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These Local Restaurants Will Serve Thanksgiving Dinner

Snag a reservation—or a pickup time—and leave the holiday spread to the pros this year.

By Taylor McKenzie Gerlach November 14, 2024

Leave the most important course to the experts at Flora Bakehouse.

From Seattle's waterfront to bucolic Woodinville retreats—these restaurants handle the holiday hassle and leave you free to relax. Many of them are hotel-adjacent, ready to host any out-of-towners and provide a festive feel. If you're looking to host without drawing up an oven schedule, takeout might be calling your name.  


All Water Seafood and Oyster Bar

Downtown

The Hotel 1000 restaurant prioritizes football with a prix fixe menu and plenty of TVs trained to games in Green Bay, Dallas, and Detroit. For $85 per person, the selection includes roasted salmon, turkey breast, and apple-stuffed acorn squash.

Ben Paris

pike place market

The patterned wallpaper alone is reason enough to check out this beautiful spot within the State Hotel. It will serve an $85 Feast and Folly menu for the holiday, complete with all the classics: oven-roasted turkey, rosemary-thyme stuffing, and pumpkin tarts from the in-house pastry chef. 

The heirloom apple cheesecake with a biscoff crust might as well be art.

Cafe Flora

madison valley

Choose your own adventure between the cozy dining room, atrium, or heated patio for a creative four-course, $85 vegetarian feast starting with apple-parsnip soup and finishing off with apple cheesecake or pumpkin pie. Have dinner covered but need bakery prowess? Sister cafe Flora Bakehouse offers take-home goods like mushroom handpies and gluten-free pumpkin pies, available for pickup the day before Thanksgiving. 

Charlotte Restaurant

Downtown

Lotte Hotel Seattle's 16th-floor restaurant goes full-fall for its $125 five-course Thanksgiving meal: pumpkin hummus followed by braised short ribs with persimmons, fennel, and winter squash, then caramelized pumpkin pie for dessert. Wine pairings and guaranteed window seating can be added to online reservations.

Daniel's Broiler

DOWNTOWN, LESCHI, SOUTH LAKE UNION, BELLEVUE

The four-location fine-dining outpost features a buffet at the Downtown location ($75) and four-course menu options at the other locations ($90), all with a PNW steakhouse flair. Turkey is just one of six classic American choices for the entrée.

Chef Brian Doherty keeps things sharp at the Four Seasons Hotel.

Goldfinch Tavern / Four Seasons Hotel 

Downtown/waterfront

Three courses at $165 include a host of options, like wild mushroom gnocchi and butternut squash rigatoni with lobster. Even the kids menu is on point...can adults order the chocolate brownie ice cream sammie? The Ethan Stowell restaurant inside the Four Seasons will serve Thanksgiving meals from 11–7 with reservations going fast, but the hotel will also serve its $165 ballroom buffet overlooking Elliot Bay. Reserve online for Goldfinch or the buffet.

Plum Bistro

Capitol Hill

Makini Howell is a vegan Thanksgiving hero. Her restaurant will serve an a la carte menu of plant-based classics, like a maple-glazed holiday roast with corn-bread dressing, or pecan and portobello Wellington. You can also order the entire menu for takeout.

The George / Fairmont Hotel

Downtown

The elegant restaurant at the Fairmont will serve a four-course, $90 dinner. The menu kicks off with seasonal bisques and offers citrus-brined turkey, fried brussels sprouts, or beef tenderloin as the main course (reserve online). The hotel's other dining outlets also offer festive menus, like a seafood-forward prix fixe at Shuckers and fall cocktail menu at Olympic Bar.

Sparrow

Kirkland

A charming independent spot in the Juanita neighborhood will serve four courses for $95 with options such as lamb osso buco, zucchini linguine, and Wagyu bites. The vibey bar supplements the menu with wine, cocktails, and creative nonalcoholic sips.

Water's Table / Hyatt Regency Lake Washington

Renton

Down south, Water's Table will serve a $125 prix fixe Thanksgiving menu from 3 to 9pm with festive mains including squash risotto with foraged mushrooms and the ever-classic turkey tenderloin with cranberry stuffing. The Grand Ballroom in the same hotel has a buffet for $110 per person—and a football viewing room. Reservations for both can be made online.

Water Grill

Bellevue

This Bellevue seafood joint celebrates Thanksgiving with a $72 three-course meal—in addition to its normal menu, if festive food isn't your jam. The feast starts with either salad or clam chowder, and ends with pumpkin cheesecake, though the middle spread is a more traditional turkey, stuffing, and cranberry sauce menu. Reservations here.

Barking Frog / Willows Lodge

Woodinville

The cozy, upscale inn celebrates with a three-course, $95 tasting menu at Barking Frog from noon–9pm. Reserve online, or call the restaurant at 425-424-2999 for parties of seven or more. The lodge will also serve a holiday buffet in the Sammamish Ballroom; seatings are at 1, 1:30, 4, and 4:30 (call for reservations). The seasonal buffet line centers local gems, like a pecan pie topped with Woodinville Whiskey Bourbon whipped cream.

Takeout

13 Coins

sodo and bellevue

The high-backed booths of 13 Coins are open for business on Thanksgiving, but the kitchen churns out whole-family to-go meals as well. Herb-roasted turkeys feed four ($195) or eight ($325), sans meat thermometers and basters. Takeout includes sides like roasted sweet potatoes with goat cheese caramel—and a whole pie.

Cocina Casera

white center

This local takeout spot with pickup in White Center presents a South American take on Thanksgiving dinner: mains range from slow-braised beef to shredded turkey, and sides include garlic green beans with aji amarillo and roasted corn with queso fresco. Plenty of add-ons (plantains, yuca fries, roasted veggies with chimichurri) make for a truly bespoke holiday meal. 

Ethan Stowell Restaurants

Sodo/Fremont

Though best known for sit-down dining, Ethan Stowell's Stone Way Tavolata serves as a pickup point for $295 holiday feasts for five to six people. The 14-pound turkey has an herb crust, and sides include seasonal produce like brussels sprouts and brown sugared yams. The SoDo ESR Commissary is also available for box retrieval, with preorders required at both spots. 

Kitchen and Market

Downtown

Doesn't matter if the whole family is showing up; the Pike Place Market meal company has a traditional feast for six to eight adults for $265, complete with a 10–12 pound turkey (and the option to upgrade to a 14–16 pounder). Add a prebaked pumpkin pie for an extra course. Orders can be placed through November 17, with the option of delivery or pickup. To sidestep the usual main, a chicken meal for four has many of the same sides.

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