The Y Knot is an awesome hangout place. It’s located roughly in the middle of nowhere. The place has a large seating area, a big bar, and a big patio for outdoor seating that contains another bar. On top of that, they have a closed in volley ball net area that you can play while waiting for your food. They apparently also have horseshoe pits, but they smelled like dog piss when I got near them. It was odd. We decided to sit outside and did get a short round of volleyball in. The food came out extremely fast, especially considering how many cars were parked outside the place and how many people were there. The service was far from stellar though. It took a while for us to get out orders taken, then the waitress never really checked up on us at all. Also, we had to ask for napkins twice before we received any. The place is great; the service is not.
The wings were a bit small for the $0.50 price tag. It’s not that they were miniscule, but they weren’t that impressive. You’ll get your fill, but just barely.
There was nothing out of the wild here for their flavors. They had your average choices with slight variations. The 2012 House Sauce is a pretty interesting addition that is hard to say no to.
I don’t know what I was thinking the first time I went to Y Knot and gave it a 6 for score. Maybe their wing sauce has drastically changed, or maybe I ordered better wings, but this time around, I was let down. I tried the Southwestern, the 2012 House Sauce, Hot, Caesar Hot, and Hot Garlic. I’ll start off by saying a lot of the sauces tasted extremely similar. The Hot was very vinegary with a slight kick of spice. There was not much of a butter taste here. They weren’t horrible, but it wasn’t my cup of tea. The Southwestern were very similar to the Hot. It was a slightly darker sauce with some seasoning in it. The seasoning was not that prevalent, but it tasted almost as though they added Worcestershire sauce to their Hot. The Hot Garlic was the Hot sauce with minced garlic from a can added to it. I’m sure you can guess how that tasted. Caesar Hot could have done with a bit more Caesar flavoring. Again, it was their Hot sauce with some Caesar dressing drizzled over it. The best of the bunch was the 2012 House sauce. This was like the Hot sauce, but it did contain a bit more buttery flavor and slight sweetness. In my opinion, this should be their main wing.
The Y-Knot atmosphere is really cool especially in the Summer. In the Summer you obviously can eat outside where they have an outside bar. Most importantly, in the summer, you can actually play volleyball on a legitimate court. You can instantly tell that everyone there live near the place because everyone seemed to know each other, except for us. The only downfall about everything was that our server forgot about us on a few occasions. That doesn’t help anyone.
The wings are 50 cents a wing and they weren’t massive or even jumbo. And for that price, you would like to have a little more meat. I walked away hungry and then filled that space with ice cream Sunday with the works. That was really good.
The Y-Knot has a descent amount of choices for you. They have mild, hot, southwestern, house special 2012, honey mustard, hot honey, hot garlic, and bbq. You should be able to get descent range with these flavors.
Here’s the thing about the Y-Knot. They have a big following and with the size of the place and all you can do there I can see why. But they also have a big following when it comes to their wings and this I don’t understand other than the idea the Y-Knot is the only place to go in Elmhurst. I ordered the hot, southwestern, house 2012 and hot garlic. My issue with all of my choices is that outside of house 2012 sauce all of them taste just about the same. And all of my choices look just about the same. It’s a bit odd but I think what happens here is that they put their plain hot sauce in everything. The hot has a good hot taste to it and the hot garlic is just the hot with garlic on them. The southwestern I feel is just the hot with pepper added to them. Not much of a difference in taste. The house 2012 sauce had more of a sweet taste to them which was alright.
