Gobble, gobble! It's never too early to start thinking about Thanksgiving, especially if you're hopping to the Disneyland Resort. While Thanksgiving itself isn't a major affair in the parks, Thanksgiving does fall during the Holiday Time, when the resort is festively decorated for Christmas. You may be on the hunt for your turkey dinner if you visit on Thanksgiving Day. Luckily, there are special menus and meals offered for Thanksgiving. Here is everything you need to know to find your Disneyland Thanksgiving dinner ... plus a few tips! Are you hungry for all of the mouth-watering details? Us, too! Let's hop to it!
FAQs
- Where can I find a Thanksgiving meal at Disneyland? Many restaurants add turkey and the fixings to the menu, but the biggest Thanksgiving meals are at Storytellers Cafe, Goofy's Kitchen and Great Maple.
- Is Thanksgiving busy? Crowds can vary from year to year, but holidays weeks are busier than usual because more people are off from work and school. Our crowd calendar has it listed as a 10. Use the crowd calendar to find the least busy days to visit.
- How can we maximize time Thanksgiving week? You can maximize time by buying tickets with Lightning Lane Multi Pass, arriving early, making dining reservations for midday and using mobile order.
- When do Thanksgiving Dinner menu items show up? The theme park restaurants post Thanksgiving Day menu items a few days in advance up to that same day.
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Disneyland Thanksgiving Dinner Reservations
Can you spend your day at Disneyland and enjoy Thanksgiving dinner, too? You can! But you may need to adjust expectations to what is available to you. Reservations for Thanksgiving Day meals at Disneyland went live Oct. 9, 2025. Reservations always fill up quickly. Disneyland hotel guests have an advantage when booking hotel dining options through their hotel reservation page.
Disneyland's Thanksgiving dinner offerings often become available for reservations in early October each year. But it's always a good idea to start looking for reservations for Thanksgiving week 60 days in advance at 6 a.m. just in case. Most Disney dining reservations for table-service restaurants fill up as soon as the reservation window opens. You can book online or through the Disneyland app to make a Thanksgiving dinner reservation at the Disneyland Resort. Don't fret if you've missed that window! Keep checking back in case of cancellations. You can also try to join walk-up lists in the Disneyland app that day.
Where to Find Thanksgiving Food at Disneyland Park in 2025
You have both quick-service and table-service Thanksgiving items at Disneyland on Thanksgiving. The trick is finding them. You can look at the menu for each restaurant about 7-10 days in advance to scout out your Thanksgiving Day turkey menu items.
These locations offer a Thanksgiving meal or something special on Thanksgiving Day 2025:
- Hungry Bear Barbecue Jamboree has a "Bear"giving Sandwich (Nov. 27-30, 2025). It has smoked and pulled turkey, Alabama white BBQ sauce and cranberry coleslaw, served with potato salad and fried green beans.
- Tiana's Palace has a sweet potato-filled beignet topped with toasted marshmallow glaze and Turkey Dinner on Thanksgiving Day 2025. It has roasted turkey breast, stuffing, red potato mash, seasonal vegetables and fresh cranberry sauce, served with a potato roll and gravy.
- Plaza Inn has pumpkin pie.
- Carnation Café usually has Thanksgiving turkey dinner with the fixings and pumpkin pie.
- Blue Bayou sometimes has has an herb-basted turkey breast with whipped potatoes, autumn vegetables, dressing, citrus cranberry sauce, market vegetables, turkey jus and pumpkin crème brûlée.
Every day of the holiday season (Nov. 14, 2025, through Jan. 7, 2026) there are holiday foods in the parks. Many of them have turkey in them. While they are not a traditional Thanksgiving meal, they do get turkey in your belly and are quite popular.
These holiday items include turkey every day of the season:
Here are a few turkey/fall options from the holiday menus (some options are less than traditional, but here's where you can find turkey and seasonal desserts):
- Jolly Holiday Bakery Cafe (Turkey pot pie soup and a Thanks-mas Sandwich throughout the season)
- Tiana's Palace has a new Black Eyed Pea Stew with chicken and smoked turkey.
- Troubadour Tavern has a Celebration Dinner Potato with pulled smoked turkey, whipped cream cheese, stuffing, cranberry sauce, gravy and fried onions. It's pretty good.
Ultimately, you can type "turkey" into the Disneyland app and find all of the restaurants with turkey on the menu. It might be a yummy holiday turkey sandwich, such as the one from Jolly Holiday Cafe or a holiday potato, but it will at least be turkey.
Don't froget about those turkey legs and ears of corn that are available every day at Disneyland!
Where to Find Thanksgiving Dinner and Food at Disney California Adventure Park in 2025
There are a few choices at this park on Thanksgiving, but still, there is a ton of holiday foods to try (you can look up each restaurant's menu in the app about 7-10 days ahead of time to see special items for Thanksgiving Day 2025.
These locations usually have a special Thanksgiving Day menu:
- Carthay Circle Restaurant has seasonal flavors such as maple-orange glazed turkey, harvest apples, bread pudding, cranberry sauce and a fairytale pumpkin pie profiterole.
- Flo's V-8 Cafe is a quick-service restaurant that has a Thanksgiving dinner for lunch and dinner on Thanksgiving Day in 2025. It has turkey, garlic mashed potatoes, gravy, stuffing, vegetables and cranberry sauce.
- Pym Test Kitchen has a Thanksgiving Dinner on Thanksgiving Day 2025. It comes with sliced turkey breast, roasted garlic mashed potatoes, gravy, home-style stuffing, corn ribs and cranberry sauce.
Some restaurants and festival booths have turkey on the menu from Nov. 14, 2025, through Jan. 7, 2026:
- Aunt Cass Café is a quick-service restaurant with a Turkey Pesto Club every day and usually turkey-shaped sourdough bread for Thanksgiving turkey sourdough bread (Nov. 24 - 27).
- Boardwalk Pizza & Pasta is a quick-service location with a Holiday Pizza with roasted turkey with roasted butternut squash, cranberries, arugula, fig jam and cranberry sauce. It's available by the slice or a whole pie.
- The outdoor carts have a Honey-baked Turkey Leg with a pineapple ring.
- The A Twist on Tradition booth has a smoked Holiday Turkey Leg with cranberry sauce. (It's NOT on the Sip and Savor Pass!)
- The Merry Mashups booth has a Holiday Mash Bowl with chicken, cheddar mashed potatoes and turkey gravy with cranberry stuffing crunch. (It's on the Sip and Savor Pass.)
In both parks, you can always grab a turkey leg and corn on the cob for a Thanksgiving meal on the go. Other restaurants have seasonal offerings that you can find in our yummy guide to holiday food at Disneyland.
Where to Find Thanksgiving Dinner at the Disneyland Resort Hotels 2025
There are many seasonal offerings at the Disneyland Hotel restaurants, including special meals on Thanksgiving Day. The 2025 Thanksgiving reservations went live on Oct. 9, 2025. Here's a look at the hotel offerings.
- A Bountiful Thanksgiving Day Meal at Goofy's Kitchen: The buffet adds turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, gravy, sweet potatoes with marshmallows and seasonal desserts to the brunch and dinner menus. Plus the characters are there to help you celebrate! Brunch (7 a.m. until 1 p.m.) is $69 for adults and $39 for kids (plus tax and gratuity). Dinner(1:30 p.m. to 9 p.m.) is $89 for adults and $42 for kids (plus tax and gratuity). Dinner also includes prime rib eye, seafood cocktail, crab claws and pumpkin and assorted pies. You must cancel at least 72 hours in advance.
If you cannot get in on Thanksgiving, there is a holiday meal on all the surrounding days with a carving station for herb-marinated turkey breast. There are also special meals for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.
Disney's Grand Californian Hotel & Spa
- Storytellers Cafe Brunch: Seasonal tastes join the buffet, and the characters help you celebrate all day. At brunch (7 a.m. to 1 p.m.), enjoy carved turkey, gravy, cranberry sauce, pumpkin pie, assorted pies, and an array of hot and cold breakfast items. Brunch costs $69 for adults and $39 for kids, plus tax and gratuity. The characters are in their holiday PJs from 7 a.m. until 1 p.m. on Thanksgiving.
- Storytellers Cafe Dinner: Dinner is $89 per adult and $42 for kids, plus tax and gratuity. Dinner runs from 1:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. and includes carved turkey, cranberry sauce, seafood cocktail, roasted ribeye, pumpkin pie, assorted pies and an array of classic hot and cold comfort foods. Three hours of parking are included at the Grand Californian (for brunch or dinner) with validation. From 1:30 to 9 p.m., the characters are in their holiday best.
Cancellations for all Thanksgiving dining must be made at least 72 hours in advance to avoid the full package price charge per person.
Storytellers Cafe also has a Daisy Pajama Party breakfast and brunch most days Nov. 17, 2025, through Jan. 6, 2026, and a Mickey's Christmas Carol character dinner those same days. The buffet usually has carved turkey, so if you can't get in on Thanksgiving, try another day that week. There are special meals for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.
The Disney Princess Adventure breakfast is closed on Thanksgiving.
Napa Rose 4-Course Wine Country Feast is not offered in 2025, while Napa Rose is under construction. Next year, enjoy Chef Andrew Sutton's four-course feast that celebrates the flavors of California. The cost is $150 per adult with an additional charge of $90 per person for a wine flight. Beverages, tax and gratuities are not included. Complimentary 5-hour parking is included with validation. Attire is dinner attire, such as dress pants, jeans in good condition, collared shirts, dress shorts, sweaters, blouses, dresses and lifestyle shoes. No hats, swimwear, tank tops, cutoffs or distressed jeans.
- Great Maple Modern American Eatery is getting a glow-up for the holidays from Nov. 17 to Dec. 31. The restaurant is transforming into a winter wonderland with twinkling lights, nostalgic décor and plenty of festive cocktails. In 2025, the restaurant serves a Thanksgiving prix fixe menu. (Available Nov. 27; reservations highly recommended.) Enjoy a special three-course Thanksgiving prix fixe menu, featuring maple-brined turkey and honey-rosemary glazed ham, served with all the fixings.
Disneyland Thanksgiving Dinner Tips
Here are a few dining tips that may come in handy if you're hoping to enjoy a Disneyland Thanksgiving dinner (or perhaps even just a turkey leg!):
- Make dining reservations.
- Need to adjust your reservation, such as the time or party size? Check with the host or hostess that day. You may have better luck changing that current reservation to suit your needs. Cast members have a much easier time making changes to your reservations on the day of. It's much more difficult to seat people who do not have reservations. You can usually add a person or subtract people when you check in on the app.
- Be sure to check the cancellation policy when you book. You must cancel holiday meals at least 72 hours before the event.
- If you don't have a reservation, keep checking for cancellations and look for walk-up availability in the Disneyland app. It can’t hurt to try.
- If you have a group of six or eight, see if you can get two smaller reservations at the same time.
- When dining at a quick-service restaurant, consider eating early or at odd times between regular meal times.
- If you've missed the chance to make a reservation on Thanksgiving, we still recommend reserving another meal on a different day during your journey. Know that turkey is generally on the menu only on Thanksgiving. Reservations opened on Oct. 9, 2025.
- Hop by the Festival of Holidays food booths at California Adventure for seasonal tastes and treats if you're more into holiday snacking than dining. Here are the in-park holiday menus for Disneyland and for Disney California Adventure.
- Consider hotel and Downtown Disney dining options.
- If all else fails, go for the turkey legs! It toadally counts as a Disneyland Thanksgiving dinner.
Have a question about planning your Disneyland Thanksgiving dinner? Share your question in the comments. Want to know what crowds will be like on Thanksgiving Day? Check out our Los Angeles crowd calendar!
Related: The Ins and Outs of Disneyland Dining Reservations
Related: Our Guide to the Yummiest Holiday Treats & Foods at Disneyland Theme Parks
Hoppy planning!
