Rustic Inn Crabhouse

The Meet In The Middle Guide: Where To Eat With Your Broward Friends - Miami - The Infatuation

"On the southern border of Fort Lauderdale, along a little canal just a baseball toss away from the airport, you’ll find one of the greatest seafood establishments in the whole state: Rustic Inn Crabhouse. This place has been serving crabs and lots of other great seafood since 1955, and it’s like a museum you get to eat. Food aside, this place is just fun. You get 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 just 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." - ryan pfeffer