Thanksgiving lands on Thursday 26 November this year, and London has long since stopped treating it as someone else’s holiday. The capital’s grandest dining rooms now put on full American feasts, complete with Norfolk Bronze turkey, buttery mash and a pie list that would earn a nod from a Vermont grandmother.
Choice is the problem. Almost every hotel restaurant between Knightsbridge and Regent Street has a one-night menu, and they all promise turkey. The differences are in the details: who carves, what arrives first, and whether pudding means one slice of pie or an entire room of them.
So we have done the sorting. Below are twelve tables worth booking, from a Mayfair grill room with a silver trolley to a Holland Park favourite where everything lands in the middle of the table. Book early, because these are one-night menus and the good tables go. For more of the capital’s best dining rooms, our pick of the 20 best restaurants in the UK is a useful next stop.
Thanksgiving in London at a glance
- Best for New York glamour: Dante at Claridge’s
- Best for tableside theatre: The Connaught Grill
- Best for pie obsessives: 108 Brasserie
- Best for sharing: Julie’s
- Best for a pub-style feast: The Cadogan Arms, The George and The Hound
- Best for a proper splurge: CUT at 45 Park Lane
How we chose
We went through the menus announced for 26 November across London’s hotel dining rooms and neighbourhood favourites, and weighed setting, service, how the turkey is handled and how seriously each kitchen takes dessert. Prices are the per-person starting rates announced so far. Anything marked “from approx.” is worth confirming when you book.
Dante, Claridge’s, Mayfair
Best for: New York glamour with a Mayfair postcode
Price: from approx. £125 per person
Dante has moved in properly. After a celebrated residency at Claridge’s last year, the Manhattan institution (feeding Greenwich Village since 1915) is now a permanent fixture, and its first Thanksgiving is a set menu for lunch and dinner on 26 November. Start with shrimp cocktail and horseradish, a New York kale Caesar, or beetroot salad with goat’s curd, pecan and walnut.
There is one main, and it is the right one: Norfolk turkey with an apricot stuffed leg, agave glazed ham, mashed and roast potatoes, braised red cabbage, green beans with almonds and Brussels sprouts with balsamic and parmesan. Three desserts come to share, namely pumpkin cheesecake with crème fraîche, tres leches cake and a traditional pecan pie with caramel ice cream. Try all three. Nobody is counting.
ABC Kitchens at The Emory, Knightsbridge
Best for: American classics with a playful streak
Price: from approx. £110 per person
Jean-Georges Vongerichten moved his trio of New York restaurants to London in 2024 and put them under one roof at The Emory. The amber-hued room was designed by French architect Rémi Tessier and British artist Damien Hirst, which means you will look good in it whatever you wear.
Traditionalists get roast Norfolk free-range Bronze turkey with all the trimmings, then spiced pumpkin pie with whipped mascarpone or apple pie with green apple sorbet. The four-course menu also has fun plates: bluefin tuna tartare with avocado and ginger, a butternut squash pizza with ‘nduja, ricotta and hot honey, and a chocolate pecan pie with candied kumquats. Pizza at Thanksgiving. We are in.
Charlie’s at Brown’s Hotel, Mayfair
Best for: turkey carved at your table
Price: from approx. £140 per person
Address: 33 Albemarle Street, Mayfair
Brown’s has welcomed transatlantic literary legends, dignitaries and royals for generations, so a Thanksgiving table here feels like a continuation rather than a novelty. Chef director Adam Byatt has written a three-course feast for Charlie’s, served à la carte at lunch and as a set menu at dinner.
Seasonal starters include clam chowder, Jerusalem artichoke soup and Waldorf salad. The turkey is a free-range Norfolk Bronze from Maple Ranch, a sustainable farm on the Surrey-Hampshire border, carved tableside from Charlie’s signature silver trolley. Prefer something lighter? There is braised halibut, or roast delica squash. Puddings run from poached pears with warm molasses gingerbread to a deep dish pumpkin pie with buttermilk ice cream and pumpkin seed pesto.
Twenty8 at The NoMad, Covent Garden
Best for: a Manhattan expat’s homecoming
Price: from approx. £98 per person
Address: 28 Bow Street, Covent Garden
Born in Manhattan and now a beloved Londoner, The NoMad is a bit of an expat itself, which makes it a natural host. Its New York-inspired bistro, Twenty8, runs a one-day Thanksgiving menu on 26 November. An apple cider consommé opens the meal, followed by a kale salad with pear, blue cheese and sourdough crisps.
The centrepiece is a Walsgrove Farm roast turkey with cranberry sauce, pommes purée, charred Brussels sprouts, green bean cassoulet, glazed carrots and sourdough stuffing. Then comes the dessert table, where you pick from handmade pecan, apple and pumpkin pies. Our advice: take the seat nearest the pies.
The Connaught Grill, Mayfair
Best for: old-school food theatre
Price: from approx. £175 per person
Mayfair’s historic grill room does ceremony better than almost anyone. On 26 November it serves a four-course menu that begins with a pomme soufflé amuse bouche, then a choice of foie gras torchon with caramelised quince or Scottish salmon gravlax with cucumber yoghurt.
The main is a roasted Norfolk turkey crown with confit leg. Not turkey? Choose grilled Cornish seabass with grapefruit, or a grelot onion tarte tatin. Mashed potato, cranberry compote and roasted butternut squash and Brussels sprouts come alongside. The pie selection is generous, with pumpkin and vanilla pecan joined by a Mississippi mud pudding, all served with a choice of sauces. Carving and flambéing happen tableside from the room’s original silver trolley, and honestly, that alone is worth the booking.
Wiltons, St James’s
Best for: heritage with a British accent
Price: from approx. £120 per person
Address: 55 Jermyn Street, St James’s
George William Wilton founded Wiltons in 1742 as a shellfish monger, and the 26 November menu pays homage to those roots with West Cork native oysters, maple cured Scottish salmon and a warming crab chowder. Then the traditional carving trolley rolls out and the turkey is carved at your table, which is exactly how heritage service should look.
Pudding is a run of classic Thanksgiving recipes, from baked American cheesecake to a spiced pumpkin and chocolate tart with cinnamon and nutmeg custard. It is a very British way to celebrate a very American holiday, and it works.
Julie’s, Holland Park
Best for: sharing everything
Price: from approx. £95 per person
Address: 135 Portland Road, Holland Park
This West London jewel in the middle of Holland Park has a one-day-only set menu for lunch and dinner, written by chef patron Owen Kenworthy and designed for the whole table. It runs to four sharing courses. Butter yeast rolls with pumpkin butter arrive first, followed by a trio of starters: a pear and walnut salad with maple glazed bacon, rich duck liver parfait with onion marmalade, and a sweet potato rösti dressed in lobster tarragon sauce.
The main is a dry brine roast turkey crown with turkey leg stuffing, mashed potatoes, glazed Brussels sprouts and gravy. Then comes a baked brie with cranberry croûte, a cheese course most Thanksgivings forget, before a choice of dark chocolate mousse or seasonal fruit tart.
Café Royal Grill, Regent Street
Best for: gilded Regent Street drama
Price: from approx. £85 per person
Address: 68 Regent Street
The Grill has been a London dining room since 1865, and its mirrored walls and ornate ceiling make Thanksgiving feel properly occasion-worthy. Three courses mix British seasonal produce with festive flavours. Pumpkin soup with maple chantilly and toasted pumpkin seeds sits alongside Orkney scallops with creamed sweetcorn, crispy sage and pine nuts.
For the main, choose butter-roasted Bronze turkey with all the trimmings, or fillets of lemon sole with brown butter, cauliflower and capers. A nostalgic pumpkin pie or a pecan tart closes things out. It is also one of the more gentle prices on this list, for a room this grand.
Town House at The Kensington, South Kensington
Best for: a calm, civilised three courses
Price: from approx. £85 per person
On 26 November, Town House, the signature restaurant at The Kensington, serves a three-course menu of beloved classics and a few clever twists. Begin with a warming winter squash soup, Argyll smoked salmon with lemon, or the Kensington salad of endive, pear, blue cheese and walnuts.
Mains are traditional Norfolk Bronze roast turkey or roast ham, each with savoury stuffing, buttery mashed potatoes, tangy cranberry sauce and rich gravy. The dessert list is long enough to need a strategy: pecan pie, apple pie, or a crème brûlée served with winter berries.
108 Brasserie, Marylebone
Best for: pie obsessives
Price: from approx. £75 per person
Address: 108 Marylebone Lane
The Pie Room is back, and it is the whole point. Inside The Marylebone Hotel, 108 Brasserie hosts its Thanksgiving celebration on 26 November, and the dedicated pie space is where the three-course feast ends. Before that, an amuse bouche of spiced Maine lobster rolls with chives and lemon leads into Baltimore-style crab cakes with chicory and avocado salad, or a roasted pumpkin and charred corn salad.
Turkey with all the trimmings is the main event, and vegetarians get a sweet potato and mushroom Wellington with sage and cranberries. Then the Pie Room opens: pecan or pumpkin with rich chocolate shortcrust, Mississippi mud with toasted marshmallow, key lime and banoffee, each with ice cream and topped with marshmallows, M&Ms and Hershey’s Kisses. Subtle, it is not. We love it.
The Cadogan Arms, The George and The Hound, Chelsea, Fitzrovia and Chiswick
Best for: a hearty pub-style feast
Price: from £100 per person
Address: The Cadogan Arms, 298 King’s Road
Three pubs from executive chef John Sparks and two Michelin-starred culinary director James Knappett serve the same one-day-only menu on 26 November. Starters lean American comfort food: a smoked ham scotch egg with cornflake crumb and apple butter mustard, warm smoked trout dip with an everything bagel crostini, fried Brussels sprout Caesar with crispy pancetta and cranberry, and baked brie with sage toast.
The main event pairs roast turkey crown with slow-roast short ribs, plus green bean casserole, baked sweet potato with toasted marshmallows, mac and cheese, corn maque choux, golden roast potatoes and gravy. Leave room for pecan pie with vanilla whipped cream or a rich pumpkin and Oreo cheesecake. Pick whichever pub is closest to home.
CUT at 45 Park Lane, Mayfair
Best for: the real American deal
Price: from £220 per person
Address: 45 Park Lane, Mayfair
For the real deal, head to Wolfgang Puck’s London outpost. The dining room has glass chandeliers and mahogany panelling, and Elliott Grover’s team is serving Thanksgiving lunch and dinner on 26 November. The three-course feast starts with your pick of roasted heritage pumpkin soup, bigeye tuna tartare with wasabi and chilli aioli, a Dorset crab and lobster cocktail, or USDA prime beef steak tartare with Wagyu beef dripping.
The turkey is a Norfolk Bronze with cornbread stuffing, sweet potato with torched marshmallows, maple-roasted Brussels sprouts and green bean casserole. Cornish Dover sole, Queensland Wagyu and autumn pumpkin agnolotti are on hand for anyone who wants something else. The finish is all-American: key lime, pumpkin and pecan pies with whipped crème fraîche, ice cream and cranberry compote. It is the most expensive table on this list, and it knows it.
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