Over 50 NYC Thanksgiving Options That Don’t Involve You Cooking
If a whole turkey can fit inside the oven in your NYC apartment, good for you. But why deal with the prep and the mess of cooking one when the city’s talented crop of restaurants and chefs could do it for you? Eating out or picking up a meal kit might just make for the ideal Thanksgiving. We’ve populated the Thanksgiving category on 8it with more than 50 Thanksgiving dining options that will make you toss your mom’s turkey recipe. From fine dining takes on the classics to takeaway options by some of the city’s top pop-up chefs, we’ve got you covered.
This article is just a small taste of the Thanksgiving dinners and dishes we’ve been hunting down for you. Find them all in the Thanksgiving category on the 8it app.
Thanksgiving Dinner Service
Hutong
📸: @hutongnyc
Imagine if your Thanksgiving dinner looked as appetizing as a storefront window in Chinatown. Well, imagine no more. The centerpiece at Hutong’s Thanksgiving dinner service is a peking turkey. They cook this masterpiece by using the same approach as a typical peking duck; marinating it in a combination of Chinese spices and roasting it to crispy perfection. As if that ingenuity wasn’t enough, it’s set ablaze on the way to your table, creating a spectacle to match the occasion. Only twelve are available and they must be pre-booked, so hustle to that reservation link.
Kitchen Time Kev Thanksgiving
Pre-order for pick up
📸: @kitchentime_kev
One of NYC’s top pop-up chefs, known for some of the city’s best wings, is slinging his signature smoked and fried wings, pulled pork, ribs, jerk chicken and brisket for Thanksgiving catering. If you’re ready to drop the charade that you actually like turkey, let Kitchen Time Kev take care of your Thanksgiving. Multiple relatives are guaranteed to pull you aside, pat you on the back and say thank you for sparing them another Thanksgiving marred by dry turkey.
Thanksgiving on a Bun
5 Napkin Burger
📸: @5napkinburger
If you’re more interested in efficiency than deliberating over a multiple-hour Thanksgiving feast, filling your relatives in on your latest fixations, 5 Napkin Burger has your back. They’ve consolidated a Thanksgiving feast into a bun with a sausage and cornbread stuffed turkey burger, topped with cheddar cheese, caramelized onions, sweet potato chips, and cranberry mayo. Grab this and dip your toes into Thanksgiving celebration rather than fully committing to a day of feast.
Turducken
Anthony Nassif
📸: @henhousenyc
Chef Antony Nassif’s pop-up Hen House is opening its first brick-and-mortar imminently in the East Village, but he’s not stopping there. Additionally, Nassif is making turduckens upon special request for Thanksgiving catering. For those who are unfamiliar, this godly creation features three birds in one; it’s a chicken stuffed inside of a duck, stuffed inside of a turkey. If you’re looking to go big this Thanksgiving, this is the dish you should take home.
Thanksgiving Dinner Service
Daddies, Frank, Lil’ Frankie’s, Supper
📸: @frankrestaurant
If you’re looking to have a classic Thanksgiving but have someone else do the cooking and cleaning, look no further than Frank Prisinzano’s restaurants. The main course on their Thanksgiving menus features turkey with porcini mushrooms, chestnuts, herbs and pan jus, sweet potatoes, sauteed kale, sage sausage stuffing, roasted acorn squash and cranberry relish; but that’s not all. The first course is pumpkin ravioli with brown butter and sage, and pumpkin pie with vanilla ice cream is the exclamation mark on the three-course meal.
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