What restaurants are open and closed Thanksgiving 2025? See specials

The biggest food holiday of the year is approaching fast. And while it's a big day for home cooks, it's a big day for dining out.

If you’re not in the mood to cook, leave the cooking to someone else. Across metro Detroit, restaurants are offering complete traditional holiday meals or those with a different or unique twist. In downtown Detroit, many places are open for Detroit's Thanksgiving Day Parade and the annual Detroit Lions Thanksgiving Day game.

You can choose to make reservations and dine in, or many places offer fully cooked or oven-ready meals to go.

What's offered?

You will find everything from the traditional roast turkey with all the classic sides of mashed potatoes, stuffing, gravy, cranberry relish, green bean casserole and desserts. There are also twists on turkey flavors, other special meals or items from the regular menu.

Ordering and reservations

If you plan on dining out for Thanksgiving, make reservations now. Most places require reservations or pre-orders. If you plan on ordering to-go, most places will have a cutoff date and specific days and times for pickup on or before Thanksgiving Day.Check out our list, which is by no means comprehensive, of metro Detroit restaurant offerings. Most prices listed do not include beverages, tax and gratuity.  

Anthology Events

1265 Washington Blvd., Detroit

Thanksgiving to-go packages feature smoked turkey breast with sides of brioche stuffing, smashed redskin potatoes plus other sides. Small, medium and large packages serving up to 12 are $150-$595. You can add on items like herb-crusted tenderloin, lobster tails or a cheese and charcuterie board, plus homemade pumpkin or apple pies.

Atheneum Suite Hotel

Detroit

Serving Thanksgiving brunch with breakfast favorites, savory entrées and traditional Thanksgiving dishes. Seatings at 11 a.m.,1 p.m. and 3 p.m. Brunch is $35.95 ($19.95 for children 12 and under) and includes endless mimosas and valet parking. For info: 313-962-2323 or OpenTable.

Aurora on the Lake

Commerce Township

A full Thanksgiving catering take-out menu includes organic, halal, oven-roasted turkey with roasted potatoes and vegetables for $189. You can also order a whole tenderloin cooked only to medium-rare with roasted potatoes, veggies and half-quart of creamy zip sauce for $349. Sides and pies at various prices. A four-layer carrot cake is $98 and serves 15-20.

Bavarian Inn Restaurant

Frankenmuth

A variety of Bavarian Inn's signature entrees, including its family-style dinners and all-you-can-eat chicken dinners with turkey and other meats, plus an array of side dishes and desserts. Depending on the dinner option, prices range $35.99-$41.99 for adults and children $6-$11.99 (depending on age.) The Harvest Thanksgiving buffet seating times start at 11 a.m. There’s an array of salads, a hot buffet with roasted prime rib, roasted turkey, Bavarian Inn’s famous chicken, traditional side dishes plus its Blue Hubbard squash side dish and a dessert table. Buffet is $44.95, ages 8-12 $20.99; ages 3-7 $14.99; 2 and under are free.For info : bavarianinn.com

Blind Owl

Royal Oak and New Baltimore

Traditional Thanksgiving dinner features local farm-roasted turkey, mashed potatoes, almond garlic green beans, gravy demi-glaze, its Cranberrylicious sauce, plus one glass of wine or a well Margarita. $34.95 per person.

Bar Rotunda

Book Tower Detroit

Open for breakfast and lunch 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Thanksgiving Day.

Bravo! Italian Kitchen

Lansing, Livonia and Rochester Hills

Open 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. for dine-in featuring a traditional turkey day menu with sliced white meat turkey, sides, including Italian sausage stuffing and dessert. Its regular menu will also be available, and you can also order its Thanksgiving feast to go.

Capuchin Soup Kitchen

Detroit

Order Thanksgiving turkey dinner packages that serve 6-8. Meals include turkey, stuffing/dressing, gravy, mashed potatoes, house-made cranberry-orange relish, roll, and two pies. It's $225.

An antibiotic and hormone-free turkey package includes the above and is $325-$450, depending on turkey size. Proceeds benefit the Capuchin Soup Kitchen.

Caucus Club

Downtown Detroit

This downtown Detroit restaurant, known for its wood-fired steaks, crafted a Thanksgiving menu served at 3 p.m. Menu items include a roast turkey dinner served with traditional side dishes, a holiday platter with mix of roast turkey and ham or roast prime beef. There’s also an option for kids. Prices vary.

The Caucus Club is on Congress Street on the ground floor of the Penobscot Building. It has a long history and is noted as the place where Barbra Streisand got her start.

City BBQ

Multiple locations

Order holiday meals with a 24-hour notice that feature its hickory-smoked turkey or ham, from-scratch sides, including sweet potato casserole and mac and cheese. Open for pre-ordered and pick-up only holiday meals. City BBQ has locations in Troy, Portage and Kentwood.

Clara's Table

Dearborn

This farm-to-table restaurant that pays tribute to Clara Ford, wife of Henry Ford, at the renovated historic Dearborn Inn, is hosting its first Thanksgiving dinner. A prix fixe, four-course menu includes seasonal favorites and Thanksgiving classics. Seatings are 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. and 5-10 p.m. Cost is $73 per person.

Clara's Table in the newly remodeled Dearborn Inn is open on Thanksgiving day and serving a four course meal.

Common Grill

Chelsea

Order bread trays, signature sides and desserts at this long-standing downtown Chelsea restaurant. Items available to pick drive-thru only starting Nov. 25.

Crystal Gardens

Southgate

Buffet-style traditional Thanksgiving turkey meal also includes beef medallions, ham, an assortment of salads, soup, rolls, and desserts. Seatings are at 12:30 p.m., 1:30 p.m. or 3:30 p.m. Cost is $36.95, $34.95 for seniors and $24.95 for ages 4-10. A turkey dinner-to-go option with sides and desserts is $275 (feeds 10 people) and $305 (feeds 15 people).For info : 734-285-2210 or crystalgardensonline.com

Cucina Lab Torino

Troy

Thanksgiving dinner to-go from this Italian restaurant, billed as a “little corner of Italy” in Michigan. Chef Elisabetta Balzola and team crafted a meal that includes turkey and the classics, plus its pumpkin bread rolls and caramel walnut pie. Cost is $55 (plus tip and fees) per person with pick up times 10 a.m. to noon, Nov. 26.

Eddie Merlot’s

Bloomfield

Roast turkey dinner paired with all the sides, plus a starter and dessert. Cost is $50; $25 for the kid’s menu option. You can also order a Thanksgiving three-course dinner to serve 5 or 10 people to-go.

Fishbones

St. Clair Shores and Southfield

Open on Thanksgiving 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., serving a traditional dinner with classic sides for dine-in or to-go. $27.95; $17.95 for kids 12 and under.

Fishbones

Greektown Detroit

Lions brunch buffet on Thanksgiving from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. The buffet includes an omelet station plus a variety of breakfast items, shrimp cocktail, salads and dinner entrees of ribs, turkey, stuffing and more. $45.95 per person for brunch buffet. Thanksgiving dinner is 2-8 p.m. dine-in or to-go is $27.95; $17.95 for under 12.

Godfrey Hotel

Corktown Detroit

Thanksgiving buffet brunch at the rooftop is 8 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Stations with grab-and-go pastries, warm cider, fresh coffee, and bites, plus a brunch buffet. Prices vary $25-$48. At Hamilton's, a dinner buffet, "Detroit Soul Thanksgiving," is served 4-8 p.m. The dinner buffet features a variety of entrees and sides, plus carving stations with turkey and prime rib, salad, seafood and dessert stations. $75; $35 (13 or younger).

J. Baldwins

Clinton Township

Thanksgiving dinner to go serves 8-10 with whole turkey, Boursin mashed potatoes, chef Jeff's signature cornbread and sausage stuffing and the Baldwin family gravy recipe, plus other dishes and dessert. It's $375. Thanksgiving sides order serves 8-10 for $165.

Le Suprême

Book Tower Detroit

Serving its regular brunch 9 a.m.-2 p.m. on Thanksgiving Day.

MacRay Harbor

Harrison Township

The buffet includes carved ham and turkey carving, an array of classic side dishes, salads, artisan cheeses and desserts. $54.95; ages 4-11 $24.95. Thanksgiving to-go package with turkey, sides, salad and pies feeds 10-12 people and is $369.

Maggiano's Little Italy

Troy

Dine-in family-style three-course menu with choices of entrees, pastas, sides and desserts. Hot-prepared ($220) or cold-prepared ($210) Thanksgiving carryout menu with signature and traditional dishes serves up to five people. Sides-only bundle of holiday staples is $50.

Mario's Restaurant

Detroit

Dine in or order a complete meal from this long-standing Detroit Italian restaurant. A complete meal with a seasoned and roasted turkey serves six to eight people. The meal ($169 for carryout or $210 for dining in) includes several sides, rolls and one whole pumpkin or pecan pie. You can also order extra sides at $8 each. A single dinner option for dining in on Thanksgiving Day is $40 per person and served 2-9 p.m.

Marrow

Detroit

Marrow Detroit and Birmingham have Thanksgiving to-go options.

Pre-order heritage locally pasture-raised turkeys, boneless smoked glazed ham, duck, 30-day dry-aged standing rib roasts, charcuterie boards and classic Thanksgiving sides, rolls and desserts. Marrow will brine and spatchcock the turkeys if you like. Prices vary. Pick-up is on Nov. 25-26 from Marrow in the Market, 2442 Riopelle in Eastern Market or Marrow Birmingham, 283 Hamilton Row, Birmingham. Thanksgiving dinners for two for $175 also include Marrow’s charcuterie board, roasted turkey roulade and sides.

Oak & Reel

Detroit

Oak & Reel offers a Thanksgiving to-go option.

Thanksgiving dinner to go from Michelin-starred chef and owner Jared Gadbaw of Oak & Reel in Detroit's Milwaukee Junction neighborhood. The menu includes roasted turkey, stuffing with or without oysters, roasted Brussels sprouts and cippolini onions, classic sides and dinner rolls. Serving 4-6 people for $210 (half turkey) or 8-12 people for $410 (whole turkey). Add a pumpkin or apple pie for $32 each.

Presley's Kitchen + Bar

Downtown Detroit

Open 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. with Thanksgiving "Game Day" brunch buffet with breakfast staples and Thanksgiving classics. There's also a build-your-own Bloody Mary bar. Bleacher seating is available for parade watching and a separate ticket price. A prix fixe dinner ($70 per person) features classics served family-style.

Rugby Grille at the Townsend Hotel

Birmingham

In the Townsend Hotel, Rugby Grille has a prix-fixe four-course Thanksgiving dinner for $125 per person with seating times at 3 p.m. and 6 p.m. Choices of appetizers, soup or salad, several entrées, including a traditional turkey dinner, and desserts. A Thanksgiving to-go package is $150 for two.

San Morello

Detroit

On Woodward Avenue, Thanksgiving breakfast buffet is served 8 a.m.-noon, with southern Italian-inspired breakfast offerings, classic brunch dishes and housemade pastries. It's $85, $35 for children. A prix fixe Thanksgiving dinner is a three-course feast featuring holiday classics alongside rigatoni and braciole dishes. Served 1-9 p.m., it's $120; $65 for children. To-go option with salads, mains, side dishes and signature desserts is $95 per person.

San Morello has several options for dine-in this Thanksgiving or ordering to-go.

SandTrap

Riverview

Thanksgiving to-go dinners include turkey and traditional sides. Add-ons include mac and cheese, penne alla vodka and chicken piccata. Dinner for two is $50, serving for 4-6 is $150, and 10-15 servings is $275.

For info: 734-479-4800.

Slows to Go

Detroit

This to-go outpost of Corktown’s Slows Bar BQ has a complete Thanksgiving package featuring a smoked boneless turkey breast and an array of sides, including its famed mac and cheese. Serves 5-8 and is $209 picked up cold or additional $20 to pick up hot and ready to serve. Pick up Nov. 26-27 at Slows To-Go in Midtown at 4107 Cass Ave., Detroit.

Sullivan’s Steakhouse

Detroit

This steakhouse is on the ground floor of the Westin Book Cadillac on Washington Boulevard. Its Thanksgiving Day meal includes hand-carved roasted turkey served with sweet onion apple sausage stuffing and other sides, and a dessert. It's $52 per person; kids' menu is $25. You can also order Sullivan’s Thanksgiving Feast for 5 or 10 people to go.

Texas de Brazil

Detroit and Ann Arbor

Serving a regular dinner menu of grilled meat, a huge salad bar, plus some holiday favorites. Opens at 11 a.m. on Thanksgiving Day the restaurant opens at 11 a.m.

The Stage Deli

West Bloomfield

Complete Thanksgiving dinner for eight ($325) includes whole roasted, locally raised turkey with onion roll stuffing and side dishes, green salad and dressing, and bake-at-home dinner rolls. There are also optional add-ons and a la carte items, plus pumpkin cheesecake and apple crumble at various costs.

Three Cats

Clawson

Thanksgiving dinner to-go features a 10-12 pound, slow-roasted turkey plus traditional sides, including Mary Liz's mom's cranberry sauce. The meal serves 6-8 and is $200. Meal pick-up times are 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Nov. 25 and 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Nov. 26.

Union Assembly

Downtown Detroit

Doors open at 8 a.m. for this Woodward Avenue restaurant that is serving brunch. It's first come first serve for the 1st floor, mezzanine, and second floor bar. Terrace is reservation only.

Zehnder's of Frankenmuth

Frankenmuth

Thanksgiving buffet with its famous fried chicken, turkey and prime rib, along with many classic sides, noodle soup, breads, Zehnder’s cheese spread and chicken liver paté, salads and desserts. The buffet is $44.95 for adults; $18.95 for ages 9-11; $16.95 for ages 6-8; and $8.95 for ages 3-5. To-go dinners with a choice of turkey or ham plus sides serve 8-10 people and is $319. Dine in Zehnder's family-style chicken and turkey dinner with all the holiday trimmings for $40.95.

You can also order other pies and homemade goods from Zehnder’s Bakery.

Zingerman’s Deli

Ann Arbor

Thanksgiving feast feeds 6-8 with butter-basted and sage-rubbed bone-in whole turkey ($325 for the whole bird or $340 for a carved whole bird) with traditional sides, plus a loaf of Bakehouse Farm bread, butter, a bag of spiced pecans and pumpkin pie. An individual turkey breast meal served with the Deli's housemade sage and celery stuffing and other sides is $21 per person. Oven-ready ($185) or precooked ($210 and $225) turkeys are available for ordering as well as sides, appetizers, breads and desserts.

Zingerman’s Roadhouse

Ann Arbor

A full family feast is $620 and comes with your choice of coffee, spiced-smoked or oven-roasted turkey, mashed potatoes and gravy, savory sage stuffing, vegetables, cranberry relish, Zingerman's Bakehouse bread and one large Zingerman's Bakehouse pie. You can also order a la carte sides and turkeys in different portions, including Coffee Spice Smoked Whole Turkey or a traditional oven-roasted turkey.

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