The 15 best New Year’s Eve dinners in NYC

Give your New Year’s celebrations a New England accent—wicked!—with a surf-and-turf feast at Smithereens. Available in two seatings (6pm for $195 and 9pm for $225), the six-course spread will include canapés, lobster and beef sirloin, as well as supplemental offerings for the table, like a buckwheat pancake with smoked bluefish and caviar. Optional wine pairings will be poured out of magnums, and there will be a festive champagne toast at midnight to toast 2025 during the second seating. Grab your spot here!

Founded in 1916, closed in 1979 and reopened in its landmark space in 1995, Lundy's has recently been reincarnated in Brooklyn but it's traded Sheepshead Bay for Red Hook. Despite that location change, it's still a great place to stuff yourself silly with shellfish any night of the year, but especially on New Year's Eve. The festive holiday spread will include starters like oysters Rockefeller, crispy calamari and crab-crowned deviled eggs, with your choice of main course—prime rib with horseradish sauce ($120), Alaska sockeye salmon with caviar sauce ($115) or a butter-poached lobster ($140)—along with shareable sides and an array of desserts. Make your reservation on the Lundy Bros. website.

For New Yorkers looking to ring in 2025 with some added glamour, Jean-Georges’ Four Twenty Five is elevating the usual boozy NYE proceedings with a luxe five-course tasting menu served family-style. (Options include charred duck breast, butter-poached lobster, seared beef tenderloin and roasted squash agnolotti.) The gala dinner will kick off at 8pm on December 31 and will include party favors and some complimentary bubbly at midnight. (An à la carte menu will be available from 5pm to 7pm, if you don’t want to go the tasting menu route.) Reservations for the $398 event are available through Resy.

Just up the stairs from sister restaurant Claud, Penny celebrates the pristine seafood of the season. And if you haven't been able to score a table at the hot spot all year long, New Year's might just be your shot: the resto is going standing room-only on December 31 with two available time slots (Early Bird from 5:45pm-8:45pm and Ball Drop from 9:30pm-12:30am), with an extravagant buffet spread of raw bar offerings, food stations and celebratory passed bites (lobster rolls, crab rangoon and more) throughout the night. Attendees at the latter seating will enjoy a special champagne toast at midnight and caviar service. Snag your ticket here. 

The sophisticated farm-to-table spot from chefs John Doherty and Brian Fowler are cracking open the caviar for the end-of-year festivities. On December 31, head to the Madison Square dining room for an $185 per-person prix fixe ($235 with optional wine pairings) that kicks off with a caviar tasting featuring Sevruga with vichyssoise, Osetra spooned on top of deviled eggs, and trout roe on a smoked salmon rillette with chilled lemon vodka. For the main courses, choose from pan-seared diver scallops with confit porcini risotto or filet mignon and tiger prawn served with potato fondant and a Creole bearnaise sauce. For dessert, enjoy either eggnog cheesecake with a gingersnap crust or made-to-order warm apple cider doughnuts. 

Chef Fidel Cabellero and the Corima team will play host to your New Year’s Eve festivity with a special seven-course tasting menu created just for the evening. The $180 per person menu will highlight the restaurant’s take on progressive Mexican cuisine while offering the lavish fare you’d expect from a classic end-of-year celebration. (Think caviar, uni, Wagyu and the luxurious like.) Kicking off at 5:30pm on December 31, seatings are available to book on Resy.

Ring in the New Year in luxury with steak tartare, black truffles, lobster risotto, tuna carpaccio, a wintry vegetable Wellington and more. 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 2025. Dinner is $163/pp, reservations available here.

Whether you're looking for a luxurious dinner or feeling thirsty for a crisp cocktail, you can find both at this renowned French restaurant on Lexington Avenue. 

The Michelin-starred Le Jardinier will offer a three-course menu for $195/person including scallops, agnolotti and chestnut mont blanc. A later seating features a decadent six-course tasting menu including lobster, Icelandic cod, Wagyu beef striploin, and more for $350/person. 

Or head upstairs to the lounge Bar Bastion, which is hosting a festive bash featuring post-disco and sultry house beats from DJ Johnsville (known for performing with Rihanna, Lenny Kravitz and The Roots). Tickets are available on Resy, here for $222, and include a curated selection of premium cocktails and liquors, an assortment of canapés and a celebratory glass of bubbles at midnight. 

NA:EUN Hospitality Group is responsible for some heavy hitters in the scene—Atomix, Atoboy, NARO and Seoul Salon. But the latest from group has strayed away Korean cuisine; instead, Opening Acru's tasting menu is led by chef Daniel Garwood's Australian roots. You can experience those Down Under inspirations for yourself at the restaurant's New Year's Eve shindig, centered on a nine-course tasting menu featuring iconic Aussie ingredients such as abalone and finger lime, along with festive must-haves such as caviar, truffles, and more. A rare selection of wines from Australia, USA, and France will also be available. Reservations are available on Resy.

Cheers to another 365 days at this vino-loving Mediterranean spot, which will be pouring one (okay, several) out for the new year with a $95 four-course menu with optional sommelier-crafted wine pairings. (Add them on for $49.) As you sip and savor an array of fine wines from Wine Director Rebecca Powelson and a tasty tapas plates from Chef George Guzman, the West Village newcomer will keep the festive spirit going with lively music and a champagne midnight toast. 

This Edomae-style omakase restaurant in WIlliamsburg is pulling out all of the stops to say goodbye to 2024 in high fashion, including importing the finest ingredients from around the world—we’re talking fresh seafood flown in directly from Japanese fishermen, Périgord black truffles from France, and Golden Osetra Caviar from Italy. For $275 per person, guests will enjoy five otsumami, one soup, ten nigiri, one temaki, and two desserts featuring these elegant elements and highly seasonal flavors. You can book now on Tock and Resy.

To honor the New Year, this Greek-American resto from husband-and-wife team Sarah Schneider and Demetri Makoulis is welcoming revelers with a prix fixe holiday feast. Choose from two seating options: a 7pm early seating ($150) includes a four-course dinner with natural wine, while the 9:30pm option ($200) adds on cocktails, a champagne toast and dance party to follow. As for the food, expect a variety of dips like charred eggplant, spicy whipped feta and caviar-topped taramasalata served hand-stretched, wood-fired pita; feta Saganaki (phyllo-wrapped feta cheese with orange and thyme-infused honey); and whole-roasted fish with capers, dill, garlic and lemon. Tickets are available on Resy for the early seating and dinner party.