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Iguana Kelley's
Rating Details »
- Hours:
Mon-Sun. 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 a.m.
- Good for Groups:
- Yes
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Parking:
- Street
- Price Range:
-
$$
- Wheelchair Accessible:
- Yes
- Outdoor Seating:
- No
- Music:
- Juke Box
- Best Nights:
- Tue, Thu, Sun
- Happy Hour:
- Yes
- Alcohol:
- Full Bar
- Smoking:
- Outdoor Area/ Patio Only
- Coat Check:
- No
17 reviews for Iguana Kelley's
my favorite long beach dive!
denise, kelly, and adrienne are AWESOME!
LOVE $3 you call it on thursday nights!
love you ladies! Thanks for all the GREAT times!
Monday is great for the food during football. sunday is great for the free pool. and thursday for what i mentioned earlier!
This owner has full intention to continue to create a hostile relationship, which does not seem good for business. He is defensive and harassing, and I have had to block him as a result of his harassment. He has made no mention of a video prior to today, and has made no effort to show a video to me. I personally made the choice not to file a lawsuit because I don't blame him, I blame patrons at the bar and just feel others should beware and make sure to take care of themselves. This is my experience and you are entitled to your own, however, I find it to be terrible business sense and would like to point out that the owner himself has already changed his own comment twice in this single day 10/20/09 with continuous accusations and personal attacks on me. The below statements are in response to his previous comment which has been changed. I encourage you to keep this in mind... if an owner will publicly behave in such manners, harassing someone for a negative review which warns for safety, then just how does he have your best interest as a customer?
I was NEVER told there was a video of the incident. This is a first I am hearing of it. Despite the owner's accusatory PM's 15 MONTHS AGO. He never said a word then, but now claims to have video? Odd.
I have DO NOT dispute it happened 6 years ago. I was not a member of yelp at the time. Have I missed that there is a time limit to complete your review?
I have NEVER said they didn't call the paramedics. Thank you for being more humane and responsible that night versus when you made accusations to me in PM's a year and a half ago and continue to do so today.
NO ONE BUT MYSELF KNOW THE RESULTS OF MY HOSPITAL VISIT, which by Federal HIPAA regulations are confidential.
I am not aware that anyone spoke to my "friends" so I don't know what is being claimed here.
The only alterations the previous review incurred were to adhere to yelp guidelines, which I did only once.
No motive except consumer awareness.
1 Previous Review: Show all »
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6/26/2008
Women BEWARE!
I was never a regular and only went here a couple of times... might have been more if I… Read more »
Comment from Brian Z. of
Iguana Kelley's
10/20/2009
Only thing odd is her continued unsubstantiated claims and…
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My girlfriend left her ATM card there on a Friday night. When she called on Saturday morning to see if they had it, the bartender was extremely rude. He said. " are you sure you left it here and not the gay bar?" After that he said he did have it and she would need to come down as soon as possible to retrieve it.... she asked if i could come get it for her, his reply was, " whatever, does your boyfriend have and distinguishing birth defects so that i can identify him?"
This guy was a complete jerk.
We are new to Long Beach and this was our 1st bar experience that night. I don't recommend this place to new comers.
Maybe I've gone on the wrong nights but this cramped LB dive is one I could do without. It has a very predatory atmosphere, ear splitting music and the drink specials on the nights I went left much to be desired. Definitely a "meh" kind of establishment, not horrible but I think I'll pass this one.
man, i miss college. and i miss iguana kelley's. this place is so fun and entertaining.
its growing a lot too. beer/booze prices are good and you can even win money on your receipt. jello shots are potent. music is great. however, im sad they have a new jukebox. i found some of the greatest local LB bands from their old jukebox (Bredrin Daddys) but the new one is all online and commercialized. still good music.
they have pool tables AND shuffleboard. this place is fun and my friends always have a good time. and seeing the regulars is always enjoyable.
i miss this place.
Perhaps I came in on a wrong night but I really didn't dig this place at all.
When some friends, my girlfriend and I arrived, the place was pretty mellow and chill. Not too many people were there (it was like 8 PM on a Friday) but as a few hours pass, the atmosphere turned sour. Someone mentioned too many guys with goatees with Dickie shorts...yeah...well add wife-beaters and chain wallets to that list.
With an Internet jukebox with an endless amount of choices for music, the music selected by the bar's patrons consisted of modern country (PUKE) and bling bling rap music (MORE PUKE). Luckily I got to throw some Elvis Costello and Motorhead on to stop my ears from bleeding.
I did enjoy my white Russians from a nice bartender though...that deserves 2 stars.
With so many bars in Long Beach...save your time, read these reviews and hit up another establishment!
I have live very close to this bar for 3 1/2 years now, but have not ventured in until the past weekend. I must say, now that I will be moving I feel like I missed out on some good times.
Plus number one is that pitchers of MGD were only seven bucks. I don't particularly enjoy MGD, but for seven bucks I might drink a pitcher of fermented sloth urine if you told me it would catch me a buzz.
As I stood taking stock of my surroundings I suddenly felt someone rubbing my arm. I was mortified to turn around and find the very face of what appeared to be a two day old corpse that was recently pulled from the banks of a river staring back at me and assulting me with her foul and offensive breath. She was a drunken mess of a sight to behold. Call me crazy, but I just don't find hammered, ugly, old people to be very becoming. In fact, they make me downright uncomforatble.
She preceded to try to figure out the names of myself, my roomate and his girlfriend, but to no real success. When she shook my roomates hand she insisted that he was cold and pressed his hand against her big, floppy boob to warm it up.
She was gone soon enough and we were geriatric free for the rest of the evening. With the beer flowing and some good company, the night went very well. Everyone in the bar was pleasant and minding their own business which always makes for a good, comfortable environment to have a fun night with some friends.
After all was said and done I would recommend this bar to anyone (minus creepy old people with drinking problems).
I dig it!
Good drinks, good times!
Besides the ol' cougar grabbing everyones ass in the establishment! Including my friend and her guy, and my husbands and mine as well!
What a freak!!
Watch out for her!
Noticed all the regulars here yelling and wondered why. Then the music started playing at a decible level that could be heard to the next block. So friggin loud i couldnt talk to my buddy next to me so...... we started to YELL!!! hahaha i guess everyone here does that. Beers were good and i`ll be back when i get my earplugs. ;^)
How anybody can give this place less than 4 stars is beyond me.
The bartenders, jukebox, and even the doormen here are the shiznit. They have $1 cup of beers on Tuesdays and $1 Tecates on Wednsdays.
Thank you Iguana Kelly's for giving me a spot to get drunk while I was a broke college student =)!! When I have broke college-aged kids, I shall order them to go to Iguana Kelly's as well.
I can't believe I am the first one to review this place! It was not only the bar that most of my friends from CSULB went to, but it was also our version of the place "where everybody knows your name." Take advantage of their Thursday specials of $1.50 margarita drinks. They have an excellent variety of songs on their jukebox.
There are the pool tables. I can go on and on about the many souls I have taken from that table, but although those two tables take up a good amount of space in this lovely hole in the wall bar, this place still brings people closer together. There is no smoking patio so most smokers bond outside on the street. The crowd is a blend of all ages, so don't think it's for the trendy, young, or old, it's definitely a good place for anyone who is looking just to spend time talking to strangers and playing pool. You'll have a melting pot of people walk into this bar, but it's definitely the kind of dive bar you can go to after work, after finals, during finals, or throughout the semester.
I was such a regular there that come my second semester of my junior year, I HAD to take a break from it all.
The facts: $1.50 margaritas on the rocks on Thursdays. Two pool tables. Quarters. A tagged up men's restroom (I don't know if there is a toilet in there) and a fairly clean women's bathroom. Loud music. Great jukebox. Three flat screen televsions. The occasional visit from the Heineken, Budweiser, and Miller girls.
This place is cool for a dive bar.. it hasn't turned hipster so that's a plus. Great drink specials and one of the only bars in town to have shuffleboard. Watch out for the condoms in the bathroom.. they tend to be kinda old.
The only time I had a drink here the bloody mary was so bad I couldnt even finish it, or maybe it was the jock company of sleeze. The patrons ruined it for me.
Meh. That about sums this place up. Decent neighborhood bar, reasonable drinks and a good jukebox but there are plenty better places down the street. I'd rather go hang at Alex's Bar or Joe Jost's than the Iguana. But sometimes you're in the mood for something different or Joe Jost's has already closed so you find yourself here. Worse things can happen.
I left the Long Beach Blues Festival early because I was dehydrated and drunk. (Ouch of a combo). For some reason I went to Iguana Kelly's. These two girls kept calling me Johnny Knoxville because of my sunglasses. I think everyone in there was drunk. One of those girls was outside smoking with me and she flashed me her nipple ring, as cars were driving by in broad daylight, but the weather was pretty hazy around our heads. The other girl ended up jumping on some guy and they ran into the bathroom. There was a whole free barbeque where you can grill hot dogs and hamburgers outside (Sundays). Good drinks, bizarre crowd, free food, ding ding ding!!!! Winner!!!!
i've never seen so many goatees, baseball caps, dickies shorts, fake boobs and tramp stamps in one place before. what is this, south orange county or the inland empire? oh crap, it's neither!
cheap drinks, pretty good selection of beers and ciders, but nowhere to sit, a limp bizkit jukebox and no one to interesting to talk to. and they close at freaking one in the morning! who does that?!?
probably a good time for the CSULBers but i'm not coming back.
great neighborhood bar!! cheap drinks!!! Two minute stumble from home.
