The Polo Bar, New York City

Ralph Lauren’s genius for channeling classic American style spilled over into the Manhattan dining scene last year, when he opened the Polo Bar, an instantly clubby restaurant in Midtown. The food is—what else?—classic American cuisine, with a particular focus on the designer’s favorite dishes, and that carries over into Thanksgiving’s a la carte menu (from $10 to $200 per dish), which features special dishes such as an autumn vegetable salad with roasted winter squash, root vegetables, and Pleasant Ridge cheese, and roasted heirloom turkey with maple-bacon roasted Brussels sprouts, sweet potato gratin, pork sausage stuffing, calvados gravy, and cranberry-apple chutney. For dessert, choose between pumpkin pie and pumpkin sundae. (ralphlauren.com)