The joy of Thanksgiving has washed on in from across the pond and is now a date in the calendar that is ours to enjoy as well. If you're planning to head out on for a feast on Thursday, November 24, here's the best restaurants in London to head to...
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1 The Colony Grill Room, Mayfair
With a glamorous nod to 1920s New York, The Beaumont Hotel's Colony Grill Room has an appropriate American twang for Thanksgiving. This feast comes with pumpkin risotto with smoke ricotta an hazelnuts as well as a traditional roast turkey spread and an all-American pecan pie with spiced chocolate sorbet to finish.
Price: £85pp + optional £50 wine pairing
Address: 8 Balderton Street, Mayfair, W1K 6TF
Website: colonygrillroom.com
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2 Darby’s, Nine Elms
Another NY inspired restaurant, this one by Robin Gill (Zebra Riding Rooms, Maria G's). Darby’s is putting on jazz and a four-course feasting menu for the holiday. It starts with the likes of truffled mac & cheese croquette, and cornbread with smoked bourbon butter before moving on to a lemon and thyme roaster turkey served with Brussel tops and chestnuts.and a pumpkin tart to finish on.
Price: £75 pp
Address: 3 Viaduct Garden, SW11 7AY
Website: darbys-london.com
3 SOLA, Soho
The Michelin-starred American restaurant is putting on a decadent Californian-style spread that start with salmon, beef and eel, foie gras, and bacon canapés and festive Bloody Mary, cheesesteak and turkey kromeski bites. There's also flambed native lobster, and scallops with caviar. SOLA's take on the turkey roast is confit duck breast wotj morcilla stuffing, beetroot foie gras and elderberry. Finish on a contemporary twist on the pumpkin pie - pumpkin mousse with Jack Daniel's creme diplomate and pecans.
Price: £179 pp
Address: 64 Dean Street W1D 4QQ
Website: solasoho.com
4 Galvin Bar & Grill, Bloomsbury
The Michelin-starred Galvin Brothers are hosting a Thanksgiving dinner at their luxurious Bloomsbury dining room the comes with a southern twist. The meal kicks off with Dorset crab and sweet pumpkin cake, Oscietra caviar with creme fraiche before wild mushrooms with green beans and quail eggs and truffle arrive. The Turkey is served Southern-style - fried and cooked with apricot and served with popovers sweet potato mash and creole sprouts. The pecan pie is served with bourbon cream.
Price: £68 pp, book via
Address: 1-8 Russell Square, Corner of Guilford Street and Russell Square WC1B 5BE
Website: galvinrestaurants.com
5 Oblix, London Bridge
Celebrate Thanksgiving with some of the best views of London there is. Start with a classic jumbo prawn cocktail with gem lettuce and the all important spicy cocktail sauce before enjoying a family-style meal of caramelised turkey breast wrapped in pancetta and stuffed with chestnut and truffle. You've got pecan pie with bourbon ice-cream for dessert, and over at Oblix East, sip on a selection of bourbon and scotch cocktails.
Date: November 24-26
Price: £97 pp
Address: Level 32, The Shard, 31 St. Thomas Street SE1 9RY
Website: oblixrestaurant.com
6 Riding House Fitzrovia, Rail House Victoria & Riding House Bloomsbury
Sister venues are once again putting on their family feasting spread for both lunch and dinner. It has all the Americana-style food you would expect - cornbread and sausage stuffing, maple-buttered sweet potatoes, creamed corn casserole bourbon cocktails as well as pumpkin brulee pie and pecan pie.
Date: November 24 (and Nov 25 at Riding House Fitzrovia)
Price: £55
Address: Riding House Bloomsbury, The Brunswick Centre, Bloomsbury, WC1N 1AF; Riding House Fitzrovia, 43-51 Great Titchfield Street W1W 7PQ; Rail House Victoria, 8 Sir Simon Milton Square SW1E 5DJ
Website: riding.house
7 Duck & Waffle, City
Another sky high celebratory feast, and this one comes with all the favourite Thanksgiving dishes, 40 floors up. Maple glazed cornbread, bacon wrapped dates with lingica, manchego and mustard start the banquet off and followed by sweet potatoes with marshmallows and candied nuts, green bean casserole, a whole roast turkey and bourbon pecan pie.
Service time: 5pm-10pm
Price: £75 pp or £115 with wine pairing
Address: Heron Tower, 110 Bishopgate EC2N 4AY
Website: duckandwaffle.com
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