The 10 best New Year’s Eve dinners in NYC

One of the very best special-occasion restaurants in Brooklyn is hosting a prix fixe dinner for New Year’s Eve. Festive canapés, root veggies with black truffle stracciatella, shrimp and grits with XO sauce and roasted Vermont lamb are featured on the four-course menu, with an optional wine pairing for an additional $85. They’re known for their baked Alaska, but a caramelized white chocolate mousse is another toasty way to toast the new year. Dinner is $175/pp, reservations available here. 

Feel like ditching the prix fixe menus and getting a satisfying slice of tavern-style pizza, instead? Emmett’s is serving up celebratory appetizer towers stacked with pigs-in-blankets, meatball sliders, crispy fried olives and chicken parm along with their sharable pies. It’s way more laid-back than some of the other New Year’s Eve dinner destinations, so you can wear the same outfit you’ll rock on your couch while you watch When Harry Met Sally and fall asleep to the dulcet tones of Anderson Cooper. Price à la carte, reservations available here. 

This Greek restaurant and “semi-private club” is always a little bit extra (like, they put gold leaf on tuna tartare), and this New Year’s Eve, they’re really taking it over the top. They’ve combined dinner and a party into one NYE extravaganza, with a caviar-heavy prix fixe menu and an appearance by their signature bespoke, interactive cocktail cart. If you’ve got an outfit that’s just begging to get seen, this is where you want to be at midnight. Dinner is $200/pp, reservations available here. 

This 10,500 square-foot restaurant is about as Times Square as you can get (notwithstanding the iconic New Year’s Eve ball, of course). This year, Pink Taco will be hosting a NYE party with a “mini buffet” for those who want to be in Times Square but don’t want to have to wear an adult diaper while standing in the freezing cold. Tickets include a five hour open bar, so make sure to fill up on food during those early evening hours. Tickets start at $99, available here. 

Ring in the New Year en français with foie gras mousse, panisse with meyer lemon, trout rillette and halibut with sauce américaine. This seasonal four-course prix fixe has an optional wine pairing, but you don’t want to miss their extensive list of Champagne. If you’re feeling super celebratory, a magnum is certainly the biggest (if not necessarily the best, depending on how you handle your hangovers) way to toast to 2024. Dinner is $165/pp, reservations available here. 

Celebrate the beginning of 2024 with buckets of beautifully crispy fried chicken, flaky buttermilk biscuits served with seasonal jams, creamy coleslaw and—perhaps most importantly—1.5 hours of all the prosecco you can drink. For dessert, you’ll get to choose a slice of Bubby’s pie, which will surely pair beautifully with your fourth or fifth glass of bubbly. Dinner is $65/pp, reservations available here. 

Don’t want to go into Manhattan to celebrate? We get it. This casual red sauce spot serves the neighborhood crowd—AKA the folks who have to get home to the sitter. Order the spaghetti pomodoro and the eggplant parm for a homey, satisfying send off to 2023. A classic cocktail or hearty pour of Chianti is plenty celebratory, and a tiramisu with two spoons is sometimes exactly what you need. Price à la carte, reservations available here. 

Add a little uptown elegance to your evening at this black tie dinner. (If you’re doing the girl math on that dress you’ve only worn once, then wearing it again actually makes this dinner a bargain.) Their first seating, from 5 to 8pm, is a three-course prix fixe with lobster bisque, foie gras, dover sole and other fancy-to-fussy delights. Their second seating is a full New Year’s Eve gala, complete with Kristal caviar, a truffle course, a dessert tasting and a night of dancing in the Art Deco lobby. Dinner starts at $170/pp, reservations available here. 

This scene-y spot (co-owned by Robert De Niro, no less) is offering up a New Year’s Eve prix fixe to celebrate another year in the history books. Tuna carpaccio, steak tartare, pumpkin agnolotti and duck cannelloni are featured on this play-the-hits menu, with Wagyu and black truffle polenta fries available for an upcharge. It’s glamorous and celebratory, but not too over-the-top, hitting the sweet spot for a night to remember. Dinner is $165, make a reservation here. 

The hands-down winner of “most courses in the NYE prix fixe” is Phillipe Chow, where they’re offering up 16 courses (including but not limited to steamed dumplings, chicken satay, spring rolls, Chilean sea bass, kung pao chicken, lobster, peking duck, tableside cotton candy baked Alaska and a warm chocolate lava cake) worth of Beijing-style items. If you’re feeling bubbly, you can upgrade your dinner with a bottle of Perrier-Jouët Grand Brut. Dinner starts at $175/pp, reservations available here.