Joe's Stone Crab

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Joe's Stone Crab is an American seafood restaurant in Miami Beach, Florida. In 1998 the restaurant won an America's Classic Award from the James Beard Foundation It is consistently among the highest grossing individual restaurants in the United States, with 2024 sales approaching $50 million. Joe's Stone Crab is the biggest buyer of Florida stone crab claws, and it plays a significant role in the industry, while financing many crabbers. Even though stone crabs are their most famous dish now, fish was served, rather than crabs, in the early years after the restaurant's opening. According to lore, when an ichthyologist asked founder Joe Weiss why he didn't serve stone crabs, he answered that no one would want to eat them. He was wrong, as they found out soon after first cooking them.

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