With its wooden paneling and knick-knacky paraphernalia, Smokey Joe's tries incredibly hard to provide Penn students with that "neighborhood-bar feel." Smoke's is as much a real neighborhood bar as Anne Taylor Loft is just another local boutique.
For those of us looking for a little more authentic neighborhood bar feel, there is a real one at 44th and Spruce. Kellianne's Tavern is a hole-in-the wall, local dive bar -- the kind that even if you don't remember where you ended up the night before, the smell of your smoke-infused clothes the next morning will quickly jog what little of your memory you may have left.
Cheap and easy seems to be the motto of Kellianne's. Cheap beer flows from the tap and 25-cent songs flow from the jukebox, allowing everyone to agree with Bob Marley that they like jammin' too.
Kellianne's has a couple of pool tables, and until 9 p.m., your typical bar food of burgers and fries. The crowd tends to be a little older than the usual bar around Penn -- more grad students and neighbors.
The bar makes you feel as though if you go there for a little while, suck up to the bartender a whole hell of a lot and buy everyone a round of drinks, Kellianne's might just be the place where everybody will know your name.
