Where to Get Festive Food and Drinks in Seattle for New Year's Eve and Day 2020/2021

December 22, 2020
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Though boisterous New Year's Eve gatherings are verboten this year, one thing's for sure: None of us will be sorry to leave 2020 in the rearview mirror. The occasion of this year's passing definitely warrants celebration, so we've gathered a roundup of where to find some lavish meals for takeout and outdoor dining, from Kamonegi List 's lucky handmade soba noodles to Eden Hill Provisions List ' sumptuous dinner. For more ideas, check out our food and drink calendar.

Ascend Prime Steak & Sushi List
Bellevue's swanky Ascend has a luxurious five-course meal with dishes like duck and caviar, sushi, Wagyu beef short rib ragu, and chocolate pots de creme, as well as specialty cocktails.
Bellevue
Pickup

Ba Sa List
The Bainbridge Island restaurant will help you start off your celebration in style with a canapés and champagne set featuring pistachio and kimchi falafel, lemongrass beef wraps with spring onion, bacon-wrapped rice cakes with habanero marmalade, and Piot Sevillano Brut Tradition Champagne. They'll also have a full New Year's Eve dinner with bone-in Wagyu New York steak with truffle yucca frites, crab and asparagus bisque, cai lang with chao beurre blanc, and strawberry toffee champagne cheesecake. Pre-orders must be placed by Monday, December 28 for pickup from 4-8 pm on Thursday, December 31.
Bainbridge Island
Pickup

Bateau List , Walrus and the Carpenter, List The Whale Wins List , Willmott's Ghost List , Westward List
Renee Erickson's restaurants have several offerings available for the holiday. Her chic French steakhouse Bateau has special cuts for the holidays, including house-butchered rib roasts, along with sides like frites and aioli, buttery mashed potatoes, and fermented potato chips, while her beloved oyster bar Walrus and the Carpenter will have a takeout meal for two with a dozen Hama Hama oysters to shuck yourself, salmon caviar, foie gras mousse, and apple olive cake with maple cream cheese frosting. (Oysters, a shucking knife, and Champagne are available separately.) An in-person meal with Blue Pool oysters, salmon caviar blini, foie gras mousse, ravioletto, milk-braised pork shoulder, and chocolate cake with ganache and coffee whipped cream is also available for outdoor dining by reservation. In addition, her wood-fired Wallingford restaurant The Whale Wins will have two takeout seafood packages: a dozen ready-to-shuck Blue Pool oysters with wild ramp mignonette or a simple dinner with manila clams in curry cream sauce with a Sea Wolf Bakers baguette (add on optional bubbles to either meal). Willmott's Ghost, Erickson's Italian restaurant inside the Amazon Spheres, will have a New Year's Day brunch kit with house-made ham and tonnato, burrata with oven-dried tomatoes and lemon, fennel and cured salmon frittata, and olive oil cake with creme fraiche. And finally, her Wallingford restaurant Westward will have an at-home meal with oysters, mussels, scallop ceviche, poached Baja blue shrimp, spicy clam dip, spiced peanuts, and marinated olives, as well as an outdoor meal with a shellfish platter, scallop ceviche, dill dip with sweet potato chips, beet and cured salmon salad, Alaskan spot prawns, crispy potatoes, and pumpkin panna cotta, available by reservation.
Ballard, Capitol Hill, Wallingford, South Lake Union
Pickup or outdoor dining

Bluwater Bistro List
The waterfront standard will have a "house party kit" with whole Maine lobsters, potatoes, roasted vegetables, spice-infused Manhattans, a bottle of sparkling wine and flutes, noisemakers, tiaras, and other provisions for your revelry.
Leschi
Pickup

Bottlehouse List
The Madrona wine bar is packing up celebration boxes with all the makings of a good time, including sparkling wine, noisemakers, hats, beads, herbed sea salt chips, local caramels, and a postcard for jotting down your 2021 resolutions.
Madrona
Pickup

Brimmer & Heeltap List
The Ballard gastropub won't be hosting its annual New Year's Eve extravaganza, but they will say goodbye to 2020 from December 27-28 with a tasting menu on their patio, featuring broccolini, pork belly, braised short ribs, tuna tartlets, chickpea stew, ricotta gnudi, and more.
Ballard
Outdoor seating with covered and heated patio

Burien Press List
The naturally leavened pizza pop-up Tiny Industries Past Event List is sneaking in one more event under the wire before 2020 ends, slinging pies, roasted delicata salad, sparkling wines, beer, and more. 
Burien
Pickup

Cafe Juanita List
Chef Holly Smith's acclaimed Kirkland restaurant will offer a special selection of à la carte dishes for New Year's Eve, including pastured eggs with Idaho white sturgeon caviar, Mojama and Castelvetrano olives with salt-cured tuna, smoky octopus salad, baked Taylor Shellfish mussels, Yorkshire puddings, spinach sformato, whipped horseradish crema, roasted cauliflower and romanesco, potato ripiene with 30 month-aged Parmigiano Reggiano, roasted carrots and salsify with house-made miso butter, Italian pine nut tarts, hand-shaped apple crostata, and tiramisu.
Kirkland
Pickup

Cafe Presse List
The beloved French cafe has a menu for two with a charcuterie plate, chicory salad, poulet rôti, pommes frites with mayonnaise, and chocolate mousse terrine. It comes with party hats, noisemakers, and confetti for added merriment, and you can add on a bottle of red, white, or sparkling wine.
Capitol Hill
Pickup

Can Can List
Add some flamboyant sparkle to your New Year's with a kit that includes a chef-prepared meal for two, a bottle of Cristal, confections, handmade crystal-encrusted pasties, a crystal-encrusted bra, and weekend access to a virtual Can Can show.
Pike Place Market
Pickup

Cure Cocktail List
In addition to plenty of other festive cocktail kits and charcuterie packages, the Capitol Hill cocktail destination has a deluxe home bar and BBQ gift set, complete with whiskey, vodka, and tequila cocktail kits, a charcuterie board, and a Filipinx-style kamayan barbecue feast for five people with slow-roasted kalua pork, Hawaiian chicken skewers, sirloin steak skewers, sweet sausage longanisa, garlic shrimp, lechon (pork belly), and loco moco.
Capitol Hill
Pickup or delivery

D&E List
The Pioneer Square eatery will have a menu full of lucky foods to bring you good fortune in 2021 (God knows we need it), featuring shredded pork from a whole roasted pig (the Pennsylvania Dutch consider pork a lucky food on New Year's because pigs are always moving forward and symbolize progress). Offerings include shredded pork breakfast tacos, grilled squash breakfast tacos, breakfast with scrambled eggs and "lucky" baked beans, or shredded pork, grilled trout, or grilled squash with mustard lentils. In addition, they have a menu highlighting the classic pairing of fried chicken and champagne, with maple sriracha sauce, buttermilk ranch, Beecher's mac and cheese, braised greens, and parmesan and pepper biscuits. Locally sourced oysters and clams are also available.
Pioneer Square
Pickup

Eden Hill Provisions List
Ring in the New Year with Eden Hill Provisions' sumptuous New Year's Eve dinner featuring ribeye with bone marrow bordelaise, broccolini, green salad with blue cheese and balsamic, baby potato gratin, dinner rolls, and triple chocolate cheesecake with salted peanut caramel. You can also start off the year on a wholesome note with a New Years' Day brunch that includes an aged cheddar and glazed ham frittata, white chocolate huckleberry muffins, fruit salad and Ellenos yogurt, roasted breakfast potatoes with house ketchup and hot sauce, and a squash and pomegranate salad with wild rice, farro, and baby kale.
Queen Anne
Pickup

El Gaucho
The swanky steakhouse's take-home celebration meal includes prawn cocktail, Caesar salad, chateaubriand steak, lobster tail, mashed potatoes, asparagus, cliff sauce, and key lime pie. There's also a wide selection of festive cocktails as well as sparkling wine and champagne. Orders must be placed by 5 pm on December 28 for pickup on 2-7 pm on New Year's Eve.
Downtown, Bellevue, Tacoma
Pickup

Fog Room List
The Fog Room's kit features everything you need for your celebration, including jumbo shrimp cocktail, cheese and charcuterie, winter greens salad with banyuls vinaigrette, phyllo-wrapped baked brie, hors d'oeuvres, chocolate bourbon s'mores, and a bottle of Moet champagne. A New Year's Day brunch is also available with wild mushroom and kale shakshuka, red velvet pancake batter, gin-cured salmon and potato tarts, thick-cut maple bacon, breakfast sausage, citrus-fennel salad, yogurt parfaits, and take-and-bake banana cinnamon pull-apart bread. Dishes and cocktail kits are also available à la carte.
Downtown
Pickup

Goldfinch Tavern List
Chef Emmanuel Calderon's celebration box is going for the classic combo of bubbles and seafood, including local oysters, jumbo prawns, a whole lobster, and king crab legs, served with Rachel's Ginger Beer mignonette, cocktail sauce, drawn butter, lemons, and horseradish. A bottle of sparkling wine is included. Add on enhancements like caviar and smoked salmon mousse, desserts, cocktail kits, and additional wine.
Downtown
Pickup

Hearth List
This Kirkland restaurant is bidding farewell to 2020 with an elegant menu featuring cured prosciutto di Parma, roasted chestnut soup or pear and Roquefort salad, a choice of grilled beef tenderloin, miso roasted black cod, or chanterelle mushroom risotto, and Valrhona dark chocolate tart and mignardises for dessert, available for pre-order by December 29. The 12-and-under set can enjoy a kids' menu with cheese curds with cheesy tomato sauce, beef short ribs, mashed potatoes, carrots, salad, and a chocolate tart with whipped cream and raspberries. Dine-in service is also available on the restaurant's covered and heated patio.
Kirkland
Pickup

The Herbfarm List
Woodinville's storied farm-to-table restaurant is bringing their dining experience to your home with several different all-inclusive meals, including a "Bye Bye!" New Year's Eve supper with lucky dishes like cabbage stuffed with smoked pork and lentils and a pomegranate "good luck" cake, a "midnight celebration" with fancy snacks like caviar and Parmesan thyme popcorn and champagne (plus noisemakers and New Year's Resolution sheets), and a "New Guy!" New Year's Day brunch with mimosas and dishes like Dungeness crab and caviar parfaits and egg and sage quiches. All are available for pickup or delivery December 29-January 3.
Woodinville
Pickup or delivery

Joli
Phinney's seasonal French- and Italian-inspired bistro is offering a four-course menu for pickup on New Year's Eve with an optional gin pairing for an extra $35. Some options include parsnip soup with roasted walnuts, tonnato toast with whipped tuna and lemon oil, braised pork belly, crab cakes, seared scallops, and Spanish chocolate bread pudding and pumpkin cheesecake for dessert.
Phinney
Pickup

Joule List
The tasting menu at chef Rachel Yang and Seif Chirchi's restaurant features snacks like caviar and larb spring rolls, plus radicchio and Asian pear salad, smoked tea noodles with hedgehog mushrooms, Wagyu chuck steak, and chocolate torte with miso caramel. Optional cocktail and wine pairings are also available. Preorder by December 29 for pickup on December 31.
Wallingford
Pickup

Kamonegi List
Traditionally, soba noodles are eaten on New Year's Eve to bring luck and prosperity for the coming year. As she does each year, Kamonegi chef Mutsuko Soma will offer handmade toshikoshi soba noodle sets to ensure a more fortunate 2021, available for pickup December 30-31.
Fremont
Pickup

The Lakehouse List
James Beard Award-winning chef Jason Wilson's Bellevue restaurant will have a New Year's Eve dinner for one or two with king salmon rillettes, handmade Maine lobster tortellini, grilled prime beef tenderloin, and a dark chocolate salted caramel tart, as well as a New Year's Day brunch menu with chicken sausage cheddar sun-dried tomato strata, classic vanilla cinnamon rolls, and granola with yogurt and fruit. 
Bellevue
Pickup

Limoncello List
The Belltown Italian restaurant is taking reservations for New Year's Eve dinner on its covered and heated patio.
Belltown
Outdoor dining with covered and heated patio

L'Oursin List
The charming French bistro has a "Le Reveillon" feast for two with a dozen Taylor Shellfish oysters, foie gras terrine, green salad, braised short ribs, pommes robuchon, and brown butter cookie dough ice cream.
Central District
Pickup

Matt's in the Market List
The Pike Place favorite invites you to treat yourself with specials like surf and turf (filet mignon, Dungeness crab, and crab hollandaise with Hasselback potatoes), whole Maine lobster, seafood kings platter, and caviar platters. 
Pike Place Market
Pickup

Maximillien List
The French restaurant is offering meal bags stuffed with delights like sea bass, truffle mousse, mushroom cream, amuses bouche, a green salad, bread and butter, and a bottle of Brut Rosé Cremant. Pickup is available on December 31.
Pike Place Market, Capitol Hill, Queen Anne
Pickup

Metropolitan Grill List
This downtown grill is serving meals for two or four people with a choice of prime rib, kurobuta ham, lamb with merlot demi-glaze, or seasoned chateaubriand with cliff sauce. Each entree comes with roasted red potatoes, grilled asparagus, tomato gratin, sourdough bread and butter, and spiced pear bread pudding. A gift set with a bottle of Tattinger Brut Champagne, two gold champagne glasses, and two silver and gold glitter confetti pops is also available. Order by Sunday, December 27, for pickup from December 30-31.
Downtown
Pickup

Mountaineering Club List
This Northwest-themed bar will pack up "camp" caviar egg salad with brined ikura salmon roe and Ritz crackers, boeuf bourguignon hand pies, champagne toast with marinated mushrooms, and natural bubbles for two into a box that you can unpack at home on New Year's Eve.
University District
Pickup or delivery

The Nest List
While you can't ring in the new year on the Thompson Hotel's rooftop, you can recreate the experience at home with their party pack, which includes Moet champagne, treats, links to a DJ set and a time-lapse rooftop sunset, and more.
Downtown
Pickup

Omega Ouzeri List
Go Greek for New Year's with a four-course dinner featuring a mezze platter (which includes black-eyed pea salad for good luck) and options like beet salad, Swiss chard rice tart, poached prawn salad, crab cakes, lamb shank, and vegetarian moussaka. End the meal with vasilopita, a lucky Greek New Year's cake made with orange and mastic—the diner who finds a coin embedded in their slice will have good luck. Pickup is 12-5 pm on December 31.
Capitol Hill
Pickup

Palisade List
Palisade will have an at-home dinner for two with prawn cocktail, Caesar salad, soup, and a choice of honey peppercorn salad, grilled steak, or grilled prawn pasta, with seasonal bread pudding. Wines are available to add on.
Magnolia
Pickup

Paragon List
The Queen Anne restaurant's French-inspired New Year's Eve supper club menu features orange and date salad, rabbit à la moutarde, vichy carrots, rutabaga puree with relish, and croquembouche. Pair your meal with an exclusive streaming event featuring Evan Captain Trio, Lauren Napier, and Lady A.
Queen Anne
Pickup

Patrick's Cafe and Bakery List
Celebrate 2020 in Hawaiian style with the White Center bakery's feast, which includes laulau, kalua pig, squid lu'au, chicken long rice, lomilomi salmon, sweet potato, haupia squares, a slice of pineapple haupia cake, and two mini liliko'i chiffon tarts, plus an optional side of poi. Order by December 28 for pickup from 10 am-2 pm on December 31.
White Center
Pickup

Salty Seattle List
The Seattle-based "pasta artist" Linda Miller Nicholson, known for her vibrant plant-dyed pasta creations on her Instagram account @saltyseattle, will be offering a virtual "good luck pasta class Past Event List " featuring a festive black and sparkly gold pasta dish filled with sausage and lentils, which are traditionally eaten on New Year's Eve in Italy for good luck—the lentils symbolize coins and are believed to bring prosperity. (Ingredients are not included.)
Online

Samara List
Ballard's "wood-fueled bistro" offers two options: a "grilled and chilled" seafood platter with whole Dungeness crabs, peel-and-eat spot prawns, marinated geoduck, smoked black cod, Kumamoto oysters, and Shigoku oysters, or a duck feast with foie gras terrine and crackers, grilled pear and chicory salad, applewood-smoked magret of duck, duck leg confit, a potato and celeriac rösti, roasted Brussels sprouts, and a chocolate tart. Wine pairings are also available. Preorder for pickup from 4-8 pm on December 31.
Ballard
Pickup

San Fermo List
From December 31-January 2, the cozy Ballard trattoria is offering a takeout New Year's package for two with antipasti, a choice of starters and entrees, a dessert platter for two, and a bottle of wine or bubbles. The same meal is also available by reservation in the restaurant's individual "sidewalk domes."
Ballard
Pickup or in-person dining

Serafina List
This Eastlake Italian standby is offering a three-course prix-fixe takeout dinner with options such as winter chicory salad, braised octopus, burrata, Dungeness crab and prawn ravioli, and braised beef short ribs, with vanilla bean cake or dark chocolate mousse for dessert. Orders must be received by the end of the day on December 29 for pickup from 4-9 pm on December 31.
Eastlake
Pickup

Serious Takeout List
Channel some prosperous vibes for the year with Tom Douglas's "New Year's Good Luck Dinner Box" full of dishes intended to bring good fortune, such as green curry pork fried wontons, ozoni mochi soup, pancit with chicken and shrimp, mandarin oranges, and strawberry mochi doughnuts, available from 2-6 pm, December 30-January 3.
Ballard
Pickup

Shawn O'Donnell's
Summon the luck of the Irish for 2021 with the pub's "Irish I Could Party" package, which includes a family platter of corrned beef and cabbage, Colcannon mashed potatoes, a family platter of bread pudding, balsamic glazed carrots and onions, soda bread and honey butter, champagne splits, and party favors.
Everett, Fremont, Queen Anne
Pickup

Spinasse List and Artusi List
The Capitol Hill Italian restaurant and its aperitivo bar are offering a "New Year's Eve Festa" dinner kit with cured foie gras terrine, scallop salad, tajarin with caviar and chives, white truffle potato ravioli, braised short ribs, and Umbrian lentils, plus chocolate cake with buttercream frosting for dessert. Order by December 27 for pickup by 8 pm on December 31.
Capitol Hill
Pickup

Tavolàta
Ethan Stowell's Italian restaurant has a four-course prix-fixe menu with choices like winter greens, burrata, beef tartare, pici carbonara, scallops, and brown butter squash ravioli, with chocolate blood-orange tart for dessert.
Belltown, Capitol Hill
Pickup

The Tin Table List
The Capitol Hill restaurant will prepare a New Year's takeout feast featuring a caramelized onion and goat cheese tart, Pacific Northwest mushroom consommé, radicchio salad, and a choice of beef tenderloin, jumbo prawns, or winter squash lasagna, with flourless chocolate black forest torte for dessert. Mulled wine or cocktail kits are available as add-ons. Pre-order by 3 pm on Saturday, December 27, for pickup from noon-3 pm on December 31.
Capitol Hill
Pickup

Trophy Cupcakes List
The gourmet cupcake bakery and party supply store has sparkling cocktail and mocktail kits complete with edible glitter and flowers, sprinkles, glitter swizzle sticks, cocktail napkins, and even macarons for a garnish, as well as a selection of festive sparkling wines and Töst (a nonalcoholic sparkling beverage made with white tea, white cranberry, and ginger).
Various locations
Pickup or delivery

Vif List
The beloved wine shop and cafe has come up with the brilliant concept of "New Year's Eve nachos," which they say is a perfect pairing with sparkling wine (they have plenty of that, too). The nachos kits come with tortilla chips, ancho braised beef, Rancho Gordo beans, tomatillo salsa, cheese, pickled serrano peppers, red onions, radishes, guacamole, and creme fraiche. Add on horchata panna cotta and Mexican wedding cookies for dessert. Order by 2 pm on Monday, December 28 for pickup at Vif in Fremont or sibling wine bar Petite Soif List in Beacon Hill from 2-4 pm on December 31.
Fremont
Pickup

Wa Na Wari List
The Black arts space will serve a vegan Southern meal Past Event List with black-eyed peas, greens, and cornbread to bring luck in the New Year.
Central District
Pickup

Water's Table List
This seafood restaurant's New Year's Eve four-course prix-fixe meal includes options like oysters, bone marrow, burrata, French onion soup, short ribs, scallops, chocolate flourless torte, and crème brûlée cheesecake, available by reservation and served on their spacious heated and covered patio. Brunch is also available on New Year's Day.
Renton
Outdoor dining

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