Was just there for my birthday. Â Andy is an amazing lad who makes and serves a mean drink, as well as a Prime Rib Feast fit for a king. Â Mary's still is hands down the best prime rib dinner deal in the area. Â 20 bucks for a huge portion, flavoured well, with sides. Â I still couldn't finish it, and I can put away food when hungry.
Chicken Fried Steak looked really damn good too. Â Nice menu selection with decent prices. Â Not foofy, but not of sub-par quality either.
Great crowd for the most part (creeper, drunk fishermen will need to be put in check now and then...but no biggie). Â Nice mix of working folks, retired folks, folks of all ages, sad folks, and a few sexy folks. Â Great tunes on the jukebox as well.
This is a nice local's neighbourhood pub. Â No frills, no BS.....just a decent place to spend a few bucks, have some good food, meet some nice people, dance, and get jarred on your birthday. Â Damn, each year gets a wee bit harder. Â I swear Andy adds more booze to my drinks each year to make me hungover the following day. Â I still love him though... we'd make ugly children together, and I'd be a gazillion pounds from all of the prime rib, as well as an alcoholic, hence why we must exist apart..... sigh.... At least I have my lovely lass to keep me warm on these cold coastal nights...
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Oh, hey guys. Do you like Bingo?
What's that? Yes, it is your favorite game in the whole wide world?? ME TOO.
A friend and I staying in Astoria for the night stumbled into Mary Todd's on a Sunday evening. We walked in right in the middle of a Bingo game, and everyone turned to stare. My friend and I looked at each other, feeling like intruders "Do we leave?" we asked each other with our eyes. A second later, everyone shouted to come on in, and they cleared 2 spots for us at the bar.
The people were so friendly and so fun and the drinks were... well, they were drinks, and the Bingo was sooooo much fun I want to play allthetimeforever and we didn't eat (not a whole lotta vegan options here) but I just love this place so so much.
The people were great, the vibe was great, everything was great. I will come back here every time I'm back in Astoria. Hopefully next time will be on a Sunday so I can play at Bingo again. First card's free, additional cards are .25 each. Â Doesn't get any better than that.
Mary Todd's was great fun! It was exactly as expected by the reviews...a workers bar...a dive...and friendly friendly friendly! Â We went on Sunday hoping for Bingo and we were not disappointed! Â It is meat bingo so the bingo master auctioned off our win for cash. Â Great evening and highly recommended for any who are tired of the typical tourist fare.
Review Source:This is NOT a wine bar. Â This is NOT a brew pub. Â This is NOT a fancy restaurant. Â This is NOT a trendy cafe serving organic tofu and sprout shakes.
The bottles of wine behind the bar have probably been open for a year, and taste like it.
Your have your choice of tap beers. Â Bud and Bud Light. Â I'm pretty sure that's what is in all the bottles as well.
The locals are LOCAL, and they know you aren't. Â So don't try to own the place or attempt to tell them how to make it better. Â You'll probably end up getting your butt kicked. Â The name actually says what it is. Â It's a worker's bar and grill.
What you will get:
Cheap drinks, a friendly bartender and ONE HELL OF A CUT OF PRIME RIB.
That's all there is to the place, unless you want to read the bar graffiti. Â
Nothing else to say!
My mother in law took us here for their local drink- "Yucca" ....she lives in town and joked around about how she was going to take us to a REAL classy bar. LOL! Definitely a dive & local bar. The bartender was really nice! So, I watched her make this drink. I swear it was 99% vodka. A bit of simple syrup and a bunch of lemon juice. It goes in a mason jar w/a lid and you shake it until it's extremely cold and frosty. So, I was drinking said drink and not getting drunk at all. I was actually upset because I wasn't even buzzed. I got up and almost fell over. I was suddenly extremely drunk, lol.
Apparently the food is good...cheap prime rib (18 dollars for a huge plate) and it was just an all around cool place. Oldest bar in Astoria, apparently? I'll go there again.
Classic dive bar and they make no excuses for it. Stiff drinks abound, nothing with more than three ingredients, so leave your foo-foo drink orders at the curb.
You'll definitely run into some interesting characters, local and tourist alike.
Oh, and beware the Yucca. Ice, crap load of Vodka, and some lime mix into a drinking jar. Wrap in a moist towel, shake 'till your arm practically falls off or towel is stuck to jar and feels ice cold and frothy - drink. Prepare for outrageous hangover, which begs your return the next morning for a Bloody Mary before leaving town.
Like traveling but tired of being a "tourist"? If you don't mind cheap beer and a slightly seedy atmosphere then shed your inhibitions and step into Mary Todd's. Mary herself is a real character as are her patrons and she knows how to cook. The prime rib dinner is as good as any your likely to get on the Oregon coast and certainly better than the surroundings would suggest. I'm aware that Astoria currently has several more "upscale" restaurants and am unimpressed.I live in Portland, I can get generic "upscale" food every six blocks or so.
Mary's iceberg lettuce salad is better than most in that the lettuce is freshly torn and crisp, the garnishes are fresh and she puts pickled pepperoncini on it. The prime rib is remarkably tender and moist. It is also obscenely large. In short, the food here all displays the grace of love. Do yourself a favor and split it with your significant other. I ignored my own wife's suggestion that we share an entree, and have yet to live it down.
Why doesn't it get five stars? Because five stars is for places that make their own salad dressing.
I LOVE this place! Â My first time to Astoria took me and an adventurous friend to Mary Todd's.
I reluctantly ordered a Bbq pork sandwich because I never find one half as good as what I grew up on- but lo and behold, she served me an exact replica of it! Â ^_^
Wonderful hospitality and ambiance - rough around the edges but down right polite.
I make sure I go there every time I'm in Astoria.
We wandered into Mary Todd's on a lark. Â It was Sunday night and the place was packed. Â Little did we know we'd found the weekly bingo game with host Simon. Â $0.25 a card we we're in for $2.
We sucked down a Drop Top while we played a round of blackout and studied the menu, landing on a burger. Â Freshly made (i.e not pre-packaged from Sysco) with grilled onions & mushrooms and Swiss cheese served on a hoggie roll and a side of fresh cut french fries. Â Gotta say, it hit the spot.
We were the only non-locals in the bar, but felt welcomed and chatted with some of the regulars. Â We'll be back the next time we're in town.
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Well Yelp let me down. I was in Naselle with my boyfriend for his Bday and we went here for a meal. Heard the bloddy mary's were good...They were yucky and small!
The omelet was okish. His burger was okish. The place tho was disturbingly dirty. im not sure i should have eaten food from it...but i was living dangerously that week.
The bar was funny tho, ppl pay $100 and then carve the weirdest and often misspelled stuff in it :)
I'd skip it.
Opened in 1924, Mary Todd's Workers Bar & Grill is recognized as one of the top ten fisherman-friendly bars in the United States. It's located in the small, historic, and pleasantly funky western part of Astoria known as Uniontown. I'm sure the building holds tons of history, none of which I was able to find in my reference book or online.
They serve darn good breakfasts (all day) which I'd recommend the huge Chicken Fried Steak served with hash browns, three eggs the way you want them and four slices of toast for around $11.
So if you need a good hangover cure I'd suggest the breakfast and a good strong, cheap, bloody Mary which you can dress up with all the fixings right at the bar.
What you might really enjoy if you dig Dive Bars is that Mary Todd's night crowd is a little old and new school. My cohorts and I wandered in one Saturday night to a crowd of women dancing on a dining table, the music playing loud, a bunch of people around the bar, all well lit by the orange haze of dimly lit lights.
The drinks are strong and inexpensive. Gin and Tonic? Three bucks. Beers? Less than that. They also have a nice back deck "under the bridge" that doubles as the smoking lounge.
One person mentioned: "The funny thing about this place is it's like a vortex of fun. You never know who you are going to run into there, there is a great mix of locals and some visitors too, they have great tunes, prime rib as big as your head for CHEAP and it's just plain fun. "
The people were friendly, especially Mary Todd, who you can find on either side of the bar or on the tables dancing with locals and tourists alike. Definitely somewhere I plan on returning to on my journeys.
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