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Nov 20
2008

Tavern on the Green and Other Thanksgiving Take-out Options

Still figuring out what you're doing for Turkey Day next week? Don't want to cook but don't want to go out ro eat in a restaurant full of people you don't know? Enter the Thanksgiving take-out dinner. In order to milk as much out of the heavy-eating holiday as possible in a rough economy, restaurants are stepping up their take-out options. Even the city's highest-grossing restaurant, the Tavern on the Green, is getting in on the action.

Along with its regular holiday seatings, the Tavern, a restaurant celebrated for its decor, is offering a take-out feast at a remarkably low price point. For a dinner that includes pumpkin-and-chestnut bisque, roast turkey with quince, cornbread-and-sausage stuffing, roast yams, mashed potatoes, green beans, roast shallots, gravy, cranberry relish and an apple-cranberry-walnut crisp, to-go diners need only pay $60 for four people, $110 for eight and $150 for 12 people. That's just $15–$12.50 per person – an amazing bargain compared to the $105–$135 you would be charged to eat a similar dinner at the restaurant (to order visit tavernonthegreen.com or call 212-873-3200 ext. 295).

And Tavern isn't the only restaurant doing a take-out turkey dinner. Wildwood Barbecue in the Flatiron has lots of options to keep you and yours sated including a turkey on its own ($55 serves six–eight people), a turkey with a slew of standard fixings ($160 for six–eight people) and additional sides sold by the pound (call 212-533-2500 to place an order). And that's not all. As we mentioned previously, Hill Country is offering a whole pit-smoked turkey to go, Momofuku Ssäm Bar can provide you with an at-home bo ssäm bonanza and Supper has a hefty Thanksgiving dinner available to eat-in or to take out.

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