Order Thanksgiving to-go with The Kitchen

Welcome back. The kitchen is joining us for today's Good Day Cooks. We are here with Michael and you're here to discuss your go-to offerings for Thanksgiving. So what do we have here on the table? So this is our Thanksgiving package that you can is available to purchase online through our website. It is $2.75.50 and feeds four to six people. So you get a whole roasted turkey, some leek and mushroom stuffing, sweet potato casserole, whipped potatoes. Brussels sprouts with bacon and white balsamic glaze, mac and cheese, a pecan pie, rolls, cranberry chutney, gravy, all of it's ready to go. You just heat it up and serve. Makes Thanksgiving super easy. We're also open from 1 to 7 that day, I apologize, 1 to 7 that day for in-house dining as well. So if you don't want to have everybody at the house, you can also come in and dine with us as well. But this does make it super easy. Takes all the, you know, all the work out of it, and we take care of everything for you. And if you come in, you don't even have to worry about dishes. Exactly. There you go. That's the added bonus. And do you guys do this every year? We do this every year. So last year was our first year doing Thanksgiving, but our other locations have been doing this for years. And it's just a great, you know, a great way to get your family together and enjoy being with your family rather than. Being in the kitchen and having to cook. Yeah, because cooking can be stressful. Most of us are not this good at it. So how did you kind of, I mean, obviously these are the Thanksgiving staples, but is there anything special you did with it? Any sort of twists that you put on it? I mean, for the most part, we try to keep it as traditional as possible with a little, you know, some changes and, you know, tweaks here and there. But I think the overwhelming thing is everybody on Thanksgiving has their thing that they love to eat. So you never want to go, I don't know if you've, I've seen that video where people were like, don't experiment on Thanksgiving. Don't experiment on your own time. But that's kind of my thought process with Thanksgiving is go with the traditional because that's what everybody loves. That's what everybody looks forward to all year long. So it's, you know, you don't want to mess with it too much. And you mentioned everyone has a favorite. Well, I want to hear what's y'all's favorite. I was literally just about to ask that. Okay. My favorite is mashed potatoes. Mm. Um. Some of the other stuff, I feel like we don't normally eat during the rest of the year. But mashed potatoes, I would say, is my favorite. It's hard to pick. I love macaroni and cheese and some turkey. I'm more of a dark meat girl, though. Fair. What about you? I am stuffing and turkey. So is my mom. My mom cannot get enough of the stuffing. Stuffing or dressing, either way. I mean, all of it, though. And then the leftovers the next day. Exactly. Make yourself a little sandwich with those rolls. I mean, there's no wrong way to do it. And again, if people want to... Pick up this. How do they go about doing that again? So you can purchase it online through our website and then you pay for it. You pick it up Wednesday before the day before we will be open and you. Schedule your time to come pick it up on Wednesday, and we'll have it boxed up and ready to go. And should people order earlier rather than later? Yes. Because it takes time. So we do cut off the orders the Friday before Thanksgiving. Okay, good to know. So a little bit of a time crunch, and you can also order it if you're in the restaurant. On Fridays, we do $5 martinis for happy hour. So come in and get a martini, place your Thanksgiving order, or book your holiday parties with us. And speaking of booking, how early should people be making those reservations? We are already... Very close to being full. Okay, right now. It is one of those things, you know, I tell people, make your reservations early. And it's always one of those things. After Halloween, that's when they start rolling in and everybody starts thinking about the holidays and starts booking. But we do have some slots available. And if you can't book for your party size online, just call and talk to the host team and they can try to work you in. And I was looking, you guys have brunch? Tell us about that because Austin loves their brunch. Yes, we do a blues brunch. Brunch with Paul Val who is one of the local Austin artists so we do a Saturday and Sunday blues brunch where we have local artists come in and play during brunch so you know always a great time. Paul's fantastic and brings in a you know great. A group of artists every week. What kind of food do y'all have for brunch? So it runs the gamut. I mean, we've got huevos rancheros. We've got eggs benedict. We've got, you know, you can kind of get breakfast tacos. You can get your classic American breakfast, like two eggs hash browns and bacon and sausage. So it kind of goes all over the place. Talking about breakfast, we've got to talk about dinner for a second. Yes, yeah. Yeah. Definitely. Dinner is obviously. My favorite, you know, meal period, but we are focused on small plate shareables and large format shareables. So the idea is that you could come in and try a bunch of different flavors and a bunch of different things. And me personally, I'm very much a mood eater, so I tend to write menus that way. So I never know what I'm going to want. So you can kind of like work your way through the menu. And I always tell people you could come in and have one experience and like stick to one thing. on one night and then come back another time and have a completely different experience based on the flavor profiles and what you select and how the how the servers kind of guide you through it. It's all the more reason to come back and hang out. Exactly. It's always changing up. I mean my mom would love and I would love if we could get Thanksgiving all year long. You better hurry up get on the website or if you're wanting to go in yeah immediately probably book because you said yes yeah we're getting there. So for people who've never been to the the kitchen. How would you describe it to them? Okay, so we are located downtown at It's at the corner of 6th and San Antonio in the 6G building. It is kind of an escape from the, like, downtown. Everything kind of, like, focuses inward. So it's real cozy and, like, wraps you in. So low lighting, so it feels, like, kind of romantic. That sounds so nice with, like, the 40 lights in our face right now. I know, right? Low lighting, good company, martinis, relax. Exactly. Well, thank you so much for coming in. Thank you. Yeah, this looks delicious. It does. I'm going to have to try it. I know, right? All right.