Miami's most iconic restaurant since 1913. Legendary stone crab claws, key lime pie, and a no-reservations dining room that packs in crowds every season.
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Joe's Stone Crab traces back to 1913, when Hungarian immigrants Joe and Jennie Weiss opened a small lunch counter on Miami Beach after moving south for Joe's asthma. By 1918 they'd built a proper restaurant on the site, and in 1921 the kitchen started serving stone crab claws, a catch most cooks at the time threw back. Five generations of the Weiss family have run it since, with Stephen Sawitz and Jo Ann Bass at the helm today, making it one of the oldest continuously operating restaurants in Miami.
Fresh stone crab claws served chilled with the house mustard sauce are the whole reason people line up for hours, alongside sides like creamed spinach, hash browns, and the key lime pie created by third-generation owner Jo Ann Weiss Bass.
Named a James Beard Foundation America's Classic in 1998 and designated a Miami Beach historic landmark in 1975.
Fresh claws run mid-October through May 1; the rest of the year the kitchen serves frozen claws on a scaled-back schedule. Reservations are taken through OpenTable up to 14 days out, business or smart-casual dress is expected (no shorts, flip-flops, or tank tops, especially at dinner), and valet parking runs $15-25 with limited free self-parking across the street.
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Old-school Miami royalty. The wait is long, the claws are cold, and it's been this way for over a century.
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