Thanksgiving restaurants in Denver

The Fresh Fish Co.

The Fresh Fish Co. is wildly popular on Thanksgiving Day, so much so that they have to set up tents in the parking lot while people wait for a table. The lesson he is: book your reservation fast! Sure, they are a seafood company, but their buffet offers everything from crab to turkey and leg of lamb. The buffet is $25.99 per person. They also have delicious mimosa and Bloody Mary specials all day as well.

Ellyngton’s

If you're wanting to have a chic Thanksgiving meal, Ellyngton's will provide you with one. They have a special Thanksgiving buffet that will cost you around $54/person. The cost is a little steep, but fully worth it. They are also open on Christmas Day if you like what you have on Turkey Day.

Palace Arms

Located next to Ellyngton's in the beautiful Brown Palace Hotel, Palace Arms is more steep with its Thanksgiving Day prices. They are offering a prix-fixed menu that will cost you $89/person. Book now or forever hold your peace.

Jill's Restaurant

Jill's is offering a four-course meal and buffet lunch featuring cornbread and chorizo-stuffed turkey. The lunch will cost you $42.95 per adult (including bloody Marys and mimosas), and the kids' cost is $21.95. For dinner, they offer the same meal (and their regular menu) at $44.95 for adults and $14.95 for children. Call 720-406-7399 for more details and to book your reservation today.

Barricuda's

Barricuda's is offers a Thanksgiving buffet featuring baked mac n' cheese, fresh fruit and veggies, peel-and-eat shrimp, Waldorf salads, mixed green salads with three dressings, carved prime rib, turkey, Honey Baked Ham and vegetable lasagna. Prices, still not set in stone, will be about $15 for adults.

The Broker Restaurant

On Thanksgiving Day, Denver's classiest bank vault will serve a special four-course meal with all the turkey goodness you've come to expect from Noon-8 p.m. It will cost you $29 per adult and $9 for kids.

McCormick's Fish House & Bar

For Thanksgiving, McCormick's is serving their regular menu as well as some holiday specials. From 11 a.m.-9 p.m., you can indulge in a traditional roast turkey dinner, killer seafood, prime rib and just about anything else for about $20 to $26. We're hungry just writing this.

Q’s Restaurant

Located inside of the Hotel Boulderado, Q's Restaurant will not disappoint on Thanksgiving. They are open all day, serving up four or five traditional and not-so-traditional courses for $50 per adult.

Altitude

This ritzy Thanksgiving restaurant located in the Hyatt Regency will be open from 10 a.m.-8 p.m. with a buffet that offers a turkey dinner with all the trimmings along with salads, desserts and soups. For adults, the cost is $29.95 and children are $10.99. They will also be open for dinner, offering their regular menu.

Maggiano's Little Italy

This Thanksgiving, Maggiano’s is offering a traditional meal with their family-style dining option. The price is $29.95 for adults and $14.95 for kids. As a family, you get to choose through the courses (which are bottomless). This will be going on from 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Maggiano’s isn’t reservation only, but they request making one since it will be crazy busy.

Table Mountain Inn

Deep. Fried. Turkey. Table Mountain Inn's Thanksgiving buffet runs from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. with all the trimmings. (You can opt for prime rib instead, but that would be a grave mistake in our book.) It is $25.99 for adults and $9.99 for the kiddos. After the buffet, they will be serving their regular dinner menu.

The Fort

The Fort restaurant is serving a traditional Thanksgiving dinner along with some items off their regular menu from 11 a.m.-6 p.m. It is just $36 for adults and $18 for children, and reservations are REQUIRED, slackers.

The Summit Steakhouse

The Summit Steakhouse is providing a special all-you-can-eat holiday menu with all the fixings. They will be serving from 11 a.m.-8 p.m. The cost for adults is $29 and for the kiddos under 12, it is $14. They say to make your reservation now as they are already filling up quickly.

Mimi's Cafe

Thanksgiving is the second-most popular day of the year (behind Mother's Day) at this chain restaurant, so make reservations soon. Most Denver-area locations are offering a turkey dinner with all the trimmings for $14.99 from 8 a.m.-8 p.m. You can also pre-order a take-out turkey dinner that will feed six to eight for $80.

Hyatt Regency Denver Tech Center

The Thanksgiving action will be at the DTC Hyatt Regency, where they'll offer a gourmet buffet featuring turkey, pork tenderloin and orange mahi mahi, among other selections. The cost is $33 for adults and $16.50 for children. The buffet will be open from 11:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.

Gingerbread Wishes at St. Julien

St. Julien Hotel & Spa - 900 Walnut St. - Pearl Street / Downtown

Jill's Restaurant at the St Julien Hotel Spa is launching its Gingerbread Wishes event, a charity auction benefitting the I Have a Dream Foundation. Jill's will invite Boulder's top chefs to create their ideal gingerbread house with edible goodies including gingerbread, frosting and holiday candies. Then, starting on Dec. 1, the gingerbread creations will be on display throughout Jill's and guests will be able to place bids on their favorites. The silent auction will conclude on Dec. 21. Throughout December, Jill's will also offer a special three-course dinner for two including a gingerbread-inspired cocktail and gingerbread dessert for $50 per couple. Reservations booked before 6 p.m. will also receive complimentary bottle of house wine. For families, there will be weekend holiday gingerbread teas. Offered every Saturday and Sunday afternoon, parents can unwind by the hotel's indoor-outdoor lobby fireplace and enjoy winter-inspired teas and gingerbread desserts while children suit up in chef's hats and aprons to decorate gingerbread cookies with the St Julien culinary team. The teas will be offered Dec. 5-27.

Hard Rock Cafe

An American classic in the heart of Denver is offering up a special Thanksgiving buffet! Swing your blue suede shoes down to the 16th Street Mall for hand-carved turkey served with homemade stuffing, mashed potatoes and gravy, cranberry sauce, squash and a dinner roll. After the main course, dive into the best thing about Thanksgiving--pumpkin pie! You can get all this and then some for $17.50/adults. Call now to book your reservations before it is too late, rock star.