Dish

Roast turkey

Where it shows up on confirmed Upstate menus.

On confirmed menus

Every restaurant whose confirmed menu lists it, with each item’s confirmed date. No prices.

3 places in 3 towns: Troy, Indian Lake, Warsaw
Regions: Capital Region (1), North Country/Adirondacks (1), Western NY (1)
How it’s served: sandwich at 3 places, dinner at 1 place
Menu sections it’s listed under: Entrees (1), Sandwiches & Clubs (1), Specialty Sandwiches (1), Sunday Specials (1)

Based on 3 confirmed menus out of 20 restaurants whose menus we’ve confirmed, among the 379 places listed on this site. Other places may well serve it; their menus aren’t confirmed yet, so they aren’t listed here.

Fresh: confirmed on the official menu within 30 days (7 days for specials). Aging: up to twice that. Stale: older. Status updates in your browser from the confirmed date.

Red Front · Troy · Capital Region · Confirmed menu
- Open Faced Hot Turkey w/ Fries Fresh confirmed on the official menu Oct 11, 2026
McSweeney’s Irish Pub · Indian Lake · North Country/Adirondacks · Confirmed menu
- Open Face Hot Turkey Sandwich Fresh confirmed on the official menu Oct 11, 2026
Silverlake Family Restaurant · Warsaw · Western NY · Confirmed menu
- Hot Turkey Gravy Sandwich Fresh confirmed on the official menu Oct 11, 2026
- Hot Turkey Sandwich Fresh confirmed on the official menu Oct 11, 2026
- Turkey Dinner Fresh confirmed on the official menu Oct 11, 2026

What it is

From the upstate.lol menu taxonomy.

Cuisine: American
Kind of dish: meat entree
Also listed as: cold roast turkey, hand carved roasted turkey, hot roast turkey sandwich, hot turkey, hot turkey gravy sandwich, hot turkey sandwich, open faced hot turkey, roast turkey cold

On old menus

From historical menus indexed for this guide (NYPL What’s on the Menu? and the CIA menu collection).

Earliest dated Upstate menus in the indexed library collections that list it:

1855 · “Roast Turkey” at AMERICAN HOTEL, Buffalo · library record ↗ The New York Public Library
1880 · “ROAST TURKEY, GIBLET SAUCE.” at STANWIX HALL, Albany · library record ↗ The New York Public Library
1899 · “ROAST TURKEY, CRANBERRY SAUCE” at NEW TIFFT HOUSE, Buffalo · library record ↗ The New York Public Library

Upstate historical menus listing it, by decade: 1850s (1 menu), 1880s (1 menu), 1890s (1 menu), 1900s (8 menus), 1930s (3 menus), 1950s (1 menu), 1960s (1 menu).

In the New York Public Library menu collection overall, it first shows up in the 1850s and appears through the 1990s.

Earliest among the menus indexed, not the dish’s first appearance anywhere.

Related dishes

Same kind of dish in the taxonomy, on confirmed menus.