In the age of food delivery, meal kits, and nightly takeout culture, it is perfectly acceptable to keep your kitchen spotless this holiday and order your Thanksgiving to-go. Think of it as hiring a catering service for an event, and there’s no shame in that.
Vegan and vegan-friendly restaurants are offering more plant-based Thanksgiving packages than ever before, so we might as well take advantage of this delicious convenience. Pick your favorite restaurant from the list below and place your order today—really, don’t wait, because most order deadlines are coming up soon.
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Vegan Thanksgiving food
For new vegans, one of the most common barriers to going plant-based is Thanksgiving food. From the omnivore’s point of view, this holiday is vegan-prohibitive—from the turkey to its fat-rendered gravy. Does giving up animal foods mean no more Thanksgiving, too?
Not in the least. A very minor tweak in perspective is all that’s needed to enjoy Thanksgiving in all its glory while also eschewing meat, dairy, and eggs. The restaurants below offer the traditional foods we’ve all grown up with, simply made with plant-based ingredients.
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Puff pastry Wellingtons are stuffed with seitan instead of turkey, sumptuous gravy is crafted with wild mushrooms in lieu of animal fat and beef stock, and classic Thanksgiving pies are effortlessly whipped up with the help of undetectable tofu and plenty of non-dairy butter.
No matter what your Thanksgiving food traditions are, there is a delicious and satisfying vegan interpretation.
Dine in or takeout? These vegan restaurants offer both dine-in Thanksgiving meals and takeout catering
This Thanksgiving, a number of plant-based restaurants are offering both Thanksgiving takeaway meals and festive meals available for dine in.
Plum Bistro
1 Plum Bistro
Seattle, WA
This respected Capitol Hill vegan eatery is bringing back its Thanksgiving dine-in dinner for 2024. But if you’re looking for a take-home option, Plum Bistro has an astounding takeaway feast that serves up to six. The restaurant’s Thanksgiving Roast Dinner features a maple-glazed smoked holiday roast entrée. As for sides, Plum Bistro goes big with plethora of sweet and savory dishes including macaroni and cheese, mashed potatoes and gravy, citrus-pear cranberry sauce, cornbread, bacon green beans and potatoes, cornbread stuffing, and a salted caramel apple pie for dessert. Place your order by Sunday, November 24 to secure your feast.
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Pura Vita
2Pura Vita
West Hollywood and Redondo Beach, CA
The country’s premier vegan Italian restaurant is going all out this Thanksgiving. Its à la carte menu offers over 15 delicious holiday essentials including vegan turchetta, a meaty seitan roast stuffed with sage, thyme, garlic, and rosemary. Order this juicy entrée by November 24, and don’t forget the sides. Pair your meatless roast with roasted Brussels sprouts, sage apple ciabatta stuffing, garlicky whipped potatoes, and porcini mushroom gravy. And, for dessert, go for the apple pie, pumpkin cheesecake, or a cookie platter. While Pura Vita will be closed Thanksgiving day, the restaurant is currently serving up its holiday plate (which features the same components of the catering option) for dine-in guests leading up to the holiday.
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Planta
3Planta
Multiple locations
This upscale vegan chain is offering a Plantsgiving catering menu to make your Thanksgiving celebration a breeze. The Ultimate Plant-Based Feast, which serves up to six, comes complete with a juicy Chunk Foods brisket, mac and cheese, Brussels sprouts with bang bang sauce, stuffing, cornbread and vegan hot honey, mushroom gravy, and pumpkin cheesecake. Planta is also offering à la carte options so you can curate your own feast. Plus, the chain is offering a dine-in, prix fixe Thanksgiving dinner for $65 per person at its locations in Chicago, IL; New York City, NY; Washington, DC; and South Beach in Miami, FL.
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Follow Your Heart
4 Follow Your Heart Market and Café
Canoga Park, CA
This hippie café and market offers just about every Thanksgiving dish you could ask for—family-sized turkey pot pie, rosemary-basted vegan turkey, stuffing, gravy, mashed potatoes, yams, and green beans—and that’s not including the 10 desserts on offer. While this spot is a bit out of the way for many Angelenos, the bounty is worth the drive. Order by Friday, November 22 to secure your feast. For even more holiday feasting, Follow Your Heart Market and Café will offer a Thanksgiving special in the café during select days. Check Instagram for official dates and times.
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Real Food Daily
5 Real Food Daily
Los Angeles, CA
This Los Angeles vegan institution is continuing its tradition of offering a Thanksgiving feast to-go for $60 per person. Order the meal for yourself by November 25 and savor your carved jackfruit, walnut cornbread stuffing, mashed potatoes, pecan praline yams, and cranberry sauce as your relatives politely pick at a dry, overcooked turkey. Alternatively, make dine-in reservations for the ultimate Thanksgiving day buffet.
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Green New American Vegetarian
6 Green New American Vegetarian
Tempe, AZ
Arizona locals, take note—this Thanksgiving menu is only available for pickup at the Tempe location, and orders must be placed by Sunday, November 19. Even if it’s out of the way for Phoenix residents, one look at the menu will motivate you to make the drive. Where else can you find seitan turkey breast with “giblet” gravy, smoked paprika sweet corn, or a Winter Berry Organic Oat Granola Cobbler? Be sure to place your orders soon, as ordering could be closing as early as the end of the week. This year, the restaurant is also hosting a “Greensgiving” dine-in celebration. For full dine-in details, visit the restaurant’s event page.
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Thanksgiving catering to enjoy at home
Order a crowd-pleasing, plant-based Thanksgiving meal from these exceptional vegan eateries, and enjoy your feast from the comfort of home.
Whole Foods Market
7 Whole Foods Market
Nationwide
This vegan-friendly grocer is making Thanksgiving easier than ever. The comprehensive Vegan Meal for two includes a mushroom and root vegetable en croûte with mushroom gravy, sea salt and cracked black pepper green beans, roasted butternut squash with cranberries and sage, garlic roasted fingerlings, and pumpkin curry soup. Other festive items include seasonal roasted vegetables, cranberry-orange sauce, and pumpkin pie. Order by Tuesday, November 26.
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Café Gratitude
8 Café Gratitude
Los Angeles and Venice, CA
This Thanksgiving, Café Gratitude is offering à la carte ordering, allowing you to select from a variety of mains, sides, and dessert pies so you can ensure your holiday meal is just your favorite dishes. Choose between the savory mushroom Wellington or the herbed holiday roast for your entrée. Sides include a variety of dishes such as butternut squash and truffled mushroom risotto, kale and radicchio salad, cauliflower mashed potatoes, butternut brioche and cornbread stuffing, and much more. And for dessert, spare yourself the indecisiveness and order one of each pie: raw pumpkin, raw chocolate coconut cream, and baked caramel apple. They freeze well! Just be sure to place your order by Sunday, November 24.
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Native Foods
9Native Foods
Multiple locations
This chain’s Thanksgiving Wellington is a fan-favorite and for good reason. The buttery, flaky main features steak-style seitan, kale, herbed mushrooms, cranberry shallot stuffing, and a caramelized onion and orange compote. Drizzle with the accompanying homestyle gravy and dig in.
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The Herbivorous Butcher
10The Herbivorous Butcher
Minneapolis, MN
This vegan deli and butchery has options for large family feasts and more intimate family meals. The Turkey-Free Feast includes maple bacon, smoky linguiça sausage, cream cheese, brie, bacon powdered sugar, and the brand new Herby Dust, an herb-seasoned pea protein crumble. And, for your main, choose between two, mini one-pound turkeys or a 2.5-pound stuffed turkey to complete your Turkey-Free Feast. At the time of writing, these Thanksgiving feasts are available for local pick up only—just be sure to get your orders in by noon on November 22. Alternatively, go for the à la carte, 2.5-pound turkey roast and pair with your own homemade sides.
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Chef Tanya’s Kitchen
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Chef Tanya’s Kitchen
Palm Springs and Palm Desert, CA
Chef Tanya Petrovna has transformed this desert resort town into a vegan oasis through the expansion of her namesake café. This year’s takeaway Thanksgiving menu is particularly robust, featuring a show-stopping Very Voluptuous Vellington, Where’s the Meat Loaf?, a four-pack of classic sides, Turkey Love Roasts, and organic pumpkin pie. Order by November 24 for a delicious holiday feast.
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Cafe Sunflower
12 Cafe Sunflower
Atlanta, GA
Visiting a not-so-vegan-friendly household for Thanksgiving? Atlanta residents can rely on Cafe Sunflower’s Thanksgiving Take Home Meal. The satisfying box, which must be ordered by Monday, November 25, includes a realistic-looking golden vegan turkey, mashed potatoes, cranberry syrup, mushroom gravy, and sautéed green beans and red peppers.
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These vegan restaurants are serving up dine-in, Thanksgiving meals
Not all restaurants offer Thanksgiving catering you can bring home, but that doesn’t mean they’re not cooking up festive eats. The below restaurants all offer holiday specials available for dine-in guests.
Crossroads Kitchen
13Crossroads Kitchen
Southern California and Las Vegas, NV
The Thanksgiving menu at popular celebrity hotspot Crossroads Kitchen has our mouths watering. The four-course menu, which is $80 per person at the Los Angeles and Calabasas locations, features dishes like celery soup, roasted lion’s mane mushrooms, breaded scallopini, and cranberry relish. Patrons dining at Crossroads Kitchen Las Vegas will, for $90 per person, be treated to an extravagant, all-vegan holiday buffet complete with a lion’s mane mushroom carving station. At the time of writing, Thanksgiving reservations are still available at all three of the restaurant’s locations, but they are filling up fast!
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14J. Selby’s
Saint Paul, MN
This beloved vegan establishment has a tradition of serving up free Thanksgiving meals on Thanksgiving day, and this year is no different. The festive, holiday plate features an Herbivorous Butcher turkey roast served alongside stuffing, cranberry sauce, a vegetable salad, mashed potatoes and gravy, and a fluffy dinner roll. Be sure to come early, as this place is only available until 2PM, or until sell-out. Takeout meals are also available, but are limited to two per person.
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