Kelley’s Place

Mom lives in Bay City and so we have been known to frequent Kelley’s once in a while. This was the last once in a while for us! Service… poor young girl didn’t have a chance. She was the only one servicing the restaurant and the cook wasn’t doing her any favors. My mom’s bacon was medium rare and her French toast had a huge ring of egg around it where they didn’t tap the toast before putting it on the grill. I didn’t get my bacon at all and my buckwheat blueberry pancakes were over done around one inch of the edge and the middles had holes in them because they weren’t done. My husband ordered the corned beef hash and it looked like boiled potatoes that had been smashed and loaded on his plate… never touched the grill. You could see the owner, Kelley in the back doing dishes and servicing the bar… she wasn’t worried about the full dining room. A couple of tables went out to their car and got their own creamer… and we all poured our own coffee. She lost a few customers that day…

Great country omlet! Wifes scrambled eggs no over cooked and good bacon. Sarah, our server, was overworked but had a great smile and was friendly. Would definitely return

Decent food. Not the best. Staff is ok. There is only 3 or 4 people here so food takes a while and you’re not checked on often. Wouldn’t come out of my way to come here but would stop by if I was passing by and couldn’t wait for food.

This is a family place with a newly updated dining room catering to families and a lounge in the back. Kelleys offers breakfast lunch and dinner. Their prime rib dinner is absolutely amazing and their «as much as you can eat» fish and chips just amazing. Clam chowder is tasty tasty. Breakfast has the best bacon in town and I love my eggs poached and they do a yummy job on those too. Try Kelleys out and leave with a happy tummy:-)

1. Staff
Friendly, helpful, and quick.
Exactly what you want in a server.
I come with three boys so I need to feed them fast!
2. Food
Hot, fresh, flavorful.
It was satisfying. It was filling.
my husband and I had the chowder it was good fresh chowder. I really enjoyed it.
We also had a bacon cheese burger the patties tasted fresh pressed, the cheese was plentiful, the bacon was thick and cooked to perfection.
I can’t speak to what my kids ate but they seemed satisfied.
For dessert we shared a clearly fresh dutch apple pie.
It was what I was hoping to have.
The boys shared a piece of caramel pecan pie. They had the plate clean before I knew it!
There are some less than positive reviews. I think that they may have been looking for more than is offered.
If you want something tasty and fresh and some friendly local service from a nice little fishing town this is a great place to grab a bite.

Clam chowder was awesome! Thick and chunky. We had the fish and chips which was pretty good. The Bloody Mary was fantastic! Our waiter was super nice and friendly. A Nice place to have lunch on your way down the coast.

I can only speak to the clam chowder as we were staying in town and just picked some up to go on a Friday night. I didn’t think it had much flavor to it and have certainly had better… while there aren’t a lot of options in Garibaldi we will probably try some place else next time.

It was terrible. My wife got decaf and it was so weak. The sausage links were weird greasy tasting. The Bench seats were all ripped up. I wished we would of went somewhere else. But I picked the place.

The food was great, service was poor
My wife had Clam Strips — huge pieces of clam, with a baked potato. She loved it! I had a Cheese omelette — Tillamook Cheese — and fries. Good size omelette, plenty of cheese. I’m a fry freak, and rated these as OK. Food service…
The Service was terrible. Yes we were there off season for dinner, but waited 5 minutes to place our order, and the only follow up was if we asked. Disappointing!

great place on the coast!!!

We went here on Labor Day morning after a weekend at the Old Mill campground. We usually head for a little place in Bay City, but decided to walk across the tracks to Kelley’s.
The décor had changed a little since the last time I had been in the building, about 2 years ago when it was a Mexican place. Little charm, with basic tables and booths. You could just as easily see the space being a meeting room as a restaurant eating space.
We waited for the server to clean a booth for us, even though there were only a few people in the place. It became evident that this was the trend, not the exception when we waited and waited just to get coffee. I’ve never been a server, but I do know that the first thing you ask someone after seating them for breakfast is ‘coffee?’. She actually went around the room refilling people and completely ignored us. So it took us a long time to get the coffee and to order. Luckily, the kitchen was faster than the server and the food came out fairly quickly.
And the food was fine, if uninspired. I swear the 3 egg omelet was made with medium eggs, since it was puny compared to what I am used to. A nice touch is that the omelets do come with the choice of toast or pancakes, and I was able to order one buttermilk and one buckwheat. They were also fine, but again a little small. I generally would expect to not finish a 3 egg omelet and 2 cakes, but this plate I easily cleaned.
If the service had been better, I might have given Kelley’s one more star and called it average. But next time, we’ll be heading back to the place in Bay City.

Meh is right. Stopped here for a quick lunch on a weekday. We were early, about 11:00, and when we walked in were the only customers on the restaurant side. My wife likes breakfast for lunch, so she was pleased that they had breakfast all day. I started with clam chowder, which was OK. A little on the creamy side for me and not a lot of clams, but tasty. I then tried the patty melt. Again, nothing really wrong with it, other than the fact that the little round hamburger patty looked kind of lonely on the big piece of rye bread. The meat only covered about the middle third of the bread. My wife had the chicken fried steak and again, OK but nothing wonderful. The gravy on the meat looked just like the clam chowder. Hmmmm. I just thought the food was, at best, industrial in nature. Simple, plain, moderately priced and nothing special.

Solid local greasy spoon with a fistful of clear favorites. While everything we tried in our 2 visits during a week in Garibaldi was perfectly satisfactory, the buckwheat pancakes, chicken fried steak, clam chowder, fish & chips, split pea soup were especially good and would warrant a return visit. The side of fruit salad was delightfully fresh, varied, and plentiful as well –a far cry from the typical diner lackluster half cup of canteloupe & grapes.

I went there because I’d read such great reviews about the fry bread and the yummy breakfast. I have to say we ordered two orders of fry bread with great anticipation and excitement! What wasted emotion. It was not only TERRIBLE, but when I sent it back to the kitchen the manager/​owner came huffing out and asked what’s wrong with it. I told her the oil may have been too hot because it was burnt on the outside and doughy inside — it also had a terrible «off» taste.
She hastily said OK and abruptly left our table as abruptly as she arrived. She came back a few minutes later with our check and said «i took off $ 5 for it (still charging us $ 4) and said she hoped that was OK. I told her neither of us ate more than a few bites before sending it back and we felt the whole thing should be taken off. She glared at me and grabbed the receipt saying under her breath «If that’s what you want».
A few minutes later, she came back to the table, put the bill down and said «Is there anything wrong with your ham?» Truth be told, it was terrible (dry, thin cut, flavorless), but we said «no, it’s fine» and we left without eating it.
We’ll NEVER go back. We eat out a lot and I know it’s easy for a good restaurant to occasionally send out a bad meal. They deserve an opportunity to make it right. What they don’t have the right to do, IMHO, is to make the customer feel like they’ve done something wrong when they complain. Eating out is expensive and I don’t mind the prices, but I really do mind paying for food that is way below par. A manager/​owner should be grateful for a customer that cares enough to say something. Had she offered to remake the fry bread, we would have been willing to try a new batch. Her bad attitude means we’ll NEVER STEP FOOT IN KELLY’S AGAIN.
I absolutely can’t recommend this restaurant!

We have a girls night once a month in Rockaway and always come here the next morning for a huge greasy hangover breakfast! They have fried bread with honey butter that is pretty frickin’ amazing! Their Omelettes are really good and the pancakes are light and fluffy. I don’t know what I look forward to more, girls night or the morning after breakfast at Kelly’s.

Older building that needs some TLC. Friendly staff. Scrambled eggs burned. Pancakes big and pretty good.

mrs. k. and i (not to mention baby k.(!)) wanted some breakfast once upon a saturday about two months ago and went looking for something we hadn’t tried before. Unilocal led us here and once again steered us straight and true.
as you can see from the pictures, we bought a lot of food. i mean a LOT of food.
the server was great — friendly and on point (although be warned, the one we had the next week was pretty meh). the food is not haute cuisine by any stretch of the imagination, but it is good greasy spoon/​diner fare. apparently, according to my sources, it is owned/​run by the same person as the pancake house (in tillamook). so if the pancake house hasn’t treated you right, i wouldn’t probably try this one.
we’ve been back two or three times since then and it has been solid each time. they’re not on the menu, but they *do* have mimosas, people — just ask and you shall receive (i’m a fiend for mimosas). also, you pretty much have to try the fried bread. yep, it is bread… that’s been fried. add honey butter to the mix and you see where i’m coming from.
the service *almost* brings this to four stars, but «a-​ok» is a-​ok…

I ventured in here for lunch on my way down the coast. The décor is very plain, but the wait staff were all very friendly and the service was great. I ordered a crab melt with the homemade beef stew side. They brought the soup out right away and the meal was not far behind. I think it took them 10 minutes at the most to bring out the crab melt. The stew had lots of veggies and beef and tasted good. The crab melt which was on an english muffin was made with a decent quantity of local crab and Tillamook Cheddar Cheese. It was really gooooddd!
I will definitely stop in again and order a crab melt when in season!

This place was great. Our server Autumn was great. Even tho it seemed she was swamped and didn’t have any help, she did a great job & was always smilin’. There are several places that we could have gotten fish ‘n chips, however we chose this place and we are most def happy we did. Staying up the street, considering going back 4 breakfast. Thank u Autumn :-)

My friends and I stopped here for lunch on our way home from Rockaway Beach. The café had only been open a very short while, and we were sure glad we were there when it had.
There were about ten of us, and our server did an outstanding job of making sure she got our orders right; we were served quickly, and the food was wonderful. Most of us had fish and chips (two big pieces for $ 7.95 served with soup or salad and choice of potato, veggie, and bread).
Also on the dinner or lunch were liver and onions (bleh to me), rib eye steak, chicken fried steak, oysters, prawns and chicken.
Breakfast is served all day, which I love: bacon, chicken fried steak, corn beef hash and eggs, rib eye steak. Or omelettes. Or biscuits and gravy or a breakfast burrito. There are also pancakes and French toast.
For lunch there are sandwiches of all kinds as well as burgers. Their clam chowder was delicious.
Prices are very reasonable, the dining area is nice and bright, and I hope this business is successful. We were all really glad we stopped there and I would gladly stop again.