Thursday, December 24, 2009

New Year's Eve Dining Event Guide




So you don't have a significant other to kiss when the ball drops on New Year's Eve. You're a lightweight who passes out after two glasses of champagne. You don't have $500 to spend on a night out. You might as well just stay home on New Year's Eve, right? Wrong! Romance, drunkenness and debauchery aren't the only ways to celebrate New Year's Eve. This is the night when Austin's best chefs show off their talents by offering their most inspired tasting menus at fixed prices that are surprisingly within reach. Let the amateurs have their New Year's Eve crunk fest. You're about to have better plans.

Event:  Party like it's 1961! 
5 course meal with cocktails, live jazz, dancing and champagne toast at midnight.
Price: $120 per person includes 15% gratuity

Event: 4 course dinner with optional wine pairing
Menu Features: braised lamb shanks with dried cherry couscous; gala apple diver scallops; sheep's milk ravioli
Price:  $60 per person + $35 optional wine pairing

Event: 5 course dinner; 2 Seatings 5:30 and 9:30
Menu Features: Maine lobster bisque with nutmeg oil & Johnny Walker black crème frâiche, Challah French toast with wild flower honey – lavender goat cheese, homemade cinnamon ice cream & Vermont maple syrup   
Price: 5:30 seating: $89 per person; 9:30 seating $125 per person. Optional wine pairing $49

Event: 6 course menu
Menu Features: grilled Lockhart quail over butter pecan cornbread, "green eggs and ham" manchego over tenderloin, crispy prosciutto sunny side up quail egg and salsa verde
Price: $60 per person

Event: 3 Night Event
Menu Features: Wagyu filet mignon and cold water lobster tail; Maine lobster and seafood
Price: $69.95 or $75.95

Event: Prix fixe menu 
Menu Features: Tuna tartare, seared scallops, pumpkin flan. Free glass of bubbly 
Price: $50 per person


Event: Prix fixe 2 seatings, 7:00 & 8:30 
Menu Features: Gnocchi w/roasted butternut squash & sage brown butter. Chianti espresso braised beef. Tuscan yogurt cake w/meyer lemon marmalade, pomegranate & toasted almond gelato 
Price: $45 per person

Event: Special NYE menu
Menu Features: nebbiolo risotto, perigord winter black truffles, cippolini onion “gravy”, arugula (tba) “reef & beef”, tomato braised octopus, fresh herbs, veal marrow butter, pasta al ceppo, garlic-fried breadcrumbs; half duck a l’orange, herbed mashed potatoes, grand marnier gastrique
Price: A la carte

Event: 5 course tasting menu 
Menu Features: Lobster risotto and venison Wellington 
Price: $125 per person

Event: Prix fixe menu 6-11pm with party in lobby to follow
Menu Features: Grilled quail, stuffed malpeque oysters, roasted suckling pig and roasted lobster
Price: $95 per person

Event: Prix fixe tasting menu 
Menu Features: Lobster cake, pork belly and foie gras terrine. Entrees beef tenderloin, coffee brined duck breast, short ribs with lobster crepes and lots of desserts. 
Price: $75 per person

Event: Riverboat Casino Party 9pm-2am Open bar, buffet, casino
Menu Features: Buffet 
Price: $135 per person 

Event: Live Music, Hors d’oeuvres, Mini Desserts and  a Champagne Toast at Midnight
Menu Features: Assorted Hot and Cold Hors d’ oeuvres, An Extravagant Selection of Chef's Petit Desserts
Price: $50 per person

Event: NYE Bash, The Apartment! 5 course menu
Menu Features: Lobster Rickshaw Boy, Garlic and valpolicella braised lamb shank atop spaghetti in a fresh tomato sauce with gremolada
Price: TBD

Event: Prix fixe menu, live music, belly dancing, fire dancers and Phara herself.
Menu Features: Roasted lamb & mediterranean chicken BYOB 
Price: $50 per person

Event: Prix fixe tasting menu
Menu Features: Seared Duck Breast and Black Pepper-African Prawns with Apple-Brandy Jus Truffled Potatoes and Red Chili Cabbage, Winter Lamb Duet* Grilled Rack of Lamb, Candied Lemons, Guajillo Chutney and Peppermint Pesto Braised Lamb Shoulder Cassoulet with Edamame, Blackeye Peas, Garbanzo, White Beans, Rosemary, Roasted Garlic & Shiraz
Price: $50 per person

Event: 3 course or 5 course tasting menu
Menu Features: Gnocchi Alla Romana, Braised Lamb Sugo & Vin Cotto Grilled Rack of Lamb Fregola, Escarole & Tomato Calabrese Currant & Pine Nut Salsa, Chiffon Mascarpone Cheesecake Red Wine Roasted Grapes & Sugared Rosemary
Price: 3 course: $55/person 5 course: $80/person

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