Moe Joe's

24033 Lockport St, Plainfield
(815) 230-2790

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Corn Crusted Alligator Tail
Fried Shrimp PO Boy
Jamaican Jerk Wings
Resurrection Burger
Bayou Ribbon Fries
Red Beans and Rice
Seafood Jambalaya
Shrimp Etouffee
Coconut Shrimp
Fried Chicken

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Most Popular
Crawfish Arancinins
Four lightly fried balls of tender risotto hand rolled around blackened crawfish centers. Served with New Orleans remoulade.
Seafood Jambalaya
A seafood base with tender blackened sea scallops and large blackened gulf shrimp.
Alligator Sauce Piquante
Fried Green Tomato BLT
A Magazine Street staple. Served on garlic buttered French bread with your choice of Moe Joe.
Sweet Caribbean Sugarcane Shrimp
Ten large Gulf Shrimp on a natural sugarcane skewer for a touch of sweetness, jerk rubbed, brushed with our Caribbean BBQ, and char grilled. Served with mango salsa.

Appetizers
Crawfish Arancinins
Four lightly fried balls of tender risotto hand rolled around blackened crawfish centers. Served with New Orleans remoulade.
Sweet Caribbean Sugarcane Shrimp
Ten large Gulf Shrimp on a natural sugarcane skewer for a touch of sweetness, jerk rubbed, brushed with our Caribbean BBQ, and char grilled. Served with mango salsa.
Jamaican Jerk Wings
Ten large chicken wings, wet rubbed with Caribbean jerk seasoning, and char-grilled. Served with Moe Joe.
Famous Corn Crusted Alligator Tail
One half pound of real alligator tail meat portions hand breaded and served with Moe Joe.
Bayou Blackened Steak Skewers
Two ten inch skewers loaded with tender Angus fillet seasoned with our secret blackening magic and served with horseradish cream sauce.
New Orleans Style Crawfish Boil
3 full pounds of whole craw fish seasoned with mustered seed, coriander, cayenne, and dill.
Coconut Fried Gulf Shrimp
Six large Gulf shrimp, battered with real coconut, and served with Moe Joe.
New Orleans Crab Cakes
The traditional New Orleans crab cakes served with Moe Joe.
Grilled Andouille Sausage
Straight from New Orleans to your plate. The most authentic andouille sausage char-grilled, sliced, and served with Moe Joe.
Kabrit Fromaj
A quarter pound of hand bruleed mild goat cheese a top our creole cream sauce and served with four garlic buttered toast points.
Fried Green Tomatoes Bon Temps
Lightly breaded slices of fried green tomato on garlic crostinis topped with homemade pimento cheese.
Southern Fried Crawfish Tails
Whole crawfish tails hand battered with our own Southern pepper corn breading. Served with your choice of horseradish cocktail sauce or Moe Joe.
Blackened Chicken Skewers
Four white meat chicken tenderloins blackened and char-grilled. Served on wooden skewers with our own chipotle peanut sauce.
Blackened Gator Skewers
Two ten inch skewers loaded with blakened alligator tail portions grilled and served with Moe Joe's jalapenio honey dipping sauce.
Beer Battered Fried Pickles
Hand battered dill pickle spears deep fried and served with Moe Joe.
Beer Battered Vidalias
Sweet onions thin sliced, beer battered, and served with Moe Joe.
Jezebel Seafood Skewers
Two ten inch skewers of large Gulf shrimp and tender sea scallops lightly grilled. Served with our Southern Jezebel Jam for dipping.
Southern Fried Green Pepper Rings
Giant slices of green bell pepper, hand battered, and deep fried. Served with buttermilk dressing.
Classic Shrimp Cocktail
Six gulf shrimp served in a champagne glass with horseradish cocktail sauce.
Fried Oysters
Fresh Deleware oysters hand breaded and fried to perfection. Served with cocktail sauce and remoulade.

Soups
Moe Joe Gumbo
Hearty Cajun soup containing andouille sausage, ham, okra, dixie blackened voodoo beer, slow cooked, and thickened with a blonde roux.
Turtle Soup
A rich soup made from terrapin turtle meat, dry sherry wine, celery, tomato, green pepper, and onion.

Salads
Creole Caesar Salad
Romaine lettuce, fresh shredded Parmesan cheese, garlic buttered croutons, cracked black pepper with your choice of blackened chicken, blackened shrimp, blackened portobello mushroom with Caesar dressing.
Moe Joe Salad
Blend of Romaine and baby spinach leaf lettuce tossed with chunks of blackened chicken, bacon, bleu cheese, onion, and dressed with our own Creole vinaigrette.
Cajun Fried Chicken Salad
Hand battered all white meat chicken tenderloins and fried okra on a blend of Romaine and baby spinach leaf lettuce with Cheddar cheese onion, and buttermilk Ranch dressing.

Bayou Entrees
Seafood Jambalaya
A seafood base with tender blackened sea scallops and large blackened gulf shrimp.
Alligator Sauce Piquante
Blackened alligator tail and grilled Andouille sausage in a tomato and pepper red sauce over rice
Red Beans and Rice
Slow cooked red beans flavored with ham and andouille sausage served with white rice with choice of blackened chicken or eight blackened gulf shrimp.
Jambalaya
A hallmark of creole cooking. This saucy dish combines tomato, cooked rice, onion, ham, chicken, andouille sausage, and Cajun spices.
Jamaican Jerk Chicken
White meat chicken tenderloin, dry rubbed with Caribbean jerk spices, and char-grilled. Served with mango salsa over rice.
Crawfish Etouffee
Half pound of crawfish tails sauteed in our onion pepper sauce served with white rice. A most popular Cajun dish.
Moe Joe Gumbo
Hearty Cajun soup containing Andouille sausage, ham, okra, dixie blackened voodoo beer, slow cooked, and thickened with a blonde roux served with white rice.
Blackened Catfish Acadian
Blackened catfish fillet on a bed of white rice topped with our signature crawfish etouffee.
Chicken Creole
White meat chicken tenderloin served in a tomato based pepper saute over rice.
Chicken Fricassee
Seasoned rice, chopped carrots, celery, sweet corn, onion, peas, creole spices and blackened chicken, and slow cooked in a blonde roux.
Shrimp Etouffee
Half pound of shrimp sauteed in our onion pepper sauce served with white rice. A most popular Cajun dish.
Southern Fried Frog Legs
Ten large frog legs marinated overnight, hand battered, and deep fried. Served a top a heaping mound of Cheddar mashed potatoes with Creole cream sauce.
Shrimp Creole
Eight large Gulf shrimp served in a tomato based pepper saute over rice.
Caribbean Cap
Giant seasoned portobello mushroom cap grilled and filled with mango salsa atop a bed of rice.
Alligator Fricassee
Seasoned rice, chopped carrots, celery, sweet corn, onion, peas, creole spices and real blackened alligator tail meat

Down Home Platters
Fried Catfish
Large catfish fillet hand dipped in home made Southern peppercorn batter and deep fried.
Homemade Fried Chicken
Breast, thigh, wing hand dipped in homemade batter, and deep fried.
Caribbean BBQ Pork Chop
Thick 10 oz chop char grilled and served with mango relish.
Blackened Catfish
Large catfish fillet dry rubbed with Cajun seasonings and char grilled.
Smoked Ham Steak
Giant hand cut 16 oz ham slice flavored with brown sugar and served with a slice of grilled fresh pineapple.

Sides
Homemade Mac and Cheese
Corn Fritters
Red Beans and Rice
Yumbo
Mashed potatoes with gumbo.
Cheddar Mashed Potato
Bacon Roasted Brussell Sprouts
Seasonal.
Bayou Ribbon Fries
Caesar Side Salad
Loaded Baked Potato
Southern Fried Okra
Broccoli and Cheese
Steamed Broccoli
Cole Slaw
Black Eyed Peas
Corn on the Cob
Seasonal.
Baked Sweet Potato
Sweet Potato Fries
Deep Fried Pickle
Roasted Asparagus

Sandwiches
Pirogue (Pee-row)
We start with all natural turkey breast, rub it with our own bayou blend of seasonings. We slow roast it on site, then we slice it and pile it high with smoked gouda cheese, and our own toasted pine nut basil Parmesan pesto on tomato focaccia bread.
Muffaletta (Moof-fuh-leht-tuh)
A specialty of New Orleans. Layers of salami, pepperoni, and smoked ham with melted provolone. Topped with an olive salad on a tomato focaccia bun

Po Boys
Fried Green Tomato BLT
A Magazine Street staple. Served on garlic buttered French bread with your choice of Moe Joe.
Steak Po Boy
A Magazine Street staple. Served on garlic buttered French bread with your choice of Moe Joe.
Fried Jumbo Shrimp Po Boy
A Magazine Street staple. Served on garlic buttered French bread with your choice of Moe Joe.
Blackened Chicken Po Boy
A Magazine Street staple. Served on garlic buttered French bread with your choice of Moe Joe.
Blackened Jumbo Shrimp Po Boy
A Magazine Street staple. Served on garlic buttered French bread with your choice of Moe Joe.
Blackened Alligator Po Boy
A Magazine Street staple. Served on garlic buttered French bread with your choice of Moe Joe.
Fried Chicken Po Boy
A Magazine Street staple. Served on garlic buttered French bread with your choice of Moe Joe.
Fried Crawfish Po Boy
A Magazine Street staple. Served on garlic buttered French bread with your choice of Moe Joe.
Fried Catfish Po Boy
A Magazine Street staple. Served on garlic buttered French bread with your choice of Moe Joe.
Famous Alligator Po Boy
A Magazine Street staple. Served on garlic buttered French bread with your choice of Moe Joe.
Crab Cake Po Boy
A Magazine Street staple. Served on garlic buttered French bread with your choice of Moe Joe.
Andouille Sausage Po Boy
A Magazine Street staple. Served on garlic buttered French bread with your choice of Moe Joe.
Blackened Catfish Po Boy
A Magazine Street staple. Served on garlic buttered French bread with your choice of Moe Joe.
Fried Oyster Po Boy
A Magazine Street staple. Served on garlic buttered French bread with your choice of Moe Joe.
Grilled Portobello Po Boy
A Magazine Street staple. Served on garlic buttered French bread with your choice of Moe Joe.
Blackened Oyster Po Boy
A Magazine Street staple. Served on garlic buttered French bread with your choice of Moe Joe.

Burgers
Build yo' Own Burger
Three-quarter pound of Angus certified beef patties on fresh baked pretzel rolls and cooked to your specifications. Top it with choice of lettuce, tomato, raw onion, pickle, mayo, BBQ, and spicy.
Resurrection Burger
Three-quarter pound of Angus certified beef patty on fresh baked pretzel rolls and cooked to your specifications. Seasoned to perfection with our own blend of garlic, onion, coriander, black, cayenne pepper, dill, topped with lettuce, red onion, smoked gouda, and over medium fried egg.
Cajun Burger
Three-quarter pound of Angus certified beef patty on fresh baked pretzel rolls and cooked to your specifications. Seasoned with creole spices topped with lettuce, tomato, pickles, fried okra, deep fried onion, creole mustard, and Moe Joe.
Caribbean Burger
Three-quarter pound of Angus certified beef patty on fresh baked pretzel rolls and cooked to your specifications. Seasoned with jerk spices topped with lettuce, tomato, pickle, deep-fried onions, a ring of grilled fresh pineapple, and Moe Joe.
Wild Boar Burger
3/4 hand formed wild hunted boar patty, topped with gruyere cheese, cabbage slaw, fried onion, and horse raddish cream on a pretzel roll.
Gator Burger
House ground gator tail lightly blackened and grilled to tender perfection with lettuce, tomato, fried onion, bacon, smoked gouda cheese, and our own apple cider bacon green tomato jam on a pretzel roll.

Wings Wings Wings
Jamaican Jerk Wings
Dry-rubbed, grilled, and served with our famous Chipolte peanut sauce for dipping.
Caribbean BBQ Wings
Rolled in Moe Joe's home-made Caribbean BBQ sauce.
Classic Buffalo Wings
Hand rolled in our homemade buffalo sauce. Served with home-made bleu cheese (Hot).
Ghost Wings
No amount of bleu cheese can save you! Made with ghost pepper. Use extreme caution! Keep your hands washed - this sauce will burn ya! Spice-level: Inferno!

Kid's Menu
Kid's Southern Fried Chicken Tenders
Hand battered white meat tenderloins.
Kid's Gator Nuggets (Real Alligator)
Kid's Homemade Mac and Cheese
Kid's Popcorn Shrimp
Kid's Froggy Legs with Cheesy Mashed Potatoes
Kid's Catfish Nuggets
Kid's Krabby Patty Sandwich
Kid's Two Chicken Leg Dinner
Kid's Lil' Moe Joe Angus Burger
Kid's Catfish Tails
Kid's Grilled Chicken on a Stick
All white meat tenderloin and fun finger food.
Kid's Grilled Cheese on White

Desserts
Fresh Beignets
Bread Pudding
Bourbon Chocolate Cheesecake
Flourless Chocolate Cake

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Recent Reviews

Had an amazing experience thanks to the staff! Bri Gounelis, the bartender, absolutely crushed it—great drinks, fast service, and such a friendly vibe. Louis, the bouncer, was professional, welcoming, and made everyone feel safe while keeping things running smoothly. Mia, our server, was attentive, kind, and on top of everything all night.

The only downside was that the beers were a bit overpriced, but the outstanding service from this team honestly made up...
January 2026
Every time my family and I come here we always ask for Ally to be our server she is so sweet and very personable! I have never had bad service or bad food, this is our favorite spot to go for some good gumbo and service!
December 2025
Stopped in for a drink before our work party in their cool basement room. Server before we headed down was a bit slow, and was spilling drink on me and didn't say sorry until I said something that it was spilling on me. We had to ask for napkins also. Other wise, the bartender downstairs was amazing, the owner was very accommodating to any needs we had during the party. I would recommend !
December 2025

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Moe Joe's

24033 Lockport St, Plainfield, IL 60544
(815) 230-2790