Best Chicago Restaurants for Thanksgiving Day Take Out

What’s a culinary challenged Chicagoan to do when the anticipations for Thanksgiving Day Dinner are high and no one in the family wants to dine out? How is an individual, who is still learning to cook a perfect pot of rice, supposed to prepare such a momentous meal as Thanksgiving Day dinner? This year, a few of Chicago’s best restaurant are averting dinner disaster, offering their culinary prowess for Thanksgiving Day meals to-go.

Aria Chicago, the Fairmont Hotel’s resident restaurant is purveying its professionally home cooked Thanksgiving Day dinner for $225. An extensive menu feeds eight to 10 guests. This covers the turkey, cranberry relish, butternut squash bisque, and other traditional sides dishes. Customers choose between a whole turkey ($115) or a pre-sliced one for an extra $35.  There’s also the weighty decision between three-dessert options: pumpkin cheesecake, apple-cranberry cobbler, or chocolate pecan pie. Orders must be made by Tuesday November 22nd by noon.  Please visit AriaChicago.com for additional details. 

Vegetarians face the dilemma of preparing delectable fare without all the arduous  chopping, sautéing and timing involved to make an amazing veggie Thanksgiving Day dinner. Taking out a delectable vegetarian Thanksgiving Day dinner does not get any easier than The Chicago Diner (aka The VeggieDiner) comes in.  Here, this Michelin recommended eatery, considered by many vegans as Chicago’s best restaurants
for delectable vegetarian victuals in Lakeview presents some bountiful take out options.

Thanksgiving Day Dinner in Chicago presents 3 options for take out

Starting on the Chicago Diner website, VeggieDiner.com, customers have the ability to place orders online. An a la carte entrée is $10.99 with choices including the option of veggie turkey with country gravy, beefy Wellington with Madeira shallot sauce or pumpkin ravioli with butternut squash. Side dishes of green beans amadine, stuffing, cranberry relish, cornbread and sweet potatoes serve two to four people, costing $3- $6, per side. A dinner meal where, there’s a choice of an entrée and four sides is only $19.99.  (Please visit VeggieDiner.com for additional details). 

First, restaurateur and chef Carlos Gaytan of Mexique Chicago provides novice cooks and epicurean spectators a concise culinary study on the fine art of preparing Thanksgiving Day dinner. The hands-on training takes place on November 14 and 21, 2011 in the confines of this best Chicago restaurant for French-influenced Latin cuisine. The cooking lesson involves sampling and savoring the final product, paired to various vintages ($75 per person).

Then Mr. Gaytan is accepting tall orders, from those, who want to deviate from serving the traditional turkey on Thanksgiving. The exquisite meal includes a prix fixe menu of Chef Gaytan’s signature preparations ($30/per person). Standouts include the butternut squash soup, stuffed pork loin, pan seared sea bass, and  more. Please click Thanksgiving Day dinner menu to review the menu. As long as orders are made by November 22nd, Chef Gaytan will make all the preparations.  (Visit MexiqueChicago.com for more details).

Where will you be grazing this Thanksgiving Day? Will you try to make a reservation at one of the few Chicago best restaurants opened for Thanksgiving Day Dinner?