FOREIGN WORDS PUT SOME SOUTH Plaquemine is a small town in Louisiana, its lock Aligator pear – avocado joining Bayou Plaquemine to the Mississippi. IN YO’ MOUTH Amandine – fried, with toasted almond Our chef’s grandmother, Ginny, came from there. meunière sauce Andouille – smoked spiced sausage Cajuns descended from Acadians – the Canadians Beignets – New Orleans doughnuts expelled by the Brits during the Seven Years War. Theirs is the country & bourgeois cooking of Blackened – spiced & charred Louisiana. Their food is rich, elaborate, peppery, & oft full of dark roux, game, pork and crawfish. Boudin – a soft rice sausage, to be eaten by squeezing the filling from the casing Cracklins – spiced crispy pork belly nuggets Louisiana Creoles are descendants of all the state’s colonial settlers – slaves & slavers - French, Crawfish - AKA mudbugs AKA crayfish Spanish, Italian, African, Caribbean & German. Debris – the bits of meat that fall off a slow Their cooking, which could be generalized as ‘city roast, mixed in the roasting gravy cuisine’ – generally, redder (chilli, paprika, tomato), with a greater focus on seafood. Doberge – many-layered cake (pronounced d’oh-bash) File – sassafras powder, one of the Native American gifts to Luisian cuisine Grits – corn porridge Gumbo – a soup, thickened with roux & okra or filé Gumbo Z’herbes – green gumbo, made with an odd number of greens Luisian – not quite a word, but we like it 139, Graham street N1 8LB Maque Choux – a marriage of plantation slave and native American cuisines – ‘mock 020 7688 1488 cabbage’ made of sauté corn Mirliton – a type of green squash, like a www.plaqlock.com hybrid of zucchini & apple Po’boys – sandwiches, originally made for poor striking streetcar conductors Remoulade – spiced piquant mayonnaise Rockafella – our Rockefeller, with absinthe creamed spinach Roux – fried flour Shrimp – prawns WEEKDAY LUNCH PLACE ORDER AT BAR po’boy* & fries, £9 Plaquemine Lock specializes in oysters, boiled crawfish, po’boys and gumbo. We serve mostly *excludes oyster & burger British beers, and all-Luisian cocktails. BETTER SHARED PLATES & BOWLS 6” PO’BOYS Fried shrimp £7.5 OYSTERS (per half dozen) GUMBO (cup or bowl) Peacemaker Fried oyster & bacon £11.5 Raw £15 House Gumbo dark roux, chicken, andouille, shrimp & okra £4.5 / £12 Slow-roast beef debris £7.5 ‘Link’ grilled with garlic & chilli butter £15 Gumbo z’herbes (vegan) £3.5 / £8 Fried grey mullet £8 Rockafella £20 Meatball £7.5 Brochette fried with bacon, sauce SEAFOOD & FISH Fried green tomato with cheddar (v) marchand de vin £22 Fried seafood basket shrimp, squid, Blackened beef burger alligator pear, Bienville grilled with mushroom, mullet, oysters & okra; remoulade bacon, fries £12 bacon & shrimp £17 £12 SIDES Mix Six (2 each Link, Rockafella & Shrimp’n’grits bacon £10 / £16 Brochette) £20 Blackened swordfish creamed marque choux £18 Collard greens stewed in ham hock SNACKETISERS potliquor (vegan on request) £4 Grey Mullet Amandine fried, almond & lemon butter; mirliton slaw £12 Smothered okra (v) £4 Duck boudin home-made creole mustard & pickles £6 Crawfish mac’n’cheese poblano Lettuce corn, herbs (v) £4 pepper & corn £12 Pork Boudin Balls (fried); home-made Buttered grits (v) £4 Creole mustard £5 CHICKEN & MEAT Rice (v) £3 Mini crab cakes £12, for 3 Dirty rice with crab & liver £6 Fried okra blue cheese ranch (v) £6 Blackened chicken red beans with Fried green tomatoes (v) £4 Shrimp remoulade & mustard on chicken andouille; mirliton slaw £12 Purple sprouting broccoli pecan fried green tomato £12 Fried chicken bisquit, grits & green brown butter £5 Poblano pepper stuffed with tomato jam £12 French Quarter fries (v) £3.5 andouille, smoked & fried £6 BBQ pork belly sweetcorn, mirliton Fried oysters 1/2 dz, remoulade £15 Fried chicken wings gratton mayo slaw £14 £6.5 DESSERTS BOILING POT (mixed on a platter, GREENS Pecan pie cane sugar ice cream £6 with corn & potatoes) Cherry pie almond cream £6 Round lettuce spicy pecans, blue Julep sherbet peach sorbet beaten 1lb Crawfish £15 cheese, chives (v) £9 with mint & bourbon £6 3lb Crawfish £27 Eggs Florentine eggs, spinach, creole hollandaise, cornbread (v) £10 Chicory café au lait & beignets £5 5lb Crawfish £40 Chocolate ice cream pecans £6 Shrimp 1/2 dz £10 Two-flavoured rum Doberge cake, PLEASE ALERT YOUR SERVER TO ANY FOOD Chicken andouille £4 ALLERGIES BEFORE ORDERING ‘crème Rayner’ £6 Pork andouille £4 .