Thanksgiving Food and Menu Ideas for Orlando, Oviedo, Lake Nona & Winter Park

Park Avenue in Winter Park is strung with lights in late November before anyone has carved anything, and Grand National Drive in Orlando is already moving tourists past the convention centre in both directions. Somewhere between those two streets a few thousand people are working out their Thanksgiving food plans and quietly dreading the fourth day of leftovers. 

Tabla offers a Thanksgiving menu at four Central Florida locations from 25 to 29 November, and the order worth knowing about is the Turkey Dum Biryani at $22 with the Pumpkin Delight at $7, which comes to $29 together. This guide covers why those two are the pick, what the rest of the menu costs, and the one timing detail that catches people out on the Thursday. 

Quick Summary 

Tabla's Thanksgiving Special Menu runs 25 to 29 November at Tabla Orlando, Oviedo, Winter Park and Lake Nona. The Turkey Dum Biryani is $22 and the Pumpkin Delight is $7, so the two together come to $29. The four dish menu adds Marble Corn Tikki at $10 and Turkey Tikka Sizzler at $23, reaching $62. Call +1 407-248-9400. 

The $29 Order: Turkey Dum Biryani and Pumpkin Delight 

Most people walking into a Thanksgiving menu are not ordering four courses. They want one proper plate and something sweet after it, and at Tabla Orlando, Oviedo, Winter Park and Lake Nona that is a $29 decision. 

Turkey Dum Biryani, $22. Pumpkin Delight, $7. Twenty nine dollars for both. 

The biryani is a full meal rather than a component, so nothing else has to go with it. Whole turkey meat, white and dark, sealed in a pot with basmati and Tabla's own biryani masala, so there is rice, meat and spice on one plate and no side dish needed. 

Then the pumpkin. Biscuit crumble, pumpkin rabdi, nuts, pumpkin candy on top, landing where pumpkin pie usually lands by a completely different road. 

Every other route through this Thanksgiving food menu of four dishes costs more for the same shape of meal: 

• Turkey Tikka Sizzler and dessert, $30 

• All four dishes, $62 

• Turkey Dum Biryani and dessert, $29 

A dollar is not the point. The point is that $29 is the cheapest way to eat a full turkey main and a dessert off these Thanksgiving dishes, and it is the order that leaves you able to move afterwards. 

Two people doing the same thing is $58. Book it for the Friday and let the leftovers at home fend for themselves. 

The Full Thanksgiving Food Menu, Priced 

Four dishes, four prices, the same at all four Tabla locations in Orlando, Oviedo, Winter Park and Lake Nona. 

Most Thanksgiving menu alternatives work by removing the turkey. Tabla has kept it and cooked it in a kitchen that does not own a roasting tin. 

Turkey Tikka Sizzler, $23. White meat turkey tikka, served sizzling with mint chutney and jeera rice. A dollar more than the biryani, so the choice there is texture rather than money. 

Marble Corn Tikki, $10. Crispy corn and potato tikki on a savoury corn chat with garlic aioli, finished with corn purée. Corn three ways on one plate, which is a more interesting way into a Thanksgiving table than a bread roll. 

Pumpkin Delight, $7. A biscuit crumble base layered with pumpkin rabdi and nuts, topped with pumpkin candy. Rabdi is milk reduced slowly until it thickens, so this is pumpkin pie's texture reached by an entirely different route. 

Ordering everything is $62 a head. The $29 pairing is the version most tables will actually want. 

Five Days, Wednesday Through Sunday 

The Thanksgiving meals here are not built around a single sitting. The menu holds for five days, and the holiday sits second in the run. 

The Wednesday is the one worth claiming early. Travel has landed, the house is full, and every pan is already spoken for on Thursday, which is why a table at Tabla Orlando or Tabla Oviedo earns its keep that night. 

The Thursday Timing Problem Nobody Warns You About 

Here is the detail that matters more than any dish on the Thanksgiving food menu this year. 

All four of these Tabla rooms close in the middle of the Thursday afternoon. The traditional Thanksgiving dinner hour, somewhere between three and five, falls straight into that gap. 

A 3:30 PM Thanksgiving sitting does not exist at any of the four. A 2:00 PM lunch does, and so does a 5:30 PM dinner. 

Tabla Orlando holds the late end at 11:00 PM while the other three stop at 9:00 PM, which makes Grand National Drive the answer for a family eating late. These are published weekly hours rather than holiday hours, so ring ahead. 

Thanksgiving Food Ideas for the Rest of the Week 

Some years you want the full table. Some years, by Friday lunchtime, the best Thanksgiving food ideas are the ones with heat in them and no relationship to a roasting tin. 

The Thanksgiving menu is not the only thing running at Tabla Orlando, Oviedo, Lake Nona and Winter Park that week. 

• Weekday lunch platters, $14, Monday to Friday, covering the Wednesday and the Friday 

• Weekend Thali, $18.99, Saturdays and Sundays, covering the 28th and the 29th 

• The Thanksgiving menu, running alongside both from the 25th 

At Tabla Winter Park the $14 platter covers lemon coriander soup, a vegetable samosa, an entrée, butter naan, jeera rice, rasgulla and a fountain drink, served from 11:00 AM, with Tabla Oviedo and Tabla Lake Nona starting at 11:30 AM. 

The thali is $18.99 and carries an appetizer, an entrée and a biryani with soup, salad, naan and dessert. Set against the $29 turkey biryani and dessert, ten dollars is the difference, and only one of them has turkey in it. 

Where to Find the Thanksgiving Menu 

The Thanksgiving Special Menu runs at all four locations from 25 to 29 November. 

Tabla Orlando 

5847 Grand National Drive, Orlando, FL 32819. Phone (407) 248-9400. 

Open 11:30 AM to 3:00 PM and 5:00 PM to 11:00 PM Monday to Friday, and 11:30 AM to 11:00 PM on Saturday and Sunday. This is the late one, and the closest of the four to the convention centre and the International Drive hotels. 

Tabla Oviedo 

945 City Plaza Way Ste 1001, Oviedo, FL 32765. Phone (321) 966-8069. 

Open 11:30 AM to 3:00 PM and 4:00 PM to 9:00 PM Monday to Thursday, with a 5:00 PM reopening on Friday and a 10:00 PM close. Saturday runs 11:30 AM to 10:00 PM and Sunday 11:30 AM to 9:00 PM. 

Tabla Lake Nona 

9971 Tagore Place Suite 9, Orlando, FL 32827. Phone (407) 743-2846. 

Open 11:30 AM to 3:00 PM and 4:00 PM to 9:00 PM Monday to Thursday, Friday evening from 5:00 PM to 10:00 PM, Saturday 11:30 AM to 10:00 PM and Sunday 11:30 AM to 9:00 PM. 

Tabla Winter Park 

216 N Park Ave # H, Winter Park, FL 32789. Phone (321) 422-0321. 

Open 11:00 AM to 3:00 PM and 4:00 PM to 9:00 PM Monday to Thursday, Friday evening from 5:00 PM to 10:00 PM, Saturday 11:00 AM to 10:00 PM and Sunday 11:00 AM to 9:00 PM. It opens half an hour earlier than the other three, which matters in a week when somebody always wants to eat first. 

Ordering Through Thanksgiving Week 

Thanksgiving meals travel better than most people expect, and at Tabla Orlando, Oviedo, Winter Park and Lake Nona the holiday week is when a booking and a hopeful arrival are very different things. 

• Book the Wednesday and the Saturday, which carry the most traffic 

• Call the location directly, since hours differ between the four 

• Order online through each Tabla location page for pickup or delivery 

• Confirm Thursday hours before you travel on 26 November 

Pickup is the quiet workaround on the Thursday. The afternoon closure applies to the dining room, and a collected turkey dum biryani sidesteps the 3:30 PM question entirely. 

FAQ 

1. When is Tabla's Thanksgiving menu available?  

The Thanksgiving Special Menu runs from 25 to 29 November, covering Thanksgiving Day on Thursday 26 November. 

2. Which Tabla locations have the Thanksgiving menu? 

Tabla Orlando, Tabla Oviedo, Tabla Winter Park and Tabla Lake Nona all run the Thanksgiving Special Menu. 

3. How much is the Turkey Dum Biryani and dessert together?  

The Turkey Dum Biryani is $22 and the Pumpkin Delight dessert is $7, so the two together come to $29. It is the cheapest way to get a full turkey main and a dessert from the Thanksgiving menu. 

What is in the Turkey Dum Biryani?  Whole turkey meat, white and dark, cooked with Tabla's biryani masala and basmati rice. It is $22 and works as a full meal on its own. 

4. What is on Tabla's Thanksgiving menu?  

Four dishes: Marble Corn Tikki at $10, Turkey Tikka Sizzler at $23, Turkey Dum Biryani at $22 and Pumpkin Delight at $7. 

5. How much is the full Thanksgiving menu per person? 

All four dishes together come to $62 per person, against $29 for the Turkey Dum Biryani and Pumpkin Delight. 

6. Can I book a table at 3:30 PM on Thanksgiving?  

No, all four locations close between 3:00 PM and either 4:00 PM or 5:00 PM. A 2:00 PM lunch or a 5:30 PM dinner works instead. 

7. Is there a vegetarian option on the Thanksgiving menu?  

The Marble Corn Tikki at $10 is the vegetarian dish on the holiday menu, made with corn and potato. The regular menu runs alongside it all five days. 

Before the Leftovers Win 

A sealed pot of turkey dum biryani opened at the table on the Friday after Thanksgiving, with white and dark meat folded through basmati and a pumpkin rabdi waiting behind it, is the exact opposite of a fourth turkey sandwich eaten standing at the counter. That plate and that dessert come to $29 at Tabla Orlando, Oviedo, Winter Park and Lake Nona, any day from 25 to 29 November. 

Call +1 407-248-9400 to book, and order the Turkey Dum Biryani with the Pumpkin Delight.