Kelseys Original Roadhouse Upper James Street

Perfect place for a dinner with friends. Nice table, good food and service. Good value, delicious food.

The waiting period was long almost 30 minutes for our drinks) and although the appetizers we ordered were good and quite fast), the rest of our food took some time to reach another 30 minutes. When my order fries on chicken benches and sweet potatoes, the chicken was overcooked/dirty old oil) and not edible. The hostess was nice and offered to replace her and remove her from the bill, but I didn't want to keep the rest of my group and wait longer until my food arrives. I had a different order of deals to go, but they were burned as much as the first batch: The restaurant itself is quite old and in the need of some DC and repair seats torn, walls dirty, bathroom a mess. Probably not back to this place.

Was really good food. Nice evening. Found that the lighting above our table was far too sharp and bright, gave him a bad ambience. Service was fine, we had a mistake for our order and a dish was forgotten and had to wait a while until the drinks refilled.

Service was terrible. The table was very cold. Fruit flies were in abundance and annoying. Ordered 2 apps, 1 came out and 10mins later the other 1 came out. Had to ask for plates, cutlery and napkins. disappointing experience.

We had a reservation at 615 for 6 of us; we were seated in a row facing people in the booths. It's pretty difficult to speak to people at the other end of the table when you're in a row like that. They took our order for apps and entrees at 650, got the apps at 730, and our food shortly after. Did I mention we had a toddler with us? The entrees were not hot, Spinach Dip had raw onion, the bread with our soup still had butter and hard cheese it wasn't even heated. We had to leave money with our guests to pay our bill as we had somewhere to be at 845. We didn't think a 615 reservation would take that long, honestly. I understand most businesses are short staffed, but if that's the case, don't seat a whole section at the same time for 1 waitress so we can all enjoy the whole experience!