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

Menu: One of the most beautiful outdoor dining spots in West Hollywood will be throwing a plant-based New Year's fete to remember, complete with a live DJ from 9pm to 1am, photo booth and complimentary champagne toast at midnight. Chef Diana Briscoe will offer Gracias Madre's regular menu as well as a few New Year's Eve specials, including a few fruity cocktails to help you ring in 2023.

Price: Á la carte. 

Reservations: Book online via OpenTable.

Menu: With Moulin Rouge meets Alice in Wonderland vibes, Avant Garden is a new vegan bistro on Melrose that's perfect for a romantic, plant-based New Year's Eve dinner. The restaurant will serve a six-course tasting menu in the dim-lit cabaret-style dining room, as well as out on its beautiful outdoor patio—and each guest will receive a glass of champagne to ring in 2023.

Price: $80 per person. Drinks, tax and gratuity not included.

Reservations: Book online via Resy.

Menu: Katianna and John Hong's Arts District eatery will offer a Yangban-style spread for New Year's Eve. For a large group of friends, or even just a pair, the industrial dining room and patio would make for a laidback holiday dinner without much fuss and plenty of Korean American flavor: think wood-grilled sea bream, a shima aji tostada with creme fraiche and charred cucumbers and rice cake "tteok" with kimchi cream and Parmesan cheese. Champagne, caviar, black truffles and steak supplements will also be available.

Price: $85 per person. Drinks, tax and gratuity not included.

Reservations: Book online via OpenTable.

Menu: Tal Ronnen's award-winning vegan fine-dining concept will offer a plant-based New Year's Eve dinner menu at both its Melrose and Calabasas locations. The six-course meal will include a celebratory kelp caviar-topped potato rosti, chestnut foie gras, baby beet salad and your choice of eggplant short rib or porcini tortelli. For dessert, there's a refreshing fruit sorbet or chocolate cake with pomegranate coulis and rice puff crunch. 

Price: Calabasas: $95 per person; Melrose: TBA. Drinks, tax and gratuity not included.

Reservations: Book online via Sevenrooms (Calabasas) or Yelp (Melrose).

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 2023, head chef Jonathan Portela is serving a three-course Mediterranean-inspired menu, including accommodations for vegans and vegetarians. Seatings run from 6 to 11pm—so if you'd rather have an early dinner and spend midnight in bed, the Little Door is here for it.

Price: $125 per person. Drinks, tax and gratuity not included.

Reservations: Book via Tock.

Menu: Avner Lavi's West Adams pasta bar will offer 9:30 and 10pm seatings of a New Year's Eve dinner featuring a mix of holiday specials and Cento signatures. (We're all but sure the crowd-favorite beet spaghetti will make an appearance.) Dine up close and personal with Lavi's team at the chef's counter, or take your pasta party outside on the restaurant's charming string-lit heated patio.

Price: $135 per person. Drinks, tax and gratuity not included.

Reservations: Book online via OpenTable.

Menu: This critically acclaimed Mediterranean eatery in Los Feliz will host a special holiday surf-and-turf dinner with seatings from 5 to 10pm. The seafood selection will include oysters with Buddha's hand migonette, shrimp salad, crab cocktail, pickled mussels, scallop crudo and passion fruit clams. Afterwards, dig into steak frites with a side of baby lettuce salad and a creamy, crackly creme brûlee.

Price: $150 per person. Drinks, tax and gratuity not included.

Reservations: Book online via Resy.

Menu: For a Downtown New Year's Eve minus the area's usual drunken chaos, Suzanne Goin and Caroline Styne's lobby restaurant inside the Proper will offer a seasonal prix-fixe menu for two dinner seatings. First seatings run 5 to 7:30pm, and second seatings will run from 8:30 to 10pm—during which Caldo Verde will also host a live jazz band for a little extra festive ambience. 

Price: Early: $120 per person; Late: $160 per person. Drinks, tax and gratuity not included.

Reservations: Book online via OpenTable.

Menu: We personally wouldn't mind spending New Year's Eve at this romantic, tree-lined Italian restaurant on Abbot Kinney, where chef Travis Passerotti will offer three-, five- and seven-course tasting menus to ring in 2023. Table reservations run from 5 to 10pm, and all guests around at midnight will receive a free champagne toast.

Price: $145 for three courses; $195 for five courses; $265 for seven courses.

Reservations: Book via OpenTable.

Menu: The Culver Hotel's newly opened French-inspired ground-floor bistro is ending the year in style with an indulgent New Year's Eve prix-fixe menu that includes caviar and chips, lobster rolls, steak tartare, filet mignon and truffle baked potatoes, with the option to add on standard ($45) or reserve ($75) wine pairings. For a little more of a New Year's feel, Lillie's will also live music until "late." 

Price: Early: $125 per person; Late: $175 per person. Drinks, tax and gratuity not included.

Reservations: Book via OpenTable.

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, co-owner Amy Fraser is presiding over a three-course prix-fixe dinner for New Year's with a supplemental $95 wine pairing. To start, choose from fresh oysters, a potato "churro" topped with golden caviar and herbed creme fraiche, abalone chawanmushi or grass-fed beef tartare. Entrée highlights include a lobster cavatelli and dayboat scallops with sunchoke potage and apple verjus. To finish, there's milk chocolate custard or a cheddar cheesecake for dessert. 

Hours: 5–10:30pm seatings.

Price: $195 per person. Tax and gratuity not included. 

Reservations: Book via Tock.

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 newly Michelin-starred steakhouse, Gwen, will offer an eight-course tasting menu for both early and late seating. Each guest will receive oysters, chicken and duck liver terrine, burrata, pappardelle with black truffles and "mariscos": a bouillabaisse seafood medley with saffron aioli. Finish off with a main of spit-grilled Wagyu before ending with a refreshing blood orange and Prosecco granita and a festive white chocolate and pistachio bombe.

Price: Early: $175 per person; Late: $225. Drinks, tax and gratuity not included.

Reservations: Book online via Resy.

Menu: Walter and Margarita Manzke's critically acclaimed Californian French eatery is offering a multi-course tasting menu on New Year's Eve. Though the exact menu is yet to be determined, expect lots of seasonal produce, high-quality meat and seafood and maybe, if you're lucky, some winter truffles. (Note that vegans can't be accommodated at République at the moment.)

Price: $260 per person. Drinks, tax and gratuity not included.

Reservations: Book online via OpenTable.

Menu: One of our favorite West Hollywood hotel restaurants is sending off 2022 in style, with glittering city views, a live DJ (plus bottle service!) and a four-course tasting menu. Those who book the later seating will also receive a complimentary champagne toast at midnight.

Price: $250 per person for 5 and 7pm seatings; $350 for 9:30pm seating.  Drinks, tax and gratuity not included.

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 a caviar amuse-bouche, bread and butter, salad classique, crab gnocchi and dry-aged ribeye with sauce perigaux (pescetarians can also substitute the latter for a mushroom risotto). More notably, Pasjoli's signature pressed duck for two can be substituted for the steak at no additional charge—so if you've been meaning to try their signature canard, New Year's might be a good time. 

Price: Early: $295 per person; Late: $365 plus person. Tax and gratuity not included. 

Reservations: Book online via OpenTable.

Menu: For a whopping $595 per person, chef Josiah Citrin's two Michelin-starred Santa Monica restaurant will be offering its two and a half hour tasting experience on Christmas Eve at 5:30pm and 8:30pm. Though exact dishes vary on a seasonal basis, diners can expect whimsical hors d'oeuvres, plus plenty of gourmet meat and seafood—all at one of the city's most celebrated fine-dining institutions. 

Price: $595 per person. Drinks, tax and gratuity not included.

Reservations: Book online via Tock.