Joe's Crab Shack

Our food was amazing but our waiter, Carlos, was just the very best!! He was so funny and nice and quick to check on us and bring us our food and drinks. He was seriously the best waiter I think I’ve ever had in my life. He made my kids and myself laugh and we all just loved him! There needs to be more people like Carlos in the world!! The specialty drinks were so good too. I ordered the salmon and my husband ordered the pirate platter. We both loved our food. Our kids ate well with no complaints. We will definitely be back!

Our server Joey was great, very attentive, kept our drinks full and all around a great guy. The only downside to our visit was that you could clearly feel and hear tension with the employees in the restaurant. Lots of cussing at each other as well where customers could hear. We traveled from out of state so that probably wasn't a good look if we were local and planned on coming back.

Being from the Maritimes in Canada, and having access to five minutes fresh from the ocean seafood, I was wary of trying it in a landlocked state. I had no reason to fear though, as all three of the dishes I tried at Joe's were completely knocked out of the park. I strongly recommend this place for good seafood. It is as close to as good at home as I've ever found abroad. If you do go here, do yourself a favor and get the crab dip. You won't regret it.

The seafood snow crab leg was expensive. You are probably better off doing the seafood boil. Menu say some items are market price, you should ask for the price before ordering food. Friendly staff and they show UFC fights if that’s something that interests you. There was some thrift event going on so they were charging to park, paid $10 for parking. I repeatedly ask parking attendant what I would get for paying such an exorbitant amount for parking when I’m not even going to the event. She eventually gave me a coupon for free appetizer.

Everyone always enjoys eating at destination Joe's Crab Shacks. This one happens to be located right on the river with panoramic views. The kids had fun getting the crab pots on the kids menu and we had a larger crab pot and peel um and eat um shrimp. Everything was tasty. I would like to give a shout out to the GM on duty today. My 11 year old daughter had a crab leg that was empty and so she politely asked to see the Chef. She explained that to eat crab was a special treat and how sad she was when a whole leg was empty. He said no worries and came back out a little while later with another small cluster. Totally the way to create a lifelong customer. She will never forget that and the chain will make that up in spades. So many other chains are going out of business because they just don't understand that they are there because of the customer! Well done!

Food is pretty pricey ($21 for a kids crab leg meal after tip). I don’t eat seafood and I only went to purchase a kids meal but the girl that was at the hostess stand and got our order together was pretty awesome and I am in the food service industry as one of my jobs so I have very high expectations. My son enjoyed the food and it was just a bit much. I would say we would probably visit more often if they cut the amount of food down, reflecting in the price. Seafood isn’t good to eat leftovers of.