The Rooftop’s Thanksgiving turkey
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The holiday season is almost here, and plenty of Angelenos would rather skip the stress of cooking for a crowd. Fortunately, Los Angeles has no shortage of elevated Thanksgiving dining options. Here are some of the top picks this year, with standout options for both dine-in and takeout.
Take-Out
Don’t want to leave the house on Thanksgiving? Here are some standout takeaway options.
Majordomo Thanksgiving feasts
MajordomoMajordomo
David Chang’s Korean fusion spot in Chinatown is part of the Momofuku empire and led by executive chef James Bailey. Signature standouts at Majordomo include the macaroni & chickpea and the duck confit crispy rice, and the restaurant is known for its large format dishes like whole plate short rib and smoked half bo ssäm.
For Thanksgiving, you can pre-order their iconic bo ssäm, the pillowy soft pork shoulder with brown sugar toasted chili glaze. The whole smoked $475 feast serves 8 to 12. Sides include Bibb lettuce, kimchi, escabeche, grilled bok choy, crispy potatoes, candied winter squash and one dozen bing buns with honey butter and honey pie. A smoked prime rib feast is also available for $625.
Lawry’s
The iconic prime rib institution on La Cienega in West Hollywood is offering a roasted turkey breast dinner for takeout. It includes Lawry’s salad with vintage dressing on the side, creamed spinach, creamed corn, mashed potatoes, turkey gravy, stuffing, cranberry sauce and sourdough bread. Forty-eight hours notice is required, Turkey breasts and holiday sides are also available a la carte.\
Seafood feast
Connie and Ted’sConnie & Ted’s
West Hollywood’s beloved New England style seafood spot is offering both an a la carte Thanksgiving menu and a prix fixe option for up to four people ($325). The prix fixe menu includes one pound of shrimp, house smoked fish dip, market salad, dinner rolls, two and a half pounds of chilled lobster in shell and two rock crabs in shell. Guests can choose Dutch apple crumb pie or pumpkin pie.
Highlights from the a la carte menu include a half pound of wild shrimp, house smoked fish dip ($14) and a chilled seafood platter. Desserts include Dutch apple crumb pie, pumpkin pie and chocolate whoopie pies with vanilla buttercream filling.
Fig’s Turkey To-Go
Fairmont Miramar Hotel & Bungalows FIG Restaurant
The Fairmont Miramar Hotel & Bungalows’ farm-to-table restaurant in Santa Monica is offering a Turkey To-Go takeout option for $475, serving up to eight people. The menu includes a whole slow-roasted free range turkey, mashed potatoes with gravy, yams with crème fraîche, brussel sprouts, chestnut stuffing with apples, roasted carrots and an autumn harvest salad. Guests can choose from a pumpkin pie or apple pie.
Thanksgiving Turkey To-Go
The Maybourne Beverly Hills The Maybourne Beverly Hills
The two Michelin Key property Maybourne Beverly Hills is offering a Turkey To-Go package for four to eight people that includes Parker House rolls and appetizers, slow-roasted heirloom turkey with gourmet sides: brussels sprouts, heirloom carrots and roasted pee wee potatoes. Pumpkin pie and Dutch caramel apple pie are also included.
Also available is the interactive “Smashing Pumpkins” dessert to-go from executive pastry chef Brooke Martin. Made from premium chocolate, it comes with a small wooden mallet for cracking open the chocolate shell to reveal pecan pie praline inside. The property also has a Thanksgiving prix fixe dining-in experience.
The Belvedere
The Peninsula Beverly Hills will celebrate the holiday season with performances by ballerinas from Westside Ballet and live jazz and soul in The Living Room. The Belvedere is offering a $700++ Thanksgiving menu serving four people, featuring butternut squash bisque with house breads, roasted winter squash, brussels sprout salad and herb roasted organic sliced turkey with traditional fixings including mashed potato, green beans, gravy, cranberry sauce and chestnut stuffing. For dessert, the menu ends with traditional apple pie.
Thankgiving turkey
KellyBronzeKellyBronze
The UK luxury turkey brand, dubbed the “Rolls-Royce” of turkeys, is loved for its signature flavor, texture and quality. For three generations, the Kelly family has raised turkeys that cook in half the time of most grocery store birds. KellyBronze turkeys are free-range and dry-aged, which intensifies flavor and tenderness. On average, an 8 to 20 pound KellyBronze cooks in about 1.5 to 2.5 hours. KellyBronze turkeys are priced from $148 to $415 ranging from 10 to 28 pounds.
The Gourmandise School
The Gourmandise School in Santa Monica is teaching a live virtual baking class, The Pie Class: Thanksgiving Pies, on Monday, November 24, 2025, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. PST with pastry chef Robyn Collins. Participants will bake along in real time and learn how to make an all-butter flaky pie crust, apple pie and pumpkin pie. Students will receive an ingredient list, recipes, an equipment checklist and step-by-step guidance suitable for bakers of all levels, and can assemble and freeze their pies ahead of Thanksgiving Day.The virtual class is $45 per household The school is also offering in-person Bake & Take Thanksgiving Pie classes on November 8 and November 26.
King’s Hawaiian Bakery
The beloved soft and sweet Hawaiian roll brand has a restaurant in Torrance, and it will offer its annual Mahalosgiving Family Meal for $180. The meal includes oven-roasted turkey with gravy, guava ham, Hawaiian mashed potatoes, Portuguese sausage stuffing,steamed rice, roasted vegetable medley, cranberry sauce, gravy and King’s Hawaiian dinner rolls, with pumpkin pie for dessert. Guests who prefer to dine in can reserve a spot at the King’s Hawaiian Bakery Thanksgiving buffet.
Dine In
Looking to have an elevated dining experience out on Thanksgiving? Here are some of the city’s best options.
Thanksgiving menu
San LaurelSan Laurel
José Andrés Group’s DTLA restaurant at the Conrad Los Angeles will serve a special family-style Thanksgiving feast on November 27, priced at $160 per person. Highlights include San Laurel’s signature coca idiazábal (an olive oil bread with membrillo and idiazábal cheese), lubina with Japanese turnips, apple and sweet potato and Mary’s Farm turkey with grilled artichokes, ending with a modern take on pumpkin pie.
L’antica Pizzeria da Michele pizza oven
@2019 Wonho LeeL’Antica Pizzeria da Michele
The world-famous Neapolitan pizzeria in Hollywood is offering a traditional Thanksgiving prix fixe menu for $65 per person, with a minimum of four guests. The menu includes creamy pumpkin soup and Caesar salad, followed by a choice of turkey with sausage stuffing or whole chicken. Additional dishes include lasagna bolognese, mashed sweet potato, garlic green beans, crispy brussels sprouts and roasted potatoes with mushrooms. For dessert, guests can choose pecan pie, pumpkin pie or cookies.
Thanksgiving sandwich
Andaz HollywoodRiot House Restaurant
The legendary Andaz West Hollywood is the first high-rise hotel on the Sunset Strip, once nicknamed the “Riot House” by rock icons like the Rolling Stones and The Who, has a Friendsgiving special at its Riot House restaurant. Throughout Thanksgiving week, guests can order a Thanksgiving sandwich featuring oven-roasted turkey with stuffing, cranberry sauce and comes with duck fat potato wedges. A “Barks”giving plate is also available for dogs, featuring Cornish hen, cranberry, seasonal vegetables and potato mash.
The Rooftop at Waldorf Astoria Beverly Hills Thanksgiving spread
David Medill ProductionsThe Rooftop
Twelve stories high with sweeping Hollywood Hills views, The Rooftop at Waldorf Astoria Beverly Hills will offer à la carte options from executive chef Peleg Miron. Expect roasted kabocha pumpkin soup, Thanksgiving roasted turkey with truffle chestnut stuffing, cranberry sauce and mashed potato, and pecan pie with vanilla ice cream.
Holiday exterior
Beverly Wilshire, A Four Seasons HotelTHE Blvd
Beverly Hills transforms into a holiday wonderland, an ideal backdrop for seasonal photos, and THE Blvd at Beverly Wilshire, A Four Seasons Hotel will serve a three-course prix fixe Thanksgiving menu priced at $175 per adult. Guests can choose dishes such as red curry squash velouté, pressed chicken, maple spiced glazed Diestel turkey, THE Blvd Wellington, butternut squash, Scottish salmon. Dessert options include apple pie or pecan crumble.
The Polo Lounge
At The Polo Lounge at The Beverly Hills Hotel on Sunset Boulevard, Thanksgiving brunch is an elegant affair. Guests can start with choices like baked brie en croûte, butternut squash soup, a chilled seafood trio or asian pear and gorgonzola salad before moving into entrées such as free range heritage turkey, cabernet-braised Creekstone Farms short rib, Alaskan king crab risotto, or porcini mushroom pappardelle. The highlight may be the grand dessert buffet includes seasonal pies, baked cookies a hand-dipped brioche donut bar, holiday cakes and warm spiced apple cider.
Thanksgiving at Costa Covo Osteria
L’Ermitage Beverly Hills.L’Ermitage Beverly Hills
At L’Ermitage Beverly Hills, the Mediterranean-inspired restaurant Costa Covo will serve a three-course Thanksgiving menu for $110 per person. Standout dishes include turkey roulade with chestnut risotto and Parisian gnocchi with chanterelle mushrooms, ending with a Feast of Sweets for dessert. Guests can pair the meal with free-flowing Veuve Clicquot or Dom Pérignon.
Fairmont Century Plaza’s Lumière Thanksgiving dinner
Brett O’BrienLumière
At Fairmont Century Plaza in Century City, the sophisticated Lumière has a Thanksgiving prix fixe dinner featuring seasonal soup or salad, followed by herb-roasted turkey breast roulade with stuffing, creamy pomme purée, charred long beans, turkey gravy and cranberry sauce, and ending with a choice of pumpkin crème caramel or Bahibe-spiced shortbread.
Friendsgiving suite
Sandbourne Santa MonicaSandbourne Santa Monica
Sandbourne Santa Monica is offering a new Friendsgiving Suite Package that comes with a Friendsgiving menu and signature cocktails with ocean views. The menu features brisket, roasted kabocha pumpkin, honeycrisp apple and feta salad and the Marelle mac, plus salted caramel pumpkin pie. The suite package accommodates up to four guests with the option to add two additional guests.
Shoreside Restaurant & Bar
At the beachfront Shore Hotel in Santa Monica, Shoreside Restaurant & Bar will serve a traditional Thanksgiving feast by executive chef Todd Bohak with roasted turkey with pan gravy and housemade cranberry sauce, stuffing, whipped potatoes, sautéed green beans, roasted acorn squash soup and pumpkin pie. The regular Shoreside menu will also be available.
1 Pico Thanksgiving
Shutters on the BeachShutters on the Beach
At Shutters on the Beach in Santa Monica, 1 Pico will serve a three-course Thanksgiving prix fixe for $125 per person, blending upscale California fare with Southern Italy flavors and oceanfront views. Appetizers include citrus salad and burrata with bresaola, followed by entrées such as prime beef filet with butternut squash puree or heritage turkey. Dessert options include pumpkin pie, coconut panna cotta and a maple pecan tart.
City Cruises
City Cruises will offer Thanksgiving brunch cruises in Newport Beach, Long Beach and Marina del Rey, featuring a buffet, unlimited mimosas and harbor views from a yacht. Menu highlights include a Scottish smoked salmon display, birria style chicken, sesame glazed Atlantic salmon and hand carved tri tip steak. Guests can also expect breakfast classics like French toast, scrambled eggs and breakfast potatoes, plus a signature dessert station.
Al-fresco dining
The GarlandThe Front Yard
In North Hollywood, The Garland’s signature restaurant The Front Yard will offer a buffet-style Thanksgiving feast served indoors or al fresco. Guests can expect options such as butternut squash soup, peppercorn demi filet of beef chimichurri and roasted turkey. Desserts include homemade pumpkin pie, apple and berry pie, chocolate mousse tarts and more. The buffet is priced at $89 per adult.
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