text: Joes crab shack is the place you go for warm some times fake family friendly atmosphere I my self have celebrated two of my own birthdays in the confines of this eatery I particularly enjoy the joes steam pots A little pricey in my mind as none are under dollars Their good though considering that the seafood your eating had to take hour truck ride to get on to your plate in the middle of a desert With titles that involves words like Cajun long Islander and Orleans Joes trys to sell culture to the urban sprawled and culture deprived suburbanites of the west I Praise Joes for their cleverness but it seems all to tacky eating the mussel and clam filled Long Islander while staring into a all to similar sea of brown housing tracts The Steam Pots Besides their irony are simple consisting of the seafood that comes with the variation of the pot you chose potatoes sausage and generous amounts of melted butter People Dog on Joes steam pots for their lack of authenticity and that they have had better when their Grandma made home cooked crab when they where kids growing up in the boondocks of redneckville Maine Well i say unless you want to back to grandmas house in redneckville I suggest you go to Joes and relish their transplanted steam pots Joes is like many restaurant chains who try to inject culture to many culture less neighborhoods sure the atmosphere is fake the staff even faker the food and the steam pots are just above mediocre but what more can you ask for your in the freakin desert