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QUESTION: Have you ever gone to a restaurant for Thanksgiving dinner? If so – where did you go, and was did you enjoy the experience, or would you rather eat at home?
Talk about it….
Not for a meal, … just a morning snack.
Rather have homecooked Thanksgiving Dinner
Yes ….. growing up in Socal…. would go to a restaurant called Dupar’s ….homecooked type food – probably not in business anymore
Dupar’s…in the old Farmer’s Market. I worked Mid-Wilshire for 10+ years in the 80s and 90s. Dupar’s was a go-to spot!
Just once. On a vacation to New York City about ten years ago. Well worth doing on on a fabulous trip to the Big Apple!
In the 80s, when the all-you-can-eat buffets in Reno were around $2.99,
we were looking for a nice buffet that was not serving the traditional
Thanksgiving dinner, but we couldn’t find one. So we had to settle
for a turkey dinner. I was disappointed because when I go out to eat,
I’d rather order something that I don’t or can’t make myself at home.
But on that Thanksgiving Day in Reno, every casino we went to,
was serving the traditional turkey dinner and nothing else.
We ended up eating at John Ascuaga’s Nugget in Sparks, which
turned out to be a pretty good meal, their deserts were superb
and exceeded in satisfying my sweet tooth.
Lots of Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Marines both deployed, forward deployed and garrisoned look forward to DFAC meals and MREs every year (said with tongue firmly in my cheek).
R.E.D. Remember Everyone Deployed.
I can neither confirm nor deny going to sea on a submarine for Thanksgiving!
Once. My parents and I went back up to WA for Thanksgiving in 1973. All of the family up there lived east of Seattle the time. Family rented the Grange Hall, complete with kitchen as there were around 45 of us. The power went out and was out all day and evening. We missed the days when the “old timers” in the family were alive as they all had coal stoves. We piled into cars and went to Seattle for Chinese food.
Several times in the 1990s with relatives until most of the restaurants would not be open on Thanksgiving. Not everyone was that fond of turkey so they could order what they wanted.
Yes … had to get Chinese one year when the neighbor’s dog tore through our kitchen and ate our turkey.
was the bird “smiling” at you?
Haha! Of course!!
Once, after two close family members died.
No. We’ve always had Thanksgiving dinner with family, from ever since I was a child, and we’re doing it this year too.
Yes once years ago on a road trip we stopped at the blueberry Hill Cafe for our Thanksgiving dinner
I do not recall eating at a restaurant for Thanksgiving, so I have to say no.
One year, after I had been divorced for a few years. My good friend that lived here in Concord (I lived in Foster City then) invited my daughter and I to join him and his aunt and uncle at there country club, thanksgiving dinner. They lived in Rossmoor, I’m not sure which country club, Lafayette or Orinda, it was back in the eighties, or perhaps there’s just one country club in that area. It was nice, but in general I prefer thanksgiving at my house, or a good friends house. I generally prefer my own cooking.
Before my exhusband and I were married we travelled to visit his family in Madison Wisconsin. We might have gone to the country club for a Thanksgiving meal, I don’t remember. I do remember we had a great meal at his aunt and uncles, she was a gourmet cook, but that was after thanksgiving.
Back in the 80’s, our family was staying at a cabin in Serene Lakes on Donner Summit. It was an electric kitchen and mom had dinner going with a turkey in the oven. It was snowing pretty hard most of the day and the wind was blowing pretty good. With about 2 hours left on the bird the power went out. Well, we lit plenty of candles and had a roaring fire going in the Franklin stove to keep warm but ended up with tuna sandwiches for thanksgiving dinner that night!
I think the only other dinner option back then was the Donner Summit Lodge back by I-80.