Thanksgiving in Vega$

Will be spending several days prior to and after Thanksgiving in the city this year. Any ideas for a traditional Thanksgiving dinner for my wife and I. We lean towards traditional fare on this holiday and really like family style settings. Thoughts please folks.

Every cafe, restaurant, and buffet will have their "traditional" Thanksgiving meal.
And they will be very, very busy.
Expect long lines and food that is not quite like what you expect.

Buffets will have 3-5 hour waiting lines. 2 hours if you have a VIP pass.

Family style? Like platters of turkey and dressing and veggies on your table to eat as much as you like from? Don't know about that.
You'll probably want to do buffet in that case.
Get in line early, like about 9:30 am., or plan to eat the meal mid to late evening.

My recommendation: room service. Eat in your jammies, glass of wine, TV, nice table with white tablecloth, flowers; no standing in line, no hustle bustle, no servers running around short on patience, no kiddies crying (and you can count on that). You can still get their Thanksgiving special.

Or, eat off Strip someplace. I'm sure some here have recommendations!

Regardless, enjoy your Thanksgiving week in Vegas. We will be there too!

Went to Vegas one year over Thanksgiving just to for once make the grown children (all 20 somethings used to eating mama's cooking) fend for themselves on Thanksgiving. Stayed at Planet Hollywood and ate dinner at PF Changs. No wait but no turkey either. The kids decided to deep fry a turkey and called about 10 times for advice. Have stayed home since that year. I am sure reservations can be made at most Las Vegas restaurants. As O2bnVegas said I would avoid casino buffets.

We have been there for four Thanksgivings. But we always have a rental car so have more flexibility about our options. Every year starting about a month before Thanksgiving the Las Vegas Review Journa (LVRJ)l newspaper has an online page listing all the Thanksgiving Day Special Menus including prices at many area restaurants.

Here is last year's web page:

LVRJ

https://www.reviewjournal.com/entertainment/restaurants/thanksgiving-specials-las-vegas-restaurants


They may use the same URL this year and just update the data or may have new URL for 2014?

A couple of places we have eaten that I would commend for a traditional TG meal for a reasonable price have been the Cortez Room at Gold Coast Resort and Twin Creeks Steakhouse at the Sliverton

Stay away from buffets as they typically raise their prices and give you the same food food choices you would get on non-holidays and the lines to get in will be long.

Wherever you go, go somewhere where you can make a reservation, and perhaps do it at least a couple of weeks before.

If you are staying on strip without a car, looking at last year's LVRJ's TG menu list, based on what I know about the restaurants and the prices that were being charged (that range from $15 to infinity) I'd consider the following few as generally good to excellent food available at a price below $40.

North Strip Area

The Capital Grille, Fashion Show Mall $36.00 including dessert
The Steakhouse, Circus Circus $29.95 including dessert


South Strip Area

Crossroads at House of Blues, Mandalay Bay $32.50 including dessert


Mid-Strip

Joe’s Seafood, Prime Steak & Stone Crab, Forum Shops at Caesars - $39.95 including dessert