Thursday the 25th is Thanksgiving, a time of turkey, tryptophan comas and tolerating your extended family for a few hours. Be thankful. We've scoured the city (read: our listings database) for the best bets in town for you. And be sure to keep checking back at our Thanksgiving dinners page . Plenty of places are still planning their dinners in the 11th hour and we're constantly getting new information.
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Thanksgiving at an American restaurant opened by Canadians and owned by Singaporeans. I guess that's why they call America a melting pot. The menu is a fairly traditional affair: baked yams, cranberry sauce, ham, green peas and carrots, and mashed potatoes etc. The cost is 300rmb per. And there are two seatings: 5-8pm and 8-11pm. Find the event listing: .禄
Roast turkey, stuffing, trimmings, family-style at smart casual Mesa. This one is traditional, with a few smart accents on the menu, and also books up real quick. Adults at 288rmb, kids under 12 for 80rmb. Reservations required. Event listing .禄 Azul
Vargas is cooking up a Peruvian-style Thanksgiving this year. The menu: seabass ceviche 鈥淎zul Style鈥�, scallops with parmesan cheese, prawn causa with green ocopa sauce, potato salad 鈥淗uancaina Style鈥�, roasted turkey 鈥淧eruvian style鈥� with chorizo, grilled bread & cilantro stuffing, suckling Pig with apple sauce, accompanied with Peruvian rice, sweet potato, Peruvian corn 鈥淪altado Style鈥�, potato 鈥淩elleno鈥� with beef picadillo and grilled asparagus. For dessert: rice pudding and a chocolate-lucuma tart.350rmb gets you a seat and this includes free-flow vino. Click for listings details.
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Both downtown locations will be celebrating good old fashioned American gluttony at 399rmb per adult, 99rmb per child, including free-flow Boxing Cat beer, house wines, juices, and soft drinks. The menu is butter-roasted turkey, sage & sausage stuffing, jalapeno cornbread stuffing, maple spiced sweet potatoes, whipped potatoes, green bean mushroom casserole, butternut squash soup, pumpkin pie, chocolate-pecan pie, and more. Check the event listing here.禄
Bubba's is throwing down Texas style on both sides of the river with all-you-can-eat apple wood-smoked turkey, southwest corn chowder, mushroom soup, stuffing, gravy, garlic mashed potatoes, steamed vegetables, fresh-baked rolls and pumpkin pie. The cost, 250rmb, includes one glass of wine or beer. There will be two seatings: 5-8pm and 8-11pm. For reservation details, click .禄
The Vargas Empire's Tianzifang outpost is cooking up a three-course Mediterranean-style dinner featuring ahi tuna carpaccio, Casa 13 pot stickers, braised octopus, butternut squash soup, roast turkey with cranberry sauce, sherry & port Gravy and roast pork leg with apple sauce. 328rmb gets you a seat and the wine will flow freely. Event listing .禄
If Texas doesn't suit you, you can always head south of the border to Maya. They'll be cooking up Thanksgiving Mexican style with dishes like pumpkin soup with chorizo, green been salad with crispy onions and jalapeno vinaigrette and achiote roasted turkey with mole-style gravy and spicy cranberry sauce with creamed corn mashed potatoes. Dinner is 295rmb per person and includes a glass of red wine or sangria. For more details, click .禄
Chef willy is going surprisingly traditional this year with the standard roast turkey (what?! no paella stuffing?!)along with all you can eat green beans, mashed potatoes, glazed carrots, pumpkin pie and more. Be sure to give muchas gracias. The cost is 350rmb. Event listing .禄
Yes, Hilary Ambrose has left Avalon, but this menu has his cranberry sauce-stained fingerprints all over it. Kohlrabi soup with cranberry gastrique and fried giblets; roast turkey with sunchoke puree, crispy Brussels sprout petals, berry and fennel chutney with roast chestnut stuffing and turkey jus; and for dessert pumpkin pie with eggnog and vanilla gelato. It's a three course set dinner for 298rmb. Details .禄
The Pudong Shangri-La's culinary equivalent of a Benetton ad is cooking up a traditional thanksgiving dinner with dishes like roast Butterball turkey with dried fruit and chestnut stuffing, maple roasted pumpkin, mustard potato salad, pumpkin cheesecake and more. Adults eat for 398rmb. Children, 199. And don't forget the 15 percent service charge. Details .禄
Papillon recently metamorphosed into a downhome southern style dining room called Butterfly. Now Chef Eric Brown is deep-frying Butterball turkeys along with all the traditional fixin's for only 288rmb per person. Event listing .禄
Hamilton House have fused two glorious traditions into one. Thanksgiving and ladies night! 350rmb gets you a three-course turkey dinner. 45rmb gets you a Thanksgiving snack platter. Oh, and here is the best part: Girls get free-flow drinks from 7-10pm. Click for details.禄
It simply wouldn't be Thanksgiving in Shanghai without Marriot Hongqiao. It's been happening here since the pilgrims landed on Plymouth Rock. Expect all the standards. You've got your turkey, your stuffing, your pies, your free-flow wine, your complimentary glass of mulled wine or eggnog and the surprise visit from Santa Claus. For adults, 468rmb. Children, 198rmb. Event listing .
Not As Casual:
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Jean George is once again serving up a 24-karat diamond studded five-course dinner featuring scallop tartar with black truffle, saut茅ed Foie Gras with chestnuts and brandy, seared tiger prawn, pumpkin, ginger and basil, roasted turkey, caramelized Brussels sprouts and chestnut - sourdough stuffing. The price is 698rmb. For reservation details, click .禄
Should JG prove too rich for you blood, be thankful that there is Nougatine right there waiting for you. Three courses for 300rmb featuring JG's classic foie gras brul茅e with dried sour cherries, roasted turkey with caramelized Brussels sprouts and chestnut - sourdough stuffing and, to finish it off, pumpkin pie. For reservation details, click is offering the same menu for the same price. Details .
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