Where to Order Take Out Christmas Dinner in Calgary

If you’re like me, you love everything about big, fancy holiday dinners – except maybe the cooking. Fortunately, a lot of local restaurants and catering companies have tuned into the fact that many of us would rather spend Christmas day sipping cocoa around the tree with family than stuffing a turkey. If you’ve decided to hang up your apron this year, we’ve rounded up a list of some of our favourite spots to order take out Christmas dinner in Calgary.

Where to Order Take Out Christmas Dinner in Calgary

Blue Flame Kitchen | shop.atco.com

Order By: 5pm on Dec 17, or while quantities last. Orders can be picked up on at ATCO Park on Dec. 23 or Dec. 24. Please select your pick-up time during checkout.
Price: $285 + tax, additional sides extra

What You Get:
A dinner that will feed 4-6 people and includes a ready-to-roast turkey breast with fresh herbs along with a confit turkey leg & thigh. Sides include honey and thyme roasted carrots, roasted Brussels sprouts with pancetta, sage stuffing with roasted garlic, traditional turkey gravy, brown butter mashed potatoes, and spiced orange cranberry sauce. For dessert, enjoy sticky date pudding with toffee sauce. A gluten-free option is also available for $255.

Hotel Arts | hotelarts.ca

Order By: December 17 at 5 pm; Pick up on: December 23 and 24
Price: $68 per person

What You Get:
A delicious turkey dinner with all the trimmings from Hotel Arts awaits at Yellow Door Bistro! Enioy cranberry and pumpkin seed mini sourdough loaves, roasted winter squash soup, seasonal root vegetables, confit turkey leg and mushroom sage stuffing, buttermilk mashed potatoes, rosemary roasted RossDown turkey breast, and a decadent eggnog cheesecake for dessert!

Hotel Blackfoot | hotelblackfoot.com

Order By: Available from December 1 – 31. Orders must be placed 72 hours in advance.
Price: $450 + tax

What You Get:
This take out Christmas dinner in Calgary includes a 13-pound roast turkey and all the trimmings in a meal that will feed 8-10 people. Your meal’s sides include bakers fresh dinner rolls with butter, a build-your-own Caesar salad, honey dill baby carrots, roasted Brussels sprouts, glazed acorn squash, whipped potatoes, and traditional stuffing with cranberries and apples along with herbed pan gravy and orange cranberry sauce. Satisfy your sweet tooth with warm apple crumble and delicious sugar cookies! Additional sides and mains can be added for a fee.

Best Western Premier | calgaryplaza.com

Order By: 5 pm on December 18
Price: $329+tax for a meal for 6-8 people; $429+tax for a meal for 10-12 people. There’s is also a dinner for 2 for $110+tax

What you get:
Along with your turkey, every meal in this take out Christmas dinner in Calgary includes dinner rolls, roasted butternut squash soup, buttermilk whipped potatoes, roasted root vegetables and traditional sage stuffing along with orange cranberry sauce and turkey gravy. Dessert is Christmas trifle or a choice of pumpkin, strawberry rhubarb, or apple pie with whipped cream. The dinner for two option includes 400 grams of carved turkey (white and dark meat) and choice of one half of dessert pie.

Fairmont Palliser Hawthorn Dining Room and Bar | hawthorndiningroom.ca

Order By: Order by 9am Monday December 19 for pickup December 24 or 25
Price: $350 for dinner for 4; $540 for dinner for 8; $820 for dinner for 15

What you get:
Your meal for 4 includes a slow-roasted 4-6 kilogram Alberta turkey, the meal for 8 includes a 5-6 kilogram turkey, and your meal for 15 will have a whopper of a bird at 10-12 kilograms. The sides for all meals are the same, although the portions differ! With any meal, you’ll get to enjoy a loaf of Hawthorn sourdough bread and butter, endive salad, traditional cranberry sauce, sage pan gravy, rosemary and farlic roasted baby potatoes , honey roasted vegetables and Brussels sprouts, sage and onion stuffing and a yule log for dessert.

The Carriage House | carriagehouse.net

Order By: December 20 at 4 pm for pick up December 24 and 25
Price: Golden Oven Roasted Turkey Meal – $345 for 5-6 people and $475 for 11-12 people; AAA Prime Rib Meal – $420 for 6-7 people and $735 for 12-13 people

What you get:
All of the above meals are served with a market salad, Brussels sprouts, roasted carrots, creamy mashed potatoes, and Carriage House fresh baked dinner rolls. For dessert, choose an in house baked Christmas cake or apple pie! Add-ons like rosemary crusted lamb rack, a roasted salmon, and a fruit platter can be added for an extra cost.

Great Events Catering | greateventscatering.ca

Price: Varies by entree and quantity chosen. See menu for details.

What you get:
Great Events will cater your Christmas feast with a menu straight out of your holiday dreams. Their plated holiday dinner menu includes your choice of a minimum of 3 courses (soups, salads, appetizers, entrees and desserts). Entree selections include mouthwatering options like slow cooked herbed roasted turkey, a 7 oz Alberta striploin steak, wild mushroom and squash wellington, angus beef tenderloin and prime rib and more. There are 4 options for vegetables and 6 starch selections, guaranteed to leave everyone at your event leaving with satisfied bellies!

Sunterra Market | sunterramarket.com

Order By: Promotional four service price applies to pre-orders placed by December 18 only
Price: Starting at $34.99 per person

What You Get:
Sunterra has three Christmas Feats options ready to fill up four bellies of your family and friends for the price of three. Each meal starts with a quinoa apple salad and roasted pumpkin and squash soup, followed by your choice of entree: herb-rubbed turkey, Soleterra d’Italia Modena ham, prime rib, or creamy mushroom, kale and sweet potato casserole. Each meal comes with mashed potatoes, roasted vegetables and stuffing, and many come with a sauce like gravy or cranberry sauce, and banana coconut cream pie tart for dessert! Prices vary based on entree.

Will you be cooking for Christmas this year or have you decided to let someone else have the honours? Did we miss a spot with a great Christmas meal to-go? We’d love to hear about it in the comments!