Let the Chefs Handle Thanksgiving This Year

Thanksgiving is right around the corner. Restaurants, markets, catering companies, and bakeries across Atlanta, a metropolitan area that occupies the traditional homelands of the Muscogee (Creek) and Cherokee peoples, are offering fully prepared holiday dinners, side dishes, bread, and pies for dessert to celebrate gathering together at home with loved ones.

Here’s a guide to ordering the festive fare with all the fixin’s from restaurants and bakeries around Atlanta.

Know of a restaurant or bakery not listed below offering Thanksgiving sides, desserts, or family feasts? Email [email protected] with details.

Castellucci Hospitality Group

Castellucci Hospitality Group

The restaurant group behind The Iberian Pig, Cooks & Soldiers, Mujo, and Sugo is offering a variety of Thanksgiving food options this year, including just the sides or a fully prepared turkey dinner feast. You can also add a wine bundle to the meal. Order here.

Southern Belle

Chef Joey Ward of Southern Bell and Georgia Boy is cooking up a “Side Hustle” where you can pick up everything but the turkey. You can order all sides for $189 or go a la carte, each feeding four people. Pick from sweet potato soufflé, mac and cheese, braised smoked collard greens, green bean casserole, dinner rolls, gravy, cranberry sauce, and a salted caramel pumpkin pecan pie. Order here.

Lucy’s Market

Lucy’s Market’s Thanksgiving menu is now available for pre-order. Their offerings include a whole smoked turkey, rosemary glazed carrots, herb stuffing, gravy, and more. A Thanksgiving hostess basket and a floral centerpiece are also available. You can place orders starting now through November 16. Order here.

Lazy Betty

It’s a pricey pie at $75, but when else can you score one to-go from a Michelin-starred restaurant? Lazy Betty is offering three 10-inch pies for pre-order here this Thanksgiving. Executive pastry chef Keely Moore is whipping up flavors, including cranberry and citrus, apple and bourbon, and dark chocolate and hazelnut. Orders will be available for pickup on Wednesday, November 27 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Daily Chew

Pre-orders for Thanksgiving dinner are now open at the Daily Chew. Pick from sliced turkey breast, sides of butternut squash soup, sourdough stuffing, market salad, sweet potato mash, and pecan pie. Daily Chew also caters pre- and post-Thanksgiving breakfast. Order online.

Taqueria del Sol

Why not go Mexican for Thanksgiving? Chef David Waller and the team at Sol Catering are whipping up enchilada casseroles, soups, sides, New Mexico-style chile gravy, and desserts for the holiday. Instead of turkey, they are offering spice-rubbed pork loin or bacon-wrapped meatloaf. All orders serve up to four guests and can be picked up between November 25th and 27th. Order here.

El Super Pan

Chef Hector Santiago and his team are offering a special Puerto Rican (Festin Boricua) holiday meal that feeds up to 12 people. One dinner package includes brined and whole-roasted turkey, yuca stuffing, green bean encebolladas, cranberry guava sauce, citrus gravy, and flan de calabaza. A variety of other dishes are also available. Order here.

Frazie’s Meat & Market

Frazie’s Meat & Market, a family-owned butcher shop and market, is offering sides made from scratch, including mac and cheese, green beans & feta, Frazie’s BBQ braised collard greens, cornbread stuffing, and pecan, apple, and pumpkin pies. The market will also have raw Amish turkeys and a limited supply of smoked turkey breasts. Order here or call 404-941-9171.

Purposeful Gourmet Foods

Chef Robert Gerstenecker, former executive chef at Four Seasons Hotel Atlanta, is cooking up a Thanksgiving feast to-go with all proceeds benefiting Meals On Wheels Atlanta. The menu includes brined roasted turkey, butter-whipped potatoes, mac and cheese, sourdough chestnut stuffing, and more. Orders must be placed online by Nov. 15 for pickup at Meals On Wheels Atlanta on Thanksgiving from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m.

Farmers and Fisherman

Order turkey, ham, goose, and duck for the holidays for home delivery. Make sure to peruse the From the Chefs and Procurement offerings, which includes baked goods. Order online for delivery.

La Madeleine

La Madeleine in East Cobb, Gwinnett, and the Perimeter is offering two holiday feast options. They include a choice of oven roasted turkey breast or sliced ham, mushroom sauce, cranberry apple stuffing, cranberry apple relish, cheesecakes, sourdough baguettes, and a choice of two sides. Order here.

Fox Bros. Bar-B-Q

The popular Atlanta barbecue restaurant offers its annual takeout Thanksgiving feasts again this year. Turkey and ham dinners include smoked meats, sweet potato casserole, mac and cheese, cornbread dressing, and a choice of Dutch apple or Maw Maw’s pecan pie for dessert. Order here.

JenChan’s

For their sixth year, JenChan’s is back with a Thanksgiving spread and pre-orders are open now. Order a whole 14 to 16-pounder turkey, holiday dim sum spreads, all the traditional fixings, and vegan meals from this Cabbagetown restaurant. Order here.

Kinship Butcher & Sundry

The Virginia-Highland butcher and sundry shop offers hams, raw turkeys, and dry-aged rib roast for the holidays. Order here.

Local Three

The Buckhead-based restaurant is taking pre-orders for Thanksgiving now. Choose from a la carte turkey and traditional Southern and holiday sides as well as full feasts for Thanksgiving this year. Order here.

Mission and Market

The Buckhead restaurant is offering Thanksgiving meals feeding up to four people with whole turkeys already broken down into pieces and sides like brioche and sausage stuffing, sweet potatoes, and green bean and asparagus casserole with pecan pie for dessert. Email [email protected] to order.

South City Kitchen

All locations of South City Kitchen are preparing a Thanksgiving takeout meal for two that includes buttermilk biscuits and corn muffins, salad, oven-roasted turkey, cornbread dressing, collards, and mashed potatoes. Order here.

Star Provisions Market and Cafe

Order a la carte Thanksgiving dishes to-go from the Ellsworth Industrial Boulevard market and cafe, including a turkey, sweet potato puree, sage and apple dressing, green beans, Brussels sprouts, and mac and cheese. There’s apple and pecan pie, and a pumpkin cheesecake with a ginger snap crust for dessert. Order here.

Crave Pie

If you’re in charge of bringing a Thanksgiving pie, Briana Carson, owner of Crave Pie Studio in historic downtown Duluth, has eight flavors ready to go for $33 each. Choose from pumpkin, apple, pecan, buttermilk, and chocolate chess, among others. Pre-order by November 20 here.

Sweet Auburn BBQ

The Poncey-Highland barbecue restaurant offers smoked turkeys and turkey feasts this year for Thanksgiving. Purchase just the smoked bird or a turkey with all the trimmings, including cornbread dressing, mac and cheese, jerk collards, and wok-fried green beans. Order here.

The Spotted Trotter

Put down a $50 deposit to reserve a turkey from this East Side Atlanta butcher shop. Then order all the Thanksgiving sides to pair with the bird for a full feast. Order online.

Tre Vele

The Sandy Springs Italian restaurant is offering a Thanksgiving feast feeding up to four people. The meal includes a mista salad, roasted sage rubbed turkey, four-cheese mac and cheese, broccoli casserole, focaccia Italian sausage stuffing, and pumpkin pie and tiramisu for dessert. Order here.

Wahoo Grill

The Decatur restaurant offers both a three-course Thanksgiving meal feeding eight to ten people as well as the option to purchase just traditional side dishes. Order here.

Wood’s Chapel BBQ

Order a la carte dishes, including a whole smoked turkey, or a full Thanksgiving feast for up to eight people from the Summerhill barbecue restaurant. Sides include cornbread stuffing, green bean casserole, sweet potato soufflé, and bourbon chocolate pecan, apple, or brown butter pumpkin pie for dessert. Order here.

Alon’s Bakery

Alon’s Bakery

The Atlanta bakery and market is offering a number of Thanksgiving turkey dinner options, side dishes, platters, breads, and desserts for takeout this year. Order here.

Souper Jenny

The a la carte Thanksgiving menu from Souper Jenny this year features everything but the turkey, so expect all the fixings for the holiday feast, including soups, traditional sides, and desserts. Order here.

Blue Hound Barbecue

Located in Dillard, Blue Hound Barbecue is offering to-go Thanksgiving turkeys, family meals, Southern-style sides, and desserts this year. The family package feed six to eight people and includes four pounds of sliced smoked turkey breast, cornbread dressing, cranberry sauce, gravy, rolls, and pie. Order here.