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Where to Get Thanksgiving Takeout

[All dishes available from Yura on Madison]
We've already given you a guide to eating out on Thanksgiving. But if you're cooking this year, you're in the market for a big, fat bird, plus all the fixin's. Whether you're looking for a fresh whole turkey or a ready-to-eat meal, we've got your guide to Thanksgiving shopping in New York.
This guide is just for the main meal; pie will get its own post later this week. (Think of it as your Serious Eats Thanksgiving dessert.)
Multiple Locations
Whole Foods:: Varies by location. At the Bowery Whole Foods, grab a complete dinner for 4+ (cooked herb-roasted turkey breast, stuffing, mashed potatoes, and more) for $89.99.
Citarella: The $159 "Thanksgiving feast" gets you turkey, 2 kinds of potatoes, stuffing, soup, vegetables, pumpkin pie, and more; a la carte, pick up just about anything you can think of, from sweet potato pralines to pumpkin-porcini risotto.
Fairway: Even if you're going the DIY route, reserve your turkey to make sure your choice bird is waiting for you; if you'd like your meal prepared, there's "Fairway's Famous Thanksgiving Dinner" ($139+), including an oven-ready turkey, two kinds of potatoes, two kinds of stuffing, and more. Lots available a la carte, too.
Uptown
Zabar's: Their $250 Thanksgiving dinner for 10 includes a 13lb turkey, gravy, chestnut stuffing, cranberry salad, potatoes and rills, an apple bundt cake, and more. Brussels sprouts, honeyed yams, and latkes (hey, why not?) are all available by the pound, and babka and rugelach would make a pretty great thank-you to hosts, too.
Good Enough to Eat: Whole or sliced herb-roasted turkey ($10.50/$17.50/lb), stuffings and relishes, mashed potatoes and cornbread.
Dinosaur BBQ: $159 gets you a cider-brined pit-smoked turkey (more on that soon!), gravy, cornbread stuffing, whipped sweet potatoes, and two pies.
Yura on Madison: Everything from a ready-to-carve roasted turkey breast ($20/lb) to maple-whipped sweet potatoes, all sorts of roasted vegetables, and cornmeal chive scones and cornbread.
Epicerie Boulud: If one-stop shopping's your thing and money's no object, we'd imagine the Thanksgiving Dinner spread from Epicerie Boulud would be pretty fantastic: butternut squash soup, pumpkin bread, chestnut-cornbread stuffing, roasted fall veggies, mashed potatoes, and of course a gorgeous 14-lb turkey. $395.
Telepan: $600 is a lot for a meal, but it's a complete spread for 10 people from one of out favorite uptown chefs. Includes salads and squash soup, roast turkey, pumpkin pie and more.
Downtown
Eataly: Call the butcher counter to order a "turkey porchetta," rolled turkey breast stuffed with a turkey thigh meat sausage (starting at $54/5 lbs).
Hill Country: Either opt for just the pit-smoked turkey (with pan gravy) or spring for a whole package, with cornbread, pies, and sides (your choice of many, which include sweet potato bourbon mash, Texas toast stuffing, and corn pudding). Turkeys start at $90, packages start at $185.
Torrisi Italian Specialties / Parm: Our love of Torrisi's turkey knows no bounds, so we're happy they're selling it again for Thanksgiving (editor's note: I did this last year and my family actually went back for seconds on turkey). Their roasted brussels sprouts and butternut squash are pretty excellent, too. Turkey $80/breast (feeds 8-10), sides $15/lb.
City Bakery: Get a heritage turkey either cooked (starting $125) or uncooked (starting $110), three kinds of stuffing (starting $30; there is one vegan option), vegetables, or City Bakery's mac-and-cheese.
Brooklyn and Queens
Bklyn Larder: The centerpiece is their turkey "brined, stuffed, and rolled," ready to pop in the oven ($99). Additional offerings include stuffing (with or without sausage), roasted brussels sprouts, potatoes sweet and mashed, and all sorts of bread offerings (I'll vouch for the dinner rolls).
Brooklyn Fare: Another Brooklyn market doing an impressive Thanksgiving spread: whole roasted turkeys and hams (starting at $8.99/lb), stuffings and cornbread, plus all sorts of vegetable dishes including acorn squash and garlic mash, "creamy corn," and butternut squash in brown butter.
Court Street Grocers: Pick up a turkey (broad-breasted white or Red Bourbon; $6 and $12/lb, respectively), vegetarian and meat-eaters' stuffing, and mashed potatoes both sweet and regular.
Jive Turkey: The classic fried turkey destination, with 15 different "flavors."
The Meat Hook: Still taking turkey orders online, for broad-breasted whites raised specifically for their shop in upstate New York, if you're looking to roast your own; they're also selling spiral ham, country ham, house-cured honey brown sugar ham, turkey brine mix, gravy, and much more.
Ben's Best: Pick up a whole roast turkey from this legendary Queens deli ($6.75/lb).
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