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 | atcoblueflamekitchen.com

Order By: 5pm on Tuesday December 16, 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: $325 + tax, additional sides extra

What You Get:
A dinner that will feed 4-6 people and choose between ready-to-roast turkey, prime rib, or smoked ham for the star protein of your Christmas dinner. Sides include mashed potatoes, roasted carrots, roasted beets and parsnips, sage stuffing, and more! And end your Christmas feast on a high note with a choice of gingerbread cake, candy cane cheesecake, or holiday cookies.

Hotel Arts | hotelarts.ca

Order By: Sunday December 21 at 5 pm; Pick up on December 24 and 25 with pickup times available between 11am and 4pm both days.
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! The to-go Christmas dinner can be made gluten free or dairy free upon request. The turkey is Halal, and the gravy is vegetarian.

Hotel Blackfoot | hotelblackfoot.com

Order By:Available from December 1st – December 31st excluding Boxing Day (December 26th). 72 hrs. notice required.
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: Orders must be placed before 5pm on Friday December 19th. Available for pick up on December 25th only between 2 – 5pm
Price: $345+ tax for a meal for 6-8 people; $450+ tax for a meal for 10-12 people. There’s is also a dinner for two for $120+ 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 noon on Saturday December 20 (while quantities last) for pick-up December 24 or 25.
Price: $367 for dinner for 4; $567 for dinner for 8; $857 for dinner for 15

What you get:
Your meal for four includes a slow-roasted 4-6 kilogram Alberta turkey, the meal for eight 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 garlic 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: Friday December 19 at 4pm for pick up December 24 and 25
Price: Golden Oven Roasted Turkey Meal – $370 for 5-6 people and $490 for 11-12 people; AAA Prime Rib Meal – $445 for 6-7 people and $755 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 included 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 here
Price: Starting at $75.99 for a meal that serves four

What You Get:
Sunterra has three Christmas Feast 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, or prime rib. 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!