There’s a school of thought that says that Londoners shouldn’t be celebrating American holidays; that Halloween and Thanksgiving — Thursday 28 November — and all the rest have just been transplanted here by cultural imperialists and retailers looking to capitalise on the sort of FOMO-driven mania that surrounds end-of-year festivities.
While there’s certainly an element of truth to that argument, London is a city of expats, and there’s nothing that expats like more than the sense of comfort that comes with celebrating an abandoned, somewhat problematic national holiday under a veil of irony. Thanksgiving, luckily, is also just a good excuse to get friends and family around the table for a party, so here are 15 great places around London to do just that.
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