If you still don’t have your Thanksgiving dinner plans put together, some local restaurants, resorts and hotels have options for you to consider. I don’t mean for this to be a complete list, but here are some ideas to consider:

At Westward Look Resort, there are two choices. The resort’s restaurant, Gold, will offer a Thanksgiving brunch for $49 per guest. The three-course family feast will be served from 11:30 a.m. to 8 p.m., A Thanksgiving buffet will be offered in the Sonoran Ballroom for $47 per person. It will be served from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. and features displays including raw and grilled vegetables, cheeses, seafood on ice, tomato and mozzarella salad, Waldorf salad, apple cider glazed chicken, and pan roasted salmon. A carving station will have roasted free-range turkey and slow roasted prime rib of beef. There will also be a sweets table for dessert. For families, children ages 4 and younger eat free and those from 5 to 10 years old are half price.

• Westward Look Resort, 245 E. Ina Road — www.westwardlook.com/ — (520) 297-1151

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Chef Albert Hall’s Acacia is offering a special prix fixe Thanksgiving dinner. It’s a four-course  menu that will be served from 1 p.m. to 7 p.m. per person. Cost is $48 per person, $24 for children ages 5 to 12 and complimentary for those 4 and younger. The entrees include a choice of herb-roasted turkey, slow-roasted standing rib of beef, bronzed filet of fresh organic salmon, grilled loin of Colorado lamb or apricot and honey mustard glazed pork loin.

• Acacia at St. Philip’s, 4340 N. Campbell Ave. in St. Philip’s Plaza — www.acaciatucson.com/ — (520) 323-0101

McClintock’s Restaurant is another restaurant serving a prix fixe dinner. In their case it’s a seven-course menu featuring a choice of pecan wood-smoked turkey breast, herb marinated prime rib, honey glazed Virgina Ham, pan seared halibut or whipped red quinoa-polenta. The restaurant will be serving from noon to 8 p.m. The price is $60 per person. Remember reservations are required to get through the gate. 

• McClintock’s Restaurant, 3755 W. Conrads Way, Marana — www.mcclintocks-restaurant.com/ — (520) 579-2100

Pastiche Modern Eatery will be open from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. featuring a special menu of items “some classic, some not so classic” such as honey mesquite baby back ribs, grilled ham with honey orange brown sugar glaze and baked mac and cheese made with smoked gouda, parmesan, Monterey jack, mesquite smoked bacon, spinach and fat macaroni.

• Pastiche Modern Eatery, 3025 N. Campbell Ave. in Campbell Village — www.pasticheme.com/ — (520) 325-3333

Five locally-owned Metro Restaurants will each be offering special dinners on Thursday. At McMahon’s Prime Steakhouse, from noon to 8 p.m. diners can choose between a four-course prix fixe Thanksgiving feast for $29.95 or order off the menu and add a salad, accompaniment and a dessert for $5 more. Metropolitan Grill and Old Pueblo Grille will both offer a three-course dinner for $16.95 from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Nimbus Bistro & Brewery will feature a fried turkey dinner “with all the fixin’s” for $12.95 or diners can order off the regular menu from 11 a.m. to midnight. Down Green Valley way, the Grill on the Green at Canoa Ranch will offer a lunch buffet from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and a dinner buffet starting at 3 p.m.

• Metro Restaurants — www.metrorestaurants.com — McMahon’s Prime Steakhouse, 2959 N. Swan Road, (520) 327-7463; Metropolitan Grill, 7892 N. Oracle Road in Plaza Escondia, (520) 531-1212; Old Pueblo Grille, 60 N. Alvernon Way, (520) 326-6000; Nimbus Bistro & Brewery, 6464 E. Tanque Verde Road, (520) 733-1111; and Grill on the Green at Canoa Ranch, 5800 S. Camino del Sol, Green Valley, (520) 393-1933

For a vegetarian Thanksgiving dinner, Lovin’ Spoonfuls will be serving from noon to 4 p.m. To help with their planning, the restaurant is asking that reservations be made by today (Nov. 23).

• Lovin’ Spoonfuls, 2990 N. Campbell Ave. in Campbell Plaza — www.lovinspoonfuls.com/ — (520) 325-7766

Downtown, Maynards Market & Kitchen will serve a four-course Thanksgiving dinner for $45 from noon to 9 p.m. From 11 a.m. to noon the market will be selling Thanksgiving-themed “grab ‘n go” go items including turkey, mashed potatoes, gravy.

• Maynards Market & Kitchen, 400 N. Toole Ave. in the Historic Depot —

www.maynardsmarket.com — (520) 545-0577

Ringing in holidays And with Thanksgiving week here, we can put it off no longer — the holiday season has arrived. The JW Marriott Starr Pass Resort & Spa is pulling out all the trimmings to spread holiday cheer. Today (Nov. 23), the resort will light a 30-foot Christmas tree with a couple of “Bobs” as special guests: Tucson Mayor Bob Walkup and Sponge Bob Square Pants, who will be there with Dora the Explorer.

The festivities begin at 4:30 pm and those attending can also enjoy a cup of hot cocoa and cookies. The Tucson Girls Chorus will also be there singing holiday songs.

• JW Marriott Starr Pass Resort & Spa, 3800 W. Starr Pass Blvd. — www.jwmarriottstarrpass.com/ — (520) 792-3500

Just in time for holiday giving, Tucson Originals will have its fourth and final gift certificate sale of the year the morning of Dec. 9. Gift certificates for all 44 member restaurants will go on sale at prices dis-

Gift certificate sale

counted from 20 percent to 40 percent off.

The certificate are sold in varying amounts from $10 to $50 and are valid for six months.

These sales are popular — especially the annual December sale — and the gift certificates usually sell out early.

To buy a gift certificate, go online at Tucson Originals website and click on the “gift certificates” link in the upper right corner. Once purchased, the gift certificates are then sent via e-mail.

• Tucson Originals —  www.tucsonoriginals.com

Loews Wine Line

Here’s a new twist on the “turkey hotline” for those who may be struggling to pick the right wine to pair with a holiday meal. Loews Hotels has introduced a “Wine Line” offering free wine pairing advice from their certified sommeliers. They’ll help you decide based on your menu and budget.

“For years, our loyal guests from across the country have been contacting our hotels during the holiday season, and asking questions of our chefs and sommeliers,” said Jonathan Tisch, CEO of Loews Hotels. “We have always answered those questions with great detail and expert advice, so the Loews Hotels Wine Line is our way of sharing the vast wine and food knowledge among our sommeliers and chefs with everyone.”

To take advantage of the Wine Line, send an e-mail to: wineline@loewshotels.com or post your query on Facebook at www.facebook.com/LoewsHotels, click on the Wine Line tab. Loews promises to respond to all questions within 24 hours, if not sooner. The Wine Line will be available until Jan. 1.

• Loews Hotels Wine Line — www.loewshotels.com/en/Promotions/Wineline.aspx

Contact Michael Luria at mjluria@gmail.com. Meals & Entertainment appears weekly in Inside Tucson Business.