by Jennifer D’Agostino
Thanksgiving is the time of year where restaurants pull out all the stops as they host Thanksgiving brunch, buffets and dinners. Treat you and your family to a gourmet Thanksgiving meal with all the fixin’s, or a low-key lunch like a Thanksgiving poutine or sandwich. Here’s where to get Thanksgiving dinner a Toronto restaurants this year! [Photo credit: iStock]
Globe Bistro
Globe Bistro’s annual Thanksgiving dinner is back. The three-course menu is prix-fixe and includes classic and modern Thanksgiving eats! Choose from fall harvest salad, or sun choke puree and roasted free run Ontario turkey with all the fixin’s or ricotta gnocchi. For dessert choose pumpkin pie, pear cake or apple sorbet for dessert. There will also be a menu for the kids!
Smoke’s Poutinerie
Smoke’s Thanksgiving poutine is back this year! A tradition for the past six years, the Thanksgiving poutine has roasted turkey, homemade savoury stuffing, green peas and cranberry sauce over Smokes famous hand-cut fries, smothered in cheese curd and piping-hot gravy. It really is Thanksgiving in a box.
Café Boulud
Celebrate Thanksgiving at Café Boulud, where there will be a French-inspired meal for the whole family. Prix-fixe, the menu includes items like foie gras, goose, heritage turkey, short rib and other delicious delights! The meal concludes with apple mille feuille, chocolate crème brulee or pumpkin cake.
Old Mill Toronto
The Old Mill hosts a Thanksgiving buffet this year. You can expect a spread of traditional Thanksgiving options like roasted turkey, stuffing, mulled cranberry sauce, giblet gravy and a fresh medley of vegetables. For dessert, there’s a chocolate fountain, cakes, tortes, pies and pastries. For the kids there will be chicken fingers and fries!
Royal York Hotel
EPIC hosts a Thanksgiving brunch and dinner for the ages this year. Enjoy a brunch of roasted turkey legs, prime rib, potato gratin, apricot sage stuffing, alongside breakfast items like Belgian waffles, chicken apple sausage and fresh pastries. When it comes to Thanksgiving dinner there’s a four-course turkey.
Casa Loma
Treat yourself to a Thanksgiving feast in Toronto’s castle! Casa Loma hosts a prix-fixe Thanksgiving dinner for the whole family. Menu items include a seafood bar, pasta, oven roasted turkey, chili maple Atlantic salmon, fresh salads and more. For dessert expect sticky toffee pudding, pumpkin pie bread pudding and mini holiday sweets.
Oliver & Bonacini Café Grill
O&B Café Grill on Front is adding a Thanksgiving menu to its roster. The menu includes roasted squash soup, beet salad, roasted turkey served with creamy mashed potatoes, Brussels sprouts, stuffing and gravy, and pumpkin cheesecake for dessert. The menu is available for two days only!
Liberty Commons
Liberty Commons is going casual this Thanksgiving. The Thanksgiving special is a deliciously smoked beer-braised turkey sandwich, with cherry walnut stuffing, green and yellow beans, roasted potatoes, traditional ale BBQ sauce and turkey gravy, all packed between two Yorkshire puddings.
Bannock
This Thanksgiving Bannock serves up three Thanksgiving features. Choose a la carte, or go for the prix-fixe option and get all three! Features include spiced pumpkin bisque, turkey roast and confit with root vegetables, mashed potatoes, scratch gravy, sausage and pepper stuffing and cranberry sauce and Mum’s apple pie.
Smith Bros Steakhouse & Tavern
Smith Bros Steakhouse Tavern offers Thanksgiving with all the fixin’s! The chefs have created a Thanksgiving dinner that includes fresh Ontario corn chowder, followed by a traditional Thanksgiving roast turkey platter with savoury bread stuffing, butternut squash, garlic and cream mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce and pan gravy. The meal is finished with a warm cinnamon apple cobbler.
The Drake Hotel
The Drake Hotel invites Torontonians to the café for a Thanksgiving brunch! Held annually, you can expect roasted turkey, alongside waffles, pastries, fresh salads and more. The brunch is served a la carte.
Momofuku Daisho
Popular large format restaurant, Momofuku Daisho is hosting its annual Thanksgiving dinner. The prix-fixe menu includes carrot salad, roast chicken, green beans and pumpkin pie. The dinner is served family style.
