Tony and Joe's Seafood Place

Tony and Joe’s Seafood Place has operated at 3000 K Street NW Suite 10 since 1991, establishing itself over more than three decades as one of the most recognizable restaurants in Georgetown’s waterfront dining landscape. The restaurant’s position in the Georgetown Harbour complex at the K Street level provides the Potomac River views and the outdoor terrace access that have made Tony and Joe’s the waterfront seafood destination for Georgetown’s diners and Washington’s visitors.

The seafood tradition that Tony and Joe’s serves draws on the Chesapeake Bay and the mid-Atlantic coastal seafood that the region’s waters provide. The Chesapeake Bay blue crab, which is the crustacean most associated with the mid-Atlantic food culture, appears at Tony and Joe’s in the forms that the Chesapeake tradition has developed: the crab cake, which should be primarily crab with minimal filler; the she-crab soup, the rich cream-based soup with the crab roe that the Chesapeake tradition developed; and the steamed whole crab, which in the summer crab season is the most basic and the most satisfying preparation of the blue crab that the Chesapeake provides.

The outdoor terrace at Tony and Joe’s is the feature that has made the restaurant a destination for the warm-month Georgetown dining season. The K Street waterfront level provides the direct river proximity that the terraced restaurants of the Georgetown Harbour complex share, and Tony and Joe’s terrace is among the most consistently used outdoor dining spaces in the Georgetown market from May through October.

The Georgetown Harbour complex at 3000 K Street, which Tony and Joe’s shares with the River Club and Sequoia, is accessible from the M Street level via the stairs at the waterfront park entrance.

Hours run from 11:30am most days and 10am on weekends. The three-decade operation of Tony and Joe’s at the Georgetown waterfront has given the restaurant the longevity that transforms a dining address into a Georgetown institution. The customer who has been coming to Tony and Joe’s for the Chesapeake Bay crab cake and the Potomac River view since the early 1990s has been returning to the same experience across the full arc of Georgetown’s changing restaurant landscape, which is the form of loyalty that the consistent execution of the waterfront seafood format has earned. The Chesapeake Bay is the geographic reference that gives Tony and Joe’s its culinary identity: the blue crab, the rockfish, and the oysters that the bay provides are the ingredients that the Chesapeake seafood restaurant has always organized its menu around. The June-through-August crab season, when the Chesapeake blue crab is at its peak and the steamed crab dinner is the most specifically mid-Atlantic dining experience available, provides Tony and Joe’s with the seasonal centerpiece that the Georgetown waterfront restaurant market depends on. The outdoor terrace of Tony and Joe’s, which faces the Potomac River and the Key Bridge, is among the most consistently occupied outdoor dining spaces in Georgetown from May through October. The combination of the river view and the Chesapeake seafood produces the specific Georgetown waterfront experience. Hours run from 11:30am most days and 10am on weekends.