Thanksgiving Day in Florence

Thursday 28 November celebrates Thanksgiving Day with traditional American dishes

Thanksgiving Day is a holiday celebrated in the United States every fourth Thursday in November and in Canada every second Monday in October. The first Thanksgiving Day is commonly traced back to 1621, when in the town of Plymouth, Massachusetts, the Pilgrim Fathers gathered to thank the Lord for a good harvest. In 1863, in the midst of the War of Secession, Abraham Lincoln proclaimed the celebration of Thanksgiving Day, which from then on became an annual holiday and gradually lost its Christian content. Today it represents one of the most important holidays for North Americans and is an opportunity to give thanks to friends and relatives for the great and small joys of the year that is coming to an end. In Florence you will find several places that offer the ultimate American dining experience to get you into the festive mood.

On the occasion of Thanksgiving there will also be some special dishes on the menus of the Il Palagio restaurant and Atrium Bar at the Four Seasons Hotel in Florence. Among those not to be missed are the macaroni with crab and cheese (44 euro), the turkey roulade with decadent trimmings (44 euro) and the pumpkin and pecan pie (22 euro) to finish.

Il Palagio

The Hard Rock Cafe Firenze is ready to celebrate Thanksgiving Day with a special turkey menu. The Tennessee Rose Blues Band will also play at 9 pm.

Harry's Bar The Garden, restaurant of the Sina Villa Medici hotel, is offering its Thanksgiving Day with a special menu at 65 euro per person, including the ever-present stuffed turkey served with creamed chestnuts, carrots, spring onions and cranberry sauce.

Harry's Bar The Garden

A Florentine Thanksgiving classic is also the appointment at Ristorante Accademia, which celebrates both Thursday 28 and Friday 29 November with a menu at 45 euro per person, with pumpkin soup, turkey with stuffing, traditional side dishes and a choice of three seasonal desserts.

We close with Melaleuca, which for the occasion offers a tasty menu with milk sandwiches and organic blueberry sauce, wholemeal cakes, sweet potato crumble and turkey, to be enjoyed in a lunch or dinner version or comfortably at home thanks to the takeaway service. The set menu is EUR 45 for adults and EUR 18 for children under 12.