restaurants for thanksgiving

[Anonymous]

My parents are coming in to town for thanksgiving - I'm due with baby next week, so we won't be cooking nor do we have room right now for a formal dinner even if my mom cooked it. We've decided to try to go out to dinner with baby for Thanksgiving.

Anyone have recommendations for good thanksgiving dinner at a restaurant? We live in DC and would prefer to stay in DC. We were thinking Founding Farmers, but the more options I can propose the better. My husband doesn't eat any meat, either.

Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday and I'm sad to not have home cooked (AKA mom cooked) food, but it's just not possible this year.

Thanks in advance for any recommendations!

[Anonymous]

The Ritz Carlton in Tyson's has a great buffet, I wonder if the ritz in Georgetown or West End has something similar. I wound call and ask.

[Anonymous]

I'm in the exact same boat OP. I want to do Blue duck Tavern, kids eat free. But DH is balking b/c it's not a buffet or traditional Thanksgiving offerings. And that it's probably too fancy for a 4 and 1 yr old.

But they are open and having specials.

[Anonymous]

Corduroy.

[Anonymous]

Old Ebbitt. Easy. Uncomplicated. Affordable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Corduroy.

Says no high chairs available, grrrr.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Old Ebbitt. Easy. Uncomplicated. Affordable.

We've done both Old Ebbit and Oval Room. Old Ebbit served all the traditional foods for a reasonable price - a hit with my Midwestern parents.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Corduroy.

Says no high chairs available, grrrr.

The baby will only be a month old. She/he does not need one. Or, get a portable one and bring your own.

[Anonymous]

OP, just throwing this out here.

One year, we were unable to travel home for Thanksgiving.

That home cooked turkey dinner is my favorite meal of the year, and I was very disappointed that we weren't going to have that traditional, formal meal.

We decided to do the meal anyway, just us and our young kid. We got a smaller turkey, smaller sides (but all the same ones we love), pie, basically the works.

We did all the traditional things, watching the parade and football, putting in Christmas music, stayed in pjs all day, and ate on paper plates. It was the best Thanksgiving ever. No fuss, good food, and we still got the leftovers.

We liked it so much we do "Thanksgiving in Our Sweats" every year. If we go somewhere for a formal dinner, we do it the day after Thanksgiving. It is so nice to have all of the fun of Thanksgiving dinner with none of the expectations.

If your mom is willing to cook a small Thanksgiving, maybe a casual, non-formal dinner will work for you. You won't have to take your baby out. You can stay in your pjs. You can nurse when you want to nurse, nap when you want to nap. If you use paper plates, you won't have to do dishes AND you will still get the leftovers from the dinner.

[Anonymous]

Thanks, PP - we don't have room to have people eat in our home - our table has two chairs. The problem isn't the going out, the problem is the lack of space in our condo to even have my parents over and be able to eat. I do not want to eat on TV trays or with plates on our laps. I'm also not interested in spending Thanksgiving without my parents, which is the other alternative (I'm not going to cook, and my husband CANT cook even if he tried, I'd be putting out small fires, literally and figuratively!)

We actually made reservations for Rasika...just in case. I don't mind a buffet, but the whole "husband not eating meat" thing makes a restaurant with traditional offerings more difficult.

I'm still looking for options, though!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Old Ebbitt. Easy. Uncomplicated. Affordable.

We've done both Old Ebbit and Oval Room. Old Ebbit served all the traditional foods for a reasonable price - a hit with my Midwestern parents.

Old Ebbit isn't advertising for Thanksgiving. With such a hit or miss day, I would tend to think they'd be advertising a special by now and never presume that the customer will come. They have too much invested in labor and supply costs.

Was it an advertised event when you went?

http://www.ebbitt.com/calendar

I've been eyeing that new Salamander resort in Middleburg, but they don't appear to be doing anything.

I'm 21:24 btw, still looking beyond Blue Duck..

[Anonymous]

http://dc.about.com/od/restaurants/a/Thanksgivingdin.htm

Here's something that might help

[Anonymous]

OP here - I was looking at places like Ris and Founding Farmers just because they seem to be a little on the traditional side with a twist.

Founding Farmers has their menu up, but no vegetarian mains offered...and Ris isn't open.

Open Table has a list of places open. But it might be too early for the menu offerings?

[Anonymous]

Last year we did Chef Geoff's in Tyson's (just me, DH, and 2 month old) and it was very good. Don't know much about downtown but I'm pretty sure there are some sister restaurants in DC

[Anonymous]

Sorry, who cares that your husband doesn't eat meat on Thanksgiving?? What would he eat if your mom was cooking? She makes turkey right??

I wouldn't want to take a 6 week old out to a restaurant on Thanksgiving, personally. Will this be your first child? Some babies are very transportable that young but others have colic and/or are super fussy.