26 Restaurants Serving Thanksgiving Dinner in 2017

Cooking a Thanksgiving dinner takes a lot of work — not only does the bird take several hours to get fully cooked, but preparing all of the side dishes and desserts can extend the preparations into the night before the holiday.

Even asking guests to bring dishes or going all potluck doesn’t free you from having to do the dishes and clean up afterward.

That’s what can make going to a restaurant for Thanksgiving so appealing by contrast.

You might have to make reservations well in advance but that’s the full extent of what you’ll have to do if you go out to eat instead of host a Thanksgiving dinner.

Thanksgiving Dinner at a Restaurant

Here are 26 restaurants that are open on Thanksgiving for dinner this year:

1. Applebee’s
2. Buca di Beppo
3. Black Angus Steakhouse
4. Bob Evans
5. Boston Market
6. Buca di Beppo
7. Capital Grille
8. Claim Jumper
9. Country Cookin
10. Cracker Barrel
11. Denny’s
12. Fleming’s Prime Steakhouse and Wine Bar
13. Golden Corral
14. IHOP
15. Legal Sea Foods
16. Luby’s
17. Maggiano’s Little Italy
18. Marie Callender’s Restaurant & Bakery
19. McCormick & Schmick’s
20. Ruby Tuesday
21. Ruth’s Chris Steak House
22. Romano’s Macaroni Grill
23. Smith & Wollensky
24. Ted’s Montana Grill
25. TGI Friday’s
26. Waffle House

More Options

If you’re interested in finding out about which restaurants are open in select cities on Thanksgiving, check out the directory on Gayot.com, which breaks out restaurant listings in 25 different geographical areas.

Or if you want to take things in another direction, Gayot also lists Thanksgiving takeout choices in New York and Los Angeles.

Readers, what are your Thanksgiving plans looking like?