Had a meeting I’m a middle aged woman from nyc. I order a beer , I asked the bar guy what’s the special or happy hour he said oh with a hand throw towards the Patio we were going to have 1/2 of our cocktails but you have to have them Putin the patio. I said it’s too hot so I stayed at the bar. I then asked for a scotch uhm boalsburg pa restaurant charges $12 for scotch ok no thanks. Then I decided to order a burger and again asked the bar tender if there other burgers to choose from given I saw a list of burgers the last time I was there with a date. There was a turkey burger for sure and a Mexican burger and bison and on and on. But the bartender just thre the specials menu at me ( which he hadn’t showed me before I ordered). And it didn’t have the turkey burger on it either????!??????? Dipshit what didnTHAT prove? Oh it proved you had specials and you didn’t bother to share them to me a middle aged woman. Then when my burger came out .., I had ordered rare with blue cheese ..., it was cold crumbles of blue cheese absolutely no attempt to melt to balls of blue chees. Not very nice to try to eat !!!! Every single burger with blue cheese I’ve ever ordered had melted the cheese. So I asked the bartender if my crumbles could be melted . He said you can throw in the microwave 🤔🤔🤔🤔. Then I got my check and he upcharged me for cheese. But you should have seen the food coming out for his buddies at the bar huge filets like 14 ounces then the custom cocktails were all the sudden for the bar area now???? Oh yeah you bare face lied to me again 😳. The cocktail special was for the entire restaurant. ...
Read moreIt had been an exceptionally cold week and we just wanted to go somewhere and have a good dinner. The waitress seated us in the narrow walkway between the bar area and the front. There was a large group across from us and they were very loud. We leaned in closer and managed to have a conversation. I ordered the Halibut cheeks, Ann ordered the salmon and a salad and a glass of wine. It all came at once. I make really good mashed potatoes, so I know good mashed potatoes. In the middle of my plate, between the "summer medley" and the solitary halibut cheek was a puddle of white starchy slurry that was supposed to be the mashed potatoes. Although the menu reads Halibut "cheeks" plural, I was served one. It has about the size of one and one half fish sticks. I would say approx. 2 to 2 1/2 ounces. The summer medley (broccoli and sliced yellow squash and zucchini) was under cooked. Ann said her salmon was good and gave me half of her oven roasted potatoes. My analysis of the situation was that they were down to one halibut cheek and rather than tell me they were out they just said, give the guy the last one and tell him it's done by weight. Our dining at Kelly's was a culinary bad joke. For far better food and quicker service, drive approx. a mile further on South Atherton and there is a McDonalds in Hills Plaza. I've had good meals at Kelly's in the past. It was once on our list of regular places they we frequented. It is off the list. They have forgotten how to treat people and how...
Read moreEvery COVID-19 dining experience is weird but Kelly's made it enjoyable as possible. We dropped off our freshman at Penn State and decided to treat ourselves to our first dinner out in 5 months. We were not disappointed. The waitress was excellent and we ate on the back patio. They were conscientious, cleaned every surface and all patrons were masked when walking around. The food was excellent.
Now here's the weirder part: the bar next door named The Bar. We were told we had about a 20-minute wait and that we could go next door, get a drink and they would text me when the table was ready.
Their clientele couldn't be more different and I was even told it's the same owner. We walked over with masks on and the crowd of a dozen or so patrons sitting out front were clearly not happy to see us. I've lived in lots of places, deal with all sorts of people, but we were clearly unwelcome.
Not to say the bartender wasn't great and glad to see us. She helped my wife choose a cider and I bought a few craft beers. Walked out to the patio and holy cr@p; stared down again. I'm glad my mask was still on because I may have actually been laughing at that point. This was bizarre.
Found a table, pounded one beer, started another when the dude with the blue, shoulder-length hair in biking leather came up to the table and stared at me, my beer, then me again. Then walked away. Yah, I got the message - no polo shirts allowed.
TL;DR Kelly's was really good, avoid The...
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