KooKooRoo: The Last-Ditch Open Restaurant for Your Thanksgiving Supplies

You’re 2 hours from a Thanksgiving deadline on the day of, your friends (or worse, relatives) are already on their way over, and you still don’t have everything done. Sound like you?

No worries. You can still save face, and dish washing time, by utilizing Los Angeles’s last-resort Thanksgiving supply depot. KooKooRoo is your savior.

To cut to the chase (since you’re probably getting pretty frantic about now), this normally laid-back, down-home chicken bistro is humming with activity on Thanksgiving as the kitchen staff slams out turkey portions, from entire meals to sides, gravy and other odds and ends.

A price list, according to their Web site, says an entire Thanksgiving dinner, including the bird, stuffing, potatoes, gravy, cranberry sauce, and a pumpkin, apple or pecan pie is $149.99 for a large meal (16-20 people), while the smaller version (10-12 people) is $99.

In addition, they hand out individual birds for a paltry $99.99 (large) and $69.99 (small), with pies available for a meager $10. And if you’re just lazy, you can grab sides such as mashed potatoes, stuffing or yams in pint or half-pint containers for $4.15 or $2.25.

This last-minute Thanksgiving Mecca has locations in West Hollywood, Santa Monica, Beverly Hills, Miracle Mile and North Hollywood, as well as many other locations throughout the Los Angeles area. You may have to deal with long lines on the big day, but at least you’ll come out looking like a world-class Thanksgiving pro. Even if you’re, um, not.