Where to have Thanksgiving dinner in Miami

The Overtown restaurant from celebrity chef Marcus Samuelsson will serve a prix-fixe menu to be eaten there or boxed up for takeout. The menu, starting at $35 for kids and $95 for adults, will include options, like Marcus’ cornbread, a tuna tiradito with cantaloupe, a rosemary fried turkey with roasted celeriac and smoked oxtail. There are bountiful vegan substitutions, and then desserts like chocolate pecan pie and macaroons.

Jeremy Ford’s Coral Gables restaurant will offer a special menu that includes an heirloom vegetable salad, herb-marinated turkey breast with whipped potatoes and a classic pumpkin pie. It’s Jeremy Ford, so of course all that will be good, but we’re most looking forward to one of the available sides: a savory mushroom bread pudding with herb jus. 

Edan Bistro, that Spanish restaurant you’ve been hearing a lot about, will offer an eight-course Thanksgiving tasting menu from November 25 to December 1. (Now that’s Miami Time!) The $100-per-person menu includes fried Idiazábal cheese stuffed with black truffle, garlic shrimp with tender beans and lobster foam, beef tenderloin with mushroom duxelle and a Basque-style cheesecake with cranberry ice cream.

Miami’s only two-Michelin-starred restaurant will be open for dinner from 6 to 9:30pm on Thanksgiving. And while the lineup of the holiday menu was still a surprise when this article went live, there’s always the iconic purée de pomme, which will make you never again want to eat any other mashed potato.

The more casual downstairs sister restaurant of L’Atelier boasts a Michelin star of its own. It’ll open on Thanksgiving to serve its regular, vegetable-forward menu. Pro tip: ask for a table outside in its leafy courtyard for a truly Miami-esque holiday.

What began as a Greek restaurant in Montreal and then spread across the globe, the Estiatorio Milos’ outpost in Miami will serve a three-course prix fixe lunch on Thanksgiving for $48. They’ll stay open until midnight for dinner, when the full a la carte menu will also be on offer. 

One of the toughest tables to book in Miami, Carbone will release a special Thanksgiving reservation allocation. The $255-per-person menu covers many of the Carbone specialties, like Mario’s Meatballs, shrimp cocktail and, because you can’t come here without it, the Spicy Rigatoni Vodka. There’s also glazed turkey with cornbread stuffing and, to finish, a pumpkin cheesecake. Before you eat, give thanks that you scored seats. 

All Argentines are grillmasters, but Francis Mallmann may be the king of them all, so of course his Thanksgiving menu will get hit with fire. Specials include wood-fired mushrooms, a turkey “Pamplona” with black truffle gravy, crispy lamb chops with roasted pumpkin puree and an apple-fig crostata. 

One of our favorite weekend brunch spots is also doing its thing on Thanksgiving, laying out a traditional spread of roast turkey, grilled meats and seafood, sushi and Asian dishes. Of course drinks and bottomless champagne will flow, and The Vinyl Blvd jazz band will play from that island in the middle of the pool, which is a reason we make this a regular Sunday destination.

The sophisticated speakeasy-style Brickell hotspot will serve its regular menu. But there’s a veritable Thanksgiving menu to be had here, including Young Glaze Chicken, creamed corn and whipped potatoes. This is typically a reservations-needed type of spot, so get over to OpenTable soon.

The restaurant from chef Michael White inside the Fontainebleau Miami Beach will offer a four-course dinner for $85 per person. This is a coastal Italian spot, so the menu includes branzino with Umbrian lentils and the dessert Gianduja Budino, which, while not Thanksgiving-ish, combines chocolate, hazelnut and citrus in ways that might just become your new holiday tradition. 

Two people can dine for $125 at Joia, with the menu including turkey with gravy, garlic mash and green beans. There’s an add-on pumpkin crème brûlée for 20 bucks, but it’s the holidays, so we say go for it.

Found within Brickell’s EAST Miami hotel, Quinto will serve a Latin-inspired holiday menu for $75. It’ll include pumpkin soup with Iberico ham, turkey rubbed with adobo and a pumpkin flan with a dulce de leche foam.

One of the trendy-looking spots hoping to anchor a turn-around of the pedestrian mall, Issabella’s will add a three-course holiday prix fixe to its Mediterranean menu. It’ll start with a foie gras toast or lobster ravioli before heading into a traditional roasted turkey, ending with a fall berry pavlova or classic pecan pie. The three courses will cost $85, but kids get half off. 

The National Hotel's tapas restaurant will add a lineup of small plates inspired by traditional Thanksgiving dishes. Choose between turkey with chorizo and raisin crumble, beef short ribs with wild mushrooms and baby marble potatoes with blistered peppers in confit garlic. Or, it’s the holidays and just order all of the special dishes.