Kelly's Restaurant

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  If this is the place I'm thinking the food is bland but coffee and prices are great. A little salt and salsa and you have a great restaurant :-)

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  Posted on 04.13.13 Phil R.

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  Typical small town "family" restaurant in a market with few other options. The prices were too high for what you get, the dining room is, as another reviewer put it, "icky". They definitely know "y'all ain't from around here" (even though I only live about 5 miles away) as the entire dining room of geriatrics turns to size you up when you walk into the drab and "icky" dining room. The servers seemed a bit annoyed that we were bothering them with the whole being there thing. The service was dreadfully slow. It took over a half an hour to get three sandwiches, three orders of fries, and three drinks. The food certainly wasn't worth the price. I had been curious about the place, and it's pretty much as I expected. Overpriced and unappetizing. Boo.

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  Posted on 09.10.12 Aaron H.

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  as a CS "townie" I would go here occasionally. Always had good service and good food.  Hadn't been there in a while, so we decided go last night.
  
  I was very surprised on this experience.  First, the prices appear to have jumped, but I didn't mind because they typically had good sized portions!  
  
  What I was most surprised about was what I observed. Two of the waitress were openly hacking like a cold+smokers cough. Hacking near the coffee machine, hacking near the service window, hacking in and out of the back area. Sometimes covering their mouth, but sometimes not, then serving the food/drinks with no evidence of washing hands or even using some kind of bacterial disinfectant. Fortunately our waitress was a younger woman who was kind and professional.  
  
  Our food was 2-stars "Meh". Hot Turkey sandwich was on the mild side of "luke-warm".  Honestly, I didn't want to send it back for the microwave because 1. it would have come back like a soggy leftover and 2. I was afraid that it might get handled by one of those women.  We ate it, but I felt like there was a cleanliness issue there and didn't enjoy it.
  
  Maybe I just caught them on a bad night.  I think the owner takes pride in his work and in the past I'd go 3 maybe 4 stars. For a greasy-spoon, they have been pretty good.  However, I was compelled enough by my experience to yelp them. Perhaps the owner will read this and make some upgrades.  
  
  It's the little things...   I will go back and when I do, I'll yelp it again.  I've liked Kelly's in the past and would like to again.

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  Posted on 02.11.12 Jerr S.

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  Kelly's is a good example of why you don't judge a book by its cover.   Located in a drab grey building on the largely-derelict main drag of Cedar Springs, Kelly's manages to look slightly more inviting than the vacant furniture store next door.  But just slightly.
  
  Inside, the dining room is drab and could probably use a scrubbing, and the menus are....well....sticky.
  
  What a pleasant surprise then to get a beautifully pan-fried fillet of fresh walleye for lunch, paired with equally-well-prepared homefries and a salad!  Oh, and a HOMEMADE dinner roll!  My companions' breakfasts all came with toast made from homemade bread as well, including a lovely wheat bread and a delicious dark rye.
  
  I'd not left any room for dessert, but the pies in the case by the door looked like good, homemade fare as well.  All in all, a perfectly fine meal from this off the beaten path restaurant.

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  Posted on 01.11.12 Gerry S.

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