Kelly’s Tavern

Ordered soup and a sandwich. Since I had never tried the soup of the day they offered today, they brought a sample out to me! That was awesome. This is my second time here and I’ve had great service both times.

This is a typical bar for me. I live right across the street. The only thing we eat here is wings and they do the job. This is the type of place we come to sit and drink along with play pool. I would never come here to eat a meal, I know people that have worked there and I’ve been warned about some of the food.
It’s a hangout, not a resteraunt to me.

The area with pool area is fun but I just can’t with all the smoking :-(good specials and prices. Decent food but again, I can’t with the smoke

I work in Port Warwick and thought I would give Kelly’s a try for lunch one day last week. BIG MISTAKE. I ordered a soup and salad. The soup was supposed to be white chicken chili. It looked like it had already been eaten and someone had thrown it up into the cup. They must have been reheating it for days. I spooned through it and it seemed like all onion. I was afraid to eat and get food poisoning. So I open the salad thinking it can’t be that bad… wrong! Most of the salad was yellow and brown. Such a waste of $ 10. My coworker ordered chicken tenders and fries. The chicken tenders were either over cooked or fried in dirty oil. They were so dark and dry that she could barely eat them. I will not order from here again.

This place is ok, we called before we drove here and asked about the pool tables, we were told there was not a lot of people and there was an open table, well when we get there all pool tables are occupied and the game room is slam full of poeple. And it would be a better bar if they would quit playing trashy ghetto rap all the same time, it’s drawing in a bad crowd

Convenient location. Own private parking lot
Inside smoking area where the bar is
Good for lunch and there is a patio
Overall the food is good and it’s available to different crowds.
Date night for outside patio
Drinks and smoking inside. Convenient when it’s raining or too cold outside

My boyfriend and I went here for a date night and the instant we walked in he wanted to turn tail and leave. I wish we would have listened to his intuition because everything about this visit was horrible. First of all we sat for quite some time in a corner booth without anyone paying us any mind. Then we ordered drinks and an appetizer… both of which took 30 minutes to come to the table. Then when we got our actual entrée it was burnt and tasted of old dirty grease. I would not recommend this «restaurant» to anyone and we will never be making a return trip…

Do not go– terrible! We stopped in because my dad wanted to try the nachos– big mistake. This was essentially a bag of stale chips with a TINY amount of cheese and some other toppings. Sour cream was disgusting. I had the crab dip appetizer and ended up ill– as in «I’m running to the bathroom» ill within a few hours. Husband had the lunch steak fajitas– said they weren’t that great. Place seemed dated and dirty, service was ok. Definitely NOT returning.

Me and a friend come in when we are in town. Always good food and nice people. He loved the Sheppard pie.

I am really having a hard time giving it 1 star… my wife an I got 2 apps, the bacon cheese fries (the little bacon that was on there was mostly burnt) and she got the southwestern egg rolls, same as chili’s except these weren’t as good, my wife said they tasted microwaved and wasn’t impressed. Then we both ordered burgers (done medium). The meat was COMPLETELY FLAVORLESS. The burgers literally fell apart while they were in our hands. The French fries that came with were burnt, and stale, not even our 10 month old son would eat them. The best part of our meal was the beer I ordered, that came in the bottle. Should’ve just stuck with the age old parking lot test, if it’s pretty dead on a Saturday night, its probably that way for a reason.

I’ve never been one to really complain about a place’s décor as I’m not super critical over that. After I go out to eat for the food not for the ambiance.
Let me start by saying that the service was decent. Our server (a twenty-​something lady) was polite, offered suggestions and was sweet to my daughter.
However that is where the «good» stopped. I ordered the Shepherd’s Pie (the waitress suggested it). The taste was okay but would have been better had it been even remotely warm. I mean seriously, they could have put it in the microwave.
My boyfriend ordered the crab cakes. I thought maybe my food was cold bc they were preparing his crab cakes. However his food was also cold. For $ 18, I don’t think it’s too much to ask for warm crab cakes.
The restaurant was not busy at all. I am so disappointed in the service. Our bill wound up being close to $ 70 and it was by far one of the most pathetic, unpleasant meals that we have ever had.
I only give 2 stars bc my daughter thoroughly enjoyed her salad and the server was nice. There are apparently several of these restaurants in the area and I can say without a doubt that I would be 100% unwilling to eat at another «Kelly’s» establishment. Ick.

Meh, I’ve been to two Kelly’s Tavern, this one in NN and the one in Hampton. I didn’t dine in the one in Hampton and only went there for the pool and drinks. However, I had a blast at the one in Hampton but the one in NN is definitely in need of some major changes.
The one in NN is located at the entrance in Port Warwick, so you would think they’d get a nice flow of business seeing as CNU is nearby and other popular destinations.
Nope.
The times I’ve been and passed by it looks deserted. The outside parking lot vacant and the building looks sad. Once inside it’s no different, we had to literally wait for a host during lunch time to come and attend us. It was a Friday, about 12:30 and there was only one table full. Hmm. Anyway, we were seated towards the left rear and found our tables to be very sticky so I moved to another less sticky table. The place does reak of smoke which I found to be very unappealing, the air in the restaurant was very heavy.
The service was actually pretty quick and the waiter was nice too. She was helpful explaining some specials but they honestly didn’t sound that appealing to me. I went with my mother who ordered the jerk chicken. She seemed to be picking at her meal and really only ate the french fries. My sister ordered a bacon burger of some sort and seemed to enjoy her meal. I ordered the roasted veggie wrap which I thought was pathetic looking. It said it had artichokes in it but only found one piece. There was definitely more tortilla than filling and the tortilla tasted old, it crumbled when I took a bite. I feel like I could have bought the same thing at Wally World’s to go cooler. I was the only one who ordered a drink, it was a cotton candy cosmo, which was super sweet. It was okay but tasted like straight up sugar and vodka. It wasn’t even pretty looking.
Overall, the food is meh, and the drinks are just okay. The smoke and dirty tables aren’t my style when I want to dine out comfortably so I’ll probably pass.

Good food, but some serious upkeep needs to be done in the billiards/​darts area. The dart boards are busted up, and the chalkboards used to keep score are so worn out that you can’t even write on most of them. Also, bring your respirator if you plan to play darts or pool, because it seems like everyone in there smokes like a chimney and the ventilation sucks…

The broccoli chicken rice soup is amazing!!! I keep going back just for that! Turkey burger is also very good. The place is cool… unfortunately the tv’s and pool tables are in the smoking area. Since I’m not a smoker I only come here for lunch.

Meh, meh, and meh. Stopped in on a weekday for dinner. The place was not very busy at all. Got a sticky table outside as the whole inside smelled like an ash tray. Kind of felt sad and boring. Service was ok. Nothing to write about. Drinks were the same. Food was just greasy pub fare and apparently the sandwich I ordered was just a thoughtless cold cut… Wouldn’t have known based on the description.

The table was sticky, the people were ok and the food wAs pretty sad. The thing with the most flavor was southwest egg rolls that are pre made and frozen, probably from Cisco. The rest was bland. I hope it was just a bad day for them, but even with living less than a mile away, I will not return. Just wasn’t worth the money.

BEWARE OF THE BLONDE BITCH IN CHARGE!!!
If i could give this restaurant a score in the negative, i would…
Worst experience I have ever had at a restaurant. Most of the food was not good nor looked good. The first clue should have been that it was noon and the place was completely empty. You could have heard a cricket chirp. The General Manager was extremely rude (and that’s an understatement). She told my mother she was copping an attitude after telling us we had complained about everything. Shortly after, she raised her voice telling us to get out and never come back while walking away and exiting the room. I will do exactly what she told us to do and never go back.
Yuck!

We stopped by the Hampton Kelly’s tonight with my husband and two of our boys tonight. It was right around dinner time and the only other people in the dining area seemed to be one other couple. We probably should have taken that as a sign of things to come.
Our waitress also seemed to be playing both hostess and waitress for the dining area — and she was the only one waiting tables. That seemed unusual since it was dinner hour.
We asked the waitress a few questions while we were ordering and she just didn’t seem to know anything about the menu at all.
Our orders:
My husband ordered a Kelly’s Original Hamburger, the white chili, and a side salad.
I ordered the Tuna Rockefeller without the spinach
Our 15 year old son ordered the Flamethrower Cheeseburger
Our 11 year old son ordered the Fried Egg Burger with no tomato and no lettuce
– burgers all came with french fries, tuna came with steamed broccoli and garlic mashed potatoes
When we were seating there were only two sets of silverware wrapped in napkins on the table. My son asked twice for silverware and a napkin and no one ever brought any. Fortunately you don’t need silverware to eat a burger :-/​but napkins are definitely nice to have, especially with fried eggs.
We waited nearly a full 30 minutes before my husband’s salad came out even though there was no one else in the dining room. Another 10+ minutes for rest of the food to come. They sent out a bacon cheeseburger instead of the fried egg burger, but they took it back and corrected it right away with no problem.
The burgers all looked pretty good and everyone seemed to enjoy them.
The white chili was so-​so, nothing really special there.
Everyone agreed that the french fries were oily and mushy, not very yummy.
The tuna was extremely overcooked. It died 10,000 deaths in that kitchen. The steamed broccoli was fine and the garlic mashed potatoes were okay (though I didn’t really taste any garlic) but I returned the tuna — and didn’t ask for another one.
I probably should have insisted on having the tuna removed from check, but I didn’t and they didn’t offer. $ 14 for potatoes and steamed broccoli. The waitress didn’t seem surprised it was overcooked. She said she would tell the cook, but also added that everyone seemed to be saying the food was overcooked.
If I were basing my review on just my meal it would only be one star rating. But my kids really enjoyed their burgers (even though neither of them liked the fries) so that earns at least one star.
The moral of the story is if you’re going to eat at this restaurant, stick to the burger selections on the menu.
*** Update the next morning after dining at Kelly’s *** Last night after I wrote this review and we started to settle in for the evening and get ready to go to bed it started. Everyone got sick! (we’re all still feeling pretty ill) I’m dropping my original rating from 2 stars to 1 star. ***

Hard to rate a restaurant, that has been one of your favorite places to go to when you are having a dinner you didn’t expect to be having. Kellys Tavern has been my place to go when I wanted to have a hotdog for dinner. Tonight, I found it has been dropped from the menu.
I didn’t even bother to look at the menu, when I arrived. Already knew what I was having. Then the wife chimed in, they have a new menu; about the same time the server arrived. I announced to her that I was having a Hot dog. When she told me that they had been dropped from the menu, it stopped me in my tracks. She left, and I looked for something else. Kelly’s has great burgers. No one can ever take that away from them. But I was not in the mood for a burger.
Unfortunately in business today, whenever I see words like New and Improved, Same Great Taste, New Look, I already know that the product has taken a turn for the worse. So now it was true at Kelly’s. It appears that they raised their prices, and at the same time, cheapened their product, in order to stay competitive with other area establishments. It’s not just here. It’s everywhere. Prices are out of control, and the higher they raise prices on menu items, the faster it will drive customers away.
So tonight I am having Fish & Chips, while the wife is having her favorite item, walnut chicken salad wrap.
The wrap that the wife ordered was tasty. It was, however, noticeably smaller than previous times she has ordered it. Instead of being a tightly wound item with layers of lettuce, chicken salad, about the diameter of a Pepsi can, it was more like a folded over taco. It was about 2/3’s the size of her previous orders. Her fries, like mine, were under cooked and oily.
I had ordered Fish and Chips. I was served a medium sized fish filet, that was lightly breaded, and hot to the touch. It came with the same slightly warm oily tasting under cooked fries, *pink* cole slaw and a piece of cold garlic toast that was oily to touch and taste.
With 2 glasses of tea our bill, including tip was a few cents under $ 35.00. This is the first bad meal I have gotten at Kelly’s Tavern, and though it appears that my review is biased over their removal of the items that I came to order; it is not. My meal was unappetizing, aside from the fish. The wife’s meal was undersized, and frankly neither of us thought our trip there was worth the $ 35.00 cost.
Unfortunately, tonight will be our last visit. With the cold, over priced meal, and the change in the menu, I can’t think of a reason to come here anymore.
I give Kelly’s Tavern a 0 for their fries, coleslaw and toast tonight. A 4 for the server (she was wonderful). A 4 for the fish, and a 2 for the wrap. Overall score of a 1.
Buyer beware.
@Removeyourhat

A smoker’s best friend. Unfortunately, I am not a smoker.
Kelly’s has recently reconfigured their restaurant so that the bar area and pool area are enclosed for smoking. So now it looks like a majority of the place is geared towards smokers. So if you want to catch the game at the bar, be prepared to inhale lots of smoke.
I had a burger with beer braised onions and cheese. It was okay– pretty unmemorable, along with the fries. I always get a side of BBQ sauce with my burgers and fries and the sauce really helped.
Service was good. I feel sorry for the servers with all the smoking going on…’tis life in Virginia, I guess. Oh, and there were a lot of cute boys when I went on a Wednesday night.