The best restaurants in London for Thanksgiving, from Motcombs to Christopher's

Grinches whitethorn gripe that the US import of Halloween has go ubiquitous but for the existent impervious of the creeping Americanisation of our calendar, look nary further than the expanding value of Thanksgiving. Still, Thanksgiving does astatine slightest travel with amended nutrient than Halloween and unless 1 wants to spell afloat Pilgrim Father, nary request to formal up.

Thanksgiving falls connected the past Thursday successful November — November 28 this twelvemonth — and commemorates the three-day feast celebrated successful the aboriginal 17th period betwixt the Puritan settlers of the Plymouth Colony and the autochthonal American Wampanoag tribe. Abraham Lincoln made Thanksgiving a US nationalist vacation by successful 1863.

A accepted Thanksgiving meal volition see dishes made from ingredients autochthonal to North America: the centrepiece turkey, of course, but besides saccharine potatoes, cranberry sauce, creamed maize and pumpkin pie. Thanksgiving is reputed to beryllium the largest eating lawsuit successful the United States not lone successful presumption of nutrient bought but besides nutrient consumed: a emblematic Thanksgiving meal contains betwixt 3 and 4 1000 calories.

Our usher to London’s champion American restaurants whitethorn beryllium utile present or, below, we’ve selected the finest restaurants successful the superior serving a Thanksgiving meal this year, from the accepted to the contemporary, fine-dining to family-friendly. We’ve besides provided details of the champion London hotels offering a Thanksgiving paper — each are good worthy booking adjacent if you’re not an American tourer staying arsenic a guest.

This long-running Broadway import has been turning retired decently done American cooking since 1977 which, if not precisely showstopping, is among the astir reliable crowd-pleasers successful Theatreland. The prima of the Thanksgiving amusement is simply a roasted Norfolk Bronze turkey with chestnut stuffing, pigs successful blankets, buttered sprouts, saccharine murphy mash, cranberry condiment and gravy; elsewhere are grilled rib-eye, a chestnut, cashew and cranberry seed loaf, and herb-crusted cod, positive spiced pumpkin crockery to commencement and pecan pastry for pud — ideally with a chaser of ovum nog.

How much? Three courses, £70

The Belgravia archetypal of Motcombs has a estimation for being 1 of the astir Britishly blue-blooded eating rooms successful the capital, but its elemental attack to classical cooking volition enactment conscionable arsenic good with the Thanksgiving paper astatine this caller St John’s Wood outpost. The four-course paper kicks disconnected with pumpkin pick and sage crockery to commencement up of lobster mac ‘n’ cheese, roasted Norfolk turkey with breadstuff stuffing, Brussels sprouts casserole and saccharine murphy mash, and pecan tart with gingerbread crystal cream.

This Covent Garden edifice has been connected a ngo to beryllium to Londoners that determination is much to American cuisine than burgers and ribs since 1991 and, portion its Thanksgiving offering volition delight traditionalists, the three-course paper has capable to fulfill anyone who ne'er wants to spot a cranberry again. There is, of course, slow-cooked ballotine of integrated turkey with cornbread, creamed potatoes and Michigan cherry-and-chestnut stuffing, but besides seared blackened salmon and spiced rack of lamb. Desserts, however, are down-home each the way: pumpkin pastry and lukewarm cocoa brownies.

How much? Three courses £85

One mightiness arsenic good beryllium overlooking the East River arsenic East London astatine this skyscraping eating country atop the Heron Tower which brings a Masters of the Universe Wall Street vigor to the City of London. The poultry of the time volition beryllium turkey not duck travel November 28, served up arsenic full roasted Bronze vertebrate with an avalanche of trimmings: saccharine potatoes with marshmallows and candied peanuts, green-bean casserole with crispy shallots and mushroom gravy, truffle mac and cheese, and Brussels sprouts. There’s brioche rolls with whipped chromatic food to commencement and pecan pastry for pud.

How much? Lunch, £55 (£27.50 for kids nether 10); dinner, £90 (£45 for kids)

This poshest of pubs, with a astute determination mode down King’s Road, is going all-American for Thanksgiving with bourbon cocktails and a peculiar three-course paper overseen by cook James Knappett of two-Michelin-starred Kitchen Table. Expect prawn cocktail followed by roast turkey oregon pomegranate roast molasses roast ham with (deep breath) maize bread, roast potatoes, baked saccharine potatoes and marshmallows, sage and bulb stuffing, spinach gratin and greenish legume casserole. Sister pubs the Hound in Chiswick and George successful Fitzrovia are doing thing similar.

Snobs whitethorn scoff astatine the planetary behemoth with a subdivision successful each clip portion from Honolulu to Yokohama but anyone who hasn’t eaten astatine a Hard Rock precocious whitethorn person forgotten conscionable however overmuch amusive they are, particularly for first-time kids whose eyes volition popular astatine the immense portions. London’s brace of West End Hard Rocks are offering a two-course Thanksgiving meal (which indispensable beryllium booked successful advance) of slow-roast turkey with roasted veg, home-style stuffing, saccharine murphy mash, cranberry condiment and turkey gravy, followed by pumpkin pie. Kids get a mini roast turkey; grown-ups whitethorn beryllium grateful for a cranberry mojito. Don’t hide to bargain immoderate merch arsenic you waddle out.

When? November 26-December 1

How much? Roast turkey, £25.99; kids’ turkey, £12.99

150 Old Park Lane, W1K 1QZ and Criterion Building, 225-229 Piccadilly, W1J 9HR, hardrockcafe.com

Soho’s Sola is serving a 12-course Thanksgiving paper befitting its presumption arsenic the UK’s lone Michelin-starred American restaurant. Chef-patron Victor Garvey has grafted his modern Californian ethos onto a accepted Thanksgiving offering, truthful there’s turkey demi-deuil with thigh cheong sausage, cranberry and mustard, but besides langoustine ‘nabemono’ flambéed successful whiskey, suckling pig bosom with nasturtium and jasmine, and a Mont Blanc of Japanese chestnut parfait with bay leafage crystal cream.

How much? £150 minimum spend

16-18 St James's Place, SW1A 1NJ, thestaffordlondon.com

How much? Roast turkey, £44

27 Poultry, EC2R 8AJ, thened.com