Photo from Eddy V's website
By Kayla Roberts
Thanksgiving is just that, a time to give thanks, but it can easily turn overwhelming once you've started that two-page to-do list. This year, skip the grocery store lines, the overloaded sink and the extensive cleaning for guests and let these 10 Fort Worth restaurants prepare a Thanksgiving feast for you.
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Bird Cafe is offering a Thanksgiving brunch with turkey and a few more unconventional dishes like housemade corned beef stuffing benedict and chicken fried quail and waffles.
Where: 155 East 4th
Hours: 11 a.m.-3 p.m.
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You will want to wear stretchy pants for this one. The popular Thanksgiving brunch buffet at Buttons is coming back this year, with classics like chicken and waffles, as well as Thanksgiving dishes like the traditional turkey. Kids eat for $15.
Where: 4701 West Freeway
Hours: 10 a.m.-7 p.m.
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A prix-fixe menu will include slow-roasted turkey with brioche stuffing, a side of French green beans with marcona almonds, and cranberry pear chutney. If you aren't stuffed from dinner, dig into some pumpkin cheesecake for dessert. Kids eat for $15, and there will be a full a la carte menu available.
Where: 800 Main St.
Hours: 11 a.m.-9 p.m.
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Located in the Omni Hotel downtown, Cast Iron Grill will offer a Thanksgiving dinner with gourmet twists on holiday classics, like Turkey Ballotine, made with apricot corn bread stuffing, and Cabernet Braised Short Rib. Children under 5 eat free.
Where: 1300 Houston St.
Hours: 11 a.m.-3 p.m.
$$$$
Del Frisco's Double Eagle Steakhouse
Del Frisco's Double Eagle Steakhouse is offering a traditional prix-fixe menu that includes slow-roasted turkey breast, apple sausage stuffing, cranberry relish, and butternut squash soup. For dessert, you can satisfy your sweet tooth with either pumpkin cheesecake or pecan pie a la mode.
Where: 812 Main St.
Hours: Noon- 8 p.m.
$$$
Del Frisco's Grille will include a very similar menu to Double Eagle, but will also include a few different Thanksgiving options like the guilty pleasures of deviled eggs and molten chocolate cake.
Where: 154 East 3rd St.
Hours: 11 a.m.-8 p.m.
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Eddie V's is setting aside the seafood to do a more conventional Thanksgiving dinner with turkey breast and gravy, brioche sage stuffing, cranberry chutney, hand whipped potatoes, French green beans, sun-dried tomatoes and roasted butternut squash. For dessert, there is an option between traditional pumpkin pie and a pumpkin pie tartlet. Kids eat for $15.
Where: 3100 W. 7th St.
Hours: 11 a.m.-8 p.m.
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Lonesome Dove will be serving its main dinner menu, as well as a few Turkey Day specials like turkey stuffing, onion-bacon Brussels sprouts and cranberry glaze.
Where: 2406 N. Main St.
Hours: 11 a.m.-8 p.m.
$$
Ruth's Chris Steakhouse is offering a three-course meal. Start with a choice of a Caesar or Steak House salad, or a seafood gumbo. Then enjoy an entree of traditional oven-roasted turkey breast with sausage herb stuffing, homemade gravy and cranberry relish. Choose from sides like mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes or creamed spinach. Finish with pumpkin cheesecake and vanilla ice cream. Kids eat for just under $12.95.
Where: 813 Main St.
Hours: Noon-8 p.m.
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Silver Fox will serve a four-course Thanksgiving meal, with starters like butternut squash soup and two salad options. There are three options for entrees including traditional slow-roasted turkey, Atlantic salmon and Châteaubriand with Bordelaise sauce. For dessert, indulge in either pumpkin pie, Kentucky bourbon pecan pie or cheesecake with raspberry sauce.
Kids 12 and under eat for $16.95.
Where: 1651 S. University Drive
Hours: Noon-8 p.m.
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