Big Jones
Appetizers and Soups
Soup Du Jour
Made fresh daily using the best ingredients we can muster. Please call the restaurant for today's selection.
$7.00 +Gumbo Ya Ya
A dark, smoky roux is the base of this Cajun style chicken and housemade andouille gumbo, served with aromatic delta rice.
$8.00Rooftop Garden Salad
Tossed with shallot, early radishes, candied pecans and hook's blue paradise with buttermilk herb dressing.
$8.00Pimiento Cheese
Hook's sharp cheddar blended with pimientos and our homemade Worcestershire sauce, with piccalilli and homemade benne crackers.
$8.00 +Skillet Cornbread
Crispy heirloom cornbread baked in cast iron with bacon fat and green onions, served with ellis farms honey & whipped butter.
$7.00Cheesy Corn Fritters
Sweet corn puffs with Hook’s aged Cheddar and jalapenos, served with chili pepper vinegar dip (5 pieces)
$8.00Cajun Boudin Fritters
Peppery pork and rice sausage breaded and fried crisp, served with cayenne mayonnaise and piccalilli
$9.00Sandwiches and Salads
Pimiento Cheeseburger
House ground grass fed beef griddled with onion and pimiento cheese topped with lettuce, pickled snack peppers and choice of side.
$13.00Smoked & Smothered Pork Shoulder
Pecan wood smoked and smothered in a tart east Carolina style sauce, topped with creamy slaw, served with choice of side.
$13.00Fried Chicken Sandwich
Boneless chicken leg and thigh fried fried crisp on our house dredge, served on an egg bun with homemade mayonnaise and butter lettuce and choice of side.
$14.00Fried Chicken Salad
House recipe fried chicken breast and Gotham lettuce with mighty vine tomato, cucumber, hook's blue paradise cheese and green goddess.
$14.00Carolina Shrimp Burger
In the style of Beaufort, South Carolina, Key West pink shrimp patty on an egg bun with cayenne mayonnaise, butter lettuce, local tomatoes, chow-chow, and your choice of side
$16.00Sweet and Spicy Chicken
Our crispy & juicy fried chicken sandwich basted in a honey & five-pepper rub. Super hot!
$15.00Entrees
Shrimp and Grits
Laughing bird shrimp, heirloom cheese grits, mushrooms, tasso ham gravy, housemade Worcestershire and scallions.
$17.00Fish & Grits
Alabama catfish in a light corn flour breading, served with creamy grits, sea island petit rouge peas, tasso beurre monte and piccalilli.
$18.00Fried Chicken
Fried in leaf lard, ham drippings and clarified butter, served with hoppnis john and voodoo greens.
$14.00 +Chicken and Dumplings
An old fehribach family recipe, long simmered slagel farm hen with onion, carrot and cabbage with chewy buttermilk knefles.
$14.00Fried Chicken Picnic
Lunch or dinner for family or friends. A whole 8 piece fried chicken, home-baked New Orleans-style baguette, honey butter, homemade preserves, and a pint each of mashed sweet potatoes and hoppin' john. Perfect for the beach, park, or back yard!. Serves 3-6.
$45.00Side Dishes
Twice Fried Kennebec Potatoes
Balanced, oven baked and finished in ham bacon fat until crispy, served with homemade Pecorino mayonnaise.
$4.00 +Hoppin' John
Maccaskle family farm aromatic brown rice with Anson Mills petite rouge peas and piccalilli.
$4.00 +Salt and Pepper Biscuits
Flaky buttermilk biscuits made with Pine River Dairy butter, served with whipped sorghum butter and homemade jelly
$7.00 +Creamy Slaw
Finley shredded cabbage tossed with homemade mayonnaise, fresh lemon, carrot and celery with a hint of red peppers.
$4.00 +Desserts
Chocolate Macaroon Chunk Ice Cream
Homemade dark chocolate-rum ice cream with TCHO chocolate chips and toasted pecan-coconut macaroons (1/2 pint)
$5.00Tres Leches Ice Cream
Homemade with three milks and scented with cinnamon, layered with salted caramel and toasted oat streusel (1/2 pint)
$5.00