Does anyone have any suggestions for a good but reasonable Thanksgiving Dinner/Buffet? I am calling the popular restaurants and they are having a fixed menu with the prices between $69-78 per person. With 7 of us, well do the math!! I am looking for a cozy place for about $30-40 per person that is in Downtown. Thanks!

I'm never in town on Thanksgiving but if I were I'd want to go to the Tabard Inn, because of the cozy ambiance. I checked their website and they don't mention a buffet, but their sample menus suggest their prices should be in your ballpark.

I can't help you with cozy but we've eaten Thanksgiving dinner out a number of times. If you can, get a copy of this Friday's Washington Post. Restaurants having special Thanksgiving dinners will have ad in the Weekend section. Also, call the major hotel chains downtown, like the Marriott and Hyatt. They often have buffets, but each location is different (including price) so you'll have to call each separately. Whatever you do, don't go to Phillips on the waterfront. I know they have a buffetn every year, but their food is awful.

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DC is very dead on Thanksgiving Day, even hyatt didn;t have a buffet the year we weree there. There is however a restaurant on the top floor of the Hyatt Capital Hill. Lovely service lovely view and just great you feel as if you are part of the senate.
Hyatt also runs specials for that hotel for thanksgiving actually giving the rooms away for a bout 79 a night. You can walk to the capital, lovely place and great service

I think the price of $70+ per person must be the most expensive restaurants in town, as that is very high for a Thanksgiving dinner buffet, even at decent places. I was thinking of a restaurant that should fit the requirements, but it's in Silver Spring and not downtown DC -- Mrs. K's Toll House. I would prefer that for ambience to something like a larger chain hotel. They have a web site (www.mrsks.com)

In DC proper, Hotel Washington has a Thanksgiving dinner for only $24 per person, Hotel Lombardy is only $35 per person, Sequoia in Georgetown is only $25 per person, and Tony and Joe's in Georgetown is only $32 adult/$18 kids 12 and under, according to the paper. Hotel Washington always has reasonably priced holiday dinners, as I recall. I don't know which I'd pick for ambience, perhaps the Hotel Washington, of those. I agree Tabard Inn would be a great idea for coziness-- their price shouldn't be $70 per person as it isn't normally.