We've been blessed with some lovely weather this fall, let's hope it's an indication of

	A roasted venison loin from Slagel Family Farm with creamed barley, sauerkraut, and preserved quince was a favorite special this month

what's to come for winter! We love cooking this time of the year, it's a wonderful time to be in the kitchen, working with warm, roasty-toasty flavors, long braises, mushrooms, root vegetables, soups, and stews. We've had a whole deer in the kitchen from Slagel Family Farm, there's duck from Culver Farms in Greenview, altogether with our local farm roundup of apples and pears, beets, brussels sprouts, rutabagas, cauliflower, and beautiful lettuce from our new supplier Gotham Greens on the south side. It's always a good time to stop in and see what we're cooking, but there's no better time than the present!

Our plans for the holidays are shaping up, see our Christmas Eve menu below, and please make plans to come see us over the holidays. Here's what's cooking:

Thanksgiving Dinner is Sold Out, please join us over the holidays!

From November 25 - December 26, we are continuing our holiday tradition

	We have new gift cards for the holidays, stored value with presentation card and envelope for the Southern food fans on your list

of offering a $10 lagniappe for every $50 gift card purchase, so please consider giving the gift of Southern heirloom cooking this holiday season. Our new gift cards are stored-value, have no expiration date, and come with a lovely presentation card and envelope. The card fits in your wallet just like a credit card!

Saturday, December 24, we will be serving our ninth annual Reveillon Dinner, which is a beloved Big Jones tradition and always a lovely evening. reservations are now being accepted, so please make plans to join us!

Christmas Eve, brunch will be served from 9 am - 2:30 pm
Christmas Day, we will be closed so our staff can be with their families
New Years Eve, brunch 9 am - 3 pm
New Years Eve, dinner 5 pm - 10 pm stay tuned for specials
New Years Day, brunch 9 am - 4 pm, closed for dinner

Our third annual Soul Food Week will be from January 13-26, and we have a special treat in store on January 18, when Chef Dora Charles will brave the Northern winter and join us from Savannah, Georgia for a special author dinner and book signing to celebrate her wonderful book, A Real Southern Cook in Her Savannah Kitchen

Is your birthday this month? We've taken to baking and dressing up birthday cakes- on us - for birthday parties of eight or more guests. This month we offer a choice of Devil's Food Cake with dark chocolate ganache icing or Buttermilk Cake with apple butter filling and whipped cream frosting. Celebrate your birthday at Big Jones and the cake is on us! Please reserve two days in advance because we make these from scratch and that takes time :)

We've enjoyed working with this heritage rice from Anson Mills, first planted in the Lowcountry in the 17th century, it dates to 9th century Italy and is considered the ancestrally correct rice to make sea island bog, a Carolina treasure

This fall_s hottest seller is sweet potato dumplings with braised duck and hen of the woods mushrooms

In Her Savannah Kitchen
By Dora Charles

   

 

We are pleased to announce a guest chef dinner with the great Savannah Chef Dora Charles! Wednesday, January 18, 2017 Chef Charles will join us at Big Jones for a special dinner celebrating recipes from her outstanding cookbook A Real Southern Cook in Her Savannah Kitchen. We'll have her book on hand for sale, and Chef will be signing books for you, discuss recipes, Southern cooking, and her life inspirations.

Dora Charles is a daughter of Savannah, and spent twenty-two years cooking at Lady and Sons, Paula Deen's famed southern kitchen in the historic city, rising to become the restaurant's first woman chef. We had the pleasure of meeting Chef Dora at the Southern Foodways Alliance Symposium in Oxford, Mississippi last month, where she contributed to an exquisite Saturday evening dinner. Her perfected family recipes shine through in A Real Southern Cook, and we are certain you'll enjoy her company and the dishes we prepare from her book.

Dedicated to her father, A Real Southern Cook in Her Savannah Kitchen tells the story of a girl finding her way through life and the kitchen, the grandmother who reared her and taught her to cook, and chronicles the story of her family through food, what it means to be a Southern cook, what to cook for Sunday picnics, church suppers, or when company comes calling. And there are recipes, delectable recipes, for all occasions and the stories that go with.

This is our third annual Family Dinner, in which we celebrate African American chefs and the culinary heritage they bring to both the South and all of America. Our first hosted Soul Food Scholar Adrian Miller, and last year we had the pleasure of hosting Chef Stephanie Tyson and Vivian Joiner from Sweet Potatoes in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. These have been some of the warmest, most convivial evenings we can ever remember having at Big Jones, and we are looking forward to a very special evening with Chef Dora Charles. Please make plans to join us January 18 and meet Chef Dora. View the menu for her guest chef dinner here. 

 

 

 

Woodford Reserve Rye 

 

November's Whiskey of the Month!