The best New Year's Eve dinners in Chicago

Chef John Manion’s latest opening has concocted a New Year’s Eve menu inspired by the Brazilian tradition of jumping through seven waves to usher in the New Year, with a la carte options like grilled oysters with caviar and citrus garlic butter ($70) and a selection of luxury, tropical-leaning cocktails. Stick around until midnight for a champagne toast. 

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Ring in the New Year with Duck Duck Goat’s family-style menu of dim sum dishes and beyond. Priced at $100 a person, the meal also includes a glass of Chandon Brut. Prefer to eat at home? The restaurant is also offering a five-course $92 NYE takeout package for two, featuring toothsome picks like short rib and bone marrow potstickers. 

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An intimate, 15-course NYE dinner—complete with a glass of celebratory bubbles—awaits you at Duck Sel, chef Donald Young’s roving fine dining pop-up (headed this time to a yet-to-be-disclosed location in Uptown, which will be announced 24-48 hours ahead of New Year’s Eve). The $325 experience is available for both a 5pm and 9pm seating. 

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Dinner at Michelin-starred Esme is a 15-course affair replete with Latin flavors inspired by the works of painter Liz Flores, the restaurant’s current artist-in-residence. Choose between an early seating (starting at 5pm, $295) or late seating complete with a midnight Champagne toast (starting at 7:30pm, $325). 

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Looking for a romantic vibe this New Year’s Eve? Cozy up with your sweetheart next to a bubbling fondue pot at Geja’s Cafe. The $110 experience includes an appetizer (cheese fondue with breads, veggies and fruit) entree (beef tenderloin, lobster tail and shrimp with eight dipping sauces) and dessert (Belgian chocolate fondue flamed tableside with marshmallows for roasting). 

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Stephanie Izard’s dining landmark is offering a five-course prix-fixe NYE menu of classics and newly imagined dishes, as well as a toast of Moёt & Chandon Imperial Brut, for $135.

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Celebrate the New Year like a Spaniard with a $95 tasting menu of dishes like gambas al Ajillo, croquetas de pollo and patatas bravas at Jaleo by Jose Andres. 

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Chicago’s only Persian-inspired tasting menu, which our critic lauded as “one of the best prix-fixe deals in the city,” is offering two New Year’s Eve seatings, with reservations available starting at 5pm ($100) and 8pm ($125). That’s a pretty good deal for an eight-course tasting menu, so don’t hesitate to pump up your experience with optional wine pairings, NA beverages and caviar service. 

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Looking for a spendy option this New Year’s Eve? At Michelin-starred Moody Tongue, the 15-course, $385 tasting menu is hyper-seasonal and luxurious—especially when coupled with the restaurant’s signature beer pairing for an additional $95. 

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For $135, diners at Prime and Provisions can tuck in with an extravagant three-course menu of elevated meat-and-potatoes classics like lump blue crab cake, wedge salad and petite cut filet mignon. Tack on an optional wine pairing for an additional $49. 

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Chef Andrew Zimmerman’s four-course NYE menu ($110) is a feast of modern American cuisine inflected with international flavors, spanning dishes like duck dumplings, Thai pork curry, crispy-skinned striped bass and chocolate mole torte. Diners can also opt to add a wine pairing for an additional $59. 

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Dig into a family-style, Italian-Croatian New Year’s Eve dinner this year at Rose Mary. The $135 four-course spread includes a tuna crudo, ricotta rotolo and a 24-ounce bone-in dry-aged steak, with a la carte beer, wine and cocktail options available as add-ons. 

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Diners will be greeted with a complimentary glass of bubbly this New Year’s Eve at Sunda New Asian, where a live DJ, countdown to midnight and special take-home favors will help celebrate 2025 in style. 

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Tanta’s seven-course Peruvian feast ($110)—spanning dishes like red crab mousse and caviar, lamb chop and yucca, and a tropical fruit pavlova with coconut meringue—concludes with a Champagne toast. 

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Opt for a cozy New Year’s Eve dinner with chef John Shields’ four-course spread ($195) at The Loyalist, where you’ll dine on treats like pickled deviled egg with caviar, spinach gnudi, wagyu and baked Alaska. 

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For $75 a person, Chicago’s craft cocktail temple is offering a two-hour, three-course cocktail tasting experience with tempting drink options like Nothing But the Truth (Iwai Japanese whiskey, barley shochu, almond, pecan and coffee rinse) and Banner Year (manzanilla sherry, vermouth, Apologue Celery Root, Menaud Gin, S&P, lemon and verbena). Food pairings are available for an additional $35. 

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