Dining Out for Thanksgiving in Charlotte

The Fox & Falcon
4905 Ashley Park Ln

Leave the cooking to the team at the QC’s new The Fox & Falcon this Thanksgiving. This SouthPark restaurant is offering a special a la carte menu featuring appetizers like burrata and burnt orange salad, clothesline double slab bacon, jumbo shrimp & crushed avocado, and more. For entrées, diners can select a traditional turkey dinner, pumpkin risotto, duck, salmon, lobster mac and cheese, and more. Finish the meal off with a pumpkin creme brulee, apple crisp, ice cream, chocolate torte, or cheesecake pops. For those looking to grab and go, The Fox & Falcon is also offering a Thanksgiving takeaway menu for families of 4 or 8, that includes turkey, all the sides, and dessert. Order grab & go here or make your dinner reservation here.

Napa on Providence & Napa at Kingsley
110 Perrin Pl & 1310 Broadcloth St, Fort Mill

Give your stove a break this Thanksgiving Day by dining at one of the Napa restaurants. Enjoy a $50 per person (excluding tax and gratuity) three course meal. Choose from a selection of salads or butternut squash bisque as your first course, then have a main like turkey, glazed pork, filet mignon, risotto, or salmon. Complete your meal with a classic Thanksgiving dessert — either pumpkin pie or apple tarte. If you’d rather order in, both restaurants also have a Thanksgiving day feast for four, including turkey and all the fixings, available.

Red Rocks Cafe
4223 Providence Rd #8

For $45 per person you can enjoy a three course Thanksgiving feast at Red Rocks Cafe. Starters include deviled eggs with cranberry sauce, chopped salad, and crab soup. For your main course, order a traditional Thanksgiving dinner complete with turkey, ham, cornbread dressing, yams, green beans, and cranberry sauce, or try a prime rib or salmon. For dessert, grab a pumpkin cheesecake, chocolate layer cake, or coconut cream cake. Red Rocks Cafe is also the perfect place to take kids this Thanksgiving, because for $25 they have a special kids menu that includes thanksgiving favorites, and penne pasta or chicken tenders for picky eaters. Reserve here.

Steak 48
4425 Sharon Rd

This SouthPark steakhouse will have expanded hours on Thanksgiving Day, open from 12PM until 9PM. On Thanksgiving, you can get all your favorite Steak 48 dishes like juicy steaks, fresh seafood, and delicious sides, but they’ll also be adding more traditional Thanksgiving fare, like turkey, stuffing, and pumpkin pie to their menu for the day. Reserve here.

MICO Restaurant
201 W Trade St

Dine inside the Grand Bohemian Hotel this Thanksgiving Day. MICO is offering a three course Thanksgiving menu for $99 per adult and $35 per child. Seatings are from 12PM to 7PM, with the dining room closing at 7PM. Reserve your spot here.

Church and Union
127 N Tryon St #8

Don’t wait to make your Thanksgiving Day reservation at Church and Union! This $65 prix-fixe menu ($30 for children 12 & under) features all your Thanksgiving favorites. Start your meal with a salad, cauliflower soup, or brussels sprouts. For your main, enjoy turkey two ways, salmon, filet, or cauliflower steak, all of which come with delicious sides like mashed potatoes, stuffing, green beans, and more. For dessert, choose among a gingerbread layer cake, carrot cake, or ice cream. Reserve here.

The Asbury
235 N Tryon St

Enjoy a Southern feast in The Asbury’s intimate dining room this Thanksgiving. Open from 1PM until 6:15PM, The Asbury will be serving all your Thanksgiving favorites for $45 per person and $15 for children 12 and younger. Starters for the table include sticky biscuits, deviled eggs, and bacon & green bean poppers. Individual entree choices are turkey, pork, vegetable stuffed collards, and a seafood dish, plus family style sides like mashed potatoes, brussels sprouts and more will accompany mains. Finish your meal with apple cake, pumpkin cheesecake, or a chocolate trifle. Reserve here.

Angeline’s
303 S Church St

Angeline’s will have a prix-fixe menu served family style on Thanksgiving Day, for $45 a person. To begin, each diner will get a choice of pumpkin bisque or a harvest salad. The main course for everyone will be turkey, with crispy brussels sprouts, focaccia stuffing, mashed potatoes, and lemon rosemary haricots verts. For dessert, apple, pecan, and pumpkin pies will be served to the table, plus truffles. There will also be pasta and pizza options available off of Angeline’s regular menu. To reserve, call 704-445-2540, or click here.

La Belle Helene
300 S Tryon St Suite 100

Have a Thanksgiving meal with a French twist at La Belle Helene this holiday. The restaurant is offering a three course prix-fixe menu for $75 ($30 for children 12 & under). Start with artisan mixed greens, roasted pumpkin soup, or truffle paté before moving on to a main course of roasted turkey, loup de mer nicoise, filet, or pappardelle bolognese. Plus, you can even order a family style side, like a basket of croissants or pommes puree to your meal. Finish it off with a sweet treat like chai poire, ice cream, or spiced pumpkin cake. Reserve here.

Eddie V’s
101 S Tryon St Suite 100

Let Eddie V’s host your Thanksgiving dinner this year with all of your favorite classic dishes including turkey, cranberry sauce, stuffing, and mashed potatoes. If you’d like a more unconventional meal this holiday, in addition to the Thanksgiving menu, the regular seafood and steak menu will be available as well. Dinner is $50 for adults and $20 for children. Reserve here.

Gallery Restaurant
10000 Ballantyne Commons Pkwy

The Gallery Restaurant, located inside the Ballantyne Hotel, is serving up an elegant four course menu on Thanksgiving Day. To start, everyone will receive a country ham croquette. Starters include your choice of butternut squash bisque, harvest salad, duck confit, or scallop & apple ravioli. For the main course, select among turkey, shepherd’s pie (vegetarian), veal porterhouse, bison brisket, or halibut, and finish your meal with pumpkin cheesecake, apple spice cake, or pecan pie. Reserve here for $123.20 per person.

The Pump House
575 Herrons Ferry Road, Rock Hill, SC

The Pump House is offering a pre-fix three course menu with traditional Thanksgiving dishes like turkey, pimento cheese mac and cheese, roasted brussels sprouts, sweet potato casserole, green bean casserole, and pumpkin pie, as well as some more unconventional choices like squash risotto, filet mignon, and a chopped wedge salad. Dinner is $50 per person without tax and gratuity. If you’d rather order in, The Pump House is also offering a takeout meal for four priced at $165 with all your favorite Thanksgiving dishes. Reserve your table here or place an order for pickup here.

Port City Club
18665 Harborside Dr, Cornelius

Dine at Port City Club with a delicious prix-fixe three course Thanksgiving menu, priced at $59 for adults and $28 for children 10 and under. Choose an appetizer like tuna tartare tacos, oysters, bacon, and more. For your entrée, select among a traditional Thanksgiving dinner, steak, chicken, pasta, and seafood. Finish your meal with your choice of pumpkin cheesecake, apple pie, or pecan pie. For those looking to enjoy Port City Club’s cooking in the comfort of their own home, the restaurant is also offering a “Grab n’ Gobble” meal, for a family of four of eight, which both include turkey, sides, salad, and dessert. Make your reservation here or order your meal to go here.

Drift on Lake Wylie
315-M Lanyard Ln, Belmont, NC

Enjoy Thanksgiving dinner with a view at Drift. The restaurant is offering a prix-fixe, three course menu including salad, soup or ravioli starters, turkey, glazed pork loin, salmon, or tenderloin entrées with sides, and choice of pumpkin spice cheesecake or chocolate pecan pie for dessert. The meal is $60 per person, not including tax and gratuity. Reserve here.

Ordering in for Thanksgiving in Charlotte

Sunflower Baking Co.
Multiple Locations

Leave the baking to Sunflower Baking Co. this Thanksgiving Day with their extensive menu. Featuring pies like apple, pecan, pumpkin and cheesecake, sweets like cinnamon rolls, cranberry-raspberry bars, and holiday cookies, and savories like brioche rolls, cheddar biscuits, and quiches, the Sunflower Baking Co. menu is guaranteed to add something delicious to your table. Place your order before November 17th, or walk-in November 20th – 24th. Sunflower is open on Thanksgiving Day until 12PM!

Reid’s Fine Foods
Multiple Locations

Reid’s Fine Foods has an extensive Thanksgiving menu that will keep you full for the entire day, with plenty of leftovers. For breakfast, order a selection of biscuits, sweet rolls, and savory rolls. Before the big meal, snack on charcuterie, crab cakes, shrimp cocktail, and deviled eggs. For the main event, opt for cooked or uncooked free-range turkey, beef tenderloin, bone-in turkey breast, boneless turkey breast, or ham, in your choice of size. Reid’s is also offering 12 sides, from a selection of vegetables, to mac and cheese, stuffing, and potatoes. Plus, soups, breads, and sauces are also on the menu. If you can find the room in your stomach after all that, finish the meal with a pie or cake. Order your feast here.

Leah & Louise
301 Camp Rd

Let a James Beard nominated chef handle the cooking this Thanksgiving when you order your feast from Leah & Louise. Mains, which serve four, include smoked lamb shank and whole roasted chicken with apple cider gravy. Sides include smoked mushroom and tomato braised collards, almond butter green bean casserole, turkey sausage and cornbread dressing, sweet potato fingerlings, and three cheese mac. All mains and sides can be mixed and matched, and don’t forget to pick up a browned butter pound cake with sweet potato caramel for dessert. Order here for pickup November 21st.

Babe & Butcher
301 Camp Rd #102

A charcuterie board will definitely be a hit on your Thanksgiving table this year. Order a board from Babe & Butcher that comes with an assortment of cheeses, meats, fruits, nuts, and lots of other goodies. Plus, they’ll deliver from 8:30AM to 11:30AM on Thanksgiving Day, anywhere from Lake Wylie to Lake Norman.

YAFO Kitchen
Multiple Locations

Order your thanksgiving spread from YAFO. Shawarma turkey, greek yogurt mac and cheese, mashed potatoes, brussels sprouts, holiday rice, Turkish street corn and more are all on the menu this year. Order here by Friday, November 17th for pick up on Wednesday, November 22nd.

Fern, Flavors From the Garden
1419 East Blvd A

For all the vegans out there, Fern, Flavors From the Garden is the perfect one-stop-shop for a vegan Thanksgiving dinner. The menu includes all-vegan pumpkin cheesecake, shepherd’s pie, truffle mac and cheese, stuffing, pumpkin bisque, brussels sprouts, and more. Order here by midnight on November 16th, for pickup at The Morehead Inn or home delivery in the Charlotte area November 21st and 22nd.

Salted Melon Market & Eatery
100 West Worthington Ave, Suite 107

The Salted Melon Market & Eatery is offering a full mix and match Thanksgiving menu. For the main course, choose a cooked or uncooked whole turkey or beef tenderloins. Pair your main with your favorite sides, including mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, stuffing, mac and cheese, creamed corn, carrots, cranberry sauce, yeast rolls, and more. For dessert, order a pumpkin pie, apple pie, pecan pie, chocolate pecan pie, or a tray of brownies. Order here for pickup on November 21st or 22nd.

Midwood Smokehouse
Multiple Locations

Midwood Smokehouse has a large variety of Thanksgiving meats and sides ready to reheat on the big day. Choose a main dish of smoked turkey breast or a whole smoked turkey, ham, beef brisket, chopped pork, pulled chicken, or order multiple. For sides, grab the classics like turkey gravy, mashed potatoes, mac and cheese, green beans, collared greens, baked beans, cornbread and more, to have yourself a true Southern thanksgiving. Order here by Friday, November 17th for pickup on Wednesday, November 22nd.

Honeybear Bake Shop
4402 Stuart Andrew Blvd

Leave the desserts to Honeybear Bake Shop this Thanksgiving. Desserts available for order include an apple crumb cookie pie (gluten-free option available), gooey chocolate chip cookie pie (gluten-free option available), gooey pumpkin buttercake blondie (3-pack) and bourbon chocolate pecan pie brownies (3-pack). Order here by 5PM on November 18th, for pickup on November 22nd (9AM – 5PM) or November 23rd (9AM – 12PM).

The Culture Shop
1425 Kennon St

Grab some elegant hors d’oeuvres to snack on before the big meal from The Culture Shop. Their Thanksgiving day menu includes mini goat cheese truffles, baked brie, whipped feta, fall pasta salad and various sizes of cheese and charcuterie boards. Call 704-458-3207 or email thecultureshoporders@gmail.com to place an order by 7PM on November 17th. Pickup is from 12PM-5PM on November 22nd.

Renaissance Patisserie
6401 Carnegie Blvd #4A

This SouthPark staple is serving up Thanksgiving dinner for its third year. Family pack meals for four or six people are available and include roasted turkey breast, stuffing, green beans and shallots, sweet potatoes, orange and cranberry relish, house-made gravy, and choice of soup, salad, bread, and a pie. Call 980-819-8771, or email renaissancepatisserie@gmail.com to place your order.

Author’s Note: This article was written by Alex Maloney. You can find more of her Charlotte-related content on Instagram, @slicesandsushi.