Kick Off Taste of Chicago with Big Jones

Chef Paul Fehribach of Big Jones is participating in Taste of Chicago’s Celebrity Chef Du Jour dinner series and is inviting foodies to help kick off the world’s largest food festival at a featured dinner on Wednesday, July 5th.

Guests will enjoy an array of Chef Fehribach’s signature Southern heirloom eats throughout the three course meal, with welcome bites served to get the evening started. Drawing on his mission to bring together traditional Southern cuisine with sustainability, the menu will feature:

Bites:

Benedictine on beaten biscuits with green tomato relish

Rolled oysters with remoulade

Rope baloney and sweet chow on toast

First Course:

Bristol bay sockeye salmon croquettes

with rooftop garden lettuces and a salad of green peas, blue barley, and summer mushrooms, tarragon vinaigrette and crème fraiche

 -or-

Zucchini and scallion pancake

with rooftop garden lettuces and a salad of green peas, blue barley, and summer mushrooms, tarragon vinaigrette and crème fraiche

Second Course:

Barbecued Kilgus Farmstead mutton

in Kentucky black barbecue sauce, crispy hominy cakes, and turnip kimchee, homemade cottage cheese

-or-

Savory butterbean and leek pie

with pickled beet relish, garden herbs and clabbered cream

Third Course:

Montmorency cherry Bavarian cream

with almond lace cookies, bittersweet chocolate drops, fresh coconut snow

 Tickets are on sale now for $45 per person