As you might expect, the menu offers an abundance of seafood, including six kinds of crabs, along with chicken, steak, and other fare. A few weeks ago, a friend visited Joe's on her birthday. Memphians apparently can't get their fill of that seaside-seafood theme. It picks up again at Cozymel's, a sprawling restaurant on the Poplar Corridor designed to resemble a Mexican grocery store. Everything has a ramshackle feel about it - faded paint, rough wood, and concrete floors, and a curious kind of dried grass covering some parts of the ceiling.
Diners can sit in massive wooden booths or perch on chairs inside the open patios.
The sizzle and steam of the kitchen reach out into the dining areas, and to one side, a gleaming stainless-steel contraption cranks out burrito and taco shells by the dozens. A dish called La Marina, for example, is a combination of grilled chicken, Yucatan rice, Mexican vegetables, and plump shrimp. Another entree, Salmon Tropical, is grilled salmon served with a creamy Cancun sauce. Logan's Roadhouse, on Germantown Park-way, is modeled after a rustic roadside tavern. Outside, it's all rough planks and corrugated-steel siding and red neon.