I have two words about stone crab:

OVER.

RATED.

OKay, so maybe it's just one word...but I am thinking of the college football chants.

But I have had had stone crabs about 4-5 times now. I don't think that there really is anything special about them. I agree with gfunkdave; they don't taste any different from any other crab.

Certainly, it's fine. Nothing wrong with them. But I wouldn't pay the exorbitant prices that they ask for a certain restaurants. They just taste like any other crab. Being in San FRancisco, we get lots of dungeoness crab. I don't think the meat really tastes any different. No better. No worse. I don't see what the hype of stone crab is all about.