. Would have been nice for him to take 5 steps over to the bar and tell me that since he knows I'm alone, but my wife is next door and kids will be here in a few mins with their grandparents. I wait, he calls another party and seats them as I'm standing holding my drink, I see my table is sitting vacant on the patio. My wife walks up, hands full, holding a bag with 3 bottles of wine from next door, he ignores us and calls/seats another table while we wait. He comes back and continues to ignore us, as our table remains vacant on the patio. We are a bit annoyed, but acting totally nice. I nicely ask "are you really not going to let us sit at the table right there until my kids are standing in front of you"? (as my wife and I stand there hands full). My wife adds "nobody mentioned our whole party needed to be here to be seated when we put our name in or we would've made sure they were here". Crazy mgr host does not even try to be nice, just goes off on us about how rude we're being for asking to be seated. Keep in mind I have been calm and nice the entire time and any sign of a nice explanation from him would have been enough for us, but now he's aggressively and angrily talking at my wife and calling us rude. Needless to say I get in his face and tell him not to talk to my wife that way, and he threatens to call the police on me! What fantastic customer service! This guy shouldn't be providing customer service at a prison let alone a restaurant. We took the high road before things get out of hand and simply told him we will never be back. We've been to the knot several times over the years and this guy and his crap attitude have been there for years, food is not good but view is nice. Kind of unbelievable this guy still has a job, considering evidently lots of people continue to have problems with him, and the food stinks... The rest of the staff seems nice read more

Group of six, terrible service, mediocre food. We waited at least 10-12 minutes just to get a server at our table. The kid that was our server was either new or just completely clueless. The soup was cold and the steak was gray-- which usually means it was FROZEN! The view isn't bad but there are far better places to stop than this place. read more

It's Knot a Friendly Place Either My in-laws live in Suttons Bay so we thought we would take them here for a nice lunch on the patio. Even though it was the Sunday before Memorial day it was not that busy - probably because we got there at 2:00 pm. We walked in and there were 3 open tables on the patio. They were Not reserved. When we asked to sit at one of the patio tables, the hostess told us they were being left open for parties of 5 and because we were only a party of 4, they would not let us sit outside. They said this despite the fact that there were not one but 3 open tables on the patio and it was already 2:00 pm. My in-laws are both 81 years old and move slow but they could care less - they would have preferred them standing around for an hour waiting for a table. Needless to say, the attitude of the hostess and servers was very unreasonable and inflexible. We also talked to the manager but she gave us the same answer. The attitude we got here was like they were doing us a favor for just being open and if we didn't like it, then we should leave. And that's exactly what we did - we quickly left. I'm guessing that the owner was not around or maybe the owner could care less and gets more than enough business to be concerned with unhappy customers. People come here for the view and pretty much the view only. The food is ok - average at best. We ended up driving a short distance to Northport and having lunch at a new place called Tuckers. They have an outdoor patio. Another option would have been to drive back to Suttons Bay and have a nice lunch there. We will Knot be coming back to Knot Just a Bar. read more

A regular stop for dinner while we're in Michigan for the summer. Great view over one of the prettiest bays in the area. Kids love the serve-yourself popcorn from the popcorn machine. Cone of fish & chips always a favorite, but menu has plenty of other options if you're not a fish eater. Service is always excellent. Special kudos to our server last night: Dylan! Super personable, friendly, great service. Pleasure to be seated in his section. read more

Nice spot on the water for dinner and drinks. Menu has a ton of great options. Try to get a table on the patio and for Dylan, he's a great server. read more

Excellent place to get a great sandwich, soup and coffee. We love coming here has a great variety of food. Excellent service! read more

I first ate there very soon after the Omena location opened, so maybe they were still working out the kinks. But what I had that day was probably the worst meal I have ever been served. It was a blustery winter day, so the Turkey Pot Pie sounded just about perfect, the ideal comfort food to eat while watching the snow squalls and whitecaps out on beautiful Omena Bay. Their turkey pot pie, though, was horrifying. Imagine a large bowl filled to the brim with some sort of orange liquid, topped by 4 burned Pillsbury Grands (OK, probably Gordon Food Service) biscuits floating on top. I'm an adventurous diner, so I gave it a try. I hate to say this, but the bitter, revolting taste brought only one thing to mind - vomit. When the waitress checked back, I had to admit that I found it inedible and she acknowledged that it was indeed quite a unique interpretation of turkey pot pie that a lot of people didn't like. Count me on that list! We've been back one other time, only to join a group of friends. I had fish and chips. Although quite bland, at least It was edible. The location is absolutely superb so they'll probably do quite well serving even sub-par food. But if a good meal takes priority over great views, you'll do well to pass up "The Knot". read more

Mediocre food, unruly table wait. Used to enjoy it more. Think I won't return, despite the view.

Great deck views but only average food. Best part...the winery tasting room next door. :)

Wonderful service and an even more wonderful view! Jane took care of us out on the patio and suggested we try the crawfish Monica and one of their signature 'Kones' - the meal was absolutely delicious! We also took advantage of the lengthy beer list and the beautiful sunset. Would love to come back soon! read more

Reliable great food and fabulous view - going there by boat is awesome too

Our server was Caleb. He was very friendly when he came to our table and all throughout our meal. He was fun to talk to and told us interesting things about beautiful leelanau county. Our service was great and timely. He made sure we had everything we needed. Our dinners were very tasty. The Greek salmon salad was delicious and the salmon was Cooked to perfection. I was very impressed how fresh the greens were and the quantity of the cherries. I love going there and sitting out on the deck! read more

Been here several times before in the last 10 years, service has never been a strong point but the location on the bay and the wine tasting next door is hard to resist not coming in here. This last experience on a Tuesday evening was by far the worst for us. I'm not going to knock a server/manager who was having a bad day but Sara should have stayed home Tuesday night. It wasn't her fault that everything we ordered at the bar was "out" but she was annoyed with us just for coming up to the bar to order a drink! We were all on vacation and in great moods and she completely made us feel like we should have gone somewhere else. Not sure why, none of us had even had a sip of alcohol yet. I still love the view and the place itself but the miserable service, long wait times and so many out of stock things really made for an unpleasant visit. :-( read more

The outside patio is gorgeous. The service was incredibly slow and there was not a customer base there to justify it. Our server never checked on us after dropping off our entrees and we were hoping for drink refills. The food is average. Nothing was terrible but there was nothing we'd ever find ourselves craving again. We ordered the steak bites. My husband had the fish cone and I had the shrimp pasta with a Cajun cream sauce. The horseradish sauce for the steak bites had no flavor. Neither did the cream sauce for the shrimp. There's a seasoning problem here. Then we ordered dessert. The cherry crisp is clearly microwaved before serving because it is soggy and we had the s'mores thing that was ridiculously hot. It is served hot in a cast iron pan and it is BOILING. It is like napalm. This tempers the chocolate so the dessert hardens in the pan by the time it cools enough to eat. Great theory, terrible execution. We were going to order drinks but because it took 20 minutes for two diet Cokes and 45 minutes for the appetizer, we gave up the idea. read more

Knot a Bar, not a star. Well maybe one star for past pleasures on its deck. Fantastic view. But this year, we ordered take-out dinner salads twice in two weeks. The first week, good but smaller blackened salmon piece than previous years. Smaller chicken breast as well. This week the manager refused to make the same take-out salads, each $15.00. Too busy. Too bad. As longtime Omena summer folks, we won't be back. read more

The first time we went I wasn't expecting much so I was pleasantly surprised. Great summer salad (spinach, cherries, goat cheese, grilled chicken and candied nuts) and so many great beers to choose from. Fried macaroni bites were good with beer but would have been better with panko instead of batter...had good slightly spicy dip. Mahi fish taco was very good. Next trip not as impressed. Steak was not special at all though it was cooked appropriately. They sliced it which dried it out. Fish and chips cone was average. The service and view are excellent. read more

Food mediocre at best. Hotter than heck inside, tables available outside but wouldn't seat us there. I opened a window next to where we were sitting just to get fresh air. Employee told me to shut it because the air was on.... there was no way air was on or if it was it is incapable of cooling restaurant. She was extremely rude. This place was recommended by someone that lives locally.... doubt we will be back read more

Our Ribeye tasted like a salt block, $4 up charge for french fries with your $12 sandwich, and the "fried cheese" is literally $13 for 9 cheese luke warm curds. read more

Kristi was an awesome waitress! She was very attentive and took great care of our large family! The food was good, and we enjoyed our lunch! read more

This is a great place to come to. Great food, view and service. Caleb was a excellent waiter! read more

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Our visit was on Monday July 10th. Our server was Kristi with a K! We had a party of 7. She was awesome, the food was great, can't beat knot just a bar. We've been coming here for approximately 7 years, and will absolutely be back again. One of the best in leelanau county, and the state of Michigan read more

Second time in a row that we came in, were seated, and completely ignored for 15 minutes (the first time I got sick of waiting and left, but we decided to give it another try a few days later). Ordered the perch cone. It's usually my favorite perch around, but the fries were cold and the perch was soggy. read more

Great setting food is typically good, salmon salad, brisket tacos, Knots Famous Kone of Fish. Staff is friendly, just a nice place to hang out and look at the lake read more

Wow - has this restaurant ever gone downhill! Not only has the appearance changed - the wait staff now wear bedazzled t-shirts and they installed red vinyl booths this week that makes it look like you're in a McDonalds. But the food is sub-par at best - ordered basic chicken nachos last night that were cold, extremely small in portion and barely contained any chicken. Sorry to say, we might not be back, even despite gorgeous setting this restaurant is in. read more

My family and I came in (party of 10) and were quickly accommodated with very friendly service. It's a little pricey but food did not disappoint. I had the chicken salad wrap and shares the wings with my sister as an appetizer. Two family members eat gluten free and they were happy to see options clearly indicated on the menu! We will definitely be back. Beautiful views too!! read more

Good place to stop for a meal ... I love there "Perch Cone" ... it's a great meal. Don't forget to sit on the deck and see the beautiful bay ... read more

Stopped in for a drink and had an app. it was ok, not great, but not bad. The service was good. They had a lot to choose form. Glad I stopped in. read more

We only ordered appetizers and drinks, but had a great experience. Appetizers were very basic, but tasty and beer selection is huge, which is a big plus! They offer great prices on beers and the setting is beautiful. Our server was friendly and efficient, as well. I definitely plan to go back - a beautiful patio to sit out on and relax! read more

Mack G was the best, she was funny and friendly and needs to win this contest. You got this Mack, kick ass. The food is great, the view is wonderful. It's one of my favorite places to eat. read more