Thanksgiving: where to pick up your feast in NYC

Want to gorge at home but have someone else do the heavy lifting? Here are our picks for where to pick up your Thanksgiving bounty.

City Grit

This culinary-salon is doing “Sides & Pies” for Thanksgiving. You make the turkey, and they’ll do the rest. Order by Friday, Nov. 22 to pick-up on Wed., Nov. 27. $200 serves 6-8 adults, and includes your choice of bread, two starters, four Southern side dishes and one pie as well as turkey gravy, cranberry sauce and bourbon-honey butter. Contact 646-580-5720 or events@citygritnyc.com for full pricing and to order.

Momofuku

Two restaurants in the Momofuku family, Ssam Bar and Ma Peche, will create Thanksgiving to go for you and yours this year. At Ssam, pick up a whole roasted pork shoulder with the trimmings, sweet potato puree, turkey buns and more: $350 serves 8-10 people. Email your name, number and pickup time to bossamresy@gmail.com. At Ma Peche, take home two whole deep fried chickens and/ or smoked lamb shoulder, curry rice, eggplant side and more: chicken is $175 for 4-8 people, lamb and rice is $325 for 6-10 people, combo is $450 for 10 people. Email your name, number and pickup time to mapecheoffice@momofuku.com. Both are picked up at specific times on Thanksgiving Day.

Breads Bakery

Since opening near Union Square last spring, Breads Bakery has been wowing many with its delicious baked goods courtesy of owner Uri Scheft. Every holiday brings something delicious and for Thanksgivukkah, pick up the sufganiyot, a traditional Hannukah donut, available in multiple flavors including strawberry jam with powdered sugar, dulce de leche, vanilla cream and chocolate. 1 for $4.50 or 4 for $15. breadsbakery.com, 212-633-2253

Four and Twenty Blackbirds

The Elsen sisters recently had a cookbook published with the recipes for their famous pies, but something tells us that won’t stop the hordes from ordering pies for Thanksgiving. Options include salted caramel apple, bittersweet chocolate pecan, salty honey and brown butter pumpkin. $38-40. Order at birdsblack.com and pick-up at 439 3rd Ave., Gowanus.

David Burke

The David Burke at Bloomingdale’s Thanksgiving package is like a Cliffs Notes for the Thanksgiving novice. You’ll get popover stuffing, green beans, mashed potatoes and much more but also a whole uncooked 10-12 pound turkey (feeds approximately 8-10 people), complete with cooking instructions. The whole package is $350. Call 212-705-3800 or email hank@davidburke.com to order.

Zabar’s

The quintessential New York City provisions and grocery has a massive Thanksgiving catering program. For your table, you might pick up free range turkeys (cooked or raw), giblet gravy, soups, glazed ham, New York state applesauce, marcona almonds and corn bread, to name just a few items. Visit elizabar.com or call 212-987-0885, ext. 4. 

Marlow & Daughters, Marlow & Sons

If your thing is careful sourcing, get your local, pasture raised and hormone and antibiotic free turkeys from Marlow & Daughters in Williamsburg. Visit marlowgoods.com. For dessert, order fresh pies, including pumpkin, rye pecan and apple tarte tatin from Marlow & Sons. Visit marlowandsons.com or call 718-384-1441.