Joe's Stone Crab

11 Washington Ave, Miami Beach, FL

Last updated 8/27/2026

Joe's Stone Crab has operated in Miami Beach since 1913, founded by Joe Weiss and now run by the fourth generation of his family, making it one of the oldest continuously operating restaurants in Florida and the single most closely identified restaurant with Miami's stone crab tradition. The restaurant is only fully open during Florida's stone crab season, roughly mid-October through early May, since regulations require harvesters to remove just one claw from each crab and return it to the water to regenerate, a sustainable harvesting practice Joe's has built its entire identity and supply chain around for over a century. Its enormous scale — seating hundreds of diners nightly during peak season with waits that can stretch for hours without reservations for large parties — reflects a level of sustained demand few other seafood restaurants anywhere in the country have maintained across more than 100 years of continuous operation. For a Miami seafood list, Joe's Stone Crab is the essential "the original, still the standard" entry — a fourth-generation, century-old institution whose seasonal stone crab claws remain the dish most associated with Miami seafood dining anywhere in the city.

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