(taken from
InMadrid )
Thanksgiving in Madrid:With turkey legs not exactly hanging from the rafters in Madrid bars, where can a Yank find a good meal come Thanksgiving? We’ve got you covered for 27 November.
The American Store Products to make your very own dinner: pumpkin pie, gravy, cranberry sauce. Paseo de San Francisco de Sales, 3 tel: 91 544 27 03. (Metro: Islas Filipinas).
La Gamella Thanksgiving menu, €37.50. C/Alfonso XII, 4, tel: 91 532 45 09. (Metro: Banco de España)
Café Panini Thanksgiving meal all day, €21. Also to go, make reservations. C/Campomanes, 11, tel: 91 547 34 04. (Metro: Ópera).
O’Neills Turkey dinner and football. C/Principe, 12 (Metro: Sol).
Shamrocks Thanksgiving party, drink specials. C/Pintor Rosales, 6 (Metro: Ventura Rodriguez).
O’Connell St/Dubliners Dinner all day, football. C/Espoz y Mina, 7 (Metro: Sol).
Ribs Thanksgiving Menu, €14. Multiple locations. Go to
www.ribs.es for a full list.
The only listed place stating they'll be serving turkey is
O’Neills 
. I'd REALLY RATHER NOT celebrate my Thanksgiving Day in an
Irish Pub !! But maybe there's no choice. And the Café Panini say's they're serving "A Thanksgiving Meal" but don't say what it is. Maybe I'll check them out next time I go downtown and ask.
Anyone else know of other Thanksgiving Day meals served in Madrid - and IF they're serving turkey??
Saludos, MadridMan
UPDATE 13 November 2008:
Today I visited Café Panini and O'Neills to ask about their Thanksgiving Day turkey feast.Café PaniniI visited at about 1pm today. They told me that while they're serving Thankgiving Turkey meal all day long, they are only doing so in "shifts" and that reservations are required. As of the time I visited, they ONLY had space available for the 5:30pm shift and ONE SPACE LEFT for the 10pm shift. The 8:30pm shift and all earlier afternoon shifts were already full. The problem is at 5:30pm most all (or all) of my Spanish friends whom would accompany me are still working - and 10pm is too late for most all of them too. They have a tiny dining room with only about 6 tables so this, I suppose, is the reason why they're filling up quickly.
O'Neills Irish PubI'm waiting on a call-back from the owner but from the information I got today when I visited at 1:30pm, their downstairs dining area - where they're serving the turkey lunch - is already full with ONE GROUP OF SEVENTY PERSONS!!!
Maybe this is the U.S. Embassy Group????? They said THEY MIGHT be able to fit 8 more persons, our group, into the existing group but it's not certain. Also, it seems they're only serving the turkey meal at some given time - which they didn't know. Hopefully the owner will call me back but I'm not very optimistic. People don't usually call you back if the answer is "NO", only if the answer is "YES".
So it looks like we're stuck. OR will have to bite-the-bullet and go for the VERY expensive
La Gamella Thanksgiving menu at €37.50 - and I don't even know (yet) if they have space available. But I think that's too expensive.
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