Where to have New Year’s Eve dinner in Los Angeles

Menu: Bryant Ng's Southeast Asian-inspired farm-to-table joint will serve a prix-fixe, family-style menu on New Year’s Eve inspired by Hawaii. Chef-owner Bryant Ng has crafted an eclectic Pacific Islander-inspired menu with sous chef Johanna Luat that draws upon their heritages (Cantonese and Filipino, respectively) to celebrate the flavors of the Pacific. Highlights include razor clams with black bean sauce and kalua pork and macaroni salad with salted egg yolk and peppercorns. Tiki cocktails will also be available, as well as supplemental caviar.

Price: $95 per person

Reservations: Book online via Resy.

Menu: On the face of it, Tomat is an unlikely place for some of the city’s most delicious, interesting new California cuisine. Run by husband-and-wife duo Harry Posner and Natalie Dial, this airy, London-inspired restaurant in Westchester serves seasonal fare loosely inspired by Posner’s Persian heritage. For New Year’s, the restaurant will serve a vegetarian-friendly tasting menu that includes fritto misto, ghormeh sabzi black eyed peas and your choice of dry-aged ribeye or potato mushroom pithivier, among other bites. The restaurant’s third-floor rooftop will also accommodate walk-ins looking for drinks.

Price: $125 per person

Reservations: Book online via Resy.

Menu: This consistently excellent Fairfax Italian restaurant by chef Gino Angelini will also be offering a dizzying choose-your-own-adventure prix-fixe meal this New Year’s—each appetizer and main course section includes upwards of 10 options. Chef Angelini starts everyone off on the same foot, however, with a traditional Umbrian pork sausage and lentil dish for good luck in the year to come. For those looking to drink with their meal, there will be a $55 wine pairing as well.

Price: $135 per person plus beverages, tax and gratuity.

Reservations: Book online via Resy.

Menu: Tal Ronnen's award-winning vegan fine-dining concept will offer a plant-based New Year's Eve dinner menu at its Melrose location. The six-course meal will include a celebratory “caviar” and your choice of lion’s mane steak or porcini and leek tortellini. For dessert, there's a brownie sundae, banana pudding or a chocolate hazelut petit gateau.

Price: $110 per person plus beverages, tax and gratuity.

Reservations: Book online via OpenTable for Melrose.

Menu: This critically acclaimed Mediterranean eatery in Los Feliz is turning into a steakhouse for the month of January—and it’s kicking off the party on New Year’s Eve. Enjoy classic cocktails and steakhouse-inspired dishes as Sara Kramer and Sarah Hymanson’s minimalist dining room undergoes a total “vibe shift.”

Price: A la carte.

Reservations: Book online via Resy.

Menu: For a romantic, rather than no-holds-barred, New Year's Eve, look no further than this longtime hidden oasis hidden along West 3rd Street. To ring in 2025, head chef Jonathan Portela is serving a three-course Mediterranean-inspired menu, including accommodations for vegans and vegetarians. Seatings run from 6 to 10:45pm—so if you'd rather have an early dinner and spend midnight in bed, this restaurant is here for it.

Price: $125 per person plus beverages, tax and gratuity.

Reservations: Book via Tock.

Menu: With its beautiful atmosphere and even better cuisine, Neal Fraser's Downtown restaurant might fit the bill for an elegant New Year's Eve out on the town. This year, the restaurant is hosting a three-course prix-fixe dinner for New Year's with a supplemental $130 wine pairing. Choose from starters like wedge salad with caviar ranch dressing and abalone chawanmushi, then move onto the likes of John Dory meuniere, Liberty Farms duck and beef filet as mains. To finish, there's a champagne trifle panna cotta or a golden milk chocolate bar for dessert.

Price: $267 per person, inclusive of tax and gratuity

Reservations: Book via OpenTable.

Menu: The flagship location of Suzanne Goin and Caroline Styne’s pioneering market-driven small plates restaurant is offering a multi-course prix fixe menu inspired by New Orleans. The restaurant will count down to midnight on NOLA time (so, two hours ahead of L.A.) and be decked out in themed decor, with a full menu of themed cocktails for the night. 

Price: $150 per person

Reservations: Book via OpenTable.

Menu: Our Best New Restaurant of 2024 is offering a six-course prix-fixe menu that includes blini with caviar and uni, toshikoshi (“year-crossing”) noodles and other one-night-only dishes only for New Year’s Eve. Anyone who’s ringing in the new year will also be offered a complimentary glass of sparkling. If you’re still hungry, additional menu items will also be available à la carte.

Price: $165 per person

Reservations: Book online via OpenTable

Menu: Chef Josiah Citrin's two Michelin-starred Santa Monica fine-dining restaurant will be offering its two and a half hour tasting experience on New Year's Eve for early (5:30pm) and late (8:30pm) seatings. Though exact dishes vary on a seasonal basis, diners can expect whimsical hors d'oeuvres, plus plenty of gourmet meat and seafood.

Price: $599 per person

Reservations: Book online via OpenTable.

Menu: The West Hollywood EDITION's vegetable-forward lobby restaurant will be serving a special five-course menu to kick off Giorgio’s Black and White Ball, which will be held at the hotel’s downstairs nightclub, Sunset at EDITION. Highlights include oyster panna cotta crowned with caviar; mushroom agnolotti with braised greens, white truffle butter, and shaved white truffles; and a striped bass entrée with brown butter beurre blanc, citrus socarrat (crispy rice) and tarragon oil. A pricier later seating adds oysters, caviar and crab legs, plus a DJ set for a more festive atmosphere.

Price: $175 per person for the early seating; $275 for the late seating

Reservations: Book online via OpenTable.

Menu: This traditional French eatery in Santa Monica will offer a special prix-fixe menu for both early and late seatings, with the latter including a midnight champagne toast and extra foie gras brioche. This New Year’s, head chef Dave Beran is offering an uni eclair amuse-bouche, caviar with crab and chips, endive salad, prime rib au jus and chocolate tart. The slightly pricier late seating also throws in a raw bar. If you'd like a more casual New Year's meal, there will also be a bar menu ($65 per person) that features a cocktail flight and the option to purchase a la carte bar bites.

Price: Early: $225 per person; Late: $275 plus person

Reservations: Book online via OpenTable.

Menu: Leaving any meal in the capable hands of celebrity chef Curtis Stone is a good idea, but that's especially true for this New Year's Eve, where his Michelin-starred Hollywood steakhouse, Gwen, will offer an eight-course tasting menu for both early and late seating. Each guest will receive caviar-topped oyster custard, dry-aged beef tartare, chicory salad, smoked ricotta agnolotti, Dungeness crab with Carolina Gold rice, a New York strip steak and a raspberry yuzu pavlova. The later seating ups the ante with grilled duck and a Wagyu cut, plus an additional persimmon and thyme soda to cleanse the palate before dessert. 

Price: Early: $185 per person; Late: $285 per person

Reservations: Book online via Resy.

Menu: One of our favorite West Hollywood hotel restaurants is sending off 2024 in style, with glittering city views, live entertainment, a prix-fixe dinner menu and a complimentary champagne toast.

Price: $150 per person for 6:30–7:30pm seatings; $195 for 9–10pm seatings.

Reservations: Book online via OpenTable.

Menu: Situated high atop the US Bank Tower, Downtown's 71Above offers a stunning city views and modern American fare. The restaurant's $250 New Year's Eve menu ups the ante with a black tie dress code ("elegant attire requested"), supplemental caviar and wine pairings and, of course, a champagne toast at midnight. Just note that window seating, as always, isn’t guaranteed.

Price: $250 per person

Reservations: Book via OpenTable.

Menu: Ever wanted to celebrate a masquerade New Year’s Eve at one of L.A.’s most celebrated fine-dining institutions? Now you can. Wolfgang Puck’s flagship Beverly Hills restaurant is saying sayonara to 2024 with a four-course prix-fixe menu. The late seating will also offer live music, a dancefloor and a champagne toast at midnight.

Price: $395 per person for the late seating (8:30–10:30pm seatings); $275 per person for early seating (5–7pm seatings)

Reservations: Book online via Sevenrooms.

Menu: Jon Yao’s Michelin-starred restaurant is offering a slightly more upgraded version of its normal tasting menu (usually priced at $325) that features uni, abalone and crab, plus supplemental caviar and truffle courses. If you want to ball out even harder, there will be vintage and reserve Champagne bottles for purchase.

Price: $395 per person 

Reservations: Book online via OpenTable.