JB Hook's Restaurant

It's officially fall, and JB Hook's is the place to be! The Lake of the Ozarks is a gorgeous place to spend every season, but fall is often a favorite for people who live at the lake full-time. The cooler weather, award-winning fall colors, gorgeous lake scenes, and less traffic are all great plusses of the autumn season. Come visit the Lake this fall and spend time at the best year-round restaurant at the Lake of the Ozarks ! Keep reading to learn about the Lake and JB Hook's in the fall.  Breathtaking Scenery The leaves will soon begin changing, which means that breathtaking scenery outside the windows of our Lake of the Ozarks lake view restaurant will take on a new beauty for you to enjoy. The weather generally stays nice enough in autumn that you can still have your lunch or an afternoon cocktail on our JB Hook's covered outdoor patio overlooking the lake. Even if there's too much of a chill in the air, the floor-to-ceiling windows in our restaurant allow y...

February is American Heart Month, and JB Hook' s is excited to help you celebrate! As the best restaurant at the Lake of the Ozarks , we are proud to have several heart-healthy items on the menu to help you make healthy choices in 2020. Read on to learn more about some popular heart-healthy foods and come by to try your favorite! Heart-Healthy Foods Heart health is a very important issue today. It can be easy to eat how you want without thinking about the vitamins and nutrients your body needs to stay in good condition. There are five heart-healthy foods that are easy to add to your regular diet. In fact, you can find them at JB Hook's on our appetizer, lunch, and dinner menus! Salmon Omega-3 fatty acids can help decrease arrhythmias, triglyceride levels, blood pressure, and the amount of plaque in your arteries. It is recommended that you have at least two servings of foods that contain a high level of omega-3 fatty acids every week. Salmon is one of the best foods...

We love our guests, and we are always honored and appreciative to hear from you about your experience at JB Hook's . We pride ourselves on serving the best steaks and seafood at the Lake of the Ozarks , and you are truly the best fans we could ask for. Read on to learn more about our legendary food and service from our customers. Then come visit us this evening and try our happy hour specials for yourself! Our patio and piano bar are both open and serving up delicious food and drinks tonight. See you soon!  Our Friends on Facebook Wonderful, friendly and attentive staff... Our server was knowledgeable and patient with us while we visited before getting down to ordering.  Every item we ordered was Perfection and the lakeside seating was beautiful!!!  ~ Diane M.  Our food was amazing. We come here as often as we can. But, every year for sure on our anniversary.  We met the owners tonight. You, gentlemen, have a great establishment....

As the weather begins to warm and we're getting closer to the boating season at the Lake of the Ozarks, many people are starting to get spring fever. While it may not be summer quite yet, we can at least pretend for a bit and enjoy some ice cream while gazing out onto the best view at the Lake of the Ozarks on our outdoor patio. What could be better than that? Maybe if that bowl of ice cream had an adult twist! Our talented bartenders at JB Hook's create incredibly delicious drinks on a daily basis. We have a fully stocked bar, which allows them to mix up nearly everything under the sun. Our bar also includes a vanilla soft serve ice cream machine that our mixologist uses to make many, many adult milkshakes. If you're looking for a little dessert with a twist at the best restaurant at the Lake of the Ozarks , you may want to try one of these tasty ice cream cocktails. Brandy Alexander Vanilla ice cream blended with brandy and creme de cacao. My Blue Heaven Va...

JB Hook's is very excited about the beginning of a new year because that means another year to bring you more of the best ocean fish and steaks at the Lake of the Ozarks .  That's not all that we have to offer though.  We are full of everything that you love about dining at the Lake of the Ozarks .  Here is what you can look forward to when you join us at JB Hook's. Delicious Menu Items We specialize in serving the freshest and most delicious seafood and steaks that that the Lake of the Ozarks has to offer.  Our menus include lunch, dinner, half-price appetizers, specialty drinks, and a wonderful menu for the kids.  We feature lunch specials daily from 11 am - 4 pm.  A few of the meals that you can look forward to include:  Lobster, King Crab, Filet Mignon, Prime Rib, pasta dishes, poultry and pork options, and so much more.  We also mix up some amazing specialty drinks:  Hooked Kiss Martini, Patron after Dark, Woodford ...

2015 was another amazing year for JB Hook's.  We have an incredible group of people working here to make sure that everything runs exactly as it should, but we have become known as the best restaurant at the Lake of the Ozarks thanks to all of our wonderful customers.  You are what makes coming to work each day a joy rather than a chore.   Over the past year we have been blessed with some excellent awards thanks to all of you.  These include: 3 Silver Spoon Awards from Second Living Magazine Best Steak & Lobster Dinner Best Seafood Restaurant Best Male Server - Rich Cordia 2 Diner's Choice Awards for Most Booked Restaurant at the Lake of the Ozarks from Open Table Certificate of Ecxellence from TripAdvisor for excellent reviews from travelers Ranked #1 out of 46 restaurants in Lake Ozark on TripAdvisor Every time we earn an award because of what our customers have to say about us, it gives us the desire to keep doing our very best. ...

This time of year there seems to be a party planned for every weekend throughout the holidays.  Sometimes it is difficult to make yours stand out from the rest.   JB Hook's has a few ideas listed below for some really fun themes to make your party memorable and fun.  Any one of the following celebrations would be perfect to throw at the best lake view restaurant at the Lake of the Ozarks .   White Christmas Party For those that are always dreaming of a white Christmas, make it happen!  While we don't encourage actual snow inside our Lake of the Ozarks restaurant , you can definitely throw a party that embodies the idea.  Sparkly snowflakes hanging all around the room, white tablecloths with a hint of shimmer, and white place settings with shiny silver flatware.  You can even go a step further and ask everyone to dress in all white!  Choose scallops or another type of white seafood, and a side such as steamed cauliflower or mashed potatoe...

The delicious cuisine at the best seafood and steak restaurant at the Lake of the Ozarks is the reason that customers keep coming back again and again.  It's just an added bonus that we also have the best view at the Lake of the Ozarks  for dining too.  JB Hook's offers a 14-mile panoramic view from every seat in the house.  Our indoor dining room, special event room, bar, and outdoor patio each have an uninterrupted view of the beautiful Lake of the Ozarks.  We've had a few weddings and bunches of wedding proposals with our view as the backdrop.  The sunsets from our restaurant are absolutely breathtaking.    Our lake was formed when Bagnell Dam was built, which was completed in 1931.  The building of the dam created 10,000 jobs and employed 25,000 men over the four years that it was being constructed.  The lake has a surface area of 55,000 acres, over 1,150 miles of shoreline, and the main channel  stretch...

Fourth of July Weekend is here, and the Lake area is all abuzz with excitement.  This weekend is a really big one for our area, full of holiday celebrations, fireworks, and plenty of visitors to our vacation destination.  We would like to welcome all of them, along with our wonderful regulars, to enjoy some of the holiday right here at the best lake view restaurant at the Lake of the Ozarks .  Here is a list of some of the fun we have in store for you this weekend. Happy Hour & Live Music This holiday weekend will include our wonderful JB Hook's Happy Hours.  From  3 pm - 7 pm on Friday, our bar area will have buy 1 - get 1 free specials on well drinks, house wine, and our homemade sangria, plus half-price appetizers.  Michael V. will be entertaining the crowd from 5:30 - 8.  Then we'll do it all again on Sunday from  2 pm - 6 pm, and Cheryl Lynn will be joining Mike to perform from 2-5.  It's a great place to meet with friends and...

The JB Hook's of today has been through some big changes over the past 25 years.  The Lake of the Ozarks best seafood restaurant has survived name changes, Lake area construction, and a destructive fire.   The restaurant was originally called called Captain Hook's two and a half decades ago, and then later changed to Krazo's.  John LaFata and Bruce Elliot opened it as JB Hook's in February of 1995. Tragically, that only lasted for 3 months before a fire blazed through the restaurant destroying much of the building.  An entire Lake of the Ozarks Summer season had to be missed during the rebuilding before the restaurant opened it's doors back up in September of 1995. The new version of the building has undergone several architectural changes and additions since then.  The lower kitchen and Sunset Room were added to offer a lunch menu.  It is enclosed within three walls of glass, offering an uninterrupted and truly breathtaking view of the Lake.  ...