ASHEVILLE – Make this year’s Thanksgiving Day feast more special with dishes prepared by Asheville restaurants and caterers.
Holiday menus for dine-in ready-to-eat preordered dishes for pick-up are available at these area businesses. Plus, where to find locally raised turkeys and free, prepared Thanksgiving-themed meals for those impacted by Tropical Storm Helene.:
Send your business’s holiday dining information to tkennell@citizentimes.com.
Bargello
Bargello invites diners to spend Thanksgiving Day at the restaurant, 12-8 p.m. Nov. 28 at 7 Patton Ave. in Kimpton Hotel Arras downtown.
Chef Tyler Slade’s Italian-and-Mediterranean-inspired, four-course family-style prix fixe menu features roasted turkey, sage and Italian sausage stuffing, chive whipped garlic potatoes, warm apple cake and tiramisu.
The cost is $89 per adult and $49 per child, plus tax and gratuity.
Reserve online on OpenTable. View the full menu at bargelloavl.com/thanksgiving/.
Embassy Suites
Embassy Suites’ Thanksgiving feast will be from 12-4 p.m. at 192 Haywood St. downtown.
The holiday menu features Joyce Farmes roasted turkey, honey-glazed ham, green bean casserole, sage-infused whipped potatoes, candied sweet potatoes, and an assortment of holiday sweets. Nonalcoholic beverages and kid mocktails are included. The restaurant offers a full cash bar.
The cost is $55 per adult and $25 for children ages 4-14. Kids age 3 and under are free.
Reserve a table at EventBrite or call (828) 367-7873. For parties of eight or more, email avles_ds@hilton.com. On-site parking is available.
Hearts with Hands
Hearts with Hands, a disaster relief organization, is planning a drive-thru meal and supply distribution from 12-4 p.m. on Nov. 27 at Hearts with Hands Warehouse, 850 Warren Wilson Road in Swannanoa.
Register at heartswithhands.org or call 828-667-1912 by noon on Nov. 25.
The registered family member will receive a free turkey, sides, desserts and drinks, and offered essential items like cleaning products, hygiene kits, paper products, non-perishable food boxes and baby and pet supplies.
Hickory Nut Gap Meats
Hickory Nut Gap Meats’ pasture-raised turkeys are available for preorders.
The turkeys are $7.99/lb and weights range from 13-22 lbs. Reserve a turkey with a nonrefundable $20 deposit at shop.hickorynutgap.com.
Purchase a turkey for $136 to be donated to a family impacted by Tropical Storm Helene. Manna Food Bank, Foothills Food Hub and Southside Community Farm and food pantry will distribute the turkeys.
Pick-ups will be from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Nov. 24 at HNG’s Farm Store at 57 Sugar Hollow Road in Fairview.
Laughing Seed Café
Laughing Seed Café is offering a vegan Thanksgiving Day catering menu. Items include herbed butternut squash roast, cremini mushroom gravy, cornbread stuffing, organic maple-braised Brussels sprouts and pumpkin spice cake with cinnamon “cream cheese” frosting.
The menu includes gluten and nut-free dishes. Dishes are available in pint or quart sizes only.
Preorders are accepted until 7 p.m. on Nov. 24. Place orders in person at the restaurant or call (828) 252-3445 during business hours. Pick-ups are scheduled for 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Nov. 27 at 40 Wall St. downtown.
The restaurant will be closed on Thanksgiving Day.
For more, visit laughingseed.com and follow @laughing.seed.cafe on Instagram.
Montgomery Sky Farm
Montogomery Sky Farm’s Tropical Storm Helene food outreach efforts will continue with Thanksgiving meals for those in need.
Executive Chef Taylor Montgomery and Chef Cat Beraud will prepare scratch-made, heat-and-eat meals with serving sizes for three-to-six people for purchase for $300.
Customers may pay it forward and purchase a meal for a family impacted by Tropical Storm Helene.
Menu highlights include whole roasted turkey with citrus-sage rub, smoked salt and pan jus, butter-whipped Kennebec potatoes with chive crème fraîche, and sweet potato crisp with oat streusel and pecan praline.
View the full menu and preorder by Nov. 20 at montgomeryskyfarm.myshopify.com/.
Meals are available for pick-up on Nov. 27 at the Leicester farm or request delivery to the Asheville and Greenville areas.
Pack’s Tavern
Pack’s Tavern’s Thanksgiving Day buffet will return from 11 a.m.- 7 p.m. at 20 South Spruce St. downtown.
The menu features maple and brown sugar-glazed ham, herb-roasted turkey, fall harvest salad, cornbread dressing with turkey gravy, maple-whipped mashed potatoes, Southern collard greens, whole berry cranberry sauce, and a dessert trio of pecan pie, pumpkin pie and Granny Smith apple crisp.
Gluten and dairy-free and vegan dishes are available.
Multiple buffet stations will be set up upstairs and downstairs.
The cost is $49.99 for adults and $24.99 for children ages 10 and under.
Reserve a table at packstavern.com or call (828) 225-6944.
Quench! Wine Bistro
On Nov. 13, Quench! Wine Bistro will host a wine tasting, in collaboration with Metro Wines, from 3-5 p.m. with Juniper Cooper of Johnson Brothers/Mutual Distribution featuring wine selections ideal for the Thanksgiving table. Quench is at 50 North Merrimon in Reynolds Village.
For more, visit quenchavl.com/tastings-events.
RendezVous
RendezVous will host Thanksgiving at its East Asheville restaurant at 184 New Haw Creek Road.
Multiple seating times are available from noon to 5:45 p.m.
Reservations for parties of five people or fewer may be made on OpenTable. For large parties with six or more guests, call and leave a message at (828) 348-0909 and a staff member will call back to book the reservation, or email manager, Darrell, at darrell@ashevillebouchon.com.
The menu is to be announced.
RendezVous’s downtown sister restaurant, Bouchon remains closed due to Tropical Storm Helene. The restaurant team reported that Bouchon’s staff is working at RendezVous, which now has expanded hours of operations, opening at 4 p.m. daily.
For more, visit ashevillerendezvous.com.
Rocky’s Hot Chicken Shack
Rocky’s Hot Chicken Shack’s holiday menu features scratch-made appetizers, sides and desserts.
Highlights include deviled eggs with candied bacon and pimento cheese dip, sweet potato casserole, green beans, mac & cheese, corn pudding, collard greens, potato salad, squash casserole and mashed potatoes (with or without gravy). Dessert options are Rocky’s Coca-Cola cake, chocolate, banana or butterscotch pudding or sweet and spicy pecans.
Reheating instructions are included. Various serving sizes are available.
Preorder at rockyshotchickenshack.com/thanksgiving-preorder/ through Nov. 24 and pick up on Nov. 26-27 at 1455 Patton Ave. in Asheville or 3749 Sweeten Creek Road in Arden.
The Exchange
The Exchange, on the first floor of The Restoration Hotel, will host a Thanksgiving feast from 12-8 p.m. on Nov. 28 at 68 Patton Ave. downtown.
Reserve at EventBrite and visit theexchangeasheville.com for updates.
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Tiana Kennell is the food and dining reporter for the Asheville Citizen Times, part of the USA Today Network. She is a graduate of Michigan State University and covered the arts, entertainment and hospitality in Louisiana for several years. Email her at tkennell@citizentimes.com or follow her on Instagram @PrincessOfPage.
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