Thanksgiving Dinner

[Noelle1219]

looking for suggestions on where to have thanksgiving dinner. Preferably outside the actual parks. Maybe At one of the resorts. Thanks in advance

 

[Wendydagny]

We had thanksgiving at flying fish and they offered an upscale turkey meal along with the regular menu. They only had a seasonal dessert trio (something pumpkin, pecan, and cranberry iirc) available that night. It was really good!

 

[wdw4rfam]

http://www.wdwinfo.com/holidays/Thanksgiving.htm

This is the list of thanksgiving meals from last year. From what I've heard they stay close to the same. We are planning tusker house because we figured it would be the lowest crowds that day.

 

[itchin2go]

I know you said you were looking for something outside the parks, but we ate at Hollywood Brown Derby last Thanksgiving, and then saw Osborne Lights after. It was a nice night. They had some special Thanksgiving items in addition to the regular menu.

In looking at the Thanksgiving menus last year, I remember the Wave and Jiko sounded really good me.

These 2 threads from last year may help:

http://www.disboards.com/threads/2014-thanksgiving-menus-and-prices.3331787/

http://www.disboards.com/threads/thanksgiving-dinner-suggestions.3272062/

 

[Nancee74]

looking for suggestions on where to have thanksgiving dinner. Preferably outside the actual parks. Maybe At one of the resorts. Thanks in advance

FAVORITE
Liberty Tree Tavern (late afternoon) Best food ever.

 

[itchin2go]

FAVORITE
Liberty Tree Tavern (late afternoon) Best food ever.

I enjoyed our lunch at at LTT last trip (not ON Thanksgiving, but during that week), but I will point out that they have the "Thanksgiving" type menu all the time, not just on Thanksgiving Day.

There are LOTS of WDW restaurants that do special Thanksgiving menus. We wanted to take advantage of one of those AND eat at LTT, so we did LTT earlier in the week on one of our MK days. Obviously lots of people feel differently, but I didn't want to be anywhere near MK on Thanksgiving Day.

 

[Music City Mama]

I need to figure out what to do on Thanksgiving, as well. My parents are driving over and they won't have park tickets. We're staying at WL, so WCC or Trail's End at Ft. Wilderness would be a no-brainer, but I'm not sure if I want to spend that much money.

 

[tabistar]

We ate at Boma on Thanksgiving last year. They had most of their normal stuff, plus a few traditional Thanksgiving items (turkey, stuffing, etc). It was great!

 

[beck00]

I was thinking LTT, but then saw crowd predictions for MK that day. Now we are thinking we'll avoid MK that day and look elsewhere. Still trying to decide...

 

[Noelle1219]

Wow, thanks everyone for thier advice!

Everything I've read says to stay away from the parks that day, mostly Magic Kingdom.

 

[JanaDee]

MK will be a zoo and will LTT be back open by then?

 

[puffkin]

We got the special Thanksgiving to Go meal from Cracker Barrel last year (there is one really close to AK) and it was pretty cool. You ordered the day before, then pulled around back to pick it up. They had a tent sent up and you pulled up, they pulled your order together, you paid, and off you went. It was about $60 for the whole thing and it feeds about 6-8 people. We also added on a pumpkin streussel pie for another $8 I think. It was all really good. We spent the morning at MK (PACKED), swung by around 1 and picked up our meal. We ended up eating it around 4 back at the hotel because we weren't that hungry at 1. Then we did Cirque Du Soleil that night (there was a pretty good ticket special going on that week). It all worked out really well and was much cheaper than eating at a Disney restaurant.

By the way, we went back to MK Black Friday morning and it was DEAD. I have never seen it that empty, ever, and we go a lot. I remember other DIS'ers posting the same thing. It was night and day compared to Thanksgiving day.

 

[IncredibleboysMom]

We had Thanksgiving lunch at the Captains Grille at the Yacht Club last year. It was a spur of the moment change as we were planning to be in Epcot that day. OMG...my family still talks about it. It was considered brunch (we ate around 1pm), and was a buffet with many, many things including carved turkey.

 

[wdw4rfam]

I was thinking LTT, but then saw crowd predictions for MK that day. Now we are thinking we'll avoid MK that day and look elsewhere. Still trying to decide...

Same here. That's how we ended up with AK and tusker house. I saw that they have their usual items plus thanksgiving traditional items.

 

[beck00]

MK will be a zoo and will LTT be back open by then?

It is supposed to reopen Nov 19th. I only remember this for sure b/c that's our arrival date.

 

[ariane37]

http://www.wdwinfo.com/holidays/Thanksgiving.htm

This is the list of thanksgiving meals from last year. From what I've heard they stay close to the same. We are planning tusker house because we figured it would be the lowest crowds that day.

Glad this thread was started! Right now I'm planning Tusker House as I'm thinking we'll go to AK, at least for part of the day. I was also considering Grand Floridian Café as their regular menu looks good and last year they had a Thanksgiving menu also, which DH wants.

We had Thanksgiving lunch at the Captains Grille at the Yacht Club last year. It was a spur of the moment change as we were planning to be in Epcot that day. OMG...my family still talks about it. It was considered brunch (we ate around 1pm), and was a buffet with many, many things including carved turkey.

Do you happen to remember anything else "Thanksgiving-ish" that was on their buffet? We'll be at BWV so Captains Grille would be convenient!

 

[wdw4rfam]

We ate at Boma on Thanksgiving last year. They had most of their normal stuff, plus a few traditional Thanksgiving items (turkey, stuffing, etc). It was great!

Boma wasn't on the list from last year, we would rather do Boma in case Family from Tampa decides to join us. That's good to know, I wonder how I'd find out if they will do it again this year

 

[pinkvol7]

Last year, we spent the morning at DAK. We took the bus to Trail's End for a 2pm lunch. We choose there because it was the closest to what we would have had if we were at home. It was delicious and very reasonable as far as cost. They had smoked turkey and ham. And of course, sweet tea! Left there and went to DHS.

 

[J.C.&ALI'SMOM]

We had Thanksgiving dinner at Boma a few years ago and enjoyed it a lot. But we like Boma.

 

[tabistar]

Boma wasn't on the list from last year, we would rather do Boma in case Family from Tampa decides to join us. That's good to know, I wonder how I'd find out if they will do it again this year

I'm not sure... I looked for the info on Thanksgiving offerings myself for this past year, and couldn't find anything. We love Boma, though, so it really didn't matter to us whether they would had them or not. I'd assume they'd at least have SOMEthing, though.