Mary's Kitchen
Mary's Kitchen is a breakfast & brunch restaurant in ViBe Creative District, Virginia Beach, located at 616 Virginia Beach Blvd, Virginia Beach, VA 23451. Seventy-plus-year-old ViBe District breakfast institution making scratch buttermilk biscuits and country cooking since 1951, open daily 7am-2pm.
Mary Craft opened a 17th Street confectionary in 1951 and moved the business to its present ViBe-district address in the early 1970s; the scratch-made buttermilk biscuits and country cooking have run the same way ever since. All-day breakfast sits alongside lunch classics like corned beef and cabbage, meatloaf with gravy, and chicken and homemade dumplings, seven days a week from 7am to 2pm. Free parking in a large lot, six blocks from the oceanfront.
- Family Friendly
- Hidden Gem
- Free Parking
Amenities
- Free parking lot
Know Before You Go
- Best for: a free-parking breakfast spot six blocks from the Oceanfront
- Parking: Free parking in a large lot, six blocks from the oceanfront.
Visit
- Address: 616 Virginia Beach Blvd, Virginia Beach, VA 23451, Virginia Beach, VA
- Phone: (757) 428-1355
- Website: https://www.maryskitchenvb.com/
Last verified 2026-07-11.
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Upcoming Events Nearby
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July 11, 2026 – October 31, 2026 · weekly (Saturdays 9am–noon April–October; 1st & 3rd Saturdays November–March)
The ViBe District's Saturday-morning market runs every week from April through October, 9am to noon at 611 18th Street, with local produce, seafood, baked goods, and Virginia wines from area farms and makers. When the regular season ends in late October it doesn't disappear — a winter schedule continues on the first and third Saturdays through March. Parking is easiest in the Runnymede lots on Cypress Avenue or the convention center lot.
First Friday ViBe
August 7, 2026 – October 2, 2026 · monthly (first Fridays, May–October)
On the first Friday of each month from May through October, the ViBe Creative District opens up from 6 to 10pm with local artist pop-ups, live music, open mic sets, and DJs — a chance to meet the makers and muralists who give the district its character. It's the ViBe at its most ViBe: deliberately local, a few blocks inland from the boardwalk crowds. Park in the ViBe lot on 18th Street or at the Oceanfront Library; the season's remaining 2026 dates run through early October.
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August 23, 2026 – August 30, 2026 · annual
The world's oldest continuously running surfing competition returns for its 64th year, turning the south end of the Oceanfront — from the 1st Street Jetty up to 10th Street — into a week-long surf carnival. More than 850 competitors surf pro and amateur divisions, including a WSL qualifying event, while the beach fills out with skate and BMX demos, live music, and tournament games. It's the anchor event of late summer at the beach and the best week of the year to watch serious surfing at the 1st Street break.