Okay, let’s take a minute to talk about you and your self respect. Will you spend New Year’s Eve in a shame cycle, under a Slanket on a recliner, or will you venture forth and face your future in a fully upright position? I thought so.
Juniper
December 31, 6 pm and 9 pm seatings
$75 per person (exclusive of tax and tip)
On New Year’s Eve, culinary wunderkind Chef Alex Sze is offering a fabulous five-course menu. Best of all, Juniper is strictly BYOB, so you can drink your best bubbly without restaurant markups! Here’s the menu so far (dessert is still TBD): oyster crudo (dill, grapefruit, horseradish, trout roe); chestnut veloute (raisin-walnut bread tuile, confit duck gizzard, creme fraiche); celery root raviolini (lobster, apple, quail egg, black truffle); sturgeon (pancetta, savoy cabbage, butternut squash, maitake mushrooms); venison (quince, Brussels sprouts, rutabaga, juniper game jus); and dessert. Yes, please.
New Year’s Eve at X20, Xaviars, Restaurant X and Billy Boy Bar and Freelance Café
All five of Chef Kelly’s fabulous restaurants are open on New Year’s Eve, so you can welcome the new year while partaking in the Kelly brothers’ epic hospitality. Slainte!
Equus at Castle on the Hudson
December 31, 8:45 pm
$175 per person, exclusive of tax and tip
Jackets are recommended at one of Westchester’s most elegant restaurants(though it looks like you ladies can wear that Slanket if only you accessorize). The early seating at Equus (5:30 pm, $79.00 per person, exclusive of gratuity)promises four fabulous courses, though the later seating at 8:45 will take you through six courses and the New Year. PS: the smart money takes a room in the super-swank estate hotel overnight.
