Let's face it: not all of us can make a good pumpkin pie from scratch or cook a tender bird. For those who are kitchen-challenged or just plain lazy, there are a number of DC area restaurants and stores ready to take your order. For the procrastinators out there, get moving. Many stores are still taking orders this week, but kitchens have specific deadlines on orders (many are this week). And if you fake it, just remember: dispose of all the takeout containers well before the guests arrive.
—Tim Ebner
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Eight Places to Get Takeout for Turkey Day

Hill Country Barbecue Market
For a Texas-style turkey, turn to Hill Country Barbecue Market in Chinatown. You can pre-order a full Thanksgiving meal from now until Friday. A meal with all the fixings, including a pit-smoked turkey and Texas toast stuffing, will run you $195-$275. You can serve a small family or the extended cousins with their customized menu. Another option: order a few sides to supplement your cooking.
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Acadiana
Acadiana is offering its “Thanksgiving Dinner for Eight” for $150 and will accept orders until Thursday. The meal includes a Cajun-style bird, your choice of four sides, gravy, biscuits with pepper jelly, and either a pumpkin or pecan pie. Or, you can just go with the bird for $90. But to make it a truly down-home meal, order the sides of Andouille sausage stuffing, sweet potato purée, cornbread and collard greens.
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The Ritz-Carlton, Tysons Corner
Looking to be pampered on turkey day? The Ritz-Carlton in Tysons Corner has an entire culinary team ready to help prepare your Thanksgiving meal. Each dinner includes a roasted turkey, cornbread stuffing, mash potatoes, assorted greens, soup and salad, pasta, and a choice of pie. Or, you can skip the coma-inducing turkey and go for the prime rib, but that may also result in post-meal napping. Dinner for six starts at $279. Orders must be placed by Monday.
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Dangerously Delicious Pies
Don’t forget dessert. Dangerously Delicious Pies is standing by to take your Thanksgiving pie orders. There’s a pie for pretty much any meal. The quiche is a good option for Thanksgiving breakfast, and the Hot Rod Potato, a potatoes au gratin pie, can serve as a dinner side dish. For dessert, there are more than a dozen pies to choose, including the Baltimore Bomb, which pays homage to Baltimore’s Berger Cookies, a Maryland favorite. Pie orders must be placed three days in advance before pick-up.
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Jackie's Restaurant
While the deadline has passed for ordering your turkey, Jackies in Silver Spring is still taking pie orders for pumpkin ($15) and chocolate pecan ($20). Orders must be placed by Friday, and all pies pick-ups are scheduled for Nov. 21st at the restaurant.
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The Butcher's Block
Robert Wiedmaier's European Market adjacent to Brabo offers an array of main dishes, sides, and desserts available for Thanksgiving pre-order, including two different styles of turkey, spiral ham, and porchetta roast. But hurry: orders must be placed Wednesday, and pick-up dates are available for next Monday, Tuesday, or Wednesday.
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Epic SmokeHouse
If you like your turkey smoked or fried, turn to Arlington's Epic Smokehouse, which is selling a limited amount of 10-12 pound turkeys, cooked to either specification. Turkey dinners cost $70, including gravy and three sides, and orders must be in by Sunday.
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Jetties
And, when the leftover turkey and turkey sandwiches are long gone, you can still head to Jetties and order-up a tasty Thanksgiving sandwich. This Nantucket sandwich shop -- now open in Bethesda and Cathedral Heights -- serves-up the Nobadeer sandwich for $8.95. It comes filled with carved turkey, stuffing, cranberry, and mayonnaise on sourdough bread. It’s a small taste of the holidays, served year round in the beach-themed sandwich shop.
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