Big Jones

BIG EASY If you ever preceded a Schubas show with dinner at the adjacent Harmony Grill, you’ve already had a taste of Andersonville’s new Big Jones. Chef-owner Paul Fehribach plans to take the Southern comfort–style menu he oversaw at Schubas’s sidekick and flesh it out to the nth degree at Big Jones. The butter-yellow room sports a few tasteful French Quarter touches—stained-glass front windows, wrought-iron railings and hand-painted flowers on chair backs—but the menu packs the most N’awlins wallop, with shrimp and grits, a fried-green-tomato BLT, crawfish-boudin croquettes, jalapeño gator sausage and classic Deep South cocktails from the Sazerac to the hurricane. So who’s Jones and how big is he? “The name doesn’t refer to anybody specific,” Fehribach says. “We were playing around with surnames we thought sounded Southern and the ‘Big’ comes from a tongue-in-cheek Boss Hogg character.” We can’t wait for a Rosco P. Coltrane spin-off spot. 5347 N Clark St between Summerdale and Balmoral Aves (773-878-7685).