Characters Cafe

If you want short drinks and locals drunks yelling @ the bar, this is your destination. Food is deep fried and plain. This is your restaurant of last resort…

Out of business… this is now Mike and Eric’s Front Street Restaurant… which was excellent!

Positives: Staff was great — our waitress was very nice and attentive. Food was hot and came out quickly. The crab dip was fantastic — large chunks of lump crab. Negatives: The crab cakes. Need to update their TVs — we came there specifically to catch the Orioles wild card game when we were in town. The DJ started playing music toward the end of the 7^th inning so we left — recommend making special exceptions for delaying when the DJ comes on during important games.

Came here for drinks for a bachelorette party night. The DJ was awesome, the drinks were flowing and WAY cheaper than I expected. The bathroom was tiny and kinda gross… but it’s a bar… so…

Surprised by some of the negative (2-​star and below) reviews. Our lunch experience was good. Cream of cream soup was excellent. Fine selections of beers. The burger I had was very good, although I’m glad I ordered medium — rare because it was closer to rare. We would try this place again.

Service was very slow. Waited 20 minutes server to pickup my credit card, after she dropped of the check. Omelette was dry, over cooked. Eggs any style was OK. Toast was sweet, not a good quality bread.

The crabcakes were most disappointing. They arrived at the table slightly warm and were not as flavorful as others I’ve had in Maryland. The side salad was also just some iceberg lettuce, a few cucumbers and a couple of cherry tomatoes. The service was fine, but the restaurant itself was very chilly and the food was definitely not worth the money I paid for it.

I’ll preface this review by saying I didn’t actually eat or drink anything here although I’ve heard from multiple people that the food is mediocre at best.
You should come here if you enjoy bad customer service. We just wanted to watch our home team football games and this place is the only one in town with Sunday Ticket (we called). Despite being less than half full and having a few unwatched TVs, they flatly refused to show anything but the two local games on any of the TVs (which weren’t even HD plasmas or LCDs). Anyone with rabbit ears or basic cable could watch those games anywhere, why have Sunday Ticket if you’re only showing local games… We tried to be friendly, we tried to appeal to their business acumen (we’ll buy stuff), we played the visiting family card, nada. If they provided a reason (even a bad one) for their refusal, it might have been OK but being jerks for no reason was completely unnecessary.
After reading some of the other reviews, this place truly deserves to go out of business for treating customers so badly… you have better options in this town, use them!

In reading other reviews, I agree the food was okay, but the service was great. Perhaps they read the poor reviews on service and retrained the staff. A standard bar menu awaits those who decide to dine at Characters.

I’m always amazed when I go back to Saint Michaels and see that this place is still open. Perhaps their evenings do well, I’m not sure.
I’ve never had good food or service at this place in the handful of times it took for me to learn my lesson. The fact that the last time they had the gall to add gratuity to my bill for a party of 2 at lunch just cinched it for me; I won’t go back. There are more places with better food than you can shake a stick at in and around town.

it is what it is.
and that’s a mighty fine thing.
yes, the crab cakes.
crab cake sandwich.
the end.
sit at the bar.
see the characters.
maybe you’re lucky enough to be one.
be grateful that you can appreciate the real deal.

The food was so so, but the management treated me so rudely that I had to write this review.
If a customer sends back food, management shouldn’t compound the problem by debating the issue.
This was an extremely unpleasant experience.

Not bad considering this is a bar. Stick with burgers or the prime rib