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Chicken, housemade andouille sausage, and homemade worcestershire sauce flavor this broth along with a dark, smoky roux, served with steamed Cahokia rice
Price: 10.00
Restaurants: Southern Chicago
Make any occasion special with true Southern hospitality! Whether you just want something delicious to eat and drink, or to celebrate a special occasion, brunch, lunch, or dinner at Big Jones combines gracious service with creative, progressive Southern cooking sourced from over 40 local farms as well as artisan producers in the South. Our beverage program is one of Chicago's finest, with alcohol-free tipples as well as an extensive selection of hand-crafted, seasonal cocktails, craft beers, and farmer-producer wines from the world's great growing regions. Come celebrate life with us!
Chicken, housemade andouille sausage, and homemade worcestershire sauce flavor this broth along with a dark, smoky roux, served with steamed Cahokia rice
Price: 10.00
Popcorn-style okra crisped in corn and rice flour breading, tossed in a tangy sauce of ginger, gochujang, and kecap manis with toasted benne
Price: 15.00
Cooked crisp in Weissenmuller's cornmeal, dressed with butter lettuce, pickled Texas Gulf of Mexico shrimp, spicy remoulade, green tomato relsih
Price: 18.00
Three types of beets prepared three different ways: creamy borscht, pickled, and roasted, with sour cabbage, olive oil-toasted almonds, pea greens. Gluten free.
Price: 18.00
Hazzard Free Farm heirloom cornmeal baked in bacon fat, topped with whipped sorghum butter. Gluten free!
Price: 10.00
Three Creole doughnuts lightly spiced and deep fried, buried in confectioner's cugar
Price: 6.00
Buttery hand-rolled croissant pastry filled with creamy ricoota cheese and tangy homemade guava marmalade
Price: 7.00
Fragrant with roasted sweet potato puree and spicebox, served with whipped honey coriander butter and homemade local rhubarb butter
Price: 7.00
Local heirloom apples in lightly spiced batter fried crisp and iced with pure maple royal icing
Price: 7.00
A secret blend of gluten free flours with coconut oil, lemon, blackberries, and a whisper of North Carolina red miso, iced with lemon royal icing. Vegan and gluten free.
Price: 8.00
Our homemade buttermilk bread soaked in dreamsicle custard and griddled, layered with homemade apple butter and garnished with crispy oatmeal streusel, whipped Kilgus Farmstead cream
Price: 18.00
Delicate rice flour pancakes laced with pumpkin puree and sweet spices, filled with pumpkin cream, and topped with toasted pumpkin seed granola
Price: 15.00
Special rice flour flapjacks filled with ripe banana and candied pecans, and laced with a whisper of NC red miso, served with Pittman's pure maple syrup. Gluten free. Vegan.
Price: 16.00
Craft your own perfect omelet. Four local farm eggs prepared Creole-style with the fillings on the inside. Choose one filling. Additional fillings, 1.50 & 2.50.
Price: 16.00
Four Farmer's Hen House eggs filled with roasted local plum tomatoes, and Capriole chevre, choice of side
Price: 18.00
Three farm eggs, Louisiana crawfish tails, andouille sausage, cream cheese, bearnaise sauce
Price: 21.00
Chef Paul's Iron Chef-beating homage to the humble egg sandwich - a big, bodacious buttermilk biscuit slathered with sweet cream butter and stacked with Chaurice (Creole hot sausage), Jarlsberg Swiss cheese, and spicy apple chutney. Choice of side.
Price: 17.00
Two Milo's Farm eggs cooked your way with a cornbread muffin and choice of creamy grits. Choice of meat +4
Price: 15.00
House-cured ham poached in cream a la Creole, in popovers with poached farm eggs and bearnaise sauce, choice of side
Price: 17.00
Hot chili-dipped crispy leg & thigh quarter served with two rice waffles, sweet potato puree, butter pecan praline sauce, and a sunny egg
Price: 22.00
Price: 28.00
Creole-style lump blue crab meat cakes stuffed in home baked popovers with poached eggs and bearnaise sauce, choice of side
Price: 35.00
A fragrant sweet potato biscuit smothered in creamy milk gravy with savory local mushrooms, and two fried eggs
Price: 17.00
Price: 18.00
Texas coast Gulf of Mexico white shrimp smothered in savory Tasso ham and shiitake mushroom gravy, served on creamy Anson Mills grits. Contains pork and gluten. Can be made gluten or pork-free upon request.
Price: 24.00
A flour tortilla crusted in chicharron de queso wraps scrambled eggs, braised Fischer Farms oxtail, and avocado, served with benne pecan salsa matcha
Price: 18.00
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Price: 8.00
Anson Mills Carolina Gourdseed White flint grits cooked in Kilgus Farmstead Jersey cow milk with aged Cheddar cheese
Price: 6.00
Gotham Greens butter lettuce dressed with tarragon vinegar and extra virgin olive oil
Price: 8.00
Strictly seasonal fruit
Price: 6.00
Shredded potatoes cooked in butter with onion and green bell pepper
Price: 4.00
Housemade with Fischer Farms' pork and a clutch of pungent spices
Price: 5.00
Indiana smoked ham poached in Kilgus Farmstead cream
Price: 6.00
Pasture-raised eggs from near the Quad Cities
Price: 5.00
Cured in-house starting with Beeler's Pure Pork bellies, smoked with applewood
Price: 6.00
Price: 6.00
Grilled American cheese on homemade bread, fresh fruit
Price: 7.00
Hand-breaded Amish chicken tender with buttered rice
Price: 6.00
Two scrambled eggs with house-cured bacon and creamy cheese grits
Price: 5.00
Mini cinnamon-scented pancakes with pure maple syrup
Price: 5.00
Home-baked French toast with fresh fruit and pure maple syrup
Price: 5.00
Price: 12.00
As only Big Jones does it - an Amish bird (one wing and one breast) fried crisp in 14 spices with special rice flours and canola oil, sweet chili sauce, sweet potato puree. Gluten free and celiac friendly.
Price: 20.00
As only Big Jones does it - an Amish bird (one leg and one thigh) fried crisp in 14 spices with special rice flours and canola oil, sweet chili sauce, sweet potato puree. Gluten free and celiac friendly.
Price: 19.00
As only Big Jones does it - an Amish bird (one each wing, leg, breast, thigh) fried crisp in 14 spices with special rice flours and canola oil, sweet chili sauce, sweet potato puree. Gluten free and celiac friendly.
Price: 35.00
Werp Farm lettuces and frisee tossed with crisp bacon, Jarlsberg Swiss cheese, garlicky croutons, and scallions in tarragon vinaigrette, topped wtih sautees duck rillettes and a poached egg
Price: 28.00