Thanksgiving Monday lands on October 12 this year, and the take-home cutoffs are already creeping up.
Some turkey kits close as early as October 6, and a few dining rooms are getting tight for the long weekend.
Here’s where to order a full spread for home, plus the dinners and brunches worth booking if nobody wants to do dishes.
1. Turkey To-Go, Brunch and Dinner – Notch8
Got a crowd and zero oven space? Notch8’s to-go box shows up with a whole Fraser Valley turkey and every side you’d expect, plus mac and cheese.
Gingerbread cheesecake closes it out, and tax is already baked into the price.
This one has the earliest cutoff on the list, so don’t sleep on it.
Take-home: $360 (serves 4 to 5) or $550 (serves 8 to 10), GST and PST included; order by October 6 at 5 pm; pickup October 11, 10 am to 4 pm
Brunch: $72 adults, $36 kids 6 to 12, October 11 and 12, 11:30 am to 1 pm
Dinner: $80 adults, $49 kids, October 11 and 12 from 5:30 pm
Address: Fairmont Hotel Vancouver, 900 West Georgia Street, Vancouver
Order: Turkey To-Go | Details
2. Thanksgiving Turkey To-Go – Boulevard Kitchen & Oyster Bar
Boulevard’s package reads more like a restaurant dinner than a kit.
You get brined, sage-roasted breast and slow-roasted legs, Madeira giblet gravy, brioche-apple-chestnut stuffing and butternut squash soup to start.
Chef Kenta’s caramel apple pie is the closer.
Choose cold to reheat at home or pick it up hot, sized for four or eight, with a whole-turkey option for 8 to 10.
Orders run until October 7 or until they sell out, whichever comes first.
Price: Listed by package on Tock; prices include a 15% service charge
Order by: October 7, or while quantities last
Pickup: October 10 or 11, noon to 5 pm time slots
Address: 845 Burrard Street, Vancouver
Order: Reserve on Tock
3. Turkey On the Fly – Globe@YVR, Fairmont Vancouver Airport
Live near the airport, or flying in for the long weekend? Globe’s kit has one of the roomier pickup windows, three days in Richmond.
It’s slow-roasted Fraser Valley turkey with sage gravy, whipped Yukon Golds, maple Brussels sprouts and orange-braised carrots.
You choose pumpkin or pecan pie for dessert.
Stuffing, cranberry relish, and rolls with butter are in the box too.
The two-person size is honestly handy if it’s a small year.
Price: $129 (serves 2), $269 (serves 4 to 5) or $469 (serves 8 to 10), plus a 3% service fee; full prepayment
Order by: October 8 at 10 am
Pickup: October 10 to 12
Address: 3111 Grant McConachie Way, Richmond
Order: Turkey On the Fly
4. Thanksgiving Dinner – Meinhardt Fine Foods
This is the budget-friendly pick for a small table.
Meinhardt’s dinner starts with pumpkin bisque and moves on to herb-butter-basted turkey breast, yam and sweet potato casserole, cranberry bread stuffing and glazed carrots.
It’s packed cold for you to reheat, with pumpkin pie included.
Vegetarians can add butternut squash lasagna by the portion.
The shop says it’s sold out in past years, so don’t leave it to the last minute.
Price: $69.99 (serves 2), $119.99 (serves 4) or $169.99 (serves 6); butternut squash lasagna $5.99 per portion
Order by: October 8 at 3 pm, or while quantities last
Pickup: South Granville store only
Address: 3002 Granville Street, Vancouver
Order: Thanksgiving menu
5. Thanksgiving Takeout Package and Brunch Buffet – Glowbal
Glowbal is only making 100 take-home packages, so this one’s a race.
The box generously feeds four: cinnamon rolls, fall harvest salad, boneless turkey breast and leg, sage brown-butter stuffing and gruyère potato gratin.
There’s a berry butter tart and pumpkin pie for dessert.
Rather eat out? The Sunday brunch buffet brings chilled seafood, omelette and carving stations, eggs Benedict and turkey.
It’s the only menu running that day, and seatings are capped at two hours.
Take-home: $145 (serves 4); pre-order by October 8; pickup October 11, 11 am to 5 pm
Brunch: $95 adults, $35 kids 12 and under, plus tax and gratuity; October 11; no refunds after October 5
Address: 590 West Georgia Street, Vancouver
Order: Takeout package | Brunch buffet
6. Thanksgiving Dinner at Home – Coast
Feeding eight without the stress? Coast’s kit puts a whole slow-roasted turkey at the centre.
Around it, you get crispy Brussels sprouts, focaccia stuffing, roasted root vegetables, Yukon Gold mash, gravy and cranberry sauce.
Pumpkin pie with vanilla Chantilly finishes it off.
Per guest, it’s one of the better deals for a big table.
Heads up: October 11 pickup was already full on October 4, so plan on Monday.
Price: $295 (serves about 8)
Order by: October 8
Pickup: October 11 or 12, 11 am to 4 pm (October 12 only, as of October 4)
Address: 1054 Alberni Street, Vancouver
Order: Pre-order on SevenRooms
7. Turkey Takeout – H Tasting Lounge, Westin Bayshore
Big family, small kitchen? H Tasting Lounge’s full spread feeds 8 to 10, starting with mushroom bisque.
The herb-marinated whole turkey comes with apricot and sage brioche stuffing, maple-glazed root vegetables, Brussels sprouts and rosemary brioche rolls.
A pumpkin butterscotch tart is the sweet finish.
Gravy and cranberry sauce come with it, so there’s no last-minute grocery run.
For smaller groups, the individual Carvery to Go dinners make more sense.
Price: $409 (serves 8 to 10); Carvery to Go $60 per person (minimum 2, maximum 6)
Pickup: October 11, 1 to 6 pm
Address: 1601 Bayshore Drive, Vancouver
Order: Reserve pickup | Details
8. Thanksgiving To-Go and Dine-In – Honey Salt, Parq Vancouver
Honey Salt does Thanksgiving two ways this year.
The to-go family dinner centres on herb-roasted Rossdown Farms turkey with sourdough stuffing, grilled broccolini, maple carrots and a Brussels sprouts and kale salad.
A 10-inch pumpkin pie comes with it, and truffle mac and cheese is a worthy add-on.
Dining in? It’s a family-style turkey dinner for the table, with skillet cornbread to start and pumpkin pie to finish.
You can even grab a whole pie to take home.
Take-home: $425 plus tax (serves 6 to 8); pickup October 10 to 12, noon to 5 pm; order by email at hsbookings@parqvancouver.com or call 778-370-8200
Dine-in: $48 per person, plus $30 for wine pairings; October 10 to 12, dinner
Address: 39 Smithe Street, Vancouver
Order: Book dine-in on OpenTable | Details
9. Turkey To-Go – Railtown Catering
Railtown is on its fourteenth year of turkey to-go, and it shows in the logistics.
The turkey comes pre-carved, so nobody’s fighting over the knife.
Sides include apricot-chestnut brioche stuffing, maple-glazed sweet potatoes, Brussels sprouts with almonds, giblet gravy, salad and rolls, plus pumpkin pie.
Pick it up cold to reheat, or pay a bit more to take it home hot on Sunday or Monday.
Price: $325 (serves 5 to 6) or $475 (serves 10 to 12); hot pickup add $50
Pickup: October 10 (cold only); October 11 and 12 (cold, or hot from 3 to 5 pm)
Address: #300 – 395 Railway Street, Vancouver
Order: Turkey To-Go packages
10. Thanksgiving Meal Kit and Family Dinner – The Belgard Kitchen
Belgard does turkey two ways: a stuffed, rolled breast and confit legs.
The sides are the fun part, with rosemary and goat cheese bread pudding, and Brussels sprouts tossed with pancetta, caramelized apples and hazelnuts.
Basque cheesecake with pumpkin caramel wraps it up.
Get it as a kit for Sunday, or sit down for the family-style version in the Railtown dining room on Monday night.
Same price either way, which makes this an easy call.
Meal kit: $50 per person; pickup October 11, 10 am to 3 pm
Family dinner: $50 per person, plus drinks, tax and gratuity; October 12, 5 to 9 pm; groups of 5 or more book by email or phone
Address: 55 Dunlevy Avenue, Vancouver
Order: Meal kit | Book the dinner
11. Three-Course Thanksgiving Menu – Provence Marinaside
Provence is running its Thanksgiving menu for almost a week, which is great news if your family can’t agree on a night.
It’s a three-course, tradition-inspired dinner on the Yaletown waterfront.
Six nights of availability means you can do Thanksgiving dinner midweek and keep the long weekend for family stuff.
The restaurant hasn’t released the dishes yet, so call ahead if you’ve got picky eaters.
Price: $69 per person
Available: October 7 to 12
Address: 1177 Marinaside Crescent, Vancouver
Reserve: Online or call 604-681-4144
12. Thanksgiving Menu – P2B Restaurant & Bar
P2B gets the longest run on this list, starting the Monday before.
The three-course menu opens with squash and apple bisque or pear and burrata.
Then it’s turkey roulade with sage-cranberry stuffing and garlic potato purée, or a squash and wild mushroom Wellington for the non-meat eaters.
Basque cheesecake or apple-cranberry crumble caps it off.
For the price, this is honestly one of the stronger three-course deals around.
Price: $55 per person for three courses; wine pairing add $29; à la carte also available
Available: October 5 to 12
Address: Pinnacle Hotel Harbourfront, 1133 West Hastings Street, Vancouver
Reserve: P2B Thanksgiving
13. Thanksgiving Dinner – The Lobby Restaurant + Lounge
The Lobby gives North Shore folks a reason to skip the bridge.
Start with brown butter lobster and corn bisque, beef carpaccio or a butternut squash salad.
The slow-roasted Fraser Valley turkey comes with roast apple and sage stuffing, and there’s halibut, prime rib or roast eggplant if someone’s over turkey.
Pumpkin mascarpone tart rounds it out.
Service starts at 4 pm, so an early dinner with the grandparents works, and wine is by the glass.
Price: $60 per person
Available: October 9 to 12, from 4 pm
Address: Pinnacle Hotel at the Pier, 138 Victory Ship Way, North Vancouver
Reserve: The Lobby Thanksgiving
14. Thanksgiving Set Menu – Top of Vancouver Revolving Restaurant
This is the splurge pick, and the view does a lot of the work.
After bread service, choose butternut squash soup or burrata with hot honey.
The main is roasted turkey with cranberry-apricot herb stuffing, creamed corn, mashed potatoes and gravy.
Add the pumpkin white chocolate cheesecake if you’re going all in.
Heads up: it’s one set menu per person, with no substitutions.
Price: $99 per person, plus tax and gratuity; cheesecake add $15
Available: October 9 to 12
Address: 555 West Hastings Street, Vancouver
Reserve: Top of Vancouver
15. Italian Thanksgiving Features – Tutto Restaurant & Bar
Want turkey without the full set menu? Tutto’s doing it à la carte with an Italian accent.
The turkey roulade is wrapped with bacon, sage and chestnuts and served with broccolini.
Bring a date for the turkey and lamb platter for two.
Sides are Brussels sprouts with pancetta or seasonal vegetables.
Pumpkin cannoli is a fun swap for pie.
It’s a good move when only half the table wants the full holiday thing.
Price: Turkey roulade $45; turkey and lamb platter for two $95; pumpkin cannoli $14; sides $14
Available: October 10 to 12, from 4 pm
Address: 901 Homer Street, Vancouver
Reserve: Book on OpenTable
16. Thanksgiving Brunch – Botanist, Fairmont Pacific Rim
Brunch people, this one’s yours.
Botanist runs a three-course Thanksgiving brunch with a seasonal carvery and brunch favourites, plus a welcome drink.
A DJ spins vinyl the whole time, which makes it feel more like a party than a family obligation.
It runs all three days of the long weekend, with seatings from 11:30 am, so you can still make it to family dinner.
It’s prepaid when you book.
Price: $96 per person, plus tax and gratuity
Available: October 10 to 12, seatings 11:30 am to 1:30 pm
Address: 1038 Canada Place, Vancouver
Reserve: Botanist menus
17. Thanksgiving Brunch and Dinner – ARC, Fairmont Waterfront
ARC covers both ends of the long weekend.
Monday brunch is bottomless and features a turkey skillet.
Dinner is three courses: BC forest mushroom bisque, a Rossdown turkey breast and thigh roulade, and pumpkin tart brûlée.
There’s a vegan cauliflower panisse for plant-based guests, and kids five and under eat dinner free.
Brunch is Monday only, and dinner needs a reservation, so don’t plan on walking in.
Brunch: $99 adults, $47 kids 6 to 12; October 12, 11:30 am to 2 pm (last seating 1 pm)
Dinner: $82 adults, $40 kids 6 to 12, 5 and under free; October 11 and 12, 5:30 to 10 pm; reservations required
Address: 900 Canada Place, Vancouver
Reserve: Brunch | Dinner
18. Three-Course Thanksgiving Dinner – Cloudstreet, Hyatt Regency Vancouver
Cloudstreet’s menu has a little more edge than most.
Butternut squash soup or a baby kale and arugula salad kicks things off.
The turkey breast comes with garlic pommes purée and a chanterelle and chorizo stuffing.
If someone at the table won’t do turkey, there’s BC steelhead with tiger prawns.
Finish with sticky toffee pudding or pumpkin panna cotta.
Price: $75 per person
Available: October 11 and 12, 5 to 9:30 pm
Address: Hyatt Regency Vancouver, 655 Burrard Street, Vancouver
Reserve: Book on OpenTable or call 604-639-4770
19. Thanksgiving Turkey Feature – PIER 7
Just want a turkey plate and a view of the water? PIER 7 keeps it simple with a rolled and stuffed turkey breast on the menu for two nights.
It’s an easy pick when the group just wants turkey and nobody wants a set menu.
There are Burrowing Owl wine features too, so pair a glass and you’ve got yourself a low-key holiday dinner.
Price: $37
Available: October 11 and 12, from 5 pm
Address: 25 Wallace Mews, North Vancouver
Reserve: PIER 7 Thanksgiving
20. Oven Roasted Turkey Dinner – Seasons in the Park, The Teahouse, Cardero’s and The Sandbar
These four sister restaurants are all serving a $40 turkey plate both nights, so pick the view you like best.
Seasons and The Teahouse lean into the park setting, Cardero’s sits right on Coal Harbour, and The Sandbar puts you on Granville Island.
The sides change a little at each spot, from maple-glazed yams at The Teahouse to honey-glazed carrots at Seasons and The Sandbar.
Start with soup or a salad and finish with a pumpkin dessert, all ordered à la carte.
The regular menus run on both nights too.
Heads up: Seasons had no online dinner tables left for October 11, and Cardero’s was tight for October 11, as of October 4.
Price: Turkey $40 at all four; soups and salads $13.50 to $15; pumpkin desserts $14.50
Available: October 11 and 12, dinner
Address: Seasons, Queen Elizabeth Park (West 33rd Avenue at Cambie Street); The Teahouse, Ferguson Point, Stanley Park; Cardero’s, 1583 Coal Harbour Quay; The Sandbar, 1535 Johnston Street, Creekhouse #102, Granville Island
Reserve: Seasons | The Teahouse | Cardero’s | The Sandbar
Instagram: Seasons | The Teahouse | Cardero’s | The Sandbar
21. Family-Style Thanksgiving Feast – Violeté
Violeté’s family-style feast is the one we’d book for friendsgiving.
It kicks off with house sourdough and carbonara butter, jamón croquetas, and carrot with marigold.
The main event is roasted poussin with stuffing, purple potatoes with bagna cauda, and seasonal vegetables, then pumpkin tart.
Ask for the vegetarian option when you book.
Drinks are à la carte, and it’s evening service only.
Price: $75 per person; drinks extra
Available: October 11 and 12, evening service
Address: 1380 Commercial Drive, Vancouver
Reserve: Violeté Thanksgiving
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