Kristi did an amazing job as our server. Took very good care of our party of 7. Great food! Great service! Beautiful views!

Awesome place to stop by after you visit the Leenelau cellars winery, which is next door. My boyfriend and me went there 2 days in a row. The food we had was very good. the pasta and fish there was delicious. if you can and weather is nice go and sit on their patio. the view is amazing. Cant beat good food and great food at same place. They also have great tartar with the fish. The service seemed fine to me. Actually the second time we went there it was a bit chilly and we were sitting outside and the server noticed that i was chilly and she offered to barrow her sweater, which i thought was nice of her. read more

Lovely view, great service. The perch was fantastic and the service was fast and attentive. We really enjoyed the smoked whitefish pate made with fresh whitefish. We ate outside and had a wonderful time. read more

The name is a perfect description - it seems like a modest lakeside fish fry, but on a 5-day vacation we ended up eating here every single night. Beautiful location and amazing food. Great selection of local wines, and one of the best Bloody Marys I've ever had (ask for extra pickle). Order the fried perch, the smelt, and the shrimp. You won't be disappointed. read more

I live a Micky Mantle hit away from The Knot. This is a place with a great view. You can arrive via land, seaplane or water. The Perch Kone is addictive and best with there regular fries. The beer selection is awesome. They have both a beer club and meal reward points where in the first case you get your name on the ceiling and the second case you get free food. Excellent place! read more

Yes, the view is wonderful. Try the fish tacos. They're great. Don't forget to stop by next door for some fine wine tasting at the Leelanau Cellars Tasting Room. read more

Delicious perch with crispy fries in cone..very good. View of lake inside and out..full bar..great service.

Great place with good food and a view unparalleled in the region! New seating arrangement allows for better viewing even from the seats away from the windows. We live nearby and love meeting friends on the outside deck on those hot summer evenings. The wait staff are great. We sometimes come in our pontoon boat and tie up for lunch. If you want a fun time at a great place, this is it. By the way...I am in no way associated with this restaurant. Just a customer tha enjoys good food and an ambience that is hard to find anywhere else. read more

The service was great and great atmosphere. Our perch and seafood chowder was very good. But I do find this place over priced for what you get. read more

We had an awful experience here yesterday. The owner was flat out rude and lacks the basic concept of customer service. Unwilling to accommodate an additional patron that wanted to join us and it took our server having to intervene with his poor service to correct the situation. Our server, however, was absolutely wonderful. The food is mediocre. After years of dining here, sadly last night was the last time. read more

I was looking forward to dining at this place, as it is beautiful and right on the bay. However, the service was not what I would expect. We were with a large group and three women were in the bathroom and a server was also in there. She was very interested in talking about selling merchandise at the restaurant but all conversation was friendly and light. She walked out of the restroom and no one thought anything of it. Then we were seated and were told we would not be served any alcohol. When asked for an explanation, the poor server (who was about 15 and not really equipped to deal with this) got the manager who said a server had reported someone from our group puking in the restroom and they would therefore not serve anyone. While I completely respect the standard of not serving intoxicated or out of control people, this was a totally confusing and blindsiding situation. And affected 10 other people who had definitely not been "puking" in the bathroom. read more

Greek salad with lamb strips was excellent. Good perch. Nice view. Service - not so much. Wanted to try their seafood chowder. Ordered it. Never got it. Staff was in a rush to leave. read more

Such a great location. On water. Ellie was a great server!!! Perch Kone was awesome. I would go back!!!!

Food very good just a little expensive. Had seafood chowder that was excellent and the perch cone that was good. Very good service that was really fast. Would be 5 star except for price. read more

We really like this place. As a vegetarian it has a couple of options for me which is better than a lot of restaurants. The hotel first recommended it to us 2 years ago and we weren't disappointed when we returned this summer. read more

Nothing fancy. Food was OK. Location was great, it was in October and they didn't have the outdoor part open so that was kind of a bummer but I understand. Great local vibe. There are MANY awesome places to eat in this area. read more

My girlfriend and I stopped here for lunch while wine tasting. The view and seafood chowder were phenomenal. We enjoyed the mahi tacos and smelt kone. I would recommend. read more

The chicken Parmesan my girlfriend ordered was swimming in sauce and rubbery pasta. The burger I ordered was supposed to be medium well but was served as an overdone brick of charcoal. We came in at 9 (the restaurant closed at 10 that day) and the one hostess/waitress was hesitant to even serve us food or alcohol and was overworked. read more

Annalies was our server and she did a great job. She actually asked specific questions when she did her check back, instead of the "How's Everything" line. We shared the perch cone and each of us had a bowl of seafood chowder. Excellent!! Our second time here. We will be back. read more

Great view!!! We had an awesome server - she recommended the fish sandwich with whitefish, but fried with beer batter. It was amazing! Fries are good too. Had mahi mahi.tacos as well - they were good but not at good as the whitefish sandwich read more

Beautiful view, but way too noisy and over priced for food that is all frozen. Nothing is fresh everything except the soup is frozen and then defrosted to cooked. The green stuff they sprinkle over the food is pointless. Waitresses are very nice but some of the hostesses are extremely rude! I'd skip this place if your looking for good fresh food! read more

Awesome view! That made the experience even better, sit on the porch if you can! Amazing chowder and regular bar fair, good fish and the waitress was very attentive even though she was busy! Right next to a winery! read more

This was our first and last visit to this establishment. The waitress was extremely rude as well as was the manager! We chose the outdoor seating as we had our little yorkies with us in their bags. Nobody that was seated out there saw them, but apparently the waitress did. She tried to seat us at this tiny round table and I asked if we could have a square table.....her reply was "we save those for larger parties". They weren't extremely busy as it was 2 in the afternoon. Not like maybe dinner hour or something. And because we didn't sit where SHE wanted us to, she told the manager who then came out and asked if our dogs were service dogs. Of course we replied "no" and she told us that we had to leave. My reply was "Wow....must be business is good". I have had my small yorkies to LOTS of places and I have to say.....this is a first!!! Won't be going back.....even if I have no dogs!!! Their rudeness was unbelievable!!! read more

Have been there several times. We know they do not serve local perch, they serve zander perch. It was way overcooked and by the time it got to us, it was cold. The fries were hot. Had 2 cocktails each, and the total tab was $75. Not worth it. There are other places in the area that do a much better job, at a much better price. The view is good. read more

Kristi was awesome! The Bloody Mary's were delicious, and I am a hard Bloody Mary critic!

Don't bother. As others have said here before me, overpriced bar food. We had a very bad experience at the Knot. My wife had called to make a reservation, which was taken by an employee. When we arrived with eight people for dinner, I informed the manager that we had a reservation and his reply was "not here you don't!" WTF? Really?! Even if they don't accept reservations and their employee made a mistake, at least try to make it right. We left and went to the Bluebird in Leland. Better food and much better people (locals, unlike the Knot which is owned by a group from Detroit). Skip this place and go to Fishers Happy Hour or the Bluebird. Tried and true and owned by locals. I'd give this place no stars if I could. read more

Knot good food! Expensive for subpar food. Waitress was good, but bartenders were unfriendly verging on rude. You work in the service industry- get over yourself read more

Great spot to stop! Caleb took good care of us too! Always one of our favorite places for dinner. Good food, good fun, good service. Fish cones are always a hit. And where else can the hubby get a Hamms and I can have a nice cider. read more

For such a fantastic location this place should be serving a top notch food . But disappointingly it's just slightly less than ok. In the years prior we had fish and chips ( or something similar I can't remember exactly what the dish was called but it was a fried fish and French fry type thing). Very heavy and basic . I was thirsty and felt sluggish the whole day after eating just half of one portion . This year I was careful and ordered a Leelanau salad ( grilled romaine, almonds , dry cherries , chicken strips ). Yet another un- memorable experience . Grilled romaine was a good idea , but the chicken was definitely " industrial" grilled and frozen and the salad dressing ( sour cherry vinaigrette ) reminded me of a semi- set fat free sugar free jell-o. Whoever is the chef that's running this place , please do us all a favor and use just a tablespoon more of your god given imagination and improve the quality of food I this otherwise excellent location . read more

Really mediocre.... and do NOT get the French Onion Soup. It's hot onion water with cheese on top.

Food was mediocre!!! My fish sandwich had more bun than fish!! Only 2 small pieces of fish. I would've liked to have told our waitress but she was no where to be seen until we were ready to leave. The beer I ordered came after we asked for our check, the waitress clearly ticked when I said I really didn't want it 40 mins after I ordered it. My daughter ordered a child's meal with lemonade and got one refill.... Lemonade $5.00. The view was nice but food and service not worth the time!!! read more

I would give this restaurant less than one star if possible. We showed up with 6 family members because it was a central place to eat and meet. The dilemma for the hostess and the waitstaff appeared to be they had multiple tables for four, some of the tables near each other and they wanted us to split up and sit at separate tables! There didn't appear to be any interest in putting a couple tables together and they were frankly indifferent. We simply left and walked up the block to Cava where the welcome was warm, the food good and a better quality of food. We now meet at Cava's when there is a gathering for family get togethers for a quick meal. read more

This place has a beautiful view and decent food...but the bartenders have the worst attitude. We have been twice and each time the bartender is rolling their eyes every time a customer walks in. If you don't like customers - maybe you should get a different job? read more

The hostess when we arrived offered a service tone of what she couldn't do for our larger party. She was rude and unaccommodating and told us we could leave if we didn't like it there. We decided to leave because of the unwelcoming tone and the lack of effort to offer a basic level of service to just seat us. read more

Went in yesterday with my boyfriend and our two friends. After looking at the menu for a while, I decided on a salad. Our food comes out, and it turns out it's a wedge salad, which wasn't mentioned in the menu, if it was I wouldn't have ordered it. Okay, well I guess I'll have to chop up my own lettuce and cut my chicken into bite pieces rather than the strips that it came as. I start on that, and can't finish cutting up my lettuce because I ran out of room on my plate. I wait five minutes for the server to come back, she doesn't ask how anything is just was doing a walk by of our table. I asked her for an extra plate. Ten minutes later she came back with the plate, at this point everyone else was done eating and I hadn't even been able to start my food. I ate a few bites and she came by with checks, still not asking any questions about how things were. We paid and I left a note for the management on making sure to tell people what they're getting when they order things (IE: a wedge salad) and for the server that when everyone at a table is done eating and the last person has barely touched their food, you should ask if everything is okay. Hopefully they take the advice. Not impressed by the food, service, or prices. $16 for a salad I wasn't able to eat. Won't go back. read more

Excellent food, perfect natural surroundings and view, Caleb was a so friendly and efficient, had an awesome meal!

The food and view is one of the best in Leelanau county. The service is awesome!! Great place to eat with family. Caleb is a fantastic server. read more

Great spot on the water!! Came by boat, sat on patio overlooking the bay. Great seafood chowder!! Perch cone was tasty too. Our waitress Ellie was attentive and super nice!! read more

Just had lunch on the beautiful porch overlooking Omena Bay. Our waiter, Caleb, was very pleasant and catered to our every need with a smile. Couldn't have asked for a better waiter and the food was great and substitutions were graciously accommodated. Very nice experience-- will go there again for sure! read more

Knot just a bar is one of favorite places to eat!! The food is already good and tonight we had the pleasure of Annalies as our waitress! She was very friendly and helped make it a great night with friends! read more