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Dining Out for Thanksgiving 2006

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  • McCormick & Schmick’s

    Both Boston McCormick & Schmick's locations will offer a traditional Thanksgiving dinner, including roast turkey, mashed potatoes, cornbread stuffing, sweet potatoes, butternut casserole, green beans, and Giblet Gravy. In addition to their usual dessert menu they will also offer pumpkin pie and pecan pie.

    $19.95 per person / $9.95 for children
    Starting at 11:30 a.m.
    Boston Park Plaza Hotel, 34 Columbus Avenue, Boston
    1 Faneuil Hall Market Place, Boston
    Park Plaza location: (617) 482-3999
    Faneuil Hall location: (617) 720-5522
    mccormickandschmicks.com

  • Meritage

    This Thanksgiving brunch offers cider-basted roast turkey, pastry-wrapped salmon and halibut with Champagne saffron cream, sour cream and cranberry pancakes, toasted panna cotta, and white chocolate fondant tart, among other things.

    $65 per person / children’s brunch is $35 each.
    11:15 a.m. to 3 p.m.
    Boston Harbor Hotel, 70 Rowes Wharf, Boston
    (617) 439-3995
    meritagetherestaurant.com

  • The Oak Room

    The Oak Room offers both a Thanksgiving brunch and a four-course prix fixe dinner, including such items as wild turkey with sage and thyme brioche stuffing, Berkshire pork chop with seared apple chutney, and apple pie a la mode.

    Brunch $58 per person / $20 for children
    Dinner $83 per person / $35 for children
    Brunch seating will be at 11:30 a.m. and 2 p.m. / Dinner seating begins at 5:45 p.m.
    Fairmont Copley Plaza, 138 Street / James Avenue, Boston
    (617) 267-5300
    fairmont.com

  • Pigalle

    The prix-fixe Thanksgiving dinner offers a classic turkey dinner or less-traditional items such as roast leg of lamb with rosemary potatoes and au jus, and pumpkin tortellini with brown butter and sage.

    $68 per person / children's menu $16
    Leftovers package $16
    75 Charles Street South, Boston
    (617) 423-4944
    pigalleboston.com

  • Rialto

    Rialto’s four-course holiday menu offers, in addition to traditional Thanksgiving dinner items, Macomber turnip soup with smoked paprika oil and pepitos; lobster, scallop and squid salad with squid ink vinaigrette; organic herbed and peppered tenderloin with roasted cauliflower and marrow; and apple tart with cinnamon ice cream and cherry compote.

    $65 per person / $30 for children
    2 to 8 p.m.
    1 Bennett Street, Cambridge
    (617) 661-5050
    rialto-restaurant.com

  • Sandrine's

    At Sandrine’s you can choose from either the four-course prix fixe or a la carte menu. The prix fixe menu features maple roasted turkey with chestnut stuffing, haricot vert casserole, pumpkin soup, caramelized yellow beets, Yukon gold mashed potatoes and giblet gravy, pumpkin crème caramel, and more.

    $50 per person
    12 to 8 p.m.
    8 Holyoke Street, Cambridge
    (617) 497-5300
    sandrines.com

  • Sel de la Terre

    If you like your American holidays with a French influence, try Sel de la Terre’s selection, which includes turkey with sausage, apple, and sourdough stuffing; seared scallops with lima beans, bacon, and wild mushrooms; and vanilla bean crème brulee with oatmeal cookies, among other items.

    $56 per person
    Noon to 8 p.m.
    255 State Street, Boston
    (617) 720-1300
    seldelaterre.com

  • Smith & Wollensky

    A four-course Thanksgiving dinner includes dishes such as roasted turkey with apple-sausage, lobster bisque, Caesar salad, and cornbread and bourbon sweet potatoes.

    $49.95 / $19.95 for children 11 and under
    Noon to 8 p.m.
    101 Arlington Street, Boston
    (617) 423-1112
    smithandwollensky.com

  • Tosca

    Enjoy Thanksgiving specials such as rustic pumpkin soup, smoked turkey, and baby Brussels sprouts and pumpkinseed oil, or order the whole Thanksgiving Feast of brined turkey with fresh cranberries, cotechino sausage stuffing, braised turkey leg, mashed potatoes, and candied Hubbard squash.

    Noon to 8 p.m.
    14 North Street, Hingham
    (781) 740-0080
    toscahingham.com

  • Turner Fisheries

    Thanksgiving Day buffet stations will offer roasted turkey with sage stuffing, giblet gravy, candied sweet potatoes, roasted Hubbard squash with frisée, cranberry relish, and more. A dessert buffet will feature an assortment of pastries, tortes, and cheese cakes.

    $59 per person / $22 Children under 12 / free for children under 4
    11:30 a.m. to 9 p.m.
    The Westin Copley Place, 10 Huntington Avenue, Boston
    (617) 424-7425
    turnersboston.com

  • Top of the Hub

    Spend Thanksgiving fifty-two floors above the city at Top of the Hub. Among the featured Thanksgiving items are a pumpkin sage ravioli in brown butter caper sauce, maple syrup-basted roast turkey with sage dressing and giblet gravy, braised pork shanks with rosemary whipped potatoes and apple relish, pecan and cranberry tart, and an apple cobbler. In addition to the set menu in the main dining room, Top of the Hub will offer a lighter a la carte Thanksgiving menu in the Lounge.

    $58 per person / $25 for children under 12
    Noon to 8 p.m.
    800 Boylston Street, 52nd floor, Boston
    (617) 536-1775
    selectrestaurants.com/tophub

  • Upstairs on the Square

    Roasted turkey with mashed potatoes and creamed onions; hand-cut cavatelli with delicata squash and chanterelle fondue, and warm apple cider pound cakes with maple walnut sauce are among this year’s Thanksgiving offerings at Upstairs on the Square.

    $68 per person / $34 for children under 12
    1 to 7 p.m.
    91 Winthrop St., Cambridge
    (617) 864-1933
    upstairsonthesquare.com

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