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Where to eat Thanksgiving dinner in Toronto for 2015

Thanksgiving is fast approaching, and for many that includes the promise of a big home-cooked feast. For those too far to go home, or just generally handicapped in the kitchen, you'll be thankful to know plenty of Toronto restaurants serve festive meals or can prepare a feast for your enjoyment at home.

Here is where to find a Thanksgiving feast in Toronto.

THANKSGIVING FEASTS

The Drake Hotel
Get stuffed on Sunday, October 11 from 6pm with this traditional turkey dinner for $30. The menu features roasted bird, wild rice stuffing, orange glazed sweet potatoes, gravy, crab apple and cranberry sauce, plus a 5oz glass of wine.

Momofuku Daisho
Celebrate Thanksgiving on Sunday, October 11 with a prix fixe dinner menu featuring three courses for $65 per person. The menu opens with selections like warm squash salad, then offers a choice of roast turkey or halibut with sides for the table including brussels sprouts, green bean casserole, and stuffing. To finish there will be apple pie a la mode or a pumpkin and maple dessert.

Smith Bros. Steakhouse
Enjoy a festive three course dinner priced at $29 at this Scarborough steakhouse. You can expect a steaming bowl of sweet corn chowder to start, followed by roast turkey with stuffing, butternut squash, and cinnamon apple cobbler for dessert.

Bannock
Served from 4pm on Monday, October 12th, look forward to a traditional Thanksgiving dinner at this O&B restaurant at Queen and Bay.

Globe Bistro
This Danforth restaurant celebrates Thanksgiving on Sunday, October 11 with its annual three-course prix fixe menu priced at $35 per person. The opening course is soup or salad, followed by roast turkey (or ricotta cranberry gnocchi for meatless eaters), and a choice of pumpkin creme brûlée or apple crumble.

Canteen
Served from 4:30pm from Saturday, October 10 to Monday, October 12, this O&B restaurant adjacent to the TIFF Lightbox is offering a special a la carte menu featuring Thanksgiving turkey with roasted acorn squash, brussels sprouts, whipped Yukon Gold potatoes, sage and buttered leek stuffing, and orange-spiced cranberry sauce for $27.

America
Spend Canadian Thanksgiving at America, where they're offering a festive menu from October 9 to 12. The menu opens with selections like foie gras terrine ($18) or squash soup ($14), then offers a choice of a classic roast turkey feast complete with candied yams, sourdough and sausage stuffing, and gravy ($36), or honey glazed ham with brussel sprouts and celeriac choucroute ($36).

Cafe Boulud
The French restaurant in Yorkville will present a three-course prix fixe for $75 on Sunday, October 11 and Monday, October 12. Selections include starters like squash soup, foie gras torchon, and beet root salad, while guest can choose to enjoy a traditional entree featuring roasted turkey with stuffing, pommes purée, brussels sprouts, butternut squash, and sage jus, or go an entirely unconventional route with options like ricotta gnudi or steak au poivre. For dessert, choices include apple tarte tatin and a pumpkin tart.

TAKE HOME TURKEY DINNERS

Barque Smokehouse
Order by October 8 to pick up Thanksgiving dinner catered by this smokehouse on Roncesvalles. Herb smoked turkeys are available for $12 per pound, while traditional, family style fixins include options like gravy, cranberry sauce and butter rolls ($35), potato gratin provençal or brown butter sweet potato mash ($35), sage and vidalia stuffing with wild rice, leeks, mushrooms ($35), bourbon pecan pie ($25), and more.

Humble Beginnings
This take-out operation in the Junction will cater to parties of one to 20. Pre-order your own ready-to-serve roasted turkey or capon dinners complete with all the trimmings. Pies are available too.

All The Best Fine Foods
Order forms are online now to secure a thanksgiving feast from this high-end specialty food store. A prix fixe menu priced at $24.95 per person will cover all the essentials including a herb-roasted, fresh, free-range, brined Ontario turkey with apple sage stuffing and gravy, roasted brussels sprouts, squash purée, mashed potatoes, and cranberry sauce.

YamChops
Advance orders are being accepted now for plant powered Thanksgiving dinners from this vegan butcher in Little Italy. Priced at $29.95, the menu features roasted vegetable and farro soup, butternut squash "steaks," cranberry pecan pilau, roasted beets, carrot and quinoa salad and a black bean brownie. Fresh and ready-to-reheat meals will be available for pick-up on Saturday, October 10, or Sunday, October 11.

Grocery Gateway
Get a Thanksgiving Turkey Kit delivered to your door via this grocery delivery service. For $99 the package includes a slow roasted turkey that just has to be reheated before serving, plus a choice of sides from options like savoury sage bread stuffing, red-skinned mashed potatoes, twice-baked potatoes, asparagus with hollandaise sauce, gravy, and cranberry sauce. Order before October 7th by 5pm online.

What did I miss? Add more spots for Thanksgiving dinner in the comments.

Photo from All The Best Fine Foods facebook page.


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