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Lots of feeding of faces, drinking of booze and watching of football to be done this Thursday. Here are a few places where you can do some or all of the above. Without any further ado, it's our Big List: Thanksgiving 2013 Edition.

Bundside:

el Willy

Chef Willy is thankful for happiness and sexiness on this Dia del Pavo. Come to think of it, he's probably thankful for it the other 364 days of the year, though, too. His crew is serving up its annual turkey dinner. Its prefaced with a sexy black truffle and onion soup. Soup is followed by a happy turkey that's cooked low and slow, which retains all of the juice and tenderness. This comes with a whole slew of sides like mashed potatoes with garlic confit, glazed carrots, spicy green beans and deviled eggs and crudites. For dessert: pumpkin pie, chocolate pecan pie and ice cream. 388rmb per person. Learn more .

Napa Wine Bar & Kitchen

It looks like Chef Patrick Dang is toning things down on his 2013 menu. Last year, it read like a volume of free-form nature poetry. Don't get me wrong, I'm sure it tasted fantastic; the guy's a really talented chef. But let's face it, there is a time and a place for smoked eel with foie gras, and it ain't Thanksgiving. So this year, expect something a bit more traditional yet refined. How about roast turkey, mashed potatoes, green beans with caramelized onions and an herbed stuffing with an "Everything Apple" dessert with poached apples in calvados with cider caramel? That sounds lovely for 438rmb per person. More on that .


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Patrick Dang's predecessor at Napa, Matthew Ona, works just up the street at Shook! these days. He's got a ridiculously reasonable three-course dinner in the works. 228rmb gets you a starter salad of winter harvest veggies. The main is a roast turkey with all of your traditional accompaniments, like glazed carrots, green beans, herb stuffing, cranberry sauce, etc. For dessert it's pumpkin cheesecake in a graham cracker crust with cinnamon sweet cream. Learn more .

New Heights in Three on the Bund evokes the halcyon days of the Pilgrims and the Mayflower with dishes like a foie gras torchon and a pumpkin veloute. They'll be doing turkey breast with mushroom stuffing, as well. Four courses total at 268rmb+10% per person. Deets .

Inland:

Madison chef / owner Austin Hu's dinner looks particularly awesome. Six courses of inventive and unique cuisine that doesn't stray too far from traditional comfort. Think chestnut soup with celery leaf pesto; spiced pork belly with apply Brussels sprouts and hickory nuts; poached turkey breast with cranberry gastrique, sweet potato and cauliflower. Madison is also the only place in town I know of that's serving turducken, that distinctively American culinary portmanteau of chicken wrapped in duck wrapped in turkey. It finishes off with pumpkin cheesecake with hazelnut crumble and kumquat marmalade. Six courses total for 598rmb. If you're a veg, he's got you sorted out with alternative dishes, too. Just be sure to let them know when you reserve your table. Details on all of that .

If you can't make Madison's Thursday dinner, you can make up for it this weekend at their Sunday supper. This will be a more laid-back family-style affair with roast turkey and giblet gravy; string bean salad, charred broccoli with chilies, mashed potatoes with roasted scallions, Brussels sprouts with walnuts, bacon and mustard and a bunch of other stick-to-your-ribs goodness. That's 300rmb for all you care to eat. Add 50 to that figure if you want to drink unlimited beers and soft drinks. Kids eat for half price. Learn more .


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Hai's dinner looks pretty awesome, too. Chef / owner Brad Turley's roasting turkey and serving it with with cranberry ginger sauce and sage gravy and a cornbread stuffing studded with pork belly. That comes with trimmings like smoked cauliflower and gruyere gratin, sherry-glazed cipollinis and mushrooms, marshmallow and bourbon-glazed sweet potatoes. Dessert is pumpkin pie and a roasted pear, apple and cranberry sauce tart. If you go the teetotaler route it's 520rmb per person. For 200rmb you can get a basic free-flow wine package, or you splurge and go for the premium wines for an extra 430rmb. They'll also do a coursed-out degustation dinner with wine pairings for 680rmb per person. They're doing this in two seatings that start promptly at 6.30 and then at 9pm. More on all of that here.

Finally, a newcomer. The Boulevard, that speakeasy with a sunroof on Baoqing Lu, is cooking up a traditional roast turkey breast and honey glazed ham. It comes with sides like sauteed green beans and baby carrots, stuffing, cranberry sauce, pumpkin soup, apple pie and more. To start, you can tie one on with a cocktail from the bar. Check out the full menu .

Tried and True:

Bubba's

We've got a couple of Tex-Mex options. Let's start with the Tex first. Bubba's is a long-time fave for homesick Yanks. Both the Cool Docks branches will be offering their usual smoked turkey, cornbread stuffing, homemade gravy, garlic mashed potatoes and other fixin's for 350rmb. This includes two glasses of wine.


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Now for something more Mex. Maya's doing its Latin-inspired chipotle butter-roasted turkey dinner with chorizo chestnut stuffing. That's accompanied by green bean with pancetta chilli-cranberry sauce with a side of roasted garlic and cilantro-studded whipped potatoes. For dessert: pumpkin pie empanadas. That's 325rmb per person. More about that right here.

After Dinner

The Flamingo

Knock back a cup of coffee and get yourself out of that L-tryptophan coma if you want to watch some live gridiron. Kick-off is late. You can catch it at The Flamingo. The once-lad-lounge-now-sports-bar will be screening the game between the Green Bay Packers and the Detroit Lions. With Aaron Rodgers still out because of a collar bone injury this annual tradition should be quite an embarrassment for the Packers as they'll likely suffer a loss against the perennially bad—but ironically thus far division-leading—Lions. If you're still hungry, you can get a hot dog or a burger and some other grub for 138rmb. Wear your team colors and they'll give you a free beer, too.


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Take-away Options

Dakota is doing dinners for pick-up between November 28 and December 1. Orders must be placed two days in advance. Bubba's is has several packages available. You can learn more about them and place your order here. Le Royal Meridien has got take-away turkey dinners available from now until New Year's Eve. If you're out in Pu Jersey, The Kerry Hotel has as well. And if you haven't already noticed the wallpaper ad that frames this article, Fields China has delivery deals of all shapes and sizes.

We're admittedly a little late with our annual obligatory Thanksgiving round-up. So if you want to get a take-away turkey dinner, you might want to place your order like now-ish.

...And as always our complete listing of what's going on for Thanksgiving can be found .


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