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A home-cooked Thanksgiving dinner can bring back thoughts of childhood while also creating new cherished memories. That said, Turkey Day can also mean piles of dirty dishes, those in-laws who insist on bringing their “toy” poodle, and the adult sibling who still eats butter noodles and chicken nuggies. Meet them all at a restaurant – and maybe get separate checks.
Here’s a thoughtfully alphabetized list of some Central Florida options for Thanksgiving dining out and carrying out. We’re focusing on restaurants with special menus or prix fixe offers. If they take reservations, you should make a reservation yesterday!
On the Rollins College campus in Winter Park, the Alfond Inn will have a Thanksgiving Day buffet with seatings at noon and 3 p.m. After a mimosa or sparking wine to start the meal, you’ll be presented with salads and starters as well as four main courses (whole roast turkey with gravy, braised short ribs with demi-glace, black cod with confit tomato, roasted porchetta with blueberry glaze and butternut squash puree). There will also traditional sides, pies, and more desserts. The cost is $158.79 for adults (after taxes and fees) and $70.15 for children 3-12. Cash bar will be available.
Inside the Celeste Hotel near the University of Central Florida. Aurora is doing a Thanksgiving brunch buffet, 11 a.m.-3 p.m., with chef stations, desserts and bottomless mimosas. The brunch is $99 for adults and $30 for kids 12 and under.
Many, but not all local locations of the Caribbean-style “island grille” from Darden are adding tropical-themed items for Thanksgiving Thursday. The $25.99 island-style turkey dinner includes slow-cooked jerk turkey, green beans, brioche stuffing, cranberry-pineapple chutney and mashed potatoes or cinnamon mashed sweet potatoes. For dessert, the pumpkin praline cheesecake is $8.99. For advance order, you can also get a $100 bundle with all of that for four, including the cheesecake. Check your local Bahama Breeze to see if it’s participating.
The Italian restaurant at Universal Orlando’s Portofino Bay Hotel has a three-course prix fixe Thanksgiving meal for $85 before taxes and 20% included tip. Some appetizer choices are tuna tartare, prosciutto and burrata, bruschetta, and Caesar salad. Main course options include traditional turkey platter, sausage and rapini ravioli, mushroom risotto, and sliced New York strip. For dessert, it’s tiramisu, flourless chocolate cake with gelato/sorbet, or orange and strawberry crème brulée.
The homestyle diner chain named for the sausage man is adding both a Thanksgiving platter meal (turkey, house-made dressing, cranberry relish, mashed potatoes and gravy, green beans and ham, buttered corn, dinner rolls and pumpkin pie) and a premium version that adds hickory-smoked ham. You can also order a $99.99 hot Thanksgiving to go for six people.
Attached to The Mall at Millenia, Brio will be open on Thanksgiving Day for both the regular pastas, marsala and more or a Thanksgiving meal including sliced roast turkey, brioche sage stuffing, vegetable, cranberry chutney, and mashed potatoes. You can also advance order a take-out Thanksgiving feast, hot or cold. The $120 package should feed 4-5.
This Texas-style barbecue spot in Oviedo is prepping Thanksgiving dinners for pre-order by Nov. 20 and pick-up on Nov. 27. The bundle is $250 and should feed 6-8 people. That includes three pounds of smoked turkey breast, gravy, mashed potatoes (butter, cheese, bacon), sweet potato casserole with pecan topping, fire-roasted corn, sausage stuffing, green bean casserole, and dinner rolls. You can add an apple pie for $29 or a deep-dish apple pie for $39.
The family-style Italian chain will be open on Thanksgiving Day with both the usual Italian favorites and a traditional family-style Thanksgiving dinner with white meat turkey, spicy Italian sausage stuffing, roasted garlic mashed potatoes, seasonal vegetable, cranberry sauce, and pumpkin pie. Home catering orders made by Tuesday, Nov. 26, get 10% off.
This International Drive restaurant known for tapas-style small plates and local art is doing a Thanksgiving brunch with carving station for $39.22 before tax and tip. Served 11 a.m.-4 p.m., the brunch includes a carving station with Cajun turkey breast, herb and mustard crusted New York strip, and rubbed pork loin. The There’s also cornbread stuffing, orange and honey glazed carrots, roasted potatoes, mashed sweet potatoes and, for dessert, pumpkin pie cheesecake. For $24.22 more, you can add bottomless bloody marys or mimosas. If you’d rather eat at home, you can pre-order a $149 dinner for four with three pounds of Cajun roast turkey breast, gravy, cornbread stuffing, roast potatoes, sweet potato mash, baby carrots, cranberry relish, rolls, and pumpkin cheesecake. You can pick up and reheat on Wednesday or Thanksgiving Thursday.
The Lake Nona spot for new American cuisine will be open on Thanksgiving Thursday with a $48 meal that includes roast turkey, bacon brioche stuffing, gravy, mashed potatoes, green bean casserole, and orange-cranberry compote. For $17 more, you can add a harvest salad or butternut squash soup and a dessert of pumpkin bread pudding with spiced caramel sauce and vanilla ice cream. House-made coquito is also available for $28. Canvas is also doing a to-go turkey feast for four. For $175, you get roast turkey breast, gravy, mashed potatoes, bacon brioche stuffing, green beans casserole, orange-cranberry compote, and a pumpkin or apple pie.
Known for steak, seafood and wine – The Capital Grille locations at Mall at Millenia and Pointe Orlando are open on Thanksgiving and adding a traditional meal of turkey with brioche sage stuffing, mashed potatoes, green beans with almonds, and cranberry-pear chutney with mashed potatoes for the table. That’s $55 for adults and $20 for children. The full dinner menu will also be available. If you’ve got the turkey at home but not the side dishes, you can pre-order a $135 bundle for four of brioche stuffing, mashed potatoes, gravy, green beans with ginger butter, cranberry-pear chutney and seeded rolls.
Three restaurants inside the World Center Dr. resort will be doing Thanksgiving meals. Tropicale will have a $78 brunch buffet (before 18% service charge and sales tax), 12-4 p.m., with carving stations for turkey with all the sides, beef strip loin, pork loin, and pesto-rubbed whole snapper. You’ve also got eggs/omelets, crepes, sushi rolls, chilled seafood, salads, and desserts, including warm molten cake. Kids eat for $25.
The Venetian Chop House takes over for Thanksgiving dinner, 4-9 p.m., with a prix fixe menu that’s $95 for adults (plus tip and tax) with an optional $20 “bubbles package.” After an amuse-bouche of duck confit cannoli, you choose between butternut squash bisque and autumn greens salad with beets and apples. Your main can be citrus-brined sous vide turkey breast roulade with Thanksgiving sides, bacon-wrapped filet mignon with sides, or seared branzino with sautéed spinach and wild mushroom risotto cake. Dessert is flourless chocolate spice cake.
The Stadium Club sports bar will have an open face turkey pot pie with buttery mashed potatoes, asparagus and cranberry relish for $21, as well as a ham and brie sandwich with dried cherry aioli and regular/sweet potato froes for $18 and a smoked turkey leg with Brussels sprouts and fries for $19.
The Brazilian steakhouse on Sand Lake Rd. is open early, 12:30-8:30 p.m. on Thanksgiving with the full salad bar and roving gauchos with grilled meat on skewers – plus roasted turkey breast, gravy, mashed sweet potatoes, stuffing, green bean casserole, cranberry sauce, and cornbread. Adults are $64.95 and kids 7-12 are $32.48.
Chroma Modern Bar + KitchenSpecialized in small plates in Lake Nona Town Center, Chroma will have a Thanksgiving meal for $48 with herb-roasted turkey breast, sour cream mashed potatoes, gravy, brioche stuffing, pork belly green beans, sweet potato casserole, and cranberry-citrus sauce. For another $17, you can add an autumn farm salad with crispy pork belly or pumpkin soup with smoked pepper and a dessert of pumpkin bread pudding with spiced caramel sauce and vanilla ice cream (pictured) or autumn spice crème brûlée with sweet potato, graham cracker crumble, and toasted marshmallow.
The Winter Park franchise of this multi-style BBQ chain that smokes on site will be closed to dine-in guests on Thanksgiving Thursday, but you can pick up pre-orders in the morning. Meal options start at half a turkey breast with two sides and rolls for $59.99 – up to a whole smoked turkey, two sides and rolls for $179.99. Ham and pans of individual sides and desserts are also available for pre-order.
The beer and sports restaurant at Disney Springs is adding a couple Thanksgiving dinners to the menu for the day. You can do hand-carved turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing, gravy, roasted Brussels sprouts with bacon lardons, and corn casserole for $34.95 or prime rib with mashed potatoes, marinated broccolini, horseradish cream, and au jus for $49.95. The kids’ turkey meal (10 and under) is $19.95. Reservations start at 11 a.m.
“Florida’s Oldest Restaurant” counts 119 years it has served Thanksgiving meals, and the Celebration location will be open regular hours on Thursday. In addition to the dinner menu, served all day, there’s the $30 Thanksgiving meal that includes turkey and a family recipe for stuffing made with Italian sausage, ground beef, chopped chicken liver, apples, raisins and water chestnuts. You also get a cup of soup, Caesar salad, whipped potatoes, green beans with onions, sweet potato casserole, homemade cranberry sauce and gravy. We suggest upgrading the Caesar to Columbia’s legendary 1905 salad for $4 more. The child’s meal for 12 and under is $8 without soup or salad. You can also add pumpkin pie, pumpkin flan, or a pitcher of white sangria.
The casual chicken spot Inside Kissimmee’s Sunset Walk isn’t open on Thanksgiving Day, but it does have Thanksgiving packages for pick-up earlier in the week with wood-fired rotisserie turkey (or sliced, oven-roasted turkey breast), twice-baked potatoes, green beans, country-style stuffing, dinner rolls, and peach cobbler. It’s $145, or $10 more for the sliced turkey, and should feed 8-10.
The Dr. Phillips seafood spot will have a tradition turkey dinner on the Thanksgiving menu, 11 a.m.-8 p.m. with live music 5-9 p.m. Priced at $55 for adults and $20 for children, the Thanksgiving meal includes roast turkey with gravy, brioche sage stuffing, mashed potatoes, baby green beans with sundried tomatoes, roast butternut squash, and cranberry chutney. You can also add a pumpkin pie tartlet with whipped cream and praline sauce at an extra charge. The full dinner menu is also available all day.
The Roaring ’20s-themed restaurant at Disney Springs is adding a $39 Thanksgiving turkey dinner to the usual menu as well as a $18 kid version. Added to the usual desserts is a $15 pumpkin cheesecake.
The steakhouse with locations in Winter Park and Dr. Phillips. is opening at 11 a.m. and taking reservations for a three-course $62 Thanksgiving Day meal. With an entree of roast turkey and gravy, you also get a starter, stuffing, mashed potatoes, green beans with apricots and onions, cinnamon orange cranberry sauce, and dessert. You can swap out the turkey for bone-in ribeye or petit filet mignon with a price increase. A children’s three-course meal is $31, and the full dinner menu is available all day.
The Winter Garden location of the local barbecue chain is adding smoked turkey and Thanksgiving sides to the usual catering options with pick-up on Thanksgiving Eve. A whole smoked turkey is $114.99, while three pounds of sliced turkey with gravy is $56.97. Six sides and rolls are $63.99 and a Reese’s peanut butter pie is $49. Orders need to be in by Nov. 23.
Order by Saturday, Nov. 23 and 4 Rivers will cater a full Thanksgiving meal for pick up on Thanksgiving Eve, Wednesday, Nov. 27. If you want just the main course or side dishes or dessert, a la carte is also an option. Meat choices are smoked turkey, ham, brisket, smoked salmon and prime rib. Side dishes include cranberry chutney, mashed potatoes, gravy, sweet potato casserole, cornbread stuffing, green beans, BBQ baked beans, macaroni and cheese, and more. For desserts, you’ve got caramel apple pie, bourbon pecan pie, and pumpkin pie (pictured). Four Rivers locations are closed on Thanksgiving Day.
Ravello, the luxury resort’s Michelin-recommended Italian pizza and pasta spot will have a Thanksgiving buffet, 1-8 p.m., with carving station (turkey, New York strip roast, pork loin), salads, seafood, tapas station, desserts, and a children’s section. Price is $155 for adults and $55 for children 2-12.
Latin-themed Plancha will also do a buffet, 12-7 p.m., featuring a carving Station (turkey, New York strip, lamb), salads, cheese and charcuterie display, chorizo and Cuban bread stuffing, sweet potato casserole with toasted marshmallows, guajillo honey-glazed carrots, desserts, and a children’s section. That’s $135 for adults and $48 for ages 2-12.
Capa, the resort’s Michelin-starred steakhouse is open 4:30-10:00 p.m, with both the usual menu and Thanksgiving specials including Pavo con Migas a la Iberia (turkey with Iberian stuffing) dinner that includes white and dark turkey, saffron gravy, migas stuffing, raisin agridulce (sauce), brown butter potatoes, green beans, and dessert for $65.
Locations of the buffet chain around the country will be open for Thanksgiving Thursday, although hours may differ from location to location, so call ahead before you go. The holiday buffet includes carved roast turkey, glazed ham, and, new this year, carved pork roast. Of course, there’s pumpkin pie and pecan pie too. Many locations are also offering to-go meal packages, but you need to order at least 72 hours ahead.
Many of the restaurants at both the the Ritz-Carlton and JW Marriott are open for Thanksgiving and adding holiday menu items. Before we even get to those sit-down options, The Ritz-Carlton will have full cooked dinners for pick-up on Thanksgiving, starting at 11 a.m. The bundle will feed up to six with a 14- to 16-pound whole roast turkey, stuffing, sage gravy, soup from pumpkins grown on property, kale salad with cranberry vinaigrette, Parker House rolls, mashed potatoes, sweet potato casserole, green bean casserole, honey glazed carrots, cranberry sauce, and your pick of pumpkin pie, chocolate pecan pie, or apple crumble. They’re only cooking up 30 of these packages at $400 plus sales tax.
At the JW Marriott, Citron’s Thanksgiving, 2-7 p.m., will feature a buffet with seasonal favorites at $135 for adults, before tax and tip, and $45 for children 6-12.
Primo is planning a farm-to-table three-course Thanksgiving dinner, 5:30-10 p.m., with choice of butternut squash soup or smoked duck ham, balsamic braised short ribs or turkey saltimbocca, and pumpkin crème caramel.
At the Ritz-Carlton, Highball & Harvest is cooking a southern-style buffet, 2-8 p.m., at $155 for adults and $55 for children 12 and under (plus tax and tip). The menu includes charcuterie and local cheeses, salads, carving station with whole roast turkey and prime rib, traditional Thanksgiving sides, chilled seafood bar, entrees (smoked pork loin, lobster and crawfish cassoulet), chef station with charred octopus skewers and barley risotto, desserts, and challah French toast bread pudding station. Adults are $155 and children are $55 (plus tax and tip).
The Michelin Guide one-starred Knife & Spoon will have a traditional family Thanksgiving with à la carte menu, 5:30-10 p.m.
Matt Hinckley wrote in his shop’s email newsletter that he is again thankful for everyone who comes into East End Market to buy his sandwiches and charcuterie. So, he’s stocking up with Thanksgiving items for pre-order – “the most important dinner all year.” He’ll have turkey breasts grilled over oak with New Mexican chili powders ($17) smoked turkey drumsticks with those same chilis ($9), stuffing with house-made sausage ($14), and more. All advance orders must be made by Wednesday, Nov. 20, unless they sell out sooner, for pick-up on Wednesday, Nov. 27. The charcuterie case is also stocked up with patés, maple bourbon bacon jam, and tinned fish.
It’s a Southern-style Thanksgiving dinner, 11:30 a.m.-11 p.m., at the Disney Springs franchise devoted to music, culture, and cuisine. Your meal is roast turkey with gravy served with andouille corn pudding, candied yams, garlic mashed potatoes, green beans, fresh cranberry sauce. That’s $35 for adults and $16 for kids. Tax and tip not included. The full HOB menu is also available.
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It’s a Thanksgiving brunch buffet at Four Flamingos, the Michelin-recommended spot from celebrity chef Richard Blais. The meal is 11 a.m.-5 p.m. $110 per adult, and $55 for kids 12 and under before tax, 18% service charge, and tip. Adults can also pay $40 more for unlimited beer, wine, & specialty cocktail. The menu includes a “noshing” table, oyster and chilled seafood station, jerk turkey breast and confit turkey leg, mashed boniato (white sweet potato), oyster stuffing, allspice gravy, charred green beans with mushroom bechamel, ginger cranberry chutney, orange blossom honey carrots, ham and picanha steak carving stations, and a dessert bar with bourbon pecan pie, pumpkin pie, chocolate flourless cake, Key lime pie, and more.
Overlooking Lake Windsong, LakeHouse will also be cooking up a Thanksgiving buffet here, 2-9 p.m. That includes a salad bar, seafood and sushi bar, charcuterie and cheese table, carving station (rosemary-brined turkey, beef striploin, cedar-roasted maple salmon, marmalade-glazed ham), soups, toasted baguette stations, stuffing and the traditional sides, dessert bar, pie bar, and candy station. The meal is $86 for adults (plus tax and 18% service charge) and $42 for children 12 and under.
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Sear + Sea is a Michelin recommended restaurant again in 2024. For Thanksgiving, the beef and seafood restaurant is offering both family-style and three-course prix fixe options, 5-10 p.m. Family-style is $300 for four people before tax and tip. You get a whole dry-aged roast duck with passed sides including green salad, foie gras and brioche stuffing, elote, triple crunch maple potato salad, and cognac duck jus. Dessert is apple torte or pumpkin cheesecake. The prix fixe meal is roast parsnip soup or beet and goat cheese salad as a starter. Your main is turkey roulade with sauteed Brussels sprouts, mashed potatoes and gravy, brioche brown butter stuffing, and vanilla cranberry jelly. Dessert is choice of pumpkin cheesecake, spiced kataifi (Greek pastry) with maple anglaise, or Florida orange gelato. That’s $118 plus tax and tip for adults with the option of a $50 wine pairing. Kids 4-12 are $58.
UnReserved Food Bazaar is the casual marketplace-style restaurant the resort. For Thanksgiving, 12:30-8 p.m. (last seating at 6:30 p.m.), stations include a chilled seafood bar, salads and charcuterie, marinated quail, made-to-order pastas, whole roast turkeys, herb-crusted prime rib, Kurobuta pork porchetta, traditional sides, chicken fingers, an “action station” with pumpkin ricotta doughnuts and apple cider gelato, and pumpkin bread to take home. The cost is $148 for adults (before tax, tip and service charge) and $48 for ages 4-12.
The casual restaurant inside the DoubleTree by Hilton Orlando SeaWorld will serve a family buffet on Thanksgiving Day, 12 8 p.m. The menu includes a turkey and ham carving station, traditional sides, salad bar, paella Valenciana, cedar-planked salmon, pumpkin and sage ravioli, and a variety of holiday cakes and pies. The cost is $38 for adults before tax and tip. Children 6-12 are half price.
Metro DinerThe diner chain will be open until 2:30 p.m. on Thanksgiving Day with the full menu, including the seasonal Stuff ‘N Waffle with Turkey — in-house roasted turkey breast with mashed potatoes and gravy on a waffle made of stuffing (pictured). You can also get that waffle with mac and cheese and barbecue pork or chicken fingers and sausage gravy. Many Metro Diner locations are selling pre-order dinner packages with turkey or ham and the traditional sides to pick-up on Wednesday and reheat before Thanksgiving.
On I-Drive, Mia’s always has the option of a group to order family-style with five items and salad for $39 per person. For Thanksgiving, they’re supplementing the usual chicken parmigiana and spaghetti alla carbonara with dishes including honey-roasted turkey with traditional sides, prime rib, mushroom risotto, and pumpkin panna cotta.
The Dr. Phillips steakhouse will serve its full menu on Thanksgiving Thursday but will also have a special four-course meal for $69. That includes butternut squash bisque with cinnamon crème fraiche and house salad or an arugula salad with spiced walnuts, goat cheese, and maple vinaigrette. Your main course is roast turkey roulade, sage and cranberry stuffing, sour cream mashed potatoes, gravy, green bean casserole, and fresh cranberry sauce. Dessert is pumpkin cheesecake with sea salt caramel. Morton’s also has a pre-order family-style dinner package for pick-up on Wednesday. It’s $189 and feeds four.
Pointe Orlando’s seafood spot is keeping it traditional for Thanksgiving, although you can still get the crab cakes or swordfish from the regular menu too. The $59 Thanksgiving special includes roast turkey breast, mashed potatoes and gravy, cranberry sage stuffing, cranberry chutney green beans almondine, and creamed corn. If you’re more a steak person, there’s a filet mignon for two at $158 with six-ounce center cut, lobster tail, jumbo shrimp, asparagus, and pecan turtle cheesecake.
The Disney Springs restaurant that looks like a riverboat has a Thanksgiving menu at $32 for adults and $12 for children. That’s herb-roasted turkey breast, andouille cornbread stuffing, whipped potatoes, pan gravy, green beans, and cranberry relish. If you’d rather have crab cakes or shrimp pasta, the regular menu is available too.
On Winter Park’s W. New England Ave., PAT is planning a family-style Thanksgiving dinner with passed plates that’s $65 for adults and $25 for children under 12. After starting with rolls and cranberry whipped feta dip, you can choose from deviled eggs, Mediterranean chop salad, or Caprese salad. The main course is cider-brined roast turkey with stuffing, whipped potatoes, gravy, green bean casserole, baked macaroni and cheese, and cranberry sauce. For dessert, you choose between apple or pumpkin pie.
The catering branch of Second Harvest of Central Florida donates a portion of profits back to the food bank’s Culinary Training Program. If you don’t want to cook for Thanksgiving, Plate Above is offering to-go dinner packages that feed eight. For $179, you get a whole sage butter turkey, pan gravy, harvest stuffing, garlic mashed potatoes, fresh green beans, and cranberry chutney. Other meals for eight are built around roast pork loin, baked ham, or, for $299, prime rib.
Raglan RoadThe Irish pub and restaurant at Disney Springs has a one-day Thanksgiving meal on the menu. For $39.99, you get butter and herb roasted turkey, mashed potatoes, duck fat roasties (roasted potatoes), honey-glazed carrots, bacon-braised Brussels sprouts, sausage stuffing with red wine jus, and cranberry sauce. The children’s version is $19.99. Raglan Road’s regular menu is also available and Irish dancers and bands perform through the evening.
Winter Park’s gastropub and brewery is closed on Thanksgiving but taking orders for Wednesday pick-up. Pay attention here because you can get a whole ($75) or half turkey ($48) that’s brined and seasoned with sides of cranberry relish and gravy, but you will still need to roast the uncooked bird at home. You can also order sides or a whole bourbon pecan pie for $30. A percentage of each order will be donated to hurricane relief.
Most days, hungry people come to Rodizio Grill at Pointe Orlando for the dozen or so Brazilian-style grilled meats carved tableside. Opening early at noon on Thanksgiving, they’ll have all that plus turkey, stuffing, mashed sweet potatoes and more. That’s $59.99 per person (salad bar only for $49.99) and when the meal is over, each family gets a coupon for one free dinner with the purchase of one dinner in 2025.
On I-Drive, the resort hotel is planning a Thanksgiving buffet, 11 a.m.-7 p.m., that mixes cuisines from across the resort. Options include an angus beef tomahawk chop carving station, lobster mofongo, crispy shrimp wonton tacos, paella, as well as both turkey breast and dark meat on the buffet. They’ll also have a cold seafood station, pasta station, breakfast / omelet stations, traditional Thanksgiving sides, dessert station, and a staffed station with white chocolate caramel apple spice crème brulé. Adults over 21 can have bottomless champagne or mimosas. The buffet is $64.95 for adults and $27.95 for children four to 12. All prices are before 26% service charge and taxes.
Not far from Rosen Centre, house wine and champagne are included at this International Drive hotel’s Thanksgiving buffet meal. From 11:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., chefs are doing turkey two ways – sliced thighs with roasted shallot gravy and a carving station with pumpkin seed pesto-crusted turkey breast and soubise sauce (onion cream). You’ve also got soups, salads, seafood station, pasta station, more hot entrees (swordfish, Thai peanut pork loin, braised Mediterranean beef), kids’ buffet, sides, desserts, and soft-serve ice cream bar. The meal is $58.95 for adults before tax and 26% service charge and $26.95 for children ages three to 11.
Near the Orange County Convention Center and the airport, Café Osceola at Rosen Shingle Creek is also offering Thanksgiving brunch with unlimited champagne and mimosas, 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Options include soups and salads, cold seafood station, dim sum, sushi, bruschetta station, paella station, pasta station, carving station (free-range turkey, prime rib), all the traditional side dishes, breakfast station with made-to-order omelets, desserts, and ice cream bar. That’s $89.95 for adults and $37.95 for children 4 – 11 (before tax and tip and 26% surcharge).
The resort’s A Land Remembered is doing a Thanksgiving prix fixe dinner, 5:30-10 p.m. The meal’s starter is potato and leek soup with guanciale or shaved brussels sprouts and hibiscus salad The main is roast turkey with brioche stuffing, mashed potatoes, giblet gravy, candied honeynut squash, cranberry sauce, and green beans. Dessert is maple chai torte with sweet cream gelato. Cost is $85.95 for adults and $37.95 for children. A limited a la carte menu is also available.
The famous home of T-bones and ribeye will open up the menu on Thursday for a dine-in, three-course Thanksgiving meal that’s $44 for adults and $17 for children. We’re talking soup or salad, sliced oven roasted turkey breast with all the trimmings, one side, and pumpkin cheesecake for dessert. You can also order a Thanksgiving package to pick up Wednesday afternoon that feeds 4-6. The bundle includes salad, turkey, sausage stuffing, gravy, cranberry relish, stuffing, a choice of one more side (au gratin potatoes, creamed spinach, sweet potato casserole, or green beans with garlic), and four pumpkin cheesecakes.
Seasons 52The Darden-owned fresh grill and wine bar chain is both open on Thanksgiving Day with a meal of roast turkey, pan gravy, mashed potatoes, brioche and sage stuffing, green beans, mashed sweet potatoes, cranberry relish, and pumpkin pie mini dessert. That’s $42 for adults and 18 for children. You can also order all that, plus salad and six of the mini desserts, as a $230 box that feeds 4-6 for Wednesday pick-up and home reheating.
In Winter Garden’s Flamingo Crossings, this Amalfi Coast-style Italian restaurant will have a special Thanksgiving three course prix fixe meal for $49 per person. Appetizer choices are salad, arancini (stuffed rice balls), or fresh cannelloni with ricotta. For your main course, there’s a traditional American Thanksgiving plate of roast turkey and sides (tacchino al forno con contorni di stagione), but you could opt for lamb chops, lasagna, or seared seabass. Dessert choices are vanilla gelato with Amarena cherry, tiramisu, or cannoli filled with vanilla and pistachio ricottas.
The Milk District’s spot for barbecue and fried dough treats is taking catering orders now for pick-up on the day before Thanksgiving. Whole smoked turkey breast with a brown butter mop is $79, prime brisket is $36 a pound, a rack of St. Louis-style ribs with brown sugar bark is $39, and pulled pork in garlic and apple cider is $20 a pound. Available sides include cornbread dressing with apples and bacon, Grand Marnier cranberry sauce, macaroni and cheese, and BBQ beans. For dessert, you can have doughnuts … or pumpkin bread pudding made from doughnuts. Everything comes chilled to take home on Wednesday, Nov. 27, 11 a.m.-9 p.m.
Inside Conrad Orlando at the Evermore Resort near Walt Disney World, Sophia’s is doing a family-style Thanksgiving, 1-8 p.m. After a personal autumn salad or butternut squash bisque, passed plates include roast turkey roulade with cranberry sauce and gravy, sourdough stuffing, mashed potatoes, mashed sweet potatoes with candied pecans, green bean casserole, macaroni and cheese gratin, and more. You also pick your dessert. Adults are $75 plus taxes and fees. Children 12 and under are $45.
The Disney Springs steakhouse is doing both dine-in and take-out Thanksgiving specials. The dine-in deal runs Thanksgiving to Sunday and is $64 for adults and $29 for children 12 and under. You get shallot and thyme confit turkey thighs, cornbread and sage stuffing, gravy, sauteed green beans with crispy shallots, maple baked sweet potato, and Yukon Gold mashed potatoes. Spiced pumpkin pie is $12 a slice. For take-out, the deal is $64 for one person for $124 for two. You get everything from the dine-in dinner as well as the pumpkin pie with Thanksgiving Day pickup 11 a.m.-4 p.m.
This Disney Springs restaurant is known for both California-style cuisine and its Cookie Bar. For Thanksgiving, a three-course prix fixe meal will run you $69.95 before tax and tip. For first course, you choose between a harvest salad with lemon vinaigrette or roasted honeynut squash soup. Your main course is either a roast turkey dinner (mashed potatoes, caramelized brussels sprouts, stuffing, zinfandel gravy) or maple-glazed Faroe Island salmon (mashed potatoes, caramelized brussels sprouts, chardonnay butter). Dessert is either pumpkin chiffon pie or chocolate cake.
The College Park favorite is accepting seatings every half hour from 11 a.m.-4 p.m. on Thanksgiving Day for a buffet menu that includes roast turkey, honey spiced spiral ham, and herb-crusted prime rib, along with the traditional sides and pies and cakes. The lunch is $64.96 for adults (before tax and tip) and $18.95 for children under 10. Vegan and vegetarian options are available on request.
At Disney Springs, Terralina has a Thanksgiving meal of rosemary-roasted turkey, bacon and Granny Smith apple dressing, Yukon Gold mashed potatoes, roasted asparagus, sage and thyme gravy, and homemade cranberry relish at $32 per adult and $12 per child.
Wyndham Grand Orlando Resort Bonnet Creek’s buffet restaurant is serving up a Thanksgiving meal of juniper-brined roast turkey and smoke pit ham, 2-7 p.m. The buffet also includes salad bar, chilled seafood, the traditional side dishes, desserts, and more. The meal is $62 for adults (before 18% service charge and tax) and $29 for the children’s buffet (macaroni and cheese, chicken tenders, potato tots, chocolate chip cookies), ages 3-9.
The locally owned deli and bakery chain will have all locations open 11 a.m.-8 p.m. for dine-in on Thanksgiving with a $25.99 prix fixe menu. Starter options are house salad, Caesar salad, or chicken noodle soup. Then, it’s turkey or ham with mashed potatoes, gravy, cornbread stuffing, green beans almondine, cranberry sauce, and bread with butter. Dessert is pumpkin cheesecake, pumpkin spice cake, or pumpkin pie. This meal option is also available the day before and day after Thanksgiving. You can also pre-order carry-out Thanksgiving feasts that feed from two to 20, as well as individual side dishes, including those dessert options, black and white cookies, or pumpkin rugelach.
Inside the Renaissance Orlando at SeaWorld, Tradewinds is usually a breakfast and lunch spot, but will have a Thanksgiving Thursday buffet, 1-6 p.m. Adults are $70 and children 12 and under are $23. On top of carving stations with turkey, smoked prime rib and honey bourbon glazed ham, you’ve got salad bar, shrimp cocktail, charcuterie and cheese, all the traditional Thanksgiving sides, and a dessert bar including sweet potato pie and chocolate pumpkin cheesecake.
The resort’s award-winning Bull & Bear will add a four-course Thanksgiving dinner, 6-10 p.m., with potato leek soup, root vegetable salad, and a main course of roasted free-range turkey, foie gravy, stuffing, cranberry sauce, sweet potato with marshmallow gratin, and green beans almandine. Dessert is pumpkin-swirled ricotta torta with roasted brown butter pears. Adults are $155 before tax and tip. Children 12 and under are $65. The regular menu will also be available.
Oscar’s Brasserie, which is usually just open for breakfast, will have a Thanksgiving buffet, 3-9 p.m. Options include charcuterie, shrimp cocktail, pumpkin bisque, sushi rolls, salad bar, roast turkey, ham, prime rib, made-to-order pastas, traditional sides, and holiday desserts. Adults pay $85 before tax and tip. Children 6-12 are $40.
La Luce at the resort will be adding special Thanksgiving items to usual a la carte menu, 6-10 p.m., including ravioli verde (pumpkin puree, buffalo ricotta, spinach, sage brown butter sauce) and polpette di Agnello (lamb meatballs with Tuscan beans, butternut squash ragu, and stracciatella).
The Thanksgiving buffet at Harvest Bistro, 3-9 p.m., centers on a carving station with whole roast Carolina turkey and herb-crusted beef strip loin. The meal also includes Thanksgiving sides, soups, sushi rolls, charcuterie, pasta (macaroni with five cheeses, beef ragu Bolognese), and autumn desserts. The cost is $65 for adults and $35 per child.
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Many of the resort’s restaurants are adding a Thanksgiving turkey dinner to the menus. Todd English’s bluezoo will be offering a meal of turkey roulade with butternut squash puree, crispy herbed butter shortbread, andouille and prosciutto stuffing, pearl onions, roasted brussels sprouts, and raisin turkey jus for $44 plus taxes and fees.
Il Mulino has a special menu “Tacchino Speciale” of brined turkey breast, turkey reduction, roasted garlic mashed potatoes, orange cranberry sauce, pave (Italian scalloped potatoes), and chantarelle mushrooms at $41 plus taxes and fees.
Amare’s dinner special is roast turkey breast stuffed with slices of black truffle, potato silk, haricot verts, sweet potato pave, pistachio gremolata (green sauce), cranberry mostarda (fruity mustard sauce), and sauce vin jaune at $41 plus taxes and fees.
From 12-8 p.m., Picabu will offer a choice of roast turkey with cranberry sauce or baked ham with rum raisin sauce. Sides include mashed potatoes and gravy, stuffing, crispy cauliflower, green beans, collards, glazed sweet potato, and macaroni and cheese at $19.95 plus taxes and fees.
Garden Grove will have a Thanksgiving buffet with salad bar, roast turkey and Virginia ham carving stations, seared gulf fish cobia, sides, desserts and more for $48.99 plus taxes and fees.
The Wilson Cocktails & Seafood
Inside the Melia Orlando Hotel Celebration, The Wilson is serving up a family-style Thanksgiving three-course menu that’s $65 for adults and $25 for children 12 and under. After starting with rolls and cranberry whipped feta dip, appetizer options include Mediterranean chopped salad, caprese salad, or mortadella. Second course is cider-brined turkey with stuffing, whipped potatoes, green bean casserole, baked mac and cheese, gravy, and cranberry sauce. Dessert is pumpkin or pecan pie with spiced rum whipped cream.
The Disney Springs restaurant with 200 wines by the glass, bottle, or ounce will be simplifying the menu for Thanksgiving. The two holiday entree choices are roast turkey breast with mashed potatoes, stuffing, maple honey carrots, and cranberry sauce for $42 per adult or $18 per child – or grilled ribeye with buttered Yukon potatoes, Brussels sprouts and creamy mushroom sauce for $54. Small plates as well as cheese and charcuterie boards will also be available. The two desserts are pumpkin cheesecake and olive oil cake with candied olive and lemon mascarpone.
