Rustic Inn Crabhouse

Top 1% of restaurants in Fort Lauderdale
8/10

6 expert reviews

“"Family and friends" get "down and dirty" at this huge, circa-1955 "landmark" crab shack near the airport, donning bibs and "banging" away with mallets.”

– Zagat

Fodor's Fodor's
"Now run by Wayne's family, the still-rustic place brags that it is still crackin' after more than a half century." Full review
Lonely Planet Lonely Planet
"Hungry locals at this messy, noisy crab house use wooden mallets at long, newspaper-covered tables to get at the Dungeness, blue and golden crabs drenched in garlic." Full review
Where Where
"If you called central casting and ordered up an Old Florida seafood restaurant, you’d get Rustic Inn, a crab shack that has been packing in the seafood lovers for more than 50 years." Full review
The Infatuation The Infatuation
7.7
"One of the greatest seafood establishments in the whole state...this place has been serving crabs and lots of other delicious seafood since 1955, and it’s like a museum you get to eat." Full review
Frommer's Frommer's
"The house specialty is garlic crabs—[“]world-famous,” they aver—but there’s plenty else on the menu (lots but not all of it fried, and not all of it fish, shrimp, or mollusks)." Full review



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