Joe's Restaurant is offering a four-course Thanksgiving menu with several choices for each course including sunchoke soup with smoked baby artichokes and hazelnuts; crispy sweetbreads with fall vegetables; Heritage Farms turkey breast and leg confit; Eastern monkfish and gulf shrimp with butter clam parsley broth; and pumpkin pie with pepita brittle and parsnip vanilla ice cream. $52 per person $22 for children. 1023 Abbott Kinney Blvd. Venice; (310) 399-5811 www.joesrestaurant.com.

Henry's Hat opens Thanksgiving Day at 9 a.m. serving brunch all day long (including 2-for-1 mojitos and Bloody Marys and bottomless mimosas and sangria). A Southern Thanksgiving buffet dinner starts at 2 p.m.: spinach salad; deep-fried turkey breast; brown butter and honey glazed ham; mashed potatoes; stuffing; roasted Brussels sprouts; coconut ream pie and pumpkin pie. $20 per person; children under 8 eat free. 3413 Cahuenga Blvd. Studio City; (323) 512-2500; www.henrys-hat.com.

Simon L.A. at the Sofitel Hotel is serving Thanksgiving featuring free-range organic turkey and trimmings such as sweet potatoes with caramelized walnuts cornbread and sage stuffing and buttermilk mashed potatoes. Kerry Simon's signature punk food platter: pumpkin cupcakes orange coconut snowballs pecan-date cookies candy corn Rice Krispies treats cranberry-orange sorbet and pumpkin milkshake. Or you can have pumpkin pie. 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. $46 per person $21 for children under 12. Sofitel L.A. 8555 Beverly Blvd. Los Angeles; (310) 358-3979; www.simonlarestaurant.com.

Gus’s BBQ will prepare your holiday meal with all the trimmings: 10- to 12-pound smoked turkey
1 quart of gravy 1 quart of cornbread stuffing and 1 quart of cranberry sauce. An oven-safe bag is provided
for the turkey as well as reheating instructions. Serves 4 to 6 people.All for $60. Place your order by Friday (Nov. 20) and pick it up Nov.25. 808 Fair Oaks Ave. South Pasadena; (626) 799-3251; www.gussbbq.com.

For take-home Thanksgiving trimmings from Josie you canorder from a selection of appetizers soups salads side dishes anddesserts. Options include quiche with wild mushrooms and Gruyère(9-inch $30); butternut squash soup (1 quart $24); cornbread stuffingwith wild sage baby artichokes and mushrooms (small $22; large $44);pumpkin or pecan pie (9-inch $30); and icky pecan pumpkin cake($54). Order by 1 p.m. Nov. 24. Pick up on Nov. 25 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. 2420 Pico Blvd. Santa Monica; (310) 581-9888; www.josierestaurant.com.

You can order Thanksgiving trimmings from the Larchmont Larder until Friday (Nov. 20). Options include fennel-sausage-corn-bread stuffing ($20 serves 6 to 8); creamy mashed potatoes (1 quart $10); sweet potato casserole with rum and pecans ($18); roasted root vegetables with shallots and sage ($10 for a quart). There are plenty more vegetables soups gravy and sauce along with pies (apple dried fruit pumpkin for $24 to $32). Ready for pickup on Nov. 25 2 to 7 p.m. 626 N. Larchmont Blvd. Los Angeles;  (323) 962-9900 (or e-mail katie@larchmontlarder.com); www.larchmontlarder.com. 

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-- Betty Hallock

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