Joe’s Stone Crabs with Mustard Sauce

When traveling in the South, there are exactly two no-reservations restaurants where I’m willing to tolerate long waits to eat the food: Galatoire’s in New Orleans and Joe’s Stone Crab in Miami Beach. Joe’s, which has been around since 1913 and is now a historic landmark, still serves succulent stone crab claws with coleslaw, hash-brown potatoes, and this sublime mustard sauce. In my opinion, the only crabmeat as sweet and delicate as that of the huge stone crabs indigenous to Florida is th