Kelly’s Saloon

This is my go-​to dive bar for something strong, cheap, and for great service.
A little «grungy» and dirty, but that’s what you expect coming here. Don’t expect a high class experience – if you want that, try Club 41, the Vital Spot or the Idle. As for me, I choose Kelly’s due to their great price. THEN I go to the other places.
You’ll always be my favorite in Geneseo!

Probably the best bar in the ‘seo.
They make really strong drinks so 1 is usually enough for the nite.
I highly recommend their tom collin’s, which is made with lime or lemon juice and bartons (american for gin haha)

I guess writing a review of this place would be an admission that I have been here. It is a Dive and is Advertised as that. If getting F’d up quick is your goal, this is the place.

I actually really like Kelly’s. Drinks are stronger, which equals getting drunk faster, but it’s not as packed as Idle or Vital… at least when I went. Good place to just chill around and talk to people.
Careful though, because there’s a couple of people who are REALLY territorial of the pool table here.

So the story goes that because Geneseo is a mining town, and because the miners got off work in the morning, you found people drinking at Kelly’s at 7am. So the story goes… But honestly, I never met one miner in there.
Their drinks taste like straight up alcohol. You’re not really getting more alcohol though, they just use smaller than normal cups, the same amount of alcohol and a lot less mixer. So you just think you’re getting more because your drink tastes like shit, but you’re really not.
Which leads me to a neat little trick I was taught here. If you feel like you’re gonna throw up, take a deep long breath through your nose. You’ll feel better immediately.
Oh and the place is a shithole. But relatively, it’s completely average. And when the college kids are away for vacation, the townies infest this place like roaches. Right townies? Wow, you made it onto the internet! Congratulations! Now go celebrate by smoking some meth and driving to Walmart.

Oh Geneseo college bars, and Oh Kelly’s. How did I ever end up going to school in a town with only 5 bars? Maybe this is why I ended up graduating a year early, and fleeing to Manhattan, island of two bars on every block. But I digress…
It has been so long, and that’s not necessarily a bad thing.
However, I have fond memories of your 90% alcohol drinks and wide selection of beer and three kinds of hard alcohol. I once saw a guy here throw up, quietly and ever so neatly, into his lowball glass, then place it gently under the bar. *shudders*
As sketchy and crazy as it is, we always had a great time. Oh college…