Italian Restaurants Open on Thanksgiving in NYC, 2026
Marco Reale · October 26, 2026 · 8 min
Italian restaurants open on Thanksgiving in NYC for 2026: L'Amico $98, Tucci $100 and Marea $225, plus Ai Fiori and Cafe Fiorello, with hours and a clear pick.
As of October 2026, five Manhattan Italian restaurants have posted a Thanksgiving 2026 menu on their own sites: L’Amico, Tucci, Ai Fiori, Marea and Cafe Fiorello. L’Amico is this guide’s pick, at $98 per person with posted hours of 11:30am to 9pm and a heritage turkey entrée, the lowest of the three dollar prices readable on the dated pages (Marea’s $225 is the highest). Hours, prices and policies below come from each restaurant’s own website, checked in October 2026; menus and terms change, so confirm with the restaurant before booking.
Which Italian restaurants in NYC are open on Thanksgiving 2026?
Thanksgiving falls on Thursday, November 26, 2026. All five restaurants in the table post a Thanksgiving menu dated to this year. Three also print Thanksgiving Day service hours; the other two post a menu without a service window, so call before booking.
| Restaurant | Address | Best for | Posted 2026 detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| L’Amico | 849 Avenue of the Americas | Best overall | $98 per person, $38 wine pairing; Nov. 26, 11:30am-9pm; heritage turkey |
| Tucci | 643 Broadway, at Bleecker Street | A late-afternoon start | $100 per person; 3:00 PM-9:00 PM; 20% gratuity added |
| Ai Fiori | 400 5th Avenue, 2nd Level (The Langham) | A truffle pasta course, plus turkey | Prints 165 and a 110 pairing with no currency sign: confirm; no hours; roasted heritage turkey |
| Marea | 240 Central Park South | A splurge | $225 per guest, $155 pairing; Nov. 26, 1:00 PM-8:45 PM |
| Cafe Fiorello | 1900 Broadway | Turkey with a la carte as backup | Herb-roasted turkey menu; no hours; price not legible in the PDF text |
How each page is dated: L’Amico and Tucci print November 26, 2026. Marea and Ai Fiori title their menus Thanksgiving 2026. Cafe Fiorello’s menu tab is dated November 26th and its PDF is filed as a 2026 Thanksgiving menu. Restaurants whose pages print no year are covered further down and are not counted.
Ai Fiori prints its prix fixe and pairing as the bare numbers 165 and 110, with no currency sign and no “per person” label. This guide does not treat them as dollar prices; confirm both when booking. Cafe Fiorello’s PDF prints one price “excluding tax and gratuity,” but the figure does not come through cleanly in the file’s text, so it is left out of the comparisons below; read it on the PDF.
What is the best Italian Thanksgiving dinner in NYC?
The verdict rests on what each restaurant has published: a date, service hours, a price, a pairing price and a turkey main. L’Amico posts all five: November 26, 2026, 11:30am to 9pm, $98 per person, a $38 wine pairing and wood-fire roasted heritage turkey, plus a phone number (212.201.4065) to call. Marea is the only other restaurant here that posts all five, at $225 per guest, more than twice L’Amico’s price. Tucci posts no pairing price, and Ai Fiori and Cafe Fiorello post no hours.
The rest fit narrower jobs:
- Best for a splurge: Marea. Four courses at $225 per guest, an optional classic pairing at $155, and service from 1:00 PM to 8:45 PM. Its secondi include a roasted turkey with pan gravy.
- Best for a late start: Tucci. Its 3:00 PM opening is the latest of the three restaurants that post hours. Three courses are $100 per person.
- Best for a truffle pasta course: Ai Fiori. A four-course prix fixe whose pasta course includes white-truffle tagliatelle at an $85 supplement, and a turkey entrée. The page prints no service hours.
- Best for turkey with a fallback: Cafe Fiorello. The PDF lists a herb-roasted turkey menu and says the full a la carte menu is also available. It prints no service hours.
How much does an Italian Thanksgiving dinner cost in NYC?
Three pages print a dollar price per person: $98 at L’Amico, $100 at Tucci and $225 at Marea. That is a gap of 127 dollars from lowest to highest, and the top price is more than double the bottom. Ai Fiori’s bare 165, Cafe Fiorello’s unreadable price and the prices on pages with no year (below) are not part of that range.
Adding each optional pairing to the menu price gives 136 dollars per person at L’Amico ($98 plus $38) and 380 dollars at Marea ($225 plus $155), before tax, gratuity and any other drinks.
What the price includes is stated unevenly:
- Tucci’s menu does not include beverages and tax, and a 20% gratuity is added to all checks.
- Cafe Fiorello’s PDF says its price excludes tax and gratuity.
- L’Amico, Marea and Ai Fiori do not say what the price includes. Ask when booking.
Outside the holiday, the multi-course Italian dinner guide compares standing tasting menus.
Do these Thanksgiving menus serve turkey, and is there a choice?
All five pages name a turkey dish: wood-fire roasted heritage turkey at L’Amico, Norbest family turkey at Tucci, roasted heritage turkey at Ai Fiori, roasted turkey with pan gravy at Marea and free-range herb-roasted turkey at Cafe Fiorello.
At three of them turkey is one named option among several. Tucci offers it beside chicken parmesan, Faroe Island salmon, a lasagna, cacio e pepe e tartufo and a Delmonico ribeye at a $33 supplement. Ai Fiori offers halibut and a prime strip steak alongside its turkey, and L’Amico adds prime rib at a $15 supplement, salmon and raviolini. Cafe Fiorello’s PDF lists turkey as its only main.
For a table where some guests do not eat meat, the guide to booking Italian when half the table doesn’t eat meat shows how to read a menu for that. Confirm any dietary need with the restaurant.
Do NYC Italian restaurants offer Thanksgiving takeout?
Some appear to, but none of the pages read for this guide posts a takeout price, and none is dated to 2026 for a New York restaurant. Treat each as “page prints no year: confirm.”
Tony’s Di Napoli runs a Thanksgiving pre-order page: 212-221-0100 for Times Square (147 West 43rd Street, between 6th and 7th Avenues) and 212-888-6333 for the Upper East Side (1081 3rd Avenue). The page shows no menu or prices, so ask whether 2026 pre-orders are open and when pickup is. il Buco shows a Thanksgiving banner with an Order Catering button but no menu or price. Eataly’s Thanksgiving page advertises catering with heritage turkeys and sides delivered; it lists stores in several cities, so confirm local delivery with the New York store.
Which Italian restaurants have not posted a dated 2026 menu yet?
These pages print no year for a New York restaurant, so they are kept out of the counts and price comparisons above. Each carries the label “page prints no year: confirm.”
Ci Siamo lists a three-course Thanksgiving dinner at 440 West 33rd Street, Manhattan West, from 12:00pm to 7:30pm at $155 per person, with turkey porchetta among the secondi. Its menu page adds that beverages, tax and gratuity are in addition. The Thanksgiving entry prints no year. The page describes its New Year’s Eve event as one “to ring in 2027,” but this guide does not infer a Thanksgiving year from that line, so confirm the date and menu before relying on them.
Locanda Verde lists a Thanksgiving menu on both its Tribeca (377 Greenwich St) and Hudson Yards (50 Hudson Yards) pages: $165 per person and $68 per child 12 and under, with an oven-roasted turkey served family style. Neither page prints a year, a date or service hours. Confirm that it is this year’s menu before relying on it.
Rezdôra’s Thanksgiving page shows $195 per guest and a list that includes turkey involtini, but it names no year, and its Download PDF is a file whose name reads “Thanksgiving Menu 2023” and lists different dishes, including turkey osso bucco. Call before relying on that price.
Bar Primi’s Thanksgiving page holds a heading and two buttons. The only Thanksgiving post on the first page of the Rosemary’s blog is dated October 28, 2025 and describes a $74 three-course menu, which is last year’s offer, not a 2026 price. Eataly’s page links two prix-fixe menu PDFs for its restaurants, but it is not specific to New York, so no Eataly price is quoted here.
How were these restaurants chosen?
A restaurant is counted only if its own site shows a Thanksgiving menu dated to this year (2026, or Thursday, November 26), a year is never inferred from other text on the page, and a figure is quoted only where the page prints it. Pages were read on October 22, 2026; reviews, roundups and booking-platform listings were not used. For a bigger party, Italian picks for a table of six covers the booking side.
Frequently asked questions
Which Italian restaurants in NYC are open on Thanksgiving Day?
As of October 2026, L’Amico (11:30am to 9pm), Marea (1:00 PM to 8:45 PM) and Tucci (3:00 PM to 9:00 PM) post Thanksgiving Day hours for November 26. Ai Fiori and Cafe Fiorello post Thanksgiving 2026 menus without service hours, so call to confirm that they are serving. Ci Siamo, Locanda Verde and Rezdôra have Thanksgiving pages with no year, so confirm those directly.
How much does Thanksgiving dinner cost at an Italian restaurant in NYC?
Among the three 2026-dated Italian menus that print a dollar price per person, Thanksgiving dinner runs from $98 at L’Amico to $225 at Marea, with Tucci at $100. Optional wine pairings add $38 at L’Amico and $155 at Marea. Check whether tax, gratuity and drinks are included before comparing.
What is the best Italian restaurant for Thanksgiving dinner in NYC?
Of the five restaurants with 2026-dated Thanksgiving pages, L’Amico is this guide’s pick: $98 per person, a $38 wine pairing, hours of 11:30am to 9pm on November 26 and a wood-fire roasted heritage turkey. It is the lowest of the three dollar prices readable on the dated pages. Confirm the menu and terms with the restaurant before booking.
Can you pre-order an Italian Thanksgiving dinner to take home in NYC?
Tony’s Di Napoli lists Thanksgiving pre-order numbers, 212-221-0100 in Times Square and 212-888-6333 on the Upper East Side, but its page prints no year, menu or prices. il Buco’s home page shows a Thanksgiving banner with an Order Catering button, also without a year. Confirm that pre-orders are open, plus the menu, price and pickup day, before ordering.
