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If you plan to eat out/enjoy wineries for Thanksgiving, make reservations now

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Yakima Healthy Foods Examiner

For this Thanksgiving, the following restaurants are open and will have dinner ready and waiting for you to order:

  • Apple Tree: Thursday through Saturday 8:00am to 8:00pm. --(509) 966-7140 ext. 5.
  • Black Angus: Dinner is served from 11am-10pm. --509-248-4540
  • Clarion Hotel: Buffet from 11am-3pm. --509-248-7850
  • Holiday Inn Downtown: - Buffet dinner from 11am-3pm --509-494-7000
  • Legends Casino: Buffet --509-865-8800 (Toppenish)
  • Old Country: Buffet:  --509-457-8597
  • Shari's:  Sit-down dinner from 10am --509-469-3686
  • Red Lion (509) 248-5900
  • The Wood Shed at Eagle Rock Resort: Buffet from 12-7pm --509-658-2100
  • Tony's Steakhouse: 2 menu options; served 3-8pm --509-853-1010
  • Whistlin` Jack Lodge: Dinner is served from 12-7pm. --509-658-2433
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The day after Thanksgiving: It is an annual tradition for Yakima Valley to celebrate Thanksgiving in Wine Country, Nov. 25-26. 

Sample the area's finest wines and "carefully selected culinary pairings. Leave your leftovers at home and hit the Yakima Valley to taste new releases paired with excellent homemade foods from local barbeque to rich chocolate brownies. Stock up on holiday wine with select wineries offering case discounts and attend holiday pairing seminars to find the perfect wine for any meal or dinner party."  Bring a glass.

Speaking of Wine 

And Noah he often said to his wife when he sat down to dine, 'I don't care where the water goes if it doesn't get into the wine.' G.K. Chesterton(1874–1936), Wine and Water

  • Souls of poets dead and gone,
  • What Elysium have ye known,
  • Happy field or mossy cavern,
  • Choicer than the Mermaid Tavern?
  • Have ye tippled drink more fine
  • Than mine host's Canary wine?  John Keats (1795–1821),Lines on the Mermaid Tavern

When I find someone I respect writing about an edgy, nervous wine that dithered in the glass, I cringe. When I hear someone I don't respect talking about an austere, unforgiving wine, I turn a bit austere and unforgiving myself. When I come across stuff like that and remember about the figs and bananas, I want to snigger uneasily. You can call a wine red, and dry, and strong, and pleasant. After that, watch out....Kingsley Amis Everyday Drinking

The wines that one best remembers are not necessarily the finest that one has ever tasted, and the highest quality may fail to delight so much as some far more humble beverage drunk in more favorable surroundings.  H. Warner Allen(From the wine list of Commander's Palace in New Orleans, LA courtesy of John McDonald, Dallas, TX)

I'm praying for rain in California So the grapes can grow and they can make more wine From Little Ole Wine Drinker Me sung by Dean Martin  

Sample, savor, and shop during the festive holiday weekend event
Sample, savor, and shop during the festive holiday weekend event
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Kara L. Kraemer was born in the Pacific Northwest and graduated from a small Presbyterian college, majoring in chemistry and food science. Her knowledge was put to use in Seattle where she was employed by the FDA as an inspector turned manager/supervisor. She has since retired and enjoys her...

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