Enjoy your Thanksgiving dinner without doing all the cooking. Just order Thanksgiving takeout dinners at one of these local places, invite family and friends and sit down to a delicious meal -- all without fussing in the kitchen. Here are some companies and restaurants on Long Island that will prepare a feast for you.
Iavarone Bros. Foods
This well-known Long Island specialty foods provider offers their popular, all-inclusive Thanksgiving dinner package. This complete, multi-course dinner includes a choice of appetizers, salads, 18-pound roasted turkey or 10-pound turkey breast, trimmings, stuffing, potatoes, sides and dessert. The package feeds 10 to 14 people and is priced at $259.00. For more information, please go to Iavarone Bros. FoodsOrder Take-Out from Prime Restaurant
You can sit down at your own table and still enjoy gourmet food from Prime restaurant. Pre-order a Thanksgiving Day dinner and pick it up on the morning of the holiday. Included are a 20-pound roasted turkey, sweet potatoes with marshmallows, brown sugar streusel, pumpkin soup with wild rice, chestnuts and spiced creme fraiche, and much more. Prime is located at 117 New York Avenue in Huntington. For more information, please go to Prime restaurant or call (631) 385-1515.Whole Foods Market - Turkey Dinner or Meat-Free and Delicious
Both Whole Foods Market, Manhasset and its sister store in Jericho offer great selections for Thanksgiving dinners. Order complete meals for 2, 8 or 12 persons. Each dinner comes with either a fully cooked or ready-to-roast, seasoned turkey.For the vegetarian or vegan in your life, there are choices beyond turkey. Whole Foods Market also offers complete vegan meals. Each comes with a savory, meatless holiday roast stuffed with wild rice and dried cranberries, curried apple-pumpkin soup and green beans and almonds, plus meatless mushroom gravy. Vegan dessert packages are also available, with choices of tasty pies.
More info: Whole Food Market, Manhasset, (516)869-8900 and Whole Foods Market, Jericho, (516) 932-1733.
Ben's Deli
With several Long Island locations, Ben's Deli offers a Thanksgiving Feast for 10 for $169.99. It includes a whole roast turkey (15 pounds average), savory stuffing, accompaniments like cranberry-pineapple compote and a choice of two sides. More info: Ben's Deli.If you'd rather sit down at one of their locations, their dining rooms are open on Thanksgiving day. A roast turkey dinner costs $19.99, or $9.99 for children.
Note: Ben's of Baldwin has moved to the Country Glen Shopping Center, 59 Old Country Road. (516) 742-3354.
Ben's of Greenvale: 140 Wheatley Plaza, Greenvale. (516) 621-3340.
Ben's of Woodbury, 7971 Jericho Turnpike, Woodbury. (516) 496-4354.
Fratelli's Market Place
Fratelli's Market Place, 77 Main Street, Stony Brook, NY, will deliver Thanksgiving feasts on the holiday anywhere from Manhattan to Montauk. Choose from a traditional Thanksgiving feast or an Italian-style feast. For more information on their extensive menu, please visit Fratelli's Market Place or call(631) 751-4445.Citarella
Buy a delicious Thanksgiving dinner from any of the Citarella locations on the East End. Choose from the one in Watermill at 760 Montauk Highway, or 2 Pantigo Road in East Hampton, or 2209 Montauk Highway in Bridgehampton. You'll feast on free range and organic turkeys and savory side dishes. Please place your order at least three days in advance by calling (631) 726-3636. For more information, please go to Citarella.East Wind Caterers
East Wind Caterers offers a traditional Thanksgiving feast that serves six to ten guests at your home for $149 plus tax. Order your Thanksgiving take-home dinner by Sunday, November 22 and pick up your savory meal from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Wednesday, November 25th. Food picked up on that day comes with reheating instructions. Or pick up the feast on Thanksgiving Day, Thursday, November 26, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. The food that day is packed hot and ready to serve. For more information, contact East Wind in Wading River, NY or call (631) 846- 2335.Copenhagen Bakery, Northport
Looking for decadent cakes, pies, cookies and more? Look no further than Northport's Copenhagen Bakery for Thanksgiving desserts like pumpkin, sweet potato pecan, pear praline and other luscious pies; pumpkin cheese cake, chocolate truffle and other tarts; cookies, mini-pastries and more. There's even an assortment of sugar-free pies. Try a traditional Danish kringle -- an almond, raspberry, apricot or chocolate Danish ring.Orders must be placed by Sunday November 22nd, in person or by calling (631)754-3256. Orders can be picked up on Wednesday, November 25th from 8a.m.-3p.m. at Copenhagen Bakery's side door.
Copenhagen Bakery
75 Woodbine Avenue
Northport, NY
(631)754-3256
