Top 20 Vegan Restaurants to Order Your Vegan Thanksgiving Feast

In the age of normalized food delivery, meal kits, and nightly takeout culture, it is perfectly acceptable to keep your kitchen spotless this holiday and order your Thanksgiving to-go. Think of it as ordering a catering service for an event, and there’s no shame in that. Vegan and vegan-friendly restaurants are offering more plant-based Thanksgiving packages than ever before—might as well take advantage of this delicious convenience. Pick your favorite restaurant from the list below and place your order today—really, don’t wait, because most order deadlines are coming up this weekend. 

1. Plum Bistro, Seattle, WA
Order the dishes you like, and leave the ones you don’t. The respected Capitol Hill vegan eatery offers an extensive a la carte menu for those who like to mix and match. Alternatively, a prepared Thanksgiving Feast package is available and includes everything from a maple-glazed seitan roast to cornbread stuffing to classic apple pie with vegan vanilla ice cream. Bonus: each package comes with a collectible holiday cookie tin with six festive cookies. It’s the adult version of a kids’ meal toy. 

2. Green New American Vegetarian, Tempe, AZ
Arizona locals, take note—this Thanksliving menu is only available for pick up at the Tempe location. Even if it’s out of the way for Phoenix residents, one look at the menu will motivate you to make the drive. Where else can you find a Seitan Turkey Breast with “Giblet” Gravy, Smoked Paprika Sweet Corn, or a Winter Berry Organic Oat Granola Cobbler? 

3. Mac and Yease, nationwide
For those who have yet to master the art of vegan mac and cheese, you can have it shipped to your door. Formerly confined to the hot bar at Whole Foods, Chef Ayindé’s Mac and Yease is now available for nationwide shipping. Heat and eat has never been so satisfying. 

4. Friends Giving Food, Venice and Pasadena, CA
This collaboration between Los Angeles-based popup vendors Avocadamama, Maneatingplant, and Swamiji includes everything you could ask for in a Thanksgiving meal—with a few pleasant yet unexpected spices. The package includes miso butter corn, organic sourdough rolls, garlic mashed potatoes with mushroom gravy, “meat” loaf, heirloom chutney, green bean casserole, pumpkin cheesecake, and more. Small Business Saturday is right around the corner—might as well start early and support these three local vendors. 

5. Erin McKenna’s Bakery, multiple locations
If you’re a wizard in the kitchen when it comes to savory dishes but fail epically at baking, check out Erin McKenna’s Bakery. While store fronts are located in Los Angeles, New York City, and Orlando, her Thanksgiving goodies ship nationwide. From dutch apple pie to gluten-free cornbread, this baking pioneer has you covered. 

6. Real Food Daily, multiple locations
This Los Angeles vegan institution is continuing its tradition of offering an eight-course Thanksgiving feast for under $50 per person. Order the meal for yourself and savor your hickory-smoked, maple-carved jackfruit as your relatives politely pick at a dry, overcooked turkey. 

7. Krimsey’s Cajun Kitchen, North Hollywood, CA
Break the monotony of the traditional but tired Thanksgiving dishes by putting a Cajun spin on your meal. America’s first vegan Cajun restaurant offers a holiday take-home menu for just $30 a person. The basic package includes an Atchafalaya-stuffed acorn squash, mashed potatoes and gravy, black-eyed peas and greens, green bean casserole, and roasted sweet potatoes. If that isn’t enough, add on a wedge of Louisiana cornbread. Desserts are only available in trays that serve 12-15 guests, but with options such as Mississippi Mud Cake, Bananas Foster Bread Pudding, and Cajun Pineapple Pecan Cake, they’re impossible to resist. 

8. Follow Your Heart Market and Cafe, Canoga Park, CA
This hippy cafe and market offers just about every Thanksgiving dish you could ask for—family-sized turkey pot pie, vegan turkey, stuffing, gravy, mashed potatoes, stuffed acorn squash, mashed potatoes, yams, green beans—and that’s not including the ten desserts on offer. While this spot is a bit out of the way for many Angelinos, the bounty is worth the drive. 

9. Sugar Taco, Los Angeles, CA
This year, we’re not waiting until Christmas—we’re serving vegan tamales for Thanksgiving. While this celebrity-backed restaurant offers a traditional Thanksgiving package, the Mexcian Thanksgiving spread has us salivating. Add on pumpkin spiced conchas to complete the feast. 

10. Cafe Gratitude, multiple locations, CA
If you firmly believe sides are the star of the meal, opt for the Sides and Pies offering from this affirmation-based restaurant group. Options include Maple Miso Brussels Sprouts, mashed potatoes with shiitake gravy, Autumn Salad, and Lentil and Butternut Squash Loaves (which are hearty enough to be served as a main). Spare yourself the indecisiveness and order one of each pie including the coconut cream pie, pecan pie, pumpkin pie, and apple pie. They freeze well! 

11. Sage Vegan Bistro, Los Angeles, CA
Residents of Echo Park, Pasadena, and Culver City can drop by their local Sage to pick up a Family Meal for 4 or an Individual Meal (great for those dining with a group of mixed eaters). The family package includes seitan turkey, lentil loaf, mac and cheese, mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce, stuffing, collard greens, gravy, and a pumpkin pie. Tamales are also available a la carte. They may not be traditional in some households, but it’s almost 2020; it’s time to start a new tradition. 

12. Veggie Grill, multiple locations
If you’re a Veggie Grill regular and find comfort in the familiar, don’t try to cook anything fancy, just trust in your go-to lunch spot. The VG Holiday Feast is back again with a stuffed holiday roast, apple sausage stuffing, mashed yams, mashed potatoes, green beans, mushroom gravy, and cranberry sauce. Add a pumpkin cake slice to complete the meal. 

13. Native Foods, multiple locations
We are still mourning the discontinued Native Foods Wellington, but seitan fans can enjoy the return of the Native Roast. This hearty rosemary-seasoned seitan-based centerpiece is stuffed with sweet potatoes, kale, cranberries, potatoes, apples, and onion, accompanied by a side of thick mushroom gravy. It’s a meal in itself and perfect for small get-together. End on a sweet note with a classic pumpkin pie or pumpkin cheesecake (or both). 

14. Beyond Sushi, multiple locations, New York City
With six locations in New York City, this popular vegan sushi restaurant is expanding its repertoire to include classic American Thanksgiving dishes. The 10-person catering menu includes an assortment of expertly prepared vegetable sides, sweet potato soup, and three meaty main course options—including an Impossible meatloaf. For dessert, customers have the option of carrot cake, pumpkin cheesecake, pecan pie, cinnamon rolls, or chai-spiced gingerbread cookies. 

15. Fig + Farro, Minneapolis, MN
No need to subject yourself to the biting chill and scour the grocery store for the last vegan roast—this conscious vegan restaurant’s Plant-Based Holiday Meal Kit will save you that desperate trip to the store. The meal for four includes Herbivorous Butcher “Turkey” roast medallions, mashed potatoes with mushroom gravy, roasted vegetables, sweet potato stuffing, challah, and pumpkin pie bars. After trying this meal, we’re never going another Thanksgiving without freshly baked vegan challah on the table. 

16. Chef Tanya’s Kitchen, Palm Springs, CA
The founder and former owner of Native Foods has been happily cooking away at her namesake vegan joint in this resort desert town, and she has come up with quite the spread for Thanksgiving. The holiday a la carte catering menu includes a Polenta, Butternut, and White Bean Terrine; Turkey Love Roasts, Cranberry Chestnut Stuffing, Maple Glazed Sweet Potatoes, Cobblermania Cobblers, a Party Crack Cheese and Pate Platter, and more. For those who live out of the area, pack your car with a giant cooler and make the trek. 

17. Candle79, New York City, NY
Get your Candle79 fix while you can; this New York vegan institution is unfortunately closing its doors after 16 years of service. The Thanksgiving catering menu features elevated versions of holiday classics such as Stuffed Portobellos, Spinach-Vegetable Ravioli, Porcini-Crusted Tempeh, Rosemary-Walnut Crusted Seitan, Maple-Roasted Sweet Potatoes with candied ginger, sweet potato pie, pumpkin bundt cake with a lavender glaze, and more. Order enough for leftovers to savor the final days of this iconic establishment. 

18. Pingala Cafe, Burlington, VT
Those who reside near Ben & Jerry’s HQ can rely on this quaint vegan restaurant for all of their Thanksgiving staples. Customers can order a la carte or opt for the Whole Sha-Bang. The eight-course meal feeds four to five people and includes everything from Knead Bakery bread to the mandatory vegetable sides to cider-brined and herb-crusted tofu, plus a slightly unorthodox chocolate strawberry trifle for dessert. 

19. Watercourse Foods, Denver, CO
Fans of the always buzzing City, O’ City restaurant should look to its sister company, Watercourse Foods, for their Thanksgiving meal to-go. Choose from the Holiday Dinner For Two or order entrées and sides a la carte. Vegan mains include a “turkey-” style holiday roast or flaky vegetable pot pie. Build your meal by adding a side of vegan white cheddar truffle mac and cheese, roasted garlic and parmesan mashed potatoes, candied yams, root vegetable stuffing, herbed dinner rolls, cranberry sauce, and gravy. Plagued by indecisiveness yet? The desserts are equally as varied. Our eyes are on the bourbon pecan pie, which is also available gluten-free. 

20. The Butcher’s Son, nationwide
We’ve searched vegan spots nationwide, but this Berkely delicatessen and bakery is the only place we’ve found a two-pound plant-based turkey roast with a crispy skin. Surround this stunning apple-and-sausage-stuffed centerpiece with a bready sausage stuffing and finish the meal with a cheesecake or apple pie. For individual meals, the menu offers a small shepard’s pie and vegan chicken pot pie. Those who live outside of the San Francisco area can order this feast online for nationwide shipping. No matter where you are in the country, you can count on a comforting and generous Thanksgiving meal. 

Tanya Flink is a Digital Editor at VegNews as well as a writer and fitness enthusiast living in Orange County, CA.