Kelly’s Depot Bar, the Lowertown St. Paul watering hole where you can watch hand-pattied burgers being cooked on the grill behind the bar, shoot darts and play pull tabs, has announced its closing date will be the end of April.

“Since 1989, the Kelly family has been serving the most amazing people in St. Paul. On April 30th, we will be shouting last call one final time,” a post on the restaurant’s Facebook page says. “Thank you for being a part of the best little bar around town!”

Last year, Jim LaValle and TJL Development made an offer to buy the land that sits across the street from the Union Depot transit hub for a seven-story building housing 90 apartment units.

The late John Kelly Sr. opened the bar 30 years ago, and it has been a family-run establishment ever since. He ran the bar with his late wife, Patricia Kelly, his brother Dick Kelly and Dick Kelly’s wife, Jean, while his nephew Rick Kelly has been a longtime bartender.

Kelly’s Depot Bar