Michael’s Café is a family-owned and operated bar and restaurant that is thriving in two Baltimore County locations, Timonium and White Marsh-Middle River. In 1984, The Dellis family opened the doors of the Timonium site, and family patriarch Michael Dellis endeavored to give locals something they were lacking. In recognition of this success, Michael’s Café is our latest pick to be featured in our ongoing series on bars, restaurants, and taverns around the Maryland-D.C. area to be named after their owners, families, or a specific person.
Steven Dellis, who currently runs Michael’s Café with his sister, said during a recent interview with the Beverage Journal, “This place started as a dark, dingy bar back in ‘84. We had 60 seats. It was a rough-around-the-edges neighborhood kind of place. But my father’s intentions were to put his mother’s crab cakes on the menu along with some really good food. It was an immediate success. And over the years, we’ve gradually built to what’s now a 400-seat restaurant with three bars, several dining rooms, and an outside patio that includes one of those bars. I like to say you can go bar-hopping right here, because each bar has its own kind of feel.”