Everything You Need To Know About Celebrating Thanksgiving in New York City

Hovering 60 floors above Manhattan is Manhatta, Danny Meyer’s impressive upscale French restaurant. For $120 per person, delight in a three-course prix-fixe menu dotted with dishes like chestnut soup with black truffles and turkey roulade with whipped potatoes and braised greens. Slices of specialty pies will also be available.

For an Indian twist on traditional Thanksgiving, Indian Accent in Midtown West boasts a $95 menu featuring roast turkey pinwheels rolled with sage, paneer and chili tomato, and kulcha stuffed with pumpkin and cranberry.

Eighty-five dollars will get you four courses at Houseman, a cozy American restaurant in SoHo. You’ll find dishes flecked with all your favorite November staples, like fall lettuces sprinkled with ham, apples, squash and yogurt, along with turkey legs slick with walnut-date sauce, flanked by cranberry sauce and gravy. Round out the meal with a slice of apple and parsnip pie.

Housed along Columbus Circle, Bluebird London will boast unparalleled views of the Thanksgiving parade. As balloons float past Central Park, the restaurant will feature a Thanksgiving brunch buffet from 9am to noon, peppered with dishes like beef wellington, glazed root vegetables, pumpkin pie and raspberry and rhubarb streusel.

Share the labors of a hot pot on the Lower East Side, where groups will dip a host of meats, vegetables and fall staples like hunks of pumpkin and taro into a pumpkin seafood broth, crafting a multi-layered soup to be enjoyed at the end of the meal. Polish it all off with a complimentary scoop of Il Laboratorio del Gelato’s pumpkin gelato.

Head here for the Brits’ take on Thanksgiving. There’s halibut painted with meyer lemon confit and brown-butter sauce, a New York strip steak flush with crispy thick-cut fries and a roasted turkey with all the trimmings: cornbread stuffing, cranberry sauce, caramelized brussels sprouts, gravy and potato puree.

Perched at the tip of McCarren Park, Sauvage offers a Thanksgiving menu that leans French, featuring a frisée and chicory salad, chestnut cavatelli with delicata squash, short ribs with creamed spinach and potato confit and chocolate mousse. The three-course prix-fixe menu rings in at $68.

Gowanus’s haven for pies exists thanks to two sisters, whose pie shop cranks out a host of treats for Thanksgiving: a latticed salted-caramel apple pie, a bittersweet chocolate pecan pie, a brown-butter pumpkin pie and the famed salty honey pie, its golden-brown surface showered with flaky salt. You can place orders here.

With nearly 20 pies to choose from for Thanksgiving, Petee’s customers face a difficult conundrum. You can stay classic with pumpkin or brown-butter honey pecan, or go the untraditional route with coconut custard or lemon chess. Either way, you’ll be scraping any last dregs out of the pan. Order yours here.

This Upper East Side bakery is a haven for cakes and pies. There are the usual pumpkin, pecan and chocolate pies, along with carrot cake streaked with buttercream carrots and a pumpkin harvest cake piped with apricot-pumpkin cream cheese frosting. Check out the special menu here.

For Thanksgiving, the wizards at Morgenstern’s esteemed downtown parlor are ditching ice cream in favor of pie dough, shrouding cinnamon and apples with pork-lard crust and piling salted-caramel custard pie into a pretzel base. Purchase one (or several) here.

At this Greenwich Village bakery, stock up on desserts other than the ubiquitous pie: soft rounds of banana bread, crisp chocolate sable cookies, confectioners’-sugar-kissed brownies, light and fluffy cheesecake and Mah Ze Dahr bars (an oatmeal brown-sugar cookie base piled with toasted pecans, chocolate bits and brown-butter salted caramel). See the bakery’s samplings here.

For those with a hankering for something other than pie, head to Runner and Stone for a spiced pecan flourless chocolate tart and a dried-plum-and-walnut linzer tart. You’d be remiss not to snag a loaf of the cheddar stout bread for something on the savory side, or a cranberry-pecan levain bread. See the line-up here.