I LOVE JOE'S

Saturday Night.  Date Night.  Where?  Joe's Seafood Prime Steak & Stone Crab.  Overall experience...excelente!!  My boyfriend took me as a long-awaited date-night, which we had been trying to schedule for a few months now, but life always seemed to interfere.  When we finally made these plans (after waiting weeks to even get a reservation) we were vigilant about not letting anything interfere.  


Note #1:  Remind cabbies to take city roads, not highways on Saturday nights.  Our creepy cab rider on the way home got the best of us, and what should have been a $9 ride was $14.  

Note #2:  Joe's is crowded.  Always.  You need to make a reservation weeks in advance if you intend on getting a table.  Decor is average, and doesn't make you feel like your spending the insane amount of money you are spending.  I've been to places like Lawry's and the Signature Room, and those places at least make you feel like you're about to have an amazingly expensive meal.  Here, you feel like you're sitting down at any old Wildfire or Maggiano's, which is slightly disheartening.  The food, however, completely makes up for it.

Note #3:  Always get the crab chilled.  We decided to order the King Crab Legs over their claws.  Claws require work, although the bigger the claw, the less work required and the more meet provided.  However, we opted for the easiest and meatiest option (albeit the most expensive .. $70 for an order), and were more than 300% satisfied.  The legs were juicy and still had that wonderful sea flavor to them, making them unquestionably fresh.  It wasn't fishy at all, it was just fresh.  The warm melted butter side or signature mustard sauce (actually wonderful, and I hate mustard) complemented the dish perfectly, but I ended up choosing just lemon at the end.  The crab was filling and we left feeling satisfied, but not like we'd gained 100 pounds.


Note #4:  Side dishes are huge, wine is delish, and corking fee is a reasonable alternative. We had the mushrooms mac & cheese...AMAZING.  They only had a handful of wines by the glass, so if you don't want to spend $100 on a bottle of wine, they have a $20 corking fee, which is a great alternative if you want to bring your own really nice wine.


Overall:  5 stars.  Hands down.  One of the best dinners I've had.  Looking forward to making that "our" special restaurant.  :-)