Joe's Crab Shack - Galveston

04/19/11

This place is aweful

by opal81

Aweful aweful, we avoided Joes since they remodeled because it has always been terrible service but we didnt imagine things could have gotten worse. The food is over priced, the music is so loud you can't even talk to the person sitting next to you. The server forgot everything he would disapear into the kitchen for a ridiculously long time and come out empty handed whenever we needed anything. That is if we could even find him or get his attention away from the constant dancing. One song was over five minutes later their dancing again meanwhile my food is getting cold because they dropped off the food with no condiments noone asking if we needed anything to go dance.One of the male servers had his pants so low half of his underwear was hanging out the whole time, another female whose was wearing skin tight booty shorts. This is supposed to be a family place. We were constantly trying to get someones attention and not one manager ever came over. Terrible restaurant terrible management we are Galveston resident and we will NEVER go to this place again!!!

03/15/10

Terrible Service

by stormewhether

We went here today and the service was awful! They completely screwed up our order so we spent an extra 30 minutes waiting for half the food the table ordered. The manager only wanted to give us a free appetizer to say sorry but she had us use our receipt from the order to call and do a survey to get the free appetizer! So after sitting on the phone in the restaurant for an extra 10 minutes doing a phone survey they took a whole whopping $8 off of a $77 ticket!

The worst part is we rented one of those bikes on the beach that run $20 an hour. We had to rent it for an extra hour because of all the delay at the restaurant. I will not be eating here again.

• Pros: Located on the Seawall
• Cons: Slow service, food mediocre

06/08/08

Boring, Boring, Boring... They Have a Joe's Where You Live Already.... ZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzz

by averagejoe123

This is what you call vacation?

Have you eaten at the Joe's in the city where you live? It's just as boring here as it is there. This is yet another Landry's Chain cookie cutter, carbon copy, manufactured over and over again, again, again, again.... Dine here or in Katy at the mall.

Why on earth would you travel anywhere to eat at a chain restaurant? Do you think maybe it defeats the purpose of paying $4.00 a gallon gas to go somewhere? By all means, go to the Landry's and Red Lobsters of the world IF your couch is your favorite place on earth.

Or, if you choose to not live while you're dead..... Get Out There!! The world is a great place to get out an experience!!

• Pros: Not a Cool, Local Place. Absolutely nothing notable about it, especially the food
• Cons: Not a Cool, Local Place. Absolutely nothing notable about it, especially the food

08/14/07

overrated

by infrequenttraveler

I had always wanted to go to a Joe's Crab Shack and now I'm wondering why. The food is very pedestrian and not worth the price. My family and I were completely disappointed, although my daughter said the fried shrimp was "OK." Why bother when Gaido's is just down the street? The crab cake was OK as well, not great, and the blackened Mahi was....well, OK.

• Pros: on the seawall
• Cons: food, price, loud atmosphere

02/20/07

Last tourist resort

by garywise

Our recent Saturday morning experience was very disappointing. We didn't expect much food-wise, but I think 'slap-dash' is a good word to describe our experience. Staff were forced to wear costumes that day, and it took a while for them to get ready, 'warm up' and get with it. We didn't feel the restaurant was ready to open. Based on this admittedly only one experience, the Houston locations are better IMHO, which doesn't say much for this tourist trap.

• Pros: Good parking
• Cons: I know they're there somewhere....