Click here for New Year’s Eve 2011 at Boston Restaurants.
Celebrate the dawn of a whole new decade on a full belly – area restaurants are pulling out all the stops with festive holiday menus and New Year’s revelry. See below for all the details.
28 Degrees
28 Degrees invites guests to enjoy their regular menu and some appropriately festive specials on New Year’s Eve.
Available: 5:30-11:00pm
Price: a la carte
Phone: 617.424.8577
51 Lincoln
51 Lincoln has a Chinese-style New Year’s Eve dinner planned for December 31st.
Available: 5:00-10:00pm
Price: $65 per person (also available a la carte)
Phone: 617.965.3100
606 Congress
Enjoy 606 Congress‘ special dinner menu while you celebrate the new year by the waterfront.
Available: 5:30-11:00pm
Price: $75 per person ($100 with wine pairings)
Phone: 617.476.5606
Aquitaine
Aquitaine has added New Year’s specials to their regular food and drink menus-you can bet that will mean plenty of champagne to go around!
Available: 5:30-11:00pm
Price: a la carte
Phone: 617.424.8577
Ashmont Grill
Ashmont Grill has a special dinner menu to go along with their New Year’s Eve party, complete with DJ and dancing!
Available: 5:00-11:00pm
Price: a la carte
Phone: 617.825.4300
Asana
Asana will be serving both a four- and five-course menu in the main dining room. They also have space for more intimate events at the Chef’s Table.
Available: four-course seatings 6:00, 6:15, 6:30pm; five-course seatings 8:30, 8:45, 9:00pm
Price: four-course $65 per person (add $45 for wines, $55 with champagne); five-course $111 per person (add $55 for wines, includes champagne)
Phone: 617.535.8800
Aura
Aura has a four-course New Year’s Eve menu to go along with live entertainment in the hotel lobby.
Available: dinner begins at 8:00pm
Price: $95 ($130 with wine pairings)
Phone: 617.385.4300
Avila
Avila will be offering their regular menu as well as a festive six-course prix fixe menu.
Available: 5:00-11:00pm
Price: $65 per person, a la carte
Phone: 617.267.4810
B&G Oysters
Begin your night at B&G Oysters with a champagne reception (and lots of shellfish!) and follow it up with a tasting menu of Chef Barbara Lynch‘s holiday specialties.
Available: reception available from 12:00pm; dinner hours 5:00-11:00pm
Price: reception a la carte; dinner $65 per person
Phone: 617.423.0550
Bambara
Bambara will be serving a pre-fixe menu for New Year’s Eve in addition to their regular dinner menu.
Available: 5:30-11:00pm
Price: $65 per person ($95 with wine pairings, $130 with champagne pairings)
Phone: 617.868.4444
Beacon Hill Hotel & Bistro
Follow up your dinner at Beacon Hill Hotel & Bistro by watching the New Year’s fireworks from the nearby Boston Common.
Available: 5:30-10:00pm
Price: $77 per person (add $35 for wine)
Phone: 617.723.7575
The Beehive
The Beehive will have belly dancing, live jazz, soul singing and a buffet of Chef Rebecca Newell‘s cuisine for you to indulge in on New Year’s Eve.
Available: 9:00pm-2:30am
Price: $95 per person
Phone: 617.423.0069
Bergamot
Bergamot has an early five-course meal or a later seven-course meal prepared for New Year’s Eve. Book your table and see what all the buzz is about!
Available: early seating 5:30-7:30pm; late seating 8:00-10:30pm
Price: early seating $75 per person; late seating $95 per person
Phone: 617.576.7700
Bistro du Midi
Bistro du Midi will be holding two seatings on New Year’s Eve, with a la carte options offered earlier in the night, and a pre-fixe menu or chef’s tasting menu served later.
Available: a la carte seatings 5:30-7:00pm; pre fixe seatings 8:00-11:00pm
Price: pre fixe $95 per person, chef’s tasting $111 per person
Phone: 617.426.7878
Black Trumpet Bistro
Black Trumpet has an early and late pre-fixe dinner, both including wine, with festive dishes like truffled stuffed chicken and golden chestnut ravioli.
Available: early seatings from 5:30pm; late seatings from 9:30 pm
Price: four-course menu $65; five-course menu $95
Phone: 603.431.0887
Bokx 109 American Prime
Boxk 109 American Prime has two pre-fixe menus, so you celebrate the New Year in classic American fashion.
Available: early menu 5:00-8:00pm; late menu from 9:30
Price: early menu $65; late menu $110 (includes champagne toast)
Phone: 617.454.3399
The Butcher Shop
Stop by The Butcher Shop for small bites at the bar before your evening festivities, or make it your night’s desination and enjoy their multi-course meal.
Available: reservations from 4:30pm
Price: a la carte
Phone: 617.423.4800
The Cafe at Taj Boston
The Café at Taj Boston has a four-course pre fixe dinner for you to ring in the new year with.
Available: 5:30-11:00pm
Price: $120 per person
Phone: 617.536.5700
Caliterra
Caliterra has New Year’s Eve specialties that are available either a la carte or as a three-course prix fixe.
Available: 5:30-10:00pm
Price: $30 prix fixe or a la carte
Phone: 617.348.1234
Casablanca
Here’s looking at another year going by- Casablanca has a special pre-fixe menu for you to toast to 2010.
Available: 6:00-10:30pm
Price:
Phone: 617.876.0999
Chiara
Chiara has a five-course menu planned, so come hungry and ready to celebrate!
Available: 5:30-10:00pm
Price: $75 per person
Phone: 781.461.8118
Clink.
Clink has two seatings on New Year’s Eve, so go early if you have evening plans, or come late if you want to ring in the new year with them!
Available: early seatings from 6:30pm, late seatings from 9:30pm
Price: early seatings $80 per person; late seatings $150 per person (includes ticket to Liberty Hotel New Year’s Eve party)
Phone: 617.224.4004
Craigie on Main
Craigie on Main has both early and late evening seatings, with a five-course menu for you early birds and an extra sixth course thrown in for the night owls.
Available: early seatins at 6:00, 6:30, or 7:00pm; late seatings at 9:00, 9:30, or 10:00pm
Price: early seatings $125 per person (add $60 for wine pairings); late seatings $160 per person (add $70 for wine pairings)
Phone: 617.497.5511
dante
dante is throwing a New Year’s Eve party that includes hors d’oeuvres, champagne, food stations, and music. Appropriately for such an evening, the theme of the party is the 7 Deadly Sins.
Available: 8:00pm-2:00am
Price: tickets $80 per person (includes entire night’s festivities)
Phone: 617.497.4200
Davio’s
Davio’s has a special pre-fixe menu prepared for New Year’s Eve in addition to their regular menu.
Available: 11:30am-3:00pm, 5:00-11:00pm, bar menu til 12:00pm
Price:
Phone: 617.357.4810
Davio’s-Foxborough
Davio’s-Foxborough has a pre-fixe dinner menu with Italian inspired specialties for you to enjoy with your holiday bubbly.
Available: 5:00-11:00pm
Price: $65 per person, $95 paired with wine
Phone: 508.339.4810
dbar
dbar has a fancy New Year’s Eve dinner planned, complete with a glass of Veuve Clicquot. Salut!
Available: 5:30-10:00pm
Price: $65 per person
Phone: 617.265.4490
Deuxave
Deuxave is ready for their first New Year’s Eve party with a decadent dinner planned.
Available: 5:00-10:00pm
Price: $150 per person ($250 with wine pairings)
Phone: 617.517.5915
Eastern Standard
Eastern Standard will be serving their regular a la carte menu augmented by all sorts of shellfish and bubbly specials. Order a la carte or opt for specially priced platters of seafood and bottles of sparkling wine.
Available: 5:00pm-12:00am
Price: a la carte
Phone: 617.532.9100
Evoo
Celebrate the dawn of a new decade at Evoo where they’ll be serving their regular menu, as well as their three-course Home Grown menu.
Available: 5:30-11:00pm
Price: a la carte, $38 for Home Grown Menu
Phone: 617.661.3866
The Fireplace
The Fireplace has an extensive menu, including New Year’s specialties, that they are serving all the way to midnight.
Available: 5:00pm-12:00am
Price: a la carte
Phone: 617.975.1900
Foundry on Elm
Foundry on Elm has two dinner seatings on New Year’s Eve, and at 10:30 they open the restaurant up for dancing and champagne.
Available: seatings at 7:00pm and 9:00pm
Price: $45 per person, add $15 for evening dancing
Phone: 617.628.9999
Franklin Cape Ann
Franklin Cape Ann‘s twelfth annual New Year’s Eve celebration includes a three-course prix fixe, live jazz and a champagne toast.
Available: 5:00-11:00pm
Price: $50 per person
Phone: 978.283.7888
Gargoyles on the Square
Gargoyles on the Square is offering a three-course menu with three seatings on the night of December 31st, complete with party favors and a champagne toast.
Available: first seating 5:00-5:30pm; second seating 7:00-7:30pm; third seating 9:00-9:30pm
Price: first seating $55 per person; second seating $65 per person; third seating $75 per person
Phone: 617.776.5300
Grafton Street
Grafton Street has a three-course dinner planned, and your meal price includes a ticket to their New Year’s Eve party.
Available: 5:00-10:00pm
Price: $48 per person
Phone: 617.497.0400
Hamersley’s
Hamersley’s is preparing a four-course prix fixe menu for New Year’s Eve that includes a champagne toast during dessert. Diners are welcome to walk-in the night of the 31st and sit in the bar area where the menu is available á la carte.
Available: 5:30-11:00pm
Price: $125 per person (also available a la carte)
Phone: 617.423.2700
Harvest Gallery and Wine Bar
Celebrate on the Cape at Harvest Gallery and Wine Bar– enjoy champagne and nibbles while you listen to live music and dance ’til dawn!
Available: event begins at 9:00pm
Price: $30 for party ticket (includes food)
Phone: 508.385.2444
Henrietta’s Table
It’s business as usual for chef Peter Davis at Henrietta’s Table.
Available: dinner begins at 5:30-10:00pm
Price: a la carte
Phone: 617.661.5005
KO Prime
KO Prime will be open and serving their regular dinner menu, so come celebrate the new year with a steak!
Available: 5:30-10:00pm
Price: a la carte
Phone: 617.772.0202
L’Espalier
L’Espalier is serving an 8-course dinner for New Year’s Eve.
Available: 5:30-10:30pm
Price: $195 per person
Phone: 617.262.3023
Locke-Ober
Locke-Ober will be open during their normal hours on New Year’s Eve, offering their full menu.
Available: 5:00-10:00pm
Price: a la carte
Phone: 617.542.1340
Lumiere
Lumiere has a three-course meal planned for their newly renovated space. Celebrate the New Year and the end of construction with them.
Available: 5:30-10:00pm
Price: $70 per person (add $30 for wine pairings)
Phone: 617.224.9199
Market
Market has a pre-fixe menu prepared for two New Year’s Eve seatings (at the first seating, their regular menu will also be available).
Available: 5:00-11:00pm
Price: $95 per person
Phone: 617.310.6790
Masa Southwest Bar & Grill
Watch the ball drop at Masa Southwest Bar & Grill where there will be food specials, party favors, music and dancing until 1:00am
Available: 5:00-1:00am
Price: a la carte
Phone: 781.938.8886
Masona Grill
Masona Grill will be open until 1am on New Year’s Eve, so you can stay late to celebrate.
Available: 5:00-1:00am
Price: a la carte
Phone: 617.323.3331
Menton
Enjoy a cocktail reception with passed hors d’oeuvres before either a five-course prix fixe menu or the eight-course chef’s tasting menu at Menton. Conclude your celebration with a champagne toast.
Available: 5:30-9:30pm
Price: prix fixe $195, chef’s tasting $350 per person
Phone: 617.737.0099
The Metropolitan Club
The Metropolitan Club‘s New Year’s Eve festivities include an a la carte menu full of holiday specials, DJ, champagne toast at midnight and plenty of party favors.
Available: dinner 5:00-10:00pm, party 10:00pm-1:00am
Price: Dinner a la carte, party $25
Phone: 617.731.0600
Meritage
Start with a complimentary glass on champagne, then enjoy either an early four-course or a late five-course menu at Meritage.
Available: early seating 5:00pm; late seating 7:00pm
Price: early seating $95 per person; late seating $175 per person
Phone: 617.439.3995
No. 9 Park
Get your fill of New Year’s Eve specialities at No. 9 Park, whether that’s four courses, six courses, or a decadent ten courses of Chef Barbara Lynch‘s cuisine.
Available: 5:00-10:00pm
Price: four course menu $145; six course menu $175; ten course menu $210
Phone: 617.742.9991
North 26
You can enjoy either an early seating menu or a late seating menu at North 26 in the Millennium Bostonian Hotel.
Available: early seating 5:30pm or 6:00pm; late seating 8:00-10:00pm
Price: early seating $45 per person; late seating $75 per person
Phone: 617.557.3640
OM Restaurant and Lounge
OM Restaurant and Lounge has three seatings for their pre-fixe dinner, all of which include a ticket to their New Year’s Eve bash at 11pm!
Available: seatings at 5:00pm, 7:00pm, or 9:00pm
Price: early seating $40 per person; middle seating $60 per person; late seating $80 per person (add $15 for wines at any seating)
Phone: 617.576.2800
Pain d’Avignon
Pain d’Avignon has everything you need in their pre-fixe dinner menu to ring in the new year with French flair.
Available: 6:30pm seating or 9:00pm seating
Price: $75 per person
Phone: 508.778.8588
Pairings
Pairings is serving a three-course meal for you to enjoy any time during the New Year’s night.
Available: 5:00-10:00pm
Price: $58 per person
Phone: 617.262.3473
Pesce Italian Kitchen
Chef James Walter will be creating some tasty additions to the winter menu at Pesce Italian Kitchen – and bringing back some favorites from 2010. Reservations booked after 10:30pm will receive complimentary Prosecco.
Available: 5:30-9:30pm
Price: a la carte
Phone: 617.737.0099
Regatta of Cotuit
Enjoy a decadent New Year’s Eve dinner on Cape Cod at Regatta of Cotuit.
Available: 5:00-10:00pm
Price: $100 per person
Phone: 508.428.5715
Rocca
Rocca has early and late seatings available, with three- and five-course menus, respectively. Then stick around and celebrate with a DJ and midnight countdown.
Available: reservations between 6:00-6:30pm or 8:30-9:00pm
Price: early seating $65 per person; late seating $95 per person
Phone: 617.451.5151
Rowes Wharf Sea Grille
Rowes Wharf Sea Grille offers a family-friendly prix fixe, and classical piano accompaniment with dinner.
Available: 5:30-10:30pm
Price: $80 for adults, $40 for children (free under 3)
Phone: 617.856.7744
Russell House Tavern
After your three-course meal at Russell House Tavern, stick around for a two-floor New Year’s Eve party.
Available: 5:00-10:00pm
Price: $59 per person
Phone: 617.500.3055
Sensing
Sensing has options for everyone on New Year’s Eve, including an early three-course tasting menu, a later five-course tasting menu, or unlimited shrimp cocktail and drinks in the lobby bar.
Available: early menu begins at 5:00pm; late menu begins at 8:15pm
Price: early menu $45 per person; late menu $85 per person
Phone: 617.994.9001
Stanhope Grille
Stanhope Grille has a customizable three-course menu earlier in the evening, and a five-course menu later. But early or late, you still get a glass of champagne with dinner!
Available: early menu from 5:30-8:30; late menu begins at 8:30
Price: early menu $55 per person; late menu $95 per person
Phone: 617.266.7200
Temple Bar
Temple Bar is serving a three-course dinner until 10pm, but the restaurant is open until 2am, so you can eat, stay, and celebrate the New Year with them.
Available: 5:00-10:00pm
Price: $59 per person
Phone: 617.547.5055
Tomasso Trattoria
Tomasso Trattoria has a special menu for New Year’s Eve that they are serving in addition to their regular menu.
Available: 5:30-10:00pm
Price: $55 per person
Phone: 508.481.8484
Top of the Hub
Watch 2011 dawn on the Boston skyline as you enjoy a champagne reception, six-course dinner, and midnight toast at Top of the Hub.
Available: reception begins at 7:30pm; dinner begins at 8:30pm
Price: $250 per person
Phone: 617.536.1775
Tryst
Tryst has a special menu, available a la carte or as a prix fixe, that offers a complimentary glass of champagne with dessert!
Available: 5:00-11:00pm
Price: three courses $65 per person or a la carte
Phone: 781.641.2227
UpStairs on the Square
UpStairs on the Square has two menus in each of their two dining rooms (you do the math), so there’s something for everyone to celebrate with. Late night seatings also include live music and dancing!
Available: Monday Club early seating 5:00-6:30pm; late seating begins at 8:30pm; Soiree Room early seating begins at 5:30pm; late seating begins at 8:00pm
Price: Monday Club early seating $55 per person; late seating $125 per person; Soiree Room early seating $75 per person; late seating $150 per person
Phone: 617.864.1933
