Jessica Durando

USA TODAY

Just when you thought nothing could beat your grandma's homemade turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes and pie, a restaurant in New York City creates a meal package fit for royalty.

The cost: $35,000 for four or $8,750 per person.

Marc Sherry, co-owner of Old Homestead Steakhouse restaurant for 40 years, said the traditional Thanksgiving meal was a "dinner without any personality."

"So, what we've accomplished is to give the most outrageous, over-the-top Thanksgiving experience for a party of four that we could think up."

The meal consists of nine courses, including an appetizer of squab stuffed with rich foie gras soaked in a $5,000-plus bottle of Courvoisier L'Esprit Cognac, roasted farm-raised organic turkey stuffed with a dressing of 7 pounds of $200-per-pound imported ground Japanese Wagyu filet mignon, mashed potatoes with $200-per-pound Swedish moose cheese, whipped sweet potatoes topped with $1,600-per-ounce Royal Osetra 000 caviar and more.

The package comes with grandstand seating at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade, a $6,000 gift card for a shopping spree at Bloomingdale's, limousine service and dance lessons to learn the Turkey Trot at Fred Astaire Dance Studios.

The restaurant is providing the experience only for three groups of four people. Two groups had been sold. "By Thursday, we will be sold out on this gourmet, over-the-top meal."

"If you have the $35,000, God bless you, you have a lot to be thankful for," Sherry added.

The restaurant will be serving a traditional Thanksgiving meal for $65 per person for us average folks.

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