Garlic butter soaking into a pile of blue crab, a wooden mallet, a bib, and a friendly warning. That is the scene at this legendary Florida seafood spot, where the signature garlic crab feast has been drawing messy, happy crowds for decades.
Back in 1955, an owner decided to cook his crabs in a secret family sauce, accidentally inventing what would become world famous.
Today, the place has grown to seat hundreds, but the tables are still covered with paper. Servers hand out bibs and mallets, dump the crabs in front of you, and let you go to work…