Thanksgiving Events And Specials

With Thanksgiving just around the corner, restaurants and specialty shops around town find their own ways to celebrate and honor this food-centric holiday. From special dinners, ways to make your dinner home easier, and week-long social media promotions, there seems to be something for everyone.

ChoLon launches Week of Thanks to celebrate the community and its customers. This promotional campaign will show appreciation to its loyal diners. Each morning, beginning on Sunday, November 19 through Wednesday 11/21, a unique daily offer will be revealed on ChoLon's Facebook page and website to be redeemed in the restaurant that same day. The word is some of these daily specials will involve getting 50% off small bites, from 5pm to close. Guests will have the opportunity to either redeem the deal for themselves or contribute the corresponding value back to the community. At the end of the week ChoLon will present the total charitable contributions generated, to the LoDo Cares Holiday Project, a collaboration between the Lower Downtown Association and the LoDo District, to provide aid to those in need this season.

EDGE Restaurant at Four Seasons Hotel Denver is offering guests and local residents three different ways to celebrate Thanksgiving day. First, there is a three-course meal in EDGE, offered from 11:00 am to 9:00 pm. The harvest menu highlights dishes like maple roasted butternut squash soup, warm duck confit, slow roasted Red Bird Farms tom turkey, or pepper crusted beef tenderloin. This three-course meal is offered for $55 for adults and $ 20 for children 12 and younger. Second, there is a generous buffet set up in one of the hotel's ballrooms, where all the traditional Thanksgiving dishes will be served alongside other specials like a sushi station, eggs benedict bar, and numerous carving stations. The buffet is offered for $ 75 for adults and $20 for children 12 and younger. Lastly, for those who prefer not to cook, there is Thanksgiving To-Go. Orders can be placed by phone from now until noon on November 19. Each order, priced at $300, includes dinner for eight.

Kachina Southwestern Grill is hosting an earth-to-table inspired supper featuring four courses served with family-style salad and sides. On the menu are dishes like Munson Farms Squash Bisque made with a goat cheese tamale and truffle crème fraiche, and Frito-crusted Chile Relleno with asadero, quail egg, and red chile cream. Entrée options include Peterson Farm Roasted Turkey with an achiote brine and cranberry mole and jerky-crusted Bison Prime Rib. Pies will celebrate the flavors of the harvest.

OnThursday, November 15 between 4 and 7 p.m., Cured wants to invite guests in to focus on the the wine portion of the Thanksgiving dinner preparations. The specialty foods shop that includes a well-curated wine store has selected four special Thanksgiving wines to be sampled in-store during this Wine and Brine event. Guests are invited to sample bites of fresh roasted turkey and porchetta. Cured will also take pre-orders for porchetta, a rolled pork roast with a crispy skin that is seasoned with garlic, herbs and spices.

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