The 25 Best Restaurants In Fort Lauderdale - Miami - The Infatuation

"Yes, Southport is our favorite waterfront seafood spot in Fort Lauderdale, but Rustic Inn Crabhouse is a very close second. This is another Fort Lauderdale classic. The seafood is all solid, but you’re coming here to wear plastic bibs and smash big piles of dungeness, garlic blue crabs, and Alaskan snow crab with little wooden mallets. Plus, if it’s your birthday, the whole restaurant starts banging their crab mallets on the table like a bunch of butter-splattered judges. They also have a double-decker boat docked outside that you can eat on, weather permitting. Just expect a wait." - ryan pfeffer, virginia otazo