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Thanks, But We Think We'll Get Tanked at the Iron Horse

Where: 500 West Florida Street [map], Milwaukee, WI, United States, 53204

Ha! This may be our favorite hotel holiday gimmick ever: if you're not doing the cooking thing this Thanksgiving, the tastefully Harley-themed Iron Horse Hotel in Milwaukee will host you for dinner that night — and they're dropping the H, keeping it real and calling it "No Thanks, Get Tanked." Awesome. Yes please.

The seven-course Thanksgiving dinner is served fireside at communal tables in the hotel's library, and menu is very, very heavy on the drank (we would say "drink", but when you're on a mission to get tanked you're really supposed to say "drank." Trust us.)

Chef Thomas Shultz pairs creative cocktails with seven courses:

· Plymouth Rock – Plymouth Gin, Pineapple, Campari/Peach foam with citrus king crab
· Potato Vodka Shot with Osetra Caviar, Crème fraiche and edible spoon
· Cold Duck Champagne Cocktail and Foie Torchon with quince pear preserve
· Cranberry martini and Wisconsin Billy Blue Cheese Salad with Door County Cherry vinaigrette
· Wild Turkey Old Fashioned and braised squab
· House-made Bacon Bourbon with crispy pork belly
· Pumpkin Flip with Gingerbread cake and cinnamon ice cream

Uh, that all sounds damn delish. And so does getting tanked, quite frankly. Well, actually, we're not so sure about that bacon bourbon — that may be a surefire recipe for a Thanksgiving vomit celebration, but we suppose it's worth the $125-per-person price (not bad, people!) to find out. Book a room starting at $149 too — because between the tryptophan and the getting blasted, you're really going to want the bed or the toilet immediately after dessert.

And we're all for getting duh-runk over a holiday dinner (makes the fam more tolerable, we know) — as long as you don't get on your Harley afterward.