Historic Thayer Hotel at West Point Offers Traditional Thanksgiving Feast

PR Log (Press Release) – Oct 27, 2009 – The historic Thayer Hotel at West Point is once again offering its traditional Thanksgiving dinner in its beautiful Main Dinning Room on Thursday, November 26, from 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.

Guests can enjoy a traditional, worry-free Holiday meal of turkey and all the trimmings, without the hassle of cooking and cleaning.  Begin with delicious appetizers like mushroom bisque soup, tomato bocconcini salad, pasta salad, chilled ratatouille, asparagus vinaigrette, and tossed greens.  

For the main course, visit the carving station for piping hot roasted turkey and roast prime rib herb au jus.   Other entrees will include broiled salmon with sundried tomatoes, baked smoked pork loin in an apple brandy glaze, and baked stuffed shells.  

The Thanksgiving buffet will also offer a large array of seasonable vegetables including yellow squash, turnips, carrots, green beans, plus sage stuffing and mashed potatoes.
The dessert table promises delicacies to please every palate including pumpkin pie, carrot cake, éclairs, cream puffs, cheesecake and chocolate mousse.

Join the Thayer for their traditional Thanksgiving buffet for just $39.95 per person, and $20.00 per person for children under 12, tax and gratuity not included.  

For more information or reservations for the Thayer Hotel’s Thanksgiving Buffet, please call (845) 446-4731.

Built in 1926, the Thayer Hotel is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is the only full-service hotel on the Hudson River from the George Washington Bridge to Albany, New York.  Originally constructed to accommodate U.S. Military Academy personnel and their guests, the Thayer Hotel was a successor of the original West Point Hotel.  The Hotel is named for Colonel Sylvanus Thayer, Superintendent of the Academy from 1817 to 1833.

Over the years, it has hosted a long line of dignitaries and celebrities including General Tommy Franks, General Douglas MacArthur, President Dwight D. Eisenhower, President John F. Kennedy, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, Queen Noor of Jordan, former Irish President Mary Robinson, singer Luciano Pavarotti, actors George C. Scott, James Earl Jones and Gregory Peck, the Philadelphia Flyers, and many others.