The mouth-watering takeaway menus from restaurants across the state provide a great excuse to keep you away from the oven on this Turkish day.

At the risk of sounding like your mother, it’s time to start thinking about what to do for Thanksgiving this year — even more so if you plan to take out. 

The holiday that was once reserved as a family cooking day is increasingly becoming a day of unpacking professional cooking feasts and following simple reheating instructions, even for fraternity boys. Thanksgiving takeaway freed us from the embarrassing process of extracting the internal organs of the plastic bag, or worse, finding a melted plastic bag internal organs. It guarantees that we will not end up eating a leather, deflated turkey football like Griswolds, nor will we spend half a day peeling potatoes and yams like a chef. Unlike our own oven, takeaway rarely disappoints us.

Maybe you tried Thanksgiving takeaway for the first time last year, when the restaurant took the rabbit from the turkey butt to make up for the loss of profits caused by the pandemic. But even before the takeaway transformation in 2020, Luby's has been providing meal packages for Black Friday night like a well-functioning machine for at least ten years. Its "Let's cook!" For those who don't think that spending a day in the kitchen is the ideal way to spend their holidays, the slogan has become the sound of the triangular dinner bell. 

As Dan Solomon wrote in the Texas Monthly four years ago in an article titled "In Defense of Eating Dangdang at Luby's Thanksgiving Dinner", this historic cafeteria-style restaurant is "a place for us Many of the people are full of various feelings, and it’s bad to have no one of them.” Despite the current inflationary pressures, Thanksgiving dine-in specials are still less than US$12. For take-out dinners, the list below is the most affordable and The traditional Texas option is now open to accept orders.

We did mouth-watering research, looking for Thanksgiving takeaway options across the state, including non-traditional options such as Chinese, Mediterranean, and Filipino feasts, and of course barbecue. These limited quantities of products tend to sell out quickly, so if you prefer to wear stretch pants and sit in an easy chair to watch the game this year, please place your order as soon as possible-no mixing, beating or smearing required. 

Have you tried pumpkin hummus or honey pie? I haven't yet, but top chef alumnus CJ Jacobson’s take-out dinner at Aba, a Mediterranean restaurant from Chicago that opened last year in the famous "SoCo" promenade in Austin, seems to be a healthy choice. Products include beef tenderloin skewers, crispy chicken drumsticks with vegetables and butternut squash, and black truffle orzo.

Meals for groups of two, four or six are $59.95 per person. The delivery time is November 24th. Order through Tock before 9 a.m. on November 21

Winner of the 2017 James Beard Award for Best Chef: Southwest, Chilango chef Hugo Ortega offers similar takeaway menus at two of his four restaurants in Houston. Pineapple Havana full spiral ham, a dozen tamales or chocolate cake sounds enough to attract fans of any Mexican food away from American orthodoxy. Because you have to eat more than one dessert a day, you can also add a pumpkin pie with meringue and cayeta, and a capilotada bread pudding.

Author: José R. Ralat

Author: José R. Ralat

Caracol and Hugo's will start ordering on November 7th, and meals will be served between 11 am and 8 pm on November 24. The last day to place an order is November 21st. Family dinner packages for eight to ten people start at $225. The couple’s dinner is US$95, and there is also an a la carte service. 

Reservations are now open at Convenience West, Marfa's best barbecue station, under the helm of pitmaster Mark Scott. You will want to buy a whole breast for $140, or three pounds of smoked turkey breast for $60. The famous carrot dipping sauce with red bell peppers and pepitas is also available, as well as cranberry orange chess and cherry almond pie.

Orders should be picked up on November 24th. Includes instructions for reheating. 

Texas’ most famous pig hunter, Jesse Griffiths, will once again offer Thanksgiving dinner at Dai Due this year, which will include cooked options such as nilgai antelope salami and wild boar summer sausage. Organic Belle Vie turkey is sold out, but smoked wild boar ham ($75), ready-to-eat quail ($8 each) and turkey sausage ($16 each) are still on the market. Side dishes like mashed chicken with sweet potato and dirty game rice sauce will make carnivores lick their ribs, and even use these products in frozen pie dough made with butter and fresh lard.

Order now and pick up on November 22, 23, or 24. Many places have been booked.

"The crown jewel of West Texas Barbecue", Evie Mae's near Lubbock sells twice-smoked ham with spiced sugar glaze for $70. Meat options continue to use oak smoked brisket ($160), turkey breast ($50) and whole turkey coated with spiced honey butter ($120). The gluten-free dessert menu includes pumpkin and chocolate pecan pie, as well as apple pie.

Vacuum-sealed ham, beef brisket and turkey breast can be picked up on November 23; enjoy hot ham and turkey on November 24. There are desserts on these two days. Order here. 

Feges is formed by the husband and wife culinary power team Erin Smith and Patrick Feges, and provides two staging areas from which you can pick up the table center. Vacuum-sealed turkey breasts, sausages, sirloin and ribs will be available at two locations in Houston on November 23 and 24, whole turkey and bone-in rum-glazed prosciutto (both $135) Fresh from the oven. Pick up from Spring Branch on Thanksgiving morning. 

As we reported in the top 50 list, the Korean braised vegetables that stole the limelight in Feges, which “probably the best barbecue side dish in Texas”. There is a 9 x 12 inch deep vegetable plate on the menu. Other noodles include cinnamon butter pork fat corn bread and dessert rum raisin bread pudding (all $40). Orders can be placed here until November 17th.

If you like pastrami and foods wrapped in pastrami, Kenny and Ziggy's, a kosher deli in Houston, is your first choice for Thanksgiving. The comprehensive Thanksgiving à la carte menu includes appetizers such as pastrami-wrapped pineapple, as well as 32 types of cakes, cheesecakes and pies from the bakery, such as sweet noodles kugel, kasha varnishkas, roasted garlic and schmaltzed potatoes and other classic kosher noodles. 

The complete meal includes a 16-pound turkey with gravy, two plates of wild mushroom and chestnut stuffing, cranberry pineapple nut sauce, two sides, and a mile high apple pie for $295. The deadline for Thanksgiving orders is November 18, and the delivery date is November 24. The order form is here. 

Landrace is the newest restaurant opened by James Beard Award finalist Steve McHugh at the Thompson San Antonio–Riverwalk Hotel. Here, turkey takeaway will be provided on Thanksgiving. Choose from the $96 full-roasted turkey and pike rolls with gravy, or the 16-ounce Wagyu Wellington beef ($150) with Bordeaux wine. Home-style side dishes include roasted cajeta glazed carrots and coal roasted sweet potatoes ($25 each).

Orders must be placed before November 11th, and the pick-up time is November 26th.

Mick Jagger's favorite barbecue restaurant in Dallas will provide Thanksgiving takeaway for the tenth time this year. Co-owner Jill Bergus said that Central Texas-style smoked turkey ($79.99) and ham ($75) have always been popular items, but there is also the iconic black skin full breast ($260), which can be up to Twenty were eaten.

Orders for vacuum-sealed meat and aluminum half-plate classic barbecue noodles can be accepted on November 23 or 24. The deadline for ordering is 5pm on November 20th. The order link is here.

At Loro’s Dallas branch, Aaron Franklin of Franklin Grill and Tyson Cole of Uchi introduced a sauce that includes grilled brioche and Thai sausage, paired with oak smoked turkey breast and served with miso and rat Gravy made from tail grass. Finish the meal with grapefruit peach pie and five-spice mascarpone.

The package is priced at $190, can be fed 4 to 6, and will be available for pickup on November 24. Orders can be placed here.

In a small space in the Dallas office building, but a very tasty deli, Mary's Kitchen will provide Filipino Thanksgiving meal packs for the second time this year. Anyone who is tired of turkey before Turkish Day will love the crunchy and moist lechon tripe, paired with arroz a la valenciana and pancit bihon, the mother of paella, fine rice noodles with Chinese pork sausage, shrimp and more pork belly. Biko, Filipino sweet rice cakes with coconut milk, ginger and brown sugar are desserts.

The package can provide 4 to 5, the price is 100 US dollars, the extra quantity can be used for additional. Call 972-234-8383 before 4 pm on November 19 to place an order, and the delivery date is November 25.  

Butcher, chef and takeaway chef Misti Norris will host a Thanksgiving feast from farm to takeaway, with a size of 2 to 4 or 4 to 6 people. The main display is the miso glazed turkey breast and smoked chicken legs and wings, as well as the unusual broccoli and cheese casserole with crisp green onions. Forget the humble white bread rolls, she will use pastrami fat focaccia with Qingchuan koji butter and chocolate pecan pie for dessert. 

Please check the website on Thursday, November 11th for the full menu, ordering instructions and prices.

After eating slow-bone takeaway on my Isolation Thanksgiving last year, when two sides that are as delicious as sirloin with perfect joints are on sale, it would be ridiculous for me to try cooking for the holiday again. Pitmaster Jeffery Hobbs said that his top 50 alliance "emphasizes both sides when conceived", and some have gone through multiple iterations. This is how it has won my family’s first battle and has been a model in my heart since the sweet potato pralines. superior.

In addition to the small package of 4 to 6 servings for $135, the Whole Barnyard package can provide 10 to 12 servings, including a whole piece of smoked turkey breast, two pounds of sirloin, one rib and three delicious honey butter cornbreads. It is 285 US dollars. Both packages can be ordered hot, ready-to-eat, or refrigerated, vacuum sealed and ready to be reheated. 

The hero of the hospitality industry, Chris Shepherd, will host a Thanksgiving event in Georgia James, which is one of the seven concepts of the Underbelly Hospitality Group. Although I am sure that three pounds of smoked turkey breast sliced ​​with butter ($42) would be good, this is a Shepherd family tradition, such as rum sausage and old Underbelly classics such as vinegar pie and Chilean Tater Tot casserole , Let me put the recipe on my Santa and consider going to Houston this holiday season. 

The deadline for online ordering is November 19th. Each party provides four copies at a cost of $27 each. The entire pie sells for $32, and the soup ($50) a day after Thanksgiving will be a sure way to help get rid of the turkey. 

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