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New Year's Eve Dinners in and Around Seattle

Say goodbye to 2024 with a big meal and a glass of champagne.

By Taylor McKenzie Gerlach December 11, 2024

Ramie on Capitol Hill celebrates New Year's Eve with a Vietnamese spread.

Make the final night of the year special with celebratory New Year's Eve menus at these Seattle-area eateries. Sure, most restaurants will be open, but our shortlist below includes ones with special flair. 


Charlotte Restaurant and Lounge

Downtown

The restaurant on the 16th floor of the Lotte Hotel will serve a four-course $140 dinner from 5–9pm that begins the evening with pan-seared scallops, smoked salmon salad and a crab bisque, then continues to three choices of entrée, with a 24k gold chocolate pop rock cake for dessert. Live music—jazz and soul—fill the view-filled dining room, and an optional wine pairing features classy champagne. 

Joule

Wallingford

Joule's five courses ($150) begin with a flurry of snacks, then move on to soba chicory salad, black trumpet and scallop mandoo, beef paleron, and finally, ice cream cake by Paper Cake chef Gabby Park. The elevated yet casual Korean-Asian fusion spot offers a vegetarian menu as well. 

Ivar's Salmon House

wallingford

The seafood emporium offers a uniquely Seattle take on New Year's Eve parties with a $100 buffet dinner, dancing, and view of the Space Needle fireworks. Midnight brings a champagne toast in the cedar interiors. 

Copperleaf Restaurant and Bar

SeaTac

Six courses of mostly local ingredients—some from Copperleaf's own on-site chef's garden—hit high notes like a dungeness crab crespelle and risotto with lobster and black truffles, all served beside a roaring fire. 

Mezzanotte will celebrate with a special dinner in its "garden cathedral."

Mezzanotte

Georgetown

The atmospheric (and Boeing Field–adjacent) Italian spot lets you choose between two five-course menus ($150 each) from chef Johnny Sullivan in a groovy Disco al Dente party. Cocktail and wine pairings are in the mix, too. Reserve indoors, at the chef's counter, or on the enclosed patio.

Cedar and Elm

Kenmore

Chef Luke Kolpin’s five-course, $175 tasting menu will be served in one of the region’s loveliest dining rooms. If you really want to splash out, you can add on tickets to Saint Edward Lodge’s NYE party, complete with a swing orchestra in the hotel's ballroom.

Goldfinch Tavern

Downtown

Chef Jeffrey Hunter and pastry chef Danielle Grogan join forces for a $185 four-course dinner that goes big. Choices include yellowfin tuna ribbons, king salmon carpaccio, lobster, and venison smothered in mountain huckleberries. It’s all served before a midnight toast, with live music. Wine pairings are available.

Altura

Capitol Hill

Nathan Lockwood’s $295 menu embraces the seasons, high-end technique, Northwest-Italian traditions, and most dietary restrictions, provided you give them advance notice. Reserve a table, or spots at the chef’s counter.

Carrello

Capitol Hill

A five-course, $125 dinner at Nathan Lockwood’s more casual spot combines Northwest ingredients with Italian holiday traditions to craft black truffle roasted tenderloin and a lobster and scallop risotto. Why yes, wine pairings are also available, and a '90s themed rager follows a midnight toast. Reserve here.

Ramie

capitol hill

Sibling chefs Trinh and Thai Nguyen pull out all the stops for a $125, four-course menu to ring in the new year. The Vietnamese spot also offers wine and champagne pairings as an add-on. 

Eden Hill

Queen Anne

Maximillian Petty’s end-of-year $215 tasting menu drops at the tiny 24-seat Queen Anne outpost. The menu is yet to be announced, but last year featured stars like cured kampachi tostadas and scallop and crab lasagna. 

Le Coin

Fremont

Fremont’s neighborly French bistro gives you multiple options (egg toast with caviar, truffle fusilli, lamb chop) for its four-course $125 dinner. Reserve in the dining room or on the heated patio.

Ethan Stowell Restaurants

Various

From tomahawk rib eyes at Cortina to dungeness crab tagliatelle at Tavolàta, the restaurant group has a wide variety of menus afoot at its restaurants across the city. See them all here.

Ascend Prime Steak and Sushi

Bellevue

It's a NYE party. It's a fireworks viewing. It's a progressive dinner... It's all of these things? The penthouse dinner destination is taking advantage of its proximity to the midnight fireworks show with a $325 disco party featuring food stations and roaming entertainment. Retro disco attire recommended.

Hamdi

Fremont

In a sea of multicourse dinners, Frelard Turkish spot Hamdi stands out with a whole lamb feast. The meal begins with a mezze spread that includes local mussels cooked over an open fire and a carrot dip with smoked yogurt. But the main course and star is, obviously, the lamb, roasted over wood fire for eight hours. The whole thing, dessert included, runs $145 per person, and reservations (here) run throughout the evening.

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