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Thanksgiving is the main holiday in the US, and it's a time for feasting. It always falls on the fourth Thursday of November – in 2011, November 24. Here's the best places to celebrate in London.


By Zoe Kamen


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  • Babylon at The Roof Gardens

    99 Kensington High Street, London, W8 5SA

    Babylon overlooks the flamboyant Roof Gardens high above Kensington High Street, offering feasts for both lunch and dinner on November 24. Choose from three or four courses (£38-£54.50). Seasonal cocktails and a jazz band (in the evening) will make the occasion swing by. See more

  • Bea's of Bloomsbury

    44 Theobald's Road, WC1X 8NW (020 7242 8330/www.beasofbloomsbury.com)

    This growing chain of bakery-cafés is laying on all-you-can eat buffet dinners at its main branch in Bloomsbury and its City branch – at £45 per person. Also, from November 23-25, you can pre-order individually priced boxes of each course to take the feasting home, or eat lunch in-house. Expect turkey with buttermilk biscuits, a host of trimmings, plus pies in abundance. See more

  • Bodean's

    10 Poland Street, Soho, W1F 8PZ. Branches: 69 Clapham High St, SW4 7SS (020 7622 4248); 4 Broadway Chambers, SW6 1EP (020 7610 0440); 57 Westbourne Grove, W2 4UA (020 7727 9503); 16 Byward St, EC3R 5BA (020 7488 3883)

    Book ahead for a smoky taste of Americana, complete with gridiron on the big screens all day on November 24. These authentic barbecue outposts are charging £20.95 per person, which includes a choice of starter soup or salad, mains of slow-smoked turkey and double-smoked ham with cornbread stuffing and cranberry sauce, followed by apple cobbler with pumpkin ice cream. See more

  • Le Café Anglais

    8 Porchester Gardens, London, W2 4DB

    Rowley Leigh’s refined retreat in Whiteley’s shopping centre will be incorporating Transatlantic inspiration aplenty in its three-course Thanksgiving meal. The menu includes seafood starters, traditional turkey main course and the obligatory pumpkin pie (£45 per person). Diners will be serenaded by a live bluegrass band and jazz singer. See more

  • Christopher's

    18 Wellington Street, Covent Garden, WC2E 7DD

    This grand restaurant in Covent Garden is for the discerning diner, with a Thanksgiving menu that encompasses more choice than most. Five starters will segue into five mains: ballotine of turkey, rump of lamb and beef and pies, brownies, and cobbler galore for afters. £42.50 per person. See more

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    Hix at the Albemarle

    Brown's Hotel, 33-34 Albemarle Street, London, W1S 4BP

    Mark Hix's other London restaurants are resolutely British, but at Brown’s Hotel, Thanksgiving dinner is a fixture. Three courses will include pumpkin soup, roast turkey, and pecan and bourbon tart finished with very English clotted cream, plus coffees and truffles. £49.50 per person. See more

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    Narrow

    44 Narrow Street, London, E14 8DP

    Gordon Ramsay’s gastropub overlooking the Thames in Limehouse will be celebrating with a menu at £15.50 per person. Sit down to plates of roast turkey, with sweet Southern US inspired sides of creamed corn, sweet potato with marshmallows, and brown sugar glazed carrots. Pecan pie with ice cream and maple syrup (an extra £7.50) along with mulled cider or hot rum toddys will bring the evening to a sweet and spicy end. See more

  • Savoy Grill

    100 Strand, London, WC2R 0EW

    The venerable and glamorous Savoy Grill is run by Gordon Ramsay Holdings. This year, chef Andy Cook has set a four-course menu for £45 per person. Dine on Maryland crabcakes, maple-roast turkey and cornbread stuffing. Round it off with a wafer thin (or not) slice of pumpkin pie with cinnamon ice cream. See more

  • Tentazioni

    2 Mill Street, Bermondsey, London, SE1 2BD

    This upmarket Italian in Bermondsey has been making its own tradition of the American feast with an Italian flavour for several years. Expect all the usual courses but with an extra course of pumpkin ravioli. £39.50 per person, book ahead. See more

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    Villandry

    170 Great Portland Street, London, W1W 5QB

    Despite being bought by the Belgian-based chain Le Pain Quotidien earlier this year, Villandry (the Marylebone original) still offers a festive meal for Thanksgiving. The four courses (£45 per person) begin with twice-baked cheese soufflé, then move onto turkey, ham or halibut or stuffed squash, before finishing with sweet pies and cheese plates. See more



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By curmudgeon57 - Nov 23 2011

@Johnny Turkey

" A bit like like americans celebrating guy fawkes"

Actually they used to do that particularly in Boston, but the habit rather died out about 1775 where it was known as 'Pope Night'.

Lighten up pal, the whole Thanksgiving thing is for expat Americans and anyone else who is like minded to indulge in one of the truly great US institutions.

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By Marie - Nov 23 2011

I am American by birth but a Brit now (26+ years!) and celebrate Thanksgiving with my family and friends every year. We use it as a day to give thanks for what we have here and to enjoy each others company before the holidays. It does not have to be linked with the American celebration (we do this on the weekend after Thanksgiving Day in the US) and is an excuse to have some fun and enjoy ourselves. Highly recommended...just another excuse - like someone else dais!!

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By Ozie - Nov 22 2011

@Johnny Turkey:
Do you live on the moon? Did you really not know that there are THOUSANDS of Americans living in London? And anyway, if Brits want to do Thanksgiving, what's it to you? People all over the world with no Irish heritage whatsoever go out and get slaughtered for St Patrick's Day - it's just an excuse to party! God, your life must be dull.

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By seekew - Nov 22 2011

Kaz, Thanks for the recommendation looked at the menu and my girlfriend and I will be there!

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By 50%Brit%50%American - Nov 22 2011

Dear Johnny Turkey,

You are ignorant.

Have a great day as I am sarcastic.

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By Kaz - Nov 22 2011

My American friend is taking me to my first Thanksgiving dinner at The Bull, Highgate; apparently the head chef is American so she's hoping for a taste of back home. I'm just going because I'm a glutton.

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By Vinny - Nov 21 2011

@Johnny Turkey

Did you ever think that there might be enough Americans living in London that might want to celebrate their Thanksgiving holiday away from home?

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By Damon - Nov 21 2011

@Johnny Turkey. There are thousands of people living in London who grew up celebrating Thanksgiving and like to celebrate the holiday however they can. That's enough of a want/need for a small industry to form around it.

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By Johnny Turkey - Nov 20 2011

Why are Brits celebrating thanksgiving? Is there possibly any reason. We all love a good party and a good meal but surely there is absolutely no cultural significance in the uk warranting this. A bit like like americans celebrating guy fawkes. What doubly troubling is that thanksgiving dinner is not something you to a restaurant to do, thanksgiving is less about the food than it is a moment of reunion of family, going to a restaurant negates that, (theoretically also a rationalisation and friendly reminder of all the "sharing" with the natives....) . but hey another marketing holiday . i cant wait to see when the uk will start celebrating kwanza...!

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By Cindy Williamson - Nov 16 2011

Thanksgiving is always the 4th Thursday of November. It sometimes has 5.
Happy Turkey Day!

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By rachel - Nov 15 2011

As an american living in london I have spent my previous two thanksgivings at The Breakfast Club. They run an awesome menu (only beaten by my mums cooking!) And there is an amazing atmosphere. I've just booked at the newest branch in spitalfields and I'm super excited! The new branch also has a secret cocktail bar so can't wait to check that out afterwards!

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