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Sweet Thanksgiving Offerings From Bouchon Bakery

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You can slave over a hot stove at Thanksgiving or, if you are in New York City, you can let Thomas Keller's Bouchon Bakery pick up some of the slack. This year they are offering pies, cookies and more. There are turkey-shaped versions of the TKO cookies, one of Thomas Keller's favorite snacks with a chocolate sable dough and a sweet white chocolate ganache filling ($3 each) and fall leaf cookies, house made speculoos cookies finished with a yogurt glaze and shaped as a leaf (3 per bag/$9.50).

For cupcake aficionados there is the pilgrim hat cupcake, an upside down pumpkin spice cupcake filled with cream cheese, enrobed with fondant and festively decorated with a gold buckle and mini marzipan corn ($5.75 each). Pumpkin brioche are available for $3.25 each.And of course, there are pies. Bouchon has bourbon pecan pies, apple pies with oat streusel and the classic pumpkin pie, shown above. Each 8-inch pie is $30. All orders must be placed by 5:00pm on Monday, November 22rd and can be picked up on November 24th from 10am – 8pm or on November 25th at 8:30am, 10:30am, & 11:30am. Orders can be made via phone, email or in person.

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Lobster, Risotto and Yes, Turkey: Thanksgiving at Patina

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Patina Restaurant in Los Angeles has announced their Thanksgiving menu. In typical Patina style chef Tony Esnault has taken the traditional foods of the season and luxed them up into elaborate dishes with and transformed them into warm and inviting dishes. The prix fixe menu for Thanksgiving includes three courses plus desert and costs $70 per person. The restaurant is serving from 12pm-8pm. The menu, plus a recipe for Patina's autumnal cocktail, The Fall, is after the jump.

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Thanksgiving Dinner, Beverly Hills Style

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Prefer to lay by the pool rather than slave over a hot stove? In Los Angeles, you can have your Thanksgiving catered by The Beverly Hill Hotel's Polo Lounge. This Thanksgiving, the iconic pink retreat is offering their traditional "Holiday-To-Go," a complete elegant meal prepared by the master chefs in the Polo Lounge for enjoyment at home. The dinner serves from 6-8 people and includes a 20-pound roasted free range organic turkey with all the trimmings which include giblet sage gravy; poached pear, red endive and watercress salad with Poire William vinaigrette; chestnut, pine nut and brioche bread stuffing; candied yams; whipped Yukon Gold potato puree; buttered baby carrots and fine green beans; glazed Brussels sprouts with toasted almonds; wild flower honey and ginger infused cranberry sauce; classic pumpkin pie with Chantilly cream and rolls and butter. The whole package costs $440 and needs to be ordered no less than 24 hours in advance. It can be picked up or get it delivered within five miles of the hotel for $75.

While you are stopping by the hotel to pick up dinner you might want to sample some of The Polo Lounge's season cocktails including the Fig Sidecar, made with fresh fig-infused Remi Martin Cognac or the seasonal eggnogs at Bar Nineteen12 which include pumpkin, raspberry, hazelnut, cappuccino, banana and mint chocolate flavors.

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New York City Chef Creates After Thanksgiving Pizza

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Forget turkey sandwiches or turkey casserole, Manhattan's La Bottega Italian restaurant has found the perfect use for Thanksgiving feast leftovers: the Day After Thanksgiving Pizza. Chef Bart Retolatto from the eatery in The Maritime Hotel of Chelsea is offering a "Day After Thanksgiving Pizza" and it sound so good I think it should be a main course on the big day. The doubled-crust pizza will be stuffed with roasted turkey, sweet potato puree, wild mushrooms, cranberry sauce, and gravy and will be served from the day after Thanksgiving until the new year. The recipe is after the jump if you want to give it a try at home.

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Celebrate Thanksgiving in Rudolph Valentino's Mansion

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Celebrate Thanksgiving at Valentino's on the Green.

Valentino's on the Green, the Bayside, New York (Queens) home of Rudolph Valentino, the legendary silent film star, will celebrate Thanksgiving with a special prix fixe menu on November 25th.

The three-course prix fix menu will include a choice of appetizer (such as pumpkin and butternut squash soup) and a choice of entree (ranging from traditional turkey and sausage stuffing to stuffed loin of pork, sliced fliet mignon and homemade ravioli). Dessert choices include a pumpkin-ricotta cheesecake and New York state apple and cranberry crisp. The cost is $44.50 per person. The Italian restaurant will also offer a children's menu that includes dessert and a choice of entrees ranging from penne pasta to turkey with mashed potatoes and chicken fingers. The children's menu is priced at $19.50.

Gallery: Valentino's on the Green

The mansion, which is located in Bayside, Queens, has undergone a multi-million dollar, interior and exterior restoration. With a golf course view, flanked by an elegant patio, garden, and pond, the 170-seat ground floor a la carte restaurant features the Fiorello Room a dining room tribute to another former resident, the late New York Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia. The restaurant's Valentino Room is a red velvet and mahogany-rich hideaway, which includes a bar and grand fireplace. A wine wall with the restaurant's world-class selection gracefully separates the two larger ground level spaces. The second floor of the mansion features a 230-seat banquet space with floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking the Throgs Neck Bridge and Little Neck Bay and offers a behind-the-scenes bridal suite that was once the bedroom of Valentino himself.

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