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
Amenities
- Free parking lot
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- 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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