Too busy to prepare this year’s Thanksgiving dinner? Someone else can cook it for you — at a price, of course. Taipei’s hotels and Western restaurants offer a fair amount of choices across the price range for both dining in and takeout this Thursday. For all of these places, it’s best to call ahead as early as possible to place an order or make reservations. When ordering whole turkey sets for takeout, for example, restaurants typically need three days advance notice. All sit-in dinners listed below are a la carte unless noted.
DINING IN (UNDER NT$600 PER PERSON)
Carnegie’s will be serving Thanksgiving meals all day on Thursday, at NT$490 per person for lunch and NT$630 for dinner with no service charge. Along with the requisite roast turkey, gravy and cranberry sauce, the set includes mashed potatoes, vegetable casserole, stuffing, butter rolls and cranberry and spinach salad with citrus dressing. For dessert, it’s pumpkin cheesecake and coffee or tea.
100, Anhe Rd Sec 2, Taipei City (台北市安和路二段100號)
Tel: (02) 2325-4433
For something slightly different, Citizen Cain offers a dinner set of deep-fried turkey, a southern US cooking style, with mashed potatoes, homemade stuffing, cranberry sauce, gravy, seasonal vegetable and homemade pie at NT$490 per person. Stay late for another Thanksgiving tradition — watching an NFL football game live on TV.
67 Dongfeng St, Taipei City (台北市東豐街67號)
Tel: (02) 2708-4557
If you don’t get your fill on Thursday, The Tavern is serving roast turkey with gravy on Friday from 7pm to 10pm. The dinner set costs NT$550 per person for adults and NT$300 for children, not including 10-percent service charge, and along with the standard side dishes, includes pumpkin soup, seasonal vegetables, crackers and cheese, salad buffet and a glass of either white or red Californian wine. New Orleans funk band the Kenyatta Trio will keep your spirits up starting at 9pm.
415 Xinyi Rd Sec 4, Taipei City (台北市信義路四段415號)
Tel: (02) 8789-0892
DINING IN (MORE THAN NT$600 PER PERSON)
The Cosmopolitan Grill serves its turkey and trimmings after 6pm from Thursday to Sunday. Dinner includes roast turkey with mashed potatoes, brown gravy and cranberry sauce, Waldorf salad, pumpkin soup and homemade pumpkin pie at NT$790 per person, not including 10-percent service charge.
1F, 218 Changchun Rd, Taipei City (台北市長春路218號1樓)
Tel: (02) 2508-0304
Dan Ryan’s Thanksgiving dinner comes with walnut green beans and candied yams in addition to roast turkey, mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce and homemade gravy, available as a set for NT$750. The Chicago-themed restaurant’s special also includes salad with creamy Italian dressing, pumpkin soup and pumpkin pie, for NT$950. The children’s dinner special is NT$500, but doesn’t include dessert. All dinner sets are available for takeout, and whole 4.5kg to 5.5kg turkeys with stuffing, gravy, mashed potatoes and cranberry sauce are available for NT$3,500. Whole turkeys must be ordered three days in advance.
8 Dunhua N Rd, Taipei City (台北市敦化北路8號)
Tel: (02) 2778-8800
Grandma Nitti’s celebrates with a dinner set of roast turkey with pumpkin soup, Japanese-style shrimp salad, mashed potatoes, stuffing and gravy, cranberry sauce, a choice of pumpkin pie or brownie, tea or coffee, and a glass of wine for NT$800, not including 10-percent service charge. Takeout dinner sets with turkeys ranging from 4.5kg to 4.5kg will be available and include mashed potatoes, stuffing, gravy and an 8-inch (20cm) pumpkin pie. Prices are NT$250 per pound of turkey. Whole turkeys should be ordered four days in advance.
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