In the height of America’s chain restaurant boom, Joe’s Crab Shack brought a taste of the coast to landlocked regions around the country. In Arizona, customers shared seafood platters, boils and buckets, shelled shrimp and cracked crab legs at the Arizona Mills mall location for over a decade.
The restaurant, located on Baseline Road just east of Interstate 10, has now closed. It was the chain’s last remaining location in Arizona.
Joe’s Crab Shack was launched in 1991 in Houston, Texas and was bought by Landry’s Inc. in 1994. Soon, it began a rapid expansion, opening restaurants all over the country…