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The best Thanksgiving dinners to go in Los Angeles

This year, leave Turkey Day cooking to some of L.A.'s best restaurants without sacrificing the comfort of home.

Patricia Kelly Yeo
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Patricia Kelly Yeo
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Over the last few years, plenty of Angelenos have discovered the beauty of ordering a premade, restaurant quality Thanksgiving meal at home. Between the cleanup, the potential for dry turkey and the possibility of forgotten ingredients, there’s plenty of stress that comes with cooking your own turkey at home, so why not leave it all to the pros?

For those who’d rather leave the house this year, some of the best restaurants in Los Angeles are taking all the hassle out of Turkey Day with out-of-the-house Thanksgiving feasts, but for those who'll be at home with family and friends, several L.A. restaurants are offering an entire Thanksgiving dinner to-go—complete with all the fixins. If you’re looking to avoid the stress of cooking for (and entertaining) your relatives, hang up your apron and order one of these premade Thanksgiving meals. Oh, and just make sure to put in an order for a pie, too.

RECOMMENDED: See our full guide to Thanksgiving in Los Angeles

Our picks for Thanksgiving takeout and catering

  • Restaurants
  • Steakhouse
  • Beverly
  • price 3 of 4

Menu: This iconic Beverly Grove steakhouse will be offering two different fully cooked Thanksgiving dinners in packages designed to serve four or eight guests. Each meal begins with chestnut chickpea soup and includes sliced turkey breast, confit legs and thighs, cornbread-turkey sausage stuffing, shiitake mushrooms and tuscan kale, as well as classic cranberry sauce, mashed potatoes and gravy.

Price: $495 (serves 4) or $925 (serves 8), as well as a large-format à la carte sides ranging from $25 to $49. 

Reservations: Order via Tock.

Order By: 6pm Sat, Nov 19

Pickup: Wed, Nov 22 1–5pm

  • Restaurants
  • French
  • Santa Monica
  • price 4 of 4

Menu: Dave Beran’s Santa Monica bistro is offering fully cooked, family-style dinners with a bit of French flair for both pickup and local delivery. Each meal will include turkey with black truffle gravy and stuffing made with herbs de Provençe. Classic sides include cranberry relish, mashed potatoes, green bean casserole and cornbread with honey butter. For dessert, the restaurant is offering apple crumble and a seasonal pumpkin Basque cheesecake.

Price: $140 per person ($125 before Oct 31)

Reservations: Order online via Table22.

Order By: No set deadline, but quantities are limited.

Pickup: Wed, Nov 22

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  • Restaurants
  • Italian
  • Los Feliz
  • price 2 of 4

Menu: Los Feliz neighborhood red sauce joint Little Dom’s is back with its popular deep-fried turkey this Thanksgiving, as well as six different traditional sides—all but one of them gluten-free. Chef Brandon Boudet gives the usual suspects a gourmet treatment, including Brussels sprouts paired with applewood bacon and a brown butter pumpkin pie. Note that pre-orders will open at 10am on November 1.

Price: $138 for a 12-pound deep-fried turkey with gravy; $55.20 family-style sides for 6–8 people; $43.70-$55.20 whole pies and tarts; $225.40 bundle package (turkey plus 2 sides or pies)

Reservations: Call 323-661-0055 or order online via Little Dom's website.

Order By: No set deadline, though orders often sell out by Nov 1

Pickup: Thanksgiving Day 

  • Restaurants
  • Contemporary American
  • Culver City

Menu: Culver City’s Akasha is offering ready-to-cook turkeys, take-home starters, sides and desserts with plenty of vegan options. Sides and salads lean classic, with options such as mac and cheese, candied sweet potatoes, green bean casserole and Akasha’s cranberry chutney. To finish, there are whole pies with gluten-free options available: pumpkin, honey crisp apple and the restaurant's signature chocolate bourbon-pecan. 

Price: $120–180 oven-ready turkeys; $14–45 stuffing, appetizers and sides serving 4–6 people; $38–40 pies. 

Reservations: Order via Tock.

Order By: Wed, Nov 15 at 3pm 

Pickup: Wed, Nov 23 noon–8pm

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  • Restaurants
  • Barbecue
  • La Brea
  • price 2 of 4

Menu: Kevin Bludso's famous Texas-style barbecue joint is offering smoked turkeys, fried turkeys and smoked ham for your Thanksgiving pleasure, both in combo packages and à la carte. Each package includes collard greens, mashed sweet potatoes, cornbread stuffing and gravy. Bludso's is also baking up three pie options: Mexican Lime, pumpkin and apple (the latter two courtesy of 27th Street Bakery). Note that fried turkeys will only be available for pickup on Thanksgiving Day.

Price: $225–255 combo packages (feeding 8–10 or 10–12); $115–145 turkeys and ham; $40 à la carte sides; $30 whole pies

Reservations: Order via Bludso's website for pick-up along La Brea or in Santa Monica

Order By: Sun, Nov 19

Pickup: Wed, Nov 22 11am–4pm, Thanksgiving Day 9am–1pm

  • Restaurants
  • Soul and southern American
  • Beverly

Menu: This Southern-inspired eatery on the ground floor of the Beverly Center will offer two different family-style Thanksgiving packages with option to supplement with the restaurant's signature fried chicken ($150 for 24 pieces) and brown butter bourbon pumpkin pie ($40). Each package includes roasted turkey, mashed potatoes, biscuit stuffing, spiced honey glazed Brussel sprouts, glazed yams and more. 

Price: $310 for package serving 2–4, $590 for package serving 6–8

Reservations: Order via Tock.

Order By: No set deadline

Pickup: Thanksgiving Day 9–11am

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  • Restaurants
  • American
  • Venice
  • price 2 of 4

Menu: This breezy all-day café with locations in Venice, Hollywood, North Hollywood and Pasadena is offering an impressive choose-your-own Turkey Day spread this year, which includes whole birds and a whole slew of sides, pies and breads. Mix and match your way to Thanksgiving bliss with the likes of roasted Brussels sprouts with lardons and sherry; vegan mushroom-and-leek stuffing; brown butter green beans; cinderella pumpkin pie with spiced whipped cream; mac and cheese shells and more.

Price: $115 or $175 for turkeys (small feeding 4–6 or large feeding 10–12); $27–57 sides (half portions available); $45 pies and $9–18 assorted bread

Reservations: Order for your closest location via Superba's website.

Order By: Thurs, Nov 17 at noon

Pickup: 8:30–10am Thanksgiving Day

  • Restaurants
  • Filipino
  • Hollywood
  • price 2 of 4

Menu: For Thanksgiving, this East Hollywood fast-casual joint will offer family-style pamilya trays (serves 4–6) of lucenchon (slow-roasted rolled pork belly), litson manok (almond wood-grilled whole chicken) or wood-grilled hiramasa collar with pancit chami, java rice, gulay (sauteéd) vegetables and a whole calamansi pie.

 

Price: Email or Instagram DM for details

Reservations: Email hello@kuyalord.com or DM via Instagram or Facebook.

Order By: Fri Nov 17

Pickup: 11am–2pm Thanksgiving Day

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  • Restaurants
  • Barbecue
  • Culver City

Menu: This Culver City BBQ spot will be offering wood-smoked, all-natural, free-range, antibiotic-free turkey in four sizes, including boneless turkey breast, so you’re covered no matter your party size. And hey, if you order the largest—an 18-to-20 pound bird—you’ll probably have some for Thanksgiving leftover sandwiches the next day. Don’t neglect the bevy of sides, including cornbread-sausage stuffing, buttermilk biscuits, mac and cheese and braised greens. There are also trays of chocolate bread pudding for dessert.

Price: Whole turkey pricing is à la carte at $281 for 15–17 pounds; $249 for 12–14 pounds; or $250 for 7 pounds of unsliced turkey breast. Sides range $9.25–$65, or you can opt for a $40 all-sides package serving 10-12 guests. Dessert runs $45.

Reservations: Order via Maple Block’s online form.

Order By: ASAP.

Pickup: Thursday, November 23 10:30am-3pm

  • Restaurants
  • Californian
  • Santa Monica
  • price 3 of 4

Menu: The Fairmont Miramar's hotel eatery is preparing a traditional take-home Thanksgiving dinner designed to serve eight guests. FIG's family-style package includes a whole roasted turkey with thyme butter, sage and apple stuffing, giblet gravy, cranberry compote, sweet potato purée, Brussels sprouts and green beans. There's also a red endive and arugula salad with blue cheese and sherry mustard dressing to start and pumpkin pie with chantilly cream for dessert.

Price: $450 (serves eight)

Reservations: Order via FIG's website.

Order By: No set deadline

Pickup: Thanksgiving Day 8am–12:30pm

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  • Restaurants
  • Barbecue
  • Eagle Rock
  • price 2 of 4

Menu: Eagle Rock's Max City is offering a full Thanksgiving meal including a 16-pound smoked turkey, gravy, mashed potatoes, cornbread and homemade cranberry sauce. For those just looking for a succulent, perfectly roasted bird or a few dishes taken off their plate (pun intended), the neighborhood barbecue joint is also selling whole and half portions of smoked turkey, plus small and large sizes of à la carte sauces and sides—think mac and cheese, creamy mashed potatoes and garlic Parmesan green beans.

Price: $249 for package serving 10–12, $10.99 per pound for smoked turkey

Reservations: Call 323-425-4227

Order By: Fri, Nov 18

Pickup: Wed, Nov 23

  • Restaurants
  • French
  • Century City
  • price 3 of 4

Menu: This upmarket hotel in Century City is offering a Thanksgiving takeout package full of classics: Roast turkey, chestnut herb stuffing, potato purée, smoked green bean casserole, glazed yams, cranberry compote and pumpkin pie with chantilly cream.

Price: $375 (meal feeds 4–6)

Reservations: Order via Eventbrite.

Order By: No deadline given

Pickup: 10am–4pm Wed, Nov 22 and Thanksgiving Day

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  • Restaurants
  • Contemporary American
  • Santa Monica
  • price 2 of 4

Menu: Daytime Santa Monica eatery Huckleberry is offering both fully cooked half turkeys and breads, sides, sauces and desserts this Thanksgiving for both pickup and delivery on Thanksgiving morning. For vegetarians, the restaurant is also cooking up maple-roasted delicata squash. Pumpkin pies, bourbon pecan pies and turkey-shaped ginger cookies are also available for dessert. From sister wine bar Ester's, you can also order bottles of wine and cheese and charcuterie platters.

Price: $225 for a half turkey, $16–65 sauces and sides, $16–22 breads (all serving 4-6); $65 pies, $45 maple-baked apples and $12.50 for 4 turkey-shaped cookies

Reservations: Order online via Tripleseat

Order By: Thurs, Nov 16 at 3pm

Pickup: Thanksgiving Day (delivery also available)

  • Restaurants
  • Thai
  • Downtown Fashion District
  • price 2 of 4

Menu: If you're looking to forgo the usual turkey-and-potato meal entirely, Downtown's Holy Basil is offering plenty of à la carte Thanksgiving specials, including deep-fried jidori chicken, fried rockfish in tamarind sauce and a $150 family-style Holy Tray that includes both entrées, plus other seafood dishes and pork belly served with five-spice jus and pickled mustard greens. Preorders will be available for pickup on Nov. 23.

Price: $35–150

Reservations: Order online via Toast.

Order By: No set deadline, but quantities are limited

Pickup: Weds Nov 23

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  • Restaurants
  • Chinese
  • Culver City
  • price 2 of 4

Menu: If you’re in the mood for a Chinese Thanksgiving feast, Culver City's Ms. Chi Café is offering a tea smoked duck meal (for 4 people) or a Beijing-style roasted turkey breast (for 8–10 people). Each family-style menu comes with Chinese chicken salad, roasted Brussels sprouts, frozen dumplings (your choice of chicken, pork or vegan) and duck fat rice stuffing. 

Price: $99–128 (tea smoked duck, serves four); $178 (turkey, serves eight)

Reservations: Order via Tock or call 424-361-5225.

Order By: Sun, Nov 19

Pickup: Weds, Nov 22 1–8pm

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