Here are five local restaurants that will be serving Thanksgiving dinner in the area. Per person charges range from $50-$75 (and kids are less). Go to the websites of these restaurants or call them for more information about reservations, rates and menus.
Rosewater will be serving butternut squash soup, rosemary charred smoked turkey breast, seared fluke, baked polenta, pumpkin and apple pie and chocolate pecan bread pudding…
Stone Park Cafe will be serving Pennsylvania natural turkey dinner – roasted breast, confit leg, pan gravy; grilled pork chop– spaghetti squash, pork belly, smoked cranberry bean ragout, pickled mustard seed; pan seared grouper – root vegetable puree, marinated greenbeans, caviar mustard beurre…
Sette Enotecha e Cucina in Park Slope will be serving first courses of pumpkin, apple puree, asparagus fondue with crispy pancetta, artichoke bottoms filled with mushrooms & fontina cheese, wood oven baked clams, spinach salad with poached pears, hazelnuts & gorgonzola cheese, papardelle alla Genovese – (Braised lamb & shaved parmesan cheese) Pansotti filled with butternut squash, goat cheese & apricots – (In a butter & fresh sage sauce), asparagus & mushroom risotto with fresh mascarpone cheese, and of course: oven roasted turkey breast with chest nut & golden raisin stuffing – (Served with sauteed spinach & honey glazed sweet potato)…
Paolo Santo will be serving autumn vegetable soup, quinoa salad, pomegrante with sunchoke and watercress, dark meat braised in Mole Poblano or white meat with traditional fixings…
Purple Yam in Ditmas Park will be serving but instead of the traditional turkey, Purple Yam will celebrate Thanksgiving with chicken slow cooked in bamboo tubes with young coconut juice (buko) and tamarind leaves as its souring agent. Back home in the Philippines, this is an old and forgotten cooking technique which we are trying to revive. For my birthday party in Manila this past October, we flew in Mrs. Remedios Sugon of Bacolod to show us this lost art of packing into bamboo tubes the chickens and its flavoring agents of lemongrass, onions, tomatoes, potatoes and native sour leaves known as libas and cashew leaves…
The Farm on Adderly in Ditmas Park is serving Thanksgiving but they are booked. They are taking names for a waiting list so it might be worth a try to get into this cozy, delicious restaurant.