How to Use stone crab in a Sentence

stone crab

noun
  • Everything’s good: fish, steaks, raw bar, and the stone crab.
    Larry Bleiberg, USA TODAY, 31 Jan. 2020
  • This time of year, the state’s signature stone crab claws are in season.
    Eleanore Park, WSJ, 10 Dec. 2020
  • But not every seafood market is feeling the stone crab pinch.
    Phillip Valys, sun-sentinel.com, 19 Oct. 2021
  • The result: about 4,000 pounds of fresh stone crab ready for hungry Floridians.
    Chris Perkins, sun-sentinel.com, 16 Oct. 2020
  • Santa Barbara stone crab claws, fish sticks with caviar, sand dabs, scampi, chicken parm.
    Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 2023
  • From stone crab to key lime pie, add these 10 dishes to your Sunshine State dining bucket list.
    Jennifer Jolly, USA TODAY, 12 July 2018
  • Eager to crack into fresh stone crab claws with sides of mustard dipping sauce?
    Phillip Valys, Sun Sentinel, 18 Oct. 2022
  • The signature stone crab claws are a pretty splurge; tuna tartare staged on ice and flanked with sails of rice crackers is about as trendy as Joe’s gets.
    Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2022
  • One of those rules upped the minimum size for stone crab claws by a quarter-inch, which triggered higher prices for mediums.
    Phillip Valys, sun-sentinel.com, 19 Oct. 2021
  • Don’t worry if stone crab season has passed: seafood and Southern-style dishes are available in town all year long.
    Laura Kiniry, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 June 2022
  • Florida stone crab season, which opened Oct. 15, runs through May 23.
    Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Oct. 2022
  • Celebrate the kick off of the season with fresh Florida stone crab claws and live music on the waterfront.
    Kara Franker, Southern Living, 6 July 2020
  • Celebrate the kick-off of the season with fresh Florida stone crab claws and live music on the waterfront.
    Kara Franker, Southern Living, 14 Nov. 2023
  • Unlike most Florida seafood, stone crabs are served cold, usually atop a bed of ice.
    Skye Sherman, Southern Living, 12 June 2023
  • To top it off, seafood — from Maine's lobsters and Maryland's oysters to Florida's stone crabs — is abundant.
    Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 7 June 2023
  • Making things even better, the Super Bowl overlaps with stone crab season.
    Larry Bleiberg, USA TODAY, 31 Jan. 2020
  • The dinner began with a lavish seafood platter: oysters, clams, jumbo shrimp, and stone crab claws, set down for everyone to share.
    Elise Taylor, Vogue, 9 Dec. 2019
  • But there’s a catch (no pun intended): stone crab season runs from mid-October to mid-May, so your window for giving them a try isn’t always open.
    Jennifer M. Wood, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Mar. 2018
  • There are state size and number limits on stone crab claws that can be harvested by recreational collectors.
    Popular Science, 19 Oct. 2020
  • The menu includes small bites (like deviled eggs, pigs in a blanket, lobster rolls, and stone crab claws) and larger plates (like lemon spaghetti with king crab and Florida snapper with salsa roja).
    Rachel Chang, Travel + Leisure, 27 Feb. 2023
  • For the indecisive, there’s the Chilled Seafood Platter with a selection of lobster, shrimp, stone crab, oysters, clams and ceviche over shaved ice for either two or four people for market price.
    Rod Stafford Hagwood, sun-sentinel.com, 30 Oct. 2020
  • The primary target from Georgia through Florida is the Florida stone crab.
    Popular Science, 19 Oct. 2020
  • Ardent Carbone fans will recognize menu favorites with subtle updates like stone crab from the raw bar or coconut-lime confections for a local touch.
    Taylor Stoddard, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2021
  • Supplemental dishes available, such as stone crab claws ($10 a person).
    Elaine Rewolinski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 24 Mar. 2021
  • Being surrounded by fishing grounds, the Keys are a superb place to eat fresh seafood — classic catch includes yellowtail, grouper, mutton, snapper, mahi-mahi, spiny lobster, and stone crab.
    Tracey Minkin, Travel + Leisure, 2 Mar. 2021
  • La Jolla restaurant has launched its annual menu offering of never-frozen Florida stone crab claws.
    Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Oct. 2022
  • Order some cold stone crab claws at Walt’s Fish Market, a Sarasota institution that has been operating since 1918.
    Jacqueline Dole, Travel + Leisure, 14 Nov. 2023
  • It's located at Pineapple Fields Resort, and menu items include lobster salad, Bahamian stone crab, and a variety of pizzas.
    Kristin Braswell, Travel + Leisure, 27 Jan. 2024
  • Today, there is far more fishing than smuggling (or so we are led to believe), with several unpretentious seafood restaurants that feature the local catch, most notably the delectable stone crab in season.
    Bonnie Gross and Bob Rountree, OrlandoSentinel.com, 6 May 2018
  • Mere days into stone crab season, local seafood markets, restaurants and wholesalers say strong weekend winds and lean traps along Florida’s Gulf Coast are limiting supplies of the crustacean delicacy.
    Phillip Valys, Sun Sentinel, 18 Oct. 2022

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