Food & Entertainment

The seafood platters at Joe’s Oyster Bar continue to attract generations of families to the Port Isabel restaurant.

PI Restaurant Honors Legacy Of Founder

Ricky Hernandez was the neighborhood kid who never left Joe Henry Castillo’s side for over 30 years. “He treated me like his son,” said Hernandez, the manager of Joe’s Oyster Bar & Gulf Seafood Market in Port Isabel. “Yes, I was an employee, but he shared everything he knew with me. I was with him 13 or 14 hours a day.” Hernandez so absorbed Castillo’s life lessons and ways of…

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