It’s the tastiest time of the year for seafood lovers, as a succulent local delicacy returns to Miami’s restaurants
We left around sunrise. After driving for hours along a sole highway, surrounded on both sides by cerulean water, tropical mangrove forests, swaths of palm trees and retro, neon-signed motels, we arrive in the heart of the Florida Keys. Here, in the middle of this 120-mile chain of barrier islands that stretches between the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico, we are sitting at a dock, waiting for the first catch of the season.
“Trump sat right there,” says Stephen Sawitz, Joe’s bubbly fourth-generation custodian, pointing to the chair next to mine when we meet ahead of the restaurant’s reopening for the season. “There are a lot of layers to this particular restaurant — but stone crab is really what drives it,” he says. “It’s synonymous with Joe’s.” A couple of days later, it’s opening night at Joe’s and the excitement is palpable.
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