The Chicken Patio - Put-in-Bay

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!!

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.

Best chicken you will ever taste, grilled to perfection and hot off of the grill. The chicken (original or barbecued) comes with corn on the cob, a dinner roll, and potato salad. All for about $14. Remember to lick your fingers! Forget wet naps! Wash it down with a cold beer from The Round House!

Great meal at the Chicken Patio! For $12 at the end of the night you get large serving of bbq chicken, potato salad, roll, and corn. I look forward to this each year. The staff is not always super friendly but you are served in line and there is no waitstaff so it's not really a huge deal. These guys have to deal with a lot of obnoxious drunk people so I don't really blame them. The food is great! Definitely a must after a night of drinking or day on the boat.

Its 1am. You've been drinking in the sun since noon and someone just asked you your name and it took you a full 10 seconds to think of it. There's only one thing in the world that would be better than going back to your hotel and sleeping the sleep of ages. That thing is Chicken Patio. I've been going to the PIB for over ten years, and in that time I've accumulated many traditions, but when push comes to shove, there's really only one thing on the to do list and that's a late night assault on CP. This usually involves me and my friends grabbing some of the last few dinners available (come too late, you'll get shut out a fate worse than getting the flashlight at the Roundhouse) and carrying them back to where we stay. At least one person will inadvertantly drop their dinner, leaving them to suck other people's chicken bones for a morsel of the tasty goodness once we're done eating. Oh yeah, speaking of chicken bones, they, along with spent corn cobs, make for great late night projectiles (what can I say, PIB turns me into a ten year old). So yeah, I can't vouch for this place in the sober light of day, but there's nothing finer when your seeing double and need some late night nourishment.