"The signature dish, served chilled with lemon and mustard sauce (or butter, if you wish), are the stone crab claws. It's been that way since the 1920s, and will be that way long after the 2020s. Joe's Stone Crab is a Miami Beach staple, with its regal dark wood, polished bar, glorious homemade key lime pie ($6.95), famous stone crab claws (go jumbo), and, of course, it's schedule. Located near the southern tip of Miami Beach, it stands apart from the Art Deco extravaganza of South Beach with its simple green awnings and the fact that during the summer it's just closed. Joe's is open during crab season, having just opened, as the Web site says, on Oct. 14 for its 99th season. Just in time for baseball's free agency. The Miami Marlins (nee Florida) used Joe's Stone Crab as a setting for at least one of their high-profile recruiting visits earlier this month. Free agent shortstop Jose Reyes dined there with Marlins' executives, including president David Samson. It is not clear whether he had the jumbo claws." Read more: http://www.stltoday.com/sports/base...cle_a3f8afb6-1523-11e1-9afe-0019bb30f31a.html
