Thanksgiving in West LA 2026: Where to Eat Out, What to Order In & Every Deadline
Thanksgiving lands on Thursday, November 26 this year, which means the clock has already started — the best Westside tables are booking now, and most of the great turkey-to-go operations stop taking orders a full week before the holiday. Whether you want someone else to cook entirely, want the feast delivered to your kitchen, or just need to know where to run off the stuffing, here’s the complete plan. Deadlines included, because missing one is how you end up at the grocery store on Wednesday night.
Dining Out: The Santa Monica Tables
Orla at the Regent Santa Monica Beach is the splurge with a view — $135 per person ($75 for kids 5–12) for a Mediterranean take on the holiday: mezze to start, then roasted turkey with cranberry tabbouleh or baked seabream, finishing with pumpkin pie and orange blossom cheesecake. Beachfront dining on Thanksgiving is a very Westside flex.
Lunetta does a three-course dinner at $130 per person — kabocha squash ravioli, braised osso buco, and pumpkin pie with spiced mascarpone cream, with sides available à la carte. Three patios and a fireplace bar make it the coziest room on this list.
Fig at the Fairmont Miramar comes in at $120 per person and is the most flexible of the three: traditional turkey if you want it, or branzino and braised short rib if you don’t, with appetizers and dessert included. Reservations are required everywhere — these rooms fill up weeks out, so book before you finish reading this.
“Missing an order deadline is how you end up at the grocery store on Wednesday night.”
Ordering In: The Best Turkey To-Go (and When to Order)
Huckleberry (Santa Monica) is the classic Westside move: fully roasted Mary’s Organic turkeys or raw birds to cook yourself, plus leek and celery stuffing, sweet potato casserole, gravy, pumpkin pie, apple tarte tatin, and ginger cookies — all à la carte, so you can fill exactly the gaps in your own menu. Orders are due November 19, with pickup or delivery on Thanksgiving itself.
Pasjoli (Santa Monica) is the fanciest box you’ll bring home: $125 per person for Dave Beran’s set of roasted turkey breast with leg confit, black truffle gravy, cranberry relish, pommes purée, cornbread, and a pumpkin Basque cheesecake. Pickup is Wednesday, November 25, 10:30am–4:30pm.
Bludso’s (Santa Monica and Culver City) brings the smoker: $229–$299 feeds 8–12 with smoked turkey or ham, collard greens, sweet potato mash, cornbread stuffing, and gravy. Pickup November 25–26. If your family argues about whether turkey is actually good, this is the compromise that ends it.
Maple Block Meat Co. (Culver City) does wood-smoked whole turkeys from $265 with cornbread sausage stuffing, brussels sprouts, buttermilk biscuits, and chocolate bread pudding — orders due November 20, pickup Thanksgiving Day.
Feeding a crowd? Wally’s (Santa Monica) does a $565 feast for up to 15 with truffle mashed potatoes, sausage stuffing, and cauliflower gratin, available for pickup or delivery November 26–27. And Eataly at Westfield Century City handles the Italian-leaning version — complete dinners to-go, whole turkeys and smaller cuts to roast at home, plus pastries and à la carte sides.
Earn It First: The Santa Monica Turkey Trot
The Turkey Day Trot 5K & Family 1-Miler runs Thanksgiving morning at Crescent Bay Park (2000 Ocean Ave), with check-in from 6:30am and the start at 8:00am. It’s untimed, family-friendly, and follows the shoreline — which means you’re done, showered, and guilt-free well before the first course. Prefer a bigger scene? Turkey Trot Los Angeles takes over Downtown with thousands of runners in turkey costumes, and the LA Turkey Trail runs a half marathon, 10K, and 5K through the Santa Monica Mountains.
If You’re Cooking: The Westside Shopping Run
Doing it yourself? Build the menu around the Santa Monica Farmers Market — the Wednesday market the week of Thanksgiving is the single best produce run of the year on the Westside, and it gets packed, so go early. Round out the table with cheese and bread from the Brentwood Country Mart, and if you need a last-minute pie or a dinner-party bottle, our Bar Fortuna write-up has the wine-shop energy covered.
The Day After
Black Friday on the Westside is best spent avoiding malls entirely. Walk off the leftovers on a coastal hike, take the family to the pier, or do what the locals do and go straight to the beach — late November is quietly one of the prettiest times of year here, with clear air and empty sand. And when you’re finally sick of turkey sandwiches, the best tacos in West LA are waiting.
