What does it cost to bring two adults and two children to Thanksgiving dinner in Paradise Valley this year? Before tax and gratuity, the answer runs from just under $300 to more than $500, and in proportion the children's line swings harder than the adult one.
On Thursday, November 26, 2026, five resort restaurants and El Chorro have published Thanksgiving menus with public reservations. Adult prices fall between $115 and $189. Children's prices run from $32 to $79, a much wider band in proportion. For a household planning around grandchildren, the children's price and the hours each kitchen keeps separate these tables in ways the adult price alone does not show.
Six tables on one Thursday
Each table below comes from the venue's own 2026 page or its 2026 reservation listing. The family-of-four column assumes two adults and two children within each venue's stated age range, before tax and gratuity.
Venue | Format | Hours on Nov. 26 | Adult | Child | Family of four |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
El Chorro | Three-course choice menu | 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. | $115 | $32, ages 5 to 12 | $294 |
LON's at The Hermosa Inn | Three-course prix fixe | 12 to 8 p.m. | $135 | $35 | $340 |
Prado, Omni Scottsdale Resort & Spa at Montelucia | Five-course plated dinner | By reservation | $155 | Single listed price | n/a |
Hearth '61, Mountain Shadows | Turkey Day Feast | 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. | $159 | $35, ages 12 and under | $388 |
Elements, Sanctuary Camelback Mountain | Three-course dinner | Seatings 11:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. | $175 | $55, ages 12 and younger | $460 |
Rita's Cantina, JW Marriott Scottsdale Camelback Inn | Brunch buffet | 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. | $189 | $79, ages 3 to 12 | $536 |
The most expensive adult seat costs about 1.6 times the least expensive one. For children, Rita's Cantina charges nearly 2.5 times what El Chorro charges. For the same family of four, the gap between the two ends of the table is $242 before a single drink is ordered, with $148 of it on the adult side and $94 on the children's.
Where the bill widens, and what it pays for
The price differences track what each kitchen includes.
El Chorro's Thanksgiving menu is the lowest-priced table on the list. Every Thanksgiving order comes with handcrafted breads and the restaurant's famous sticky buns, and mains range from herb-roasted organic turkey with cornbread and sausage stuffing to a grilled center-cut filet. The menu also says a 20% gratuity is added to every bill on the day, so the real check starts above the $115 headline.
At the other end, the Thanksgiving brunch at Rita's Cantina is built as a family event. The listing promises chef-attended carving stations, fresh seafood, breakfast and brunch specialties, bottomless mimosas, live entertainment, face painting, caricatures and professional family photography. Children 2 and under eat free, and the restaurant asks parties larger than six to call ahead. The OpenTable listing adds a 20% service charge, which pushes the family-of-four figure past $640 before tax.
The tables in between differ mostly in sourcing and pace. Mountain Shadows features Two Wash Ranch slow-roasted turkey raised for Hearth '61, and it also sells a Thanksgiving meal to go for households that would rather eat at home. Sanctuary describes the Elements menu as three courses built on locally sourced, seasonal ingredients, opening with an amuse of potato croquette with Manchego and smoked trout roe. Prado's OpenTable listing is the only five-course plated dinner on the list, booked for parties of one to ten.
The clock narrows the list further
Once the children's price has trimmed the options, the serving hours do the rest. Rita's Cantina stops serving at 2 p.m., which suits a household that wants the main meal early and the evening free. El Chorro closes its Thanksgiving service at 6 p.m. Mountain Shadows, Sanctuary and LON's keep seating until 8 p.m., so they are the realistic options for a family waiting on an afternoon flight or a late football game.
The morning is where access changes. Two resorts have scheduled something active before the meal, and they handle outside participants differently:
- Thanksgiving Day Bootcamp, Mountain Shadows. 9 a.m. on the lawn facing Camelback Mountain, $20 including self-parking, capped at 15 people. Ticket sales close at 8 a.m. that morning, and tickets are sold on Eventbrite.
- Annual Turkey Trot, Sanctuary Camelback Mountain. 8:45 to 10 a.m., meeting at the Bell Stand and ending with a mimosa at Jade Bar. It is complimentary, and the resort lists it as open to resort guests and members only.
So a Paradise Valley household can book Sanctuary's dinner but not its morning walk. With only 15 bootcamp spots, the outdoor workout open to locals on Thanksgiving morning has fewer places than most of the dinner rooms.
December moves to Palo Cristi Road
Around Thanksgiving and through December, The Hermosa Inn's restaurant has published the fullest local holiday calendar. LON's sits inside Casa Hermosa, the home cowboy artist Lon Megargee built in the 1930s, and Executive Chef Brian Peterson's menus run the dinners listed on the Arizona Hideaway Collection's experiences page.
- Sunday, November 15. The Long Table at Casa Hermosa, a four-course garden harvest dinner for 40 guests at two long tables, with Bob Boze Bell, executive editor of True West Magazine, telling Old West stories between courses. Arrival is at 6 p.m., and the $195 price includes wine, cocktails and mocktails.
- Sunday, December 13. A Winter Wonderland gingerbread workshop with a holiday brunch buffet, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., at $50 per person plus $75 per gingerbread house.
- Sunday, December 20. Two garden sittings of a Christmas concert by Spanish guitarist Esteban, 3 to 4:30 p.m. and 5:30 to 7 p.m., at $175 per person with light tapas and wine, tax and gratuity included.
- Thursday, December 24. Christmas Eve three-course prix fixe, 4 to 8 p.m., $135 per adult and $35 per child.
- Friday, December 25. Christmas Day prix fixe, 12 to 8 p.m., at the same $135 and $35.
- Thursday, December 31. A four-course New Year's Eve dinner with live music from 7 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. The first seating, 5 to 6:45 p.m., is $200 per person, the second, 7 to 9 p.m., is $230, and wine pairings from Lead Sommelier Brian Downey are $100 more.
The children's-price pattern carries into Christmas Day. LON's keeps its $35 children's price. Sanctuary's Christmas Day dinner at Elements runs 11:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. at $185 per adult and $65 per child 12 and younger. Rita's Cantina repeats its Thanksgiving pricing for a Grand Christmas Brunch Buffet, $189 per adult and $79 per child ages 3 to 12, again with a 20% service charge. On December 25, as on November 26, the children's price varies more in proportion than the adult price does.
A seventh dining room is still being built
Kimpton Miralina Resort & Villas Paradise Valley is the former Scottsdale Plaza Resort. According to the Arizona Republic, it reopened on January 7, 2026, after a $42 million renovation and rebrand. Its first restaurant, Hecho Libre from chef Wes Avila, opened in December 2025, and the resort describes its cooking as Sonoran and Baja.
The second phase is what will change the resort's dining. Lodging Magazine reported in June that Phase Two of the $70 million project was scheduled to begin its unveiling in the fourth quarter of 2026. It includes 134 Valley Villas, a ten-residence hotel-within-a-hotel called The Enclave, and Arizona's first Katsuya, the modern Japanese concept from sbe led by Culinary Director Chef Benjamin Dayag. Katsuya, the villas and The Enclave are scheduled to open in early 2027, and full completion is projected for the first quarter of 2027. The resort says construction has been sequenced so Phase One amenities stay open throughout.
If that schedule holds, Paradise Valley's 2027 holiday tables will include a sushi and robata menu that this season's list does not.
The details in this post, from children's pricing to seating windows and service charges, come from each venue's own 2026 listings and can change before the day, so confirm them when you book. If the Thanksgiving reservation is the start of a longer conversation about where your family gathers in Paradise Valley, Matheson Real Estate Team would be glad to share what we know about the town. Request a Private Consultation whenever the timing suits you.
