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Mary O's is a longstanding East Village Irish pub on Avenue A, open evenings into the early morning. In recent years the same address also became known under a separate "Mary O's Irish Soda Bread Shop" identity for a weekend-morning bakery pop-up selling Irish soda bread scones, which went viral and turned into the venue's real line-and-wait story.
Food52 reported waiting roughly an hour for the scones, and the bakery's own Yelp listing shows it open only Thursday through Sunday, 7am–2pm, often selling out before the posted close — arriving earlier in that window is the reported way to avoid missing out. For the pub side of the business at night, our single-search research did not surface specific reports of lines, crowds, or a reservation policy, so we can't characterize its wait culture beyond it reading as a typical walk-in neighborhood bar.
Overall: if there's a wait to plan around at Mary O's, the evidence points to the weekend-morning bakery hours, not the nighttime bar.
Patterns as reported by press and regulars — not measured by damnlines.
damnlines does not have a live camera at Mary O's yet, so we can't show a real-time line count. What we do have: reporting from Food52 described waiting about an hour for the weekend-morning Irish soda bread scone pop-up run out of the same East Village space. For the evening bar itself, our research turned up no specific reported wait times — it appears to operate as a normal walk-in neighborhood pub.
We found no evidence of a reservation system for the evening bar — it reads as walk-in only, typical of a neighborhood Irish pub. The morning soda bread pop-up is first-come, first-served until it sells out, per Yelp and Food52.
Per Yelp, the pub (32 Ave A) is open roughly 5pm–1am Sun–Wed and 5pm–3am Thu–Sat. The separate Irish Soda Bread Shop listing (93 1/2 E 7th St, believed to be the same space by day) shows Thu–Sun 7am–2pm only, closed Mon–Wed.
It's a longtime East Village Irish pub that became a viral bakery destination for its Irish soda bread scones, sold weekend mornings out of the same address before the space reopens as a bar in the evening.
For the scones: Yelp and Food52 both point to arriving early — the bakery is only open Thu–Sun 7am–2pm and reviewers note it can sell out well before closing, so earlier in that window is safer. For the bar at night, we found no specific reported wait data to base timing advice on.
Sources: Yelp — Mary O's (Irish Pub, 32 Ave A) · Yelp — Mary O's (Irish Soda Bread Shop, 93 1/2 E 7th St) · Food52 — "We Waited An Hour for NYC's Viral Irish Soda Bread Scones"