“As great as Thanksgiving Day is,” there’s a part of all of us that secretly wishes we could skip the dining-table drama and “fly to some exotic locale where sweet-potato casserole doesn’t exist,” said Andrew Knowlton in Bon Appétit. I once spent Thanksgiving in Tokyo, where a friend and I reveled in the culture shock and spent the holiday dinner hour enjoying plates of sushi from a conveyor belt. Here are three far-flung restaurants that top my list of potential new Thanksgiving escapes. “Trust me: You won’t miss the turkey.”
El Obrero Buenos Aires. It’s summer now in Argentina, and what better way to spend Turkey Day than savoring an “affordably priced cut of grass-fed beef and a few bottles of equally inexpensive malbec”?
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Joe Beef Montreal. Montreal is “easily one of my favorite cities for its understated sophistication.” Thanksgiving at Joe Beef should start with Prince Edward Island oysters, followed by a roasted game bird.
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