Thanksgiving this year will be celebrated in unconventional ways, but it may still be enjoyable. Here is a list of freshly reopened restaurants in New York City where you may have a tasty and pleasant holiday.
This year’s Thanksgiving brings us back together with friends and family. Perhaps your family has a huge party at your place. Or perhaps you prefer to go out with a small group of buddies.
Restaurants in New York City have a wide variety of options for individuals who wish to dine out on Thanksgiving.
Here are some options for places to enjoy Thanksgiving dinner in New York City this year.
Cote
You may not think of a Korean steakhouse as a Thanksgiving Day destination, but Simon Kim’s feast will make you rethink. The prix fixe meal, which includes turkey mandoo (dumplings), combines four kinds of steak (hanger, 45-day ribeye, flatiron, and galbi) with a range of Korean accompaniments.
Don’t worry about the dessert. You’ll have pie and ice cream, like you should on Thanksgiving. Additionally, festive drinks will be offered. Reservations are necessary.
If you prefer to dine at home, Cote provides meal kits for six, with a choice of roast prime rib and sides or a more Korean twist with Niman galbi jjim, Chef David Shim’s USDA prime short rib braised overnight with sweet soy sauce, shiitake mushrooms, daikon, carrots, gingko nuts, and chestnuts.
This Flatiron Star offers pick-up and local delivery on the day before Thanksgiving.
The Standard Grill
The Standard Grill welcomes you to dine indoors or outside to experience a real American Thanksgiving feast, accented with seasonal favorites. You’ll like the roasted classic turkey with gravy, autumn vegetables, and cranberry sauce.
Non-meat eaters can choose from seasonal dishes such as Maine lobster salad with celery remoulade and wild apple, or baked salmon with creamy morels and sorrel sauce. Dessert consists of pecan and pumpkin pies, both seasonal favorites.
Reservations are necessary, and the outside space is heated. After dinner, take a stroll along the neighboring High Line.
Wayan
If you choose to stay at home, bring the family over for a unique Thanksgiving. Cedric and Ochi Vongerichten’s Wayan serves take-out, family-style dinners with an Indonesian-inspired cuisine. Turkey is presented, roasted Indonesian-style.
Brussels sprouts with morning glory terasi, perkedel stuffing, mashed potatoes (yep, they’re genuine), roasted delicata squash, spiced cranberry acar sauce, and long pepper gravy are among the side dishes. The feast feeds eight to six people. Dessert options include cocktails and full pies.
Plan to return to SoHo for Wayan’s amazing non-turkish meals.
The Polo Bar
It’s no surprise that Ralph Lauren’s The Polo Bar sticks to tradition around Thanksgiving. After all, this is Ralph Lauren, who embodies Americana in both fashion and cuisine. The restaurant will serve classics done Polo Bar-style, in New York including as Green Circle Farms free-range turkey, Calvados gravy, maple-sherry glazed baby Brussels sprouts, mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce, chestnut stuffing, maple butter popovers, pumpkin cheesecake, or Charleston bourbon pecan pie.
Side dishes, such as wine or drinks, can be served with the family-style dinner. Add a Polo Bar touch to menu favorites including shrimp cocktail, Ralph’s corned beef bits, kale and fall root vegetable salad, pigs in a blanket, honey-nut squash soup, pumpkin cheesecake, traditional cheesecake, old-fashioned five-layer chocolate cake, and coconut cake. You can select a six- or twelve-person feast.
Eleven Madison Park
For a lavish Thanksgiving at home, Michelin-starred Eleven Madison Park’s “To Go” spread has an organic, free-range turkey that will make you feel like a culinary rockstar. Chef Daniel Humm’s cooking instructions are supplied.
Sides are pre-prepared so you don’t have to do all the effort, and you’ll get an assortment of EMP hits as well as veggie dishes, traditional accompaniments, brioche buns, and pie for dessert.
James
James from Prospect Heights has put together a beautiful Christmas box full of farm-fresh delicacies that can be delivered or picked up. Deborah James, the founder, is all about family and neighborhood, and her feast promotes good feelings with a menu of celery root soup, roasted Brussels sprouts dusted with honey and chili, whipped Yukon potatoes, bitter greens, roasted baby beets, heirloom roasted potatoes, and focaccia stuffing with sausage, chestnuts, and crispy sage.
A young turkey from Sullivan County takes center stage, covered with homemade spices and butter. Desserts include spiced pumpkin cake, falling chocolate cake, and roasted apple crisp. Pick-up can be scheduled on Wednesday or Thanksgiving afternoon.