If you’re not up to making the feast, browse our in-depth guide of where to order the best Thanksgiving meal, or just the turkey, sides or desserts.

A la Carte Menus by Gourmet Galley:  Let Gourmet Galley make your holiday dinner easy and delicious.  Order a whole turkey from Gozzi’s in Guilford, or sliced turkey breast that serves four.  They have you covered with kid friendly entrees as well.  Select from a la carte accompaniments, hors d’oeuvres and an array of desserts.  Don’t want to think that hard?  They offer Thanksgiving dinner packages that serve 2 or 8. Order by Noon on 11/21.

Cooked: Warm up your holiday table this Thanksgiving with a special pre-order menu from Cooked. Entrees include turkey breast roulade or salmon, three types of delicious stuffing (including cornbread stuffing with bacon, oysters and herbs), a variety of starters, sides and traditional pies.  Check out their full menu and order here by 6pm on 11/21.

Star Gourmet by Andrea Dante: Star Fish Market recently joined forces with Andrea Dante to provide catering for all your everyday needs and special occasions.  They’re pleased to share their first Thanksgiving Menu featuring fresh turkeys from Plainville Farms, brined birds, autumn salad kits, vegan dinners and a variety of delicious sides and pies. They are happy to accommodate any dietary restriction Order here by 4pm on 11/20.

The Essex: Let The Essex team do the cooking for you this holiday season & order their Thanksgiving at Home dinner! You’ll enjoy a multi-course, ready-to-heat Thanksgiving feast. Menu highlights include roasted turkey, gravy, & pumpkin lobster bisque! Pickup at either their Branford or Old Saybrook Locations. All of their meals are easily made gluten free by omitting stuffing & bread. They have limited quantities so place your order before they sell out. $55 per person, wine and pies can be ordered a la carte. Click to place your order by 11/21.

Coffee’s Country Market: Provides a Thanksgiving dinner for 8 – 10 guests that includes a Herb Roasted Turkey with 1 Quart of homemade Turkey Gravy, a jar of Teresa’s Cranberry Walnut Chutney, your choice of an Apple Pie or Pumpkin Pie and your choice of one stuffing and three sides. Click for menu and to place your order. All orders must be submitted by 3pm on11/20.

Mystic Market: Dinners for two, just delicious sides, or decadent desserts or three options of all the fixings: 8 to 12 ($199), 12 to 16 ($275), 16 to 20 ($355) and include the basics: an oven-roasted Gozzi’s Turkey with Sage and Vegetable Stuffing, pan gravy, cranberry sauce and creamy mashed potatoes. Next, customize with your choice of sides, salads and desserts for a personalized feast that the whole family will enjoy. Oven-ready Gozzi’s turkeys are available here, too, plus plenty of pies and take-out turkey dinners for two. Order by 7pm on 11/20.

Pasta Vita: There is more than just turkey on their Thanksgiving menu! Stock up on the usual favorites (seven choices of lasagna, eggplant rollatini), be prepared for the post-holiday weekend meals, or choose from spiraled ham, roast turkey breast and traditional sides, platters, quiches, soups for the holiday. Orders due by 4pm on 11/23. Order Here.

Ani’s Table: Order a full meal from the super talented Ani’s Table. French cut roasted turkey breast and confit duck leg entrees as well as chorizo cornbread jalepeno and cranberry orange relish sides are on the menu as well as a delicious variety of unique stuffings (oyster cornbread and sausage chestnut), gravies (marsala or au poivre), potatoes (roasted garlic and dauphindoise) and more. See the menu here. Order by 11/20. Join Ani’s for a Thanksgiving Dessert Tasting with treats, bubbles and wine on November 7th from 3-7pm. Click for more information.

Walt’s Food Market:  Something is done right at this shoreline institution where over 1,000 pounds of Walt’s housemade gravy is sold each year. Yup, you read that right. Available for pre-order are Waybest turkeys between 10-22 pounds (Order by 11/21). Order Walt’s comforting sides like Mashed Potatoes, Corn Bread Stuffing, and Whole Cranberry Sauce, Butternut Squash with Marsala Wine or Butternut and Acorn Squash Medley with Maple Syrup and Brown Sugar. Call Walt’s at 860.388.3308 to place your order by 11/21.

Savour Cafe: This beautiful cafe can whip up your appetizer, soup and dessert and their menu is fabulous – French onion cheesecake, sherried wild mushroom bisque, prosciutto wrapped turkey roulade with cranberry sage stuffing, roasted butternut lasagna and more! Check out their full menu here.  Order by 11/21.  860.662.4438.

745 Osteria: Let this lively Italian eatery in Old Saybrook prepare your Thanksgiving feast for you!  Their menu feeds 10 -12 people for $325 and includes all the traditional fixings — 10-12 lb turkey, traditional stuffing, gravy, cranberry sauce, sweet and mashed potatoes and choice of a pasta, vegetable and dessert. Click to view their menu. Order by 11/24.

Chef Paul Barron: Let shoreline favorite Chef Paul Barron handle your feast! Herb-Roasted Dartagan Heritage Breed Turkey (Carved), dazzling sides and Bartlett Pear & Cranberry Crisp with Almond Streusel, Bourbon Caramel, Vanilla-Sauce for dessert. $295 plus tax serves 4-5 people. See the menu and order here. Order by 11/23.

Healthy Planeat: Enjoy a local harvest full of fresh produce, organic pastured turkey, free-range meat, Jersey dairy, farmstead cheese, artisan bread, and pantry items with pickups in various places around the shoreline.

Amarante’s: Offers a full spread including oven roasted turkey and traditional sides and pumpkin pie for dessert that serves 10-12, $295. Now accepting orders through 11/22. For any questions or to place an order, call (203) 467-2531. Check out their menu here.

Bear’s Smokehouse: Enjoy an a la carte menu including a variety of meats (turkey, ham, brisket, ribs) along with apps, sides, salads, sauces, gravy and breads and desserts — or go for The Bear Feast ($205) which feeds 6 – 8 people (or one hungry bear) and includes a 12-14 lb turkey, mashed potatoes, mac and cheese, garlic butter green beans, sausage and bacon stuffing, cornbread and gravy. Place your order for hot pick-up on Thanksgiving or cold pick-up the day before. 

Bishop’s Orchards Farm Market: Enjoy a fully prepared Thanksgiving meal for four or order just the turkey either fully cooked or fresh from Ekonk, D’Artgnan or Gozzi’s. You can also order online an assortment of delicious pies and sides like creamy corn chowder or butternut squash and apple soup. 

White Gate Farm: Order your organic pasture-raised turkey online. They can be picked up (frozen) on Wednesdays, Fridays or Saturdays. Price is $7.95/lb. Check out their menu of delicious Thanksgiving sides and pies!

Cooking Company: Order individual turkey dinners with stuffing, gravy and cranberry sauce or go a la carte and select from an assortment of delicious apps like artichoke goat cheese tarts, first courses like mushroom marsala soup or delicious traditional sides and desserts. Click for their menu. 860.663.3111. Order by 11/23.

Flanders Fish Market: Check-out their menu for a No-Fuss-For-You fully cooked Thanksgiving dinner (just reheat & serve!) here and once you decide on your feast you can place your order here.

IT WILL BE WORTH THE WAIT! SOON THESE OTHER FAVORITE EATERIES WILL BE SHARING THEIR THANKSGIVING MENUS.

Simon’s Marketplace:  Simon’s is busy putting together their Thanksgiving menu. We can’t wait for them to post it to their website, you can check for it here. 860.526.8984 to place your order.

TURKEY

Gozzi’s Turkey Farm: Famous for their Day-Glo dyed turkeys, though some of us find the display at the farm a little disconcerting. Nevertheless, their prized broad-breasted Gozzi Whites have been a favorite on the Shoreline for generations. Call 203.453.2771 to reserve your bird.

Cliff’s Quality Meats in Essex provides an all-natural bird 10-30 lbs. Order it up oven-ready with their signature sausage and bread crumb stuffing and a quart of house gravy or surprise your family with one of Cliff’s smoked turkey breasts and house-made kielbasa to skip the cooking altogether. Call 860.767.1539 anytime to place your order, while supplies last.

Shoreline Prime: has Turduckens (deboned chicken stuffed into a deboned duck, stuffed into a deboned turkey) for your feast this year. Call 203.208.1579

Walt’s has 10-22 lb Waybest Turkeys this year, in addition to all of the yummy sides and gravy above. Call 860.388.3308.

White Gate Farm: Order your organic pasture-raised turkey online.

Stone Acres Farm: Get fresh pasture raised turkeys for your Thanksgiving celebration. Turkeys will be frozen at pick-up.  $40 deposit, click to reserve your turkey.

DESSERT

If you’ve got the cooking covered but just need a few desserts, here are our go-tos for this year.

Bishop’s Orchards: Enjoy the convenience of their Grab N’ Go Fruit, Nut, Cream and No Sugar Added Pies! Bishop’s Orchards strives to make your holidays easier with the convenience of everything already done. Pre-ordering is the only way to guarantee specific wants will be in-stock, click to order. 203.453.2338.

Nana’s, Mystic: Sourdough loaves, pies, rolls and several savory sides from the team at Nana’s. Pre-order by Sunday, November 24th at 8pm. Pick up is November 27th from 11-8 at 32 Williams Ave, Mystic.

Sift Bakery: Offers a variety of breads, croissants, pastries and holiday desserts such as Macarons, Pumpkin White Chocolate Cheesecake, their signature Carrot Cake Roulade, Pumpkin Tart, cookies and many more. All orders must be placed by 11/23.  Order online here. 860.245.0541

Savour Cafe: Enjoy a variety of baked goods, dinner sides, and season desserts such as bourbon pumpkin pie, caramel apple cheesecake, pumpkin roulade with maple cream cheese frosting and more. Call 860-662-4438 or stop in during regular business hours to place your order.

White Gate Farm: Don’t miss their delicious scratch-made pies like traditional pumpkin and apple pies along with a delicious bourbon pecan pie. Click to view their menu and pre-order.

Cooking Company: Well known for their bakery, this Thanksgiving the Cooking Company has a smattering of pies — old fashioned pumpkin, apple with double crust, cranberry blueberry lattice and even deep dish key lime or black-bottom peanut butter cup mouse pie. Click for their menu. Call Middletown (860.343.0008) to place your order. Order by 11/23.

Pursuit of Pastry: Serves a variety of specialty pastries, bread, pies, cakes and cookies – like their GIANT 9″ Butterscotch cookie with festive fall decorations. Checkout their Thanksgiving menu here. Order by 11/22. 860.391.8687.

Hadlyme Country Market: offering a menu of fresh-baked pies in the following flavors: Apple, Pumpkin, Apple Cranberry and Pumpkin Eggnog. Call the store to order and pre-pay at 860-526-3188 by 11/16.

Dagmar’s Desserts: Offers holiday favorite Stollen and Hazelnut Pumpkin Roll plus a wide variety of pies, cakes, and cookies for your guests. See the full online menu here. Order by 11/20.

Zest Fresh Pastry: Zest is putting together their menu of holiday pie classics as well as bread and some fabulous original creations! Order online by 11/24 or call 860.381.0771.

Hen + Heifer: You can now order online from Whang Suh’s menu of cakes, pies and cookies here featuring exquisite desserts from Pecan Bourbon pie and Pumpkin Basque Cheescake to Bake-at-Home Cornbread.  203.689.5651.

4 & Twenty Blackbirds Pop-Up Bakeshop: Check the FB page for pies and instructions for this year.