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Big Jones

Iconic/NotableAndersonville · Southern Community-sourced, unverified
📍 5347 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60640

Big Jones has run on Clark Street in Andersonville since 2008 under chef Paul Fehribach, who built the menu specifically around historic Southern recipes pulled from antique Dixieland cookbooks rather than a generalized modern-Southern concept.

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A Mon-Fri 4:30-6pm happy hour ($6 select beer/wine, $10 frozen drinks) at a chef Paul Fehribach Southern kitchen that's made nearly everything in-house — hominy, boudin, smoked ham — from antique Dixieland recipes since 2008.

Almost everything gets made in-house, from hominy and leaf lard to boudin and smoked ham, sourced from more than 40 local farms alongside artisan Southern producers — the kind of commitment that's earned the restaurant national coverage from Food & Wine, Bon Appetit, Southern Living, and Garden & Gun, not just local praise. Shrimp and grits with tasso gravy, a dark-roux Cajun gumbo, and a boucherie board of house-cured meats anchor dinner, while weekend brunch runs jalapeno cornbread, crawfish etouffee, and beignets to a room that stays lively rather than precious about it.

There's a real daily happy hour too — Monday through Friday, 4:30 to 6pm, $6 select beer and wine or $10 frozen drinks — a genuinely accessible window into a restaurant that otherwise reads as a destination. Recent reviews have held steady at 5 stars, which is a rare thing to say about a restaurant 17 years into its run rather than in its first flush of hype.

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Big Jones

Iconic/Notable
Daily Happy Hour · $6-$10
Andersonville4:30PM–6PMCommunity

Hours

Mon-Thu, Sun11AM-9PM
Fri11AM-10PM
Sat9AM-10PM
📅 Takes reservations 🥡 Takeout unconfirmed 📞 (773) 275-5725

Amenities & accessibility

📅Reservations accepted
❔Takeout: unverified
♿Wheelchair accessible
☀️Outdoor seating available
🙂Kid-friendly

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