PaperCity’s Guide to New Year’s Eve 2020 in Dallas — Where to Dine In or Get Your Celebratory Dinner To Go

This New Year’s Eve, resident chef Bruno Davaillon (formerly at Bullion) is offering a special three-course dinner for $95 per person at this Knox Street gem. Start with a crab and butternut squash bisque, kampachi carpaccio, fois gras, or oysters and spinach gratin. Then, choose from entrees including lobster agnolotti, mushroom risotto, grilled tuna, and prime beef filet. For dessert, enjoy a chocolate soufflé or poached pear. Make your reservations here.

To celebrate this New Year’s Eve, chef Matt Balke is cooking up a special four-course menu at his recently remodeled and revamped restaurant in Bishop Arts. For $75, you’ll get to dine at the charming new indoor/outdoor space, along with a complimentary Champagne toast. You can also add on wine pairings for an additional cost. There will be a la carte menu items as well in addition to the coursed meal. Book your reservation here.

This New Year’s Eve, book a spot at Commons Club at Virgins Hotel Dallas. Your dinner will include three courses with a choice between oyster and caviar or chicory to start. For the first course, you’ll have an option of smoked salmon rillette or sunchoke bisque. The main dish choices include beef tenderloin, lamb, scallops, or tortellini. You’ll also get a dessert and petit four. Dinner is $100 per person between  6 pm and 7:30 pm, and $150 for reservations between 8:30 pm to 10 pm. The $150 fee includes a Champagne toast.

Set to open on December 16, the new restaurant collective at downtown’s AT&T Discovery District will debut just in time for a special New Year’s Eve dinner led by chefs Brian Zenner (of Ounce) and Peja Krstic (of Ichi Ni San). For $95 per person, each guest will receive a glass of Champagne and seven-course tasting menu from both new restaurants. Book your reservation here.

Or, if you’re more comfortable eating at home, you can also pre-order a to-go package for $495.  It includes a bottle of Veuve Clicqout Yellow Label, Borgo Scopeto Super Tuscan, Golden Osetra Sturgeon Caviar Cracker Crème Fraiche, a 16 oz. 42-day dry aged NY strip with bordelaise, chocolate truffles, a $50 gift card for the Second Floor at The Exchange, and New Year’s Eve party favors. Order by calling 972-268-7606 or emailing info@theexchangehall.com.

Celebrate New Year’s Eve with views of Klyde Warren Park this year with a four-course prix fixe menu at Miriam Cocina Latina. For $55 per person, dishes include a Tostones de Camarones or chicken empanada appetizer, choice of salad, and main entree of blue cheese solomillo, mahi mahi, or chile relleno. For dessert, try the chocolate cake or Mexican-style bread pudding. All offerings are also available for curbside pickup.

Part of the Harwood District, this charming French bistro is hosting a New Year’s Eve dinner with a 5-course prix-fixe menu for $150 per person. You’ll start with a sea bass tartare, followed by fois gras, duck a l’orange, wagyu surf and turf, and chocolate mille-feuille for dessert. Dishes will also be complemented with Champagne and wine pairings. Reservations are for 7 pm only and tables are available on the outdoor patio and inside.

This classic French restaurant in Knox District (just off the Katy Trail) is also offering a special New Year’s Eve dinner for $95 per person. Appetizers include a choice of mushroom soup, beet salad, tuna tartare, escargot, and fois gras. Entrées of the evening are either petit filet, lobster risotto, grilled quail, and more. And for dessert, celebrate the arrival of the New Year with a chocolate mousse or fried bread pudding. Reservations can be made between 5 pm and 11 pm.

Spend New Year’s Eve at Rosewood Mansion on Turtle Creek hotel’s The Mansion Restaurant. Executive chef Sebastien Archambault is cooking up a special five-course meal for $165 per person. This includes an amuse bouche, roasted chestnut velouté, lobster fagottini, black cod cioppino, wagyu beef cutlotte, Champagne sorbet, and dessert choice of chocolate torte or hazelnut crème brûlée. Reservations can be made by calling 214-443-4747.

Xaman Café and attached speakeasy bar, Ayahuasca Cantina, are hosting New Year’s Eve specials in both unique Oak Cliff spaces. Reserve a table for two at Xaman, which includes a four-course meal, Champagne toast, and a bottle of red or white wine, for $240. Ayahuasca is offering individual tickets for a Sotol tasting ($140) and tables for two that includes a bottle of red or white ($280) or a bottle of mezcal and traditional terracotta clay copitas ($340).  Dinner is served from 8 pm to 10 pm and reservations can be made by calling 469-687-0005.

Uptown Dallas and Plano locations of this vineyard-inspired favorite are offering a Sip, Sparkle, Pop Kit for New Year’s Eve. For $150, the package includes enough salami, cheese, filets with grilled shrimp, choice of side, and deviled affogato to feed two people. The kit also includes glasses, confetti popper, sparklers, link to Sixty Vine’s NYE Spotify playlist, 375-ml bottle of Luc Belaire Rosé, and a bottle of Taittinger “La Francaise” Brut. Pre-order by December 29 here.

This New Year’s Eve, spend the evening at Knife with Forbes magazine’s “Best Champagne Ever,” Champagne Bollinger’s R.D. Brut 2004. Chef John Tesar will be offering his regular menu of dry aged steaks, sides, and more for dine-in and takeout (including the Bollinger — available for $550). Dine-in reservations can be made on OpenTable between 5 pm and 10 pm.

Make a reservation at the Four Seasons this New Year’s Eve for a six-course prix-fixe menu with a complimentary glass of champagne. For $120 per person, you’ll choose from dishes like Seared Beef Tenderloin Carpaccio, Duck Raviolo, Pan Seared Chilean Seabass, and Bacon Wrapped Pheasant Breast. End your meal with a Champagne Mousse Cake or a Boozy Fudge Brownie. Call 972-717-2420 to book your table.

This new Southern restaurant in Uptown is offering a special menu for New Year’s Eve. It includes appetizers like Charleston She-Crab Soup and Wagyu Beef Carpaccio, as well as wagyu prime rib steak and roasted halibut for entrees. Pair with a side of truffled gnocchi and top off your meal with red velvet cake for dessert.

This New Year’s Eve, take a wine trip around the world at Grapevine’s new Hotel Vin. There are two options for the evening — $150 per person to dine in the Bacchus Kitchen + Bar with a five-course meal or $210 per person to dine in the Bordeaux Ballroom with a six-course meal. Both include wine pairings, and the six-course meal includes a midnight champagne toast as well. Purchase tickets here.

Ring in the New Year at Homewood this year with a five-course dinner for $125 per person. Dishes include a first course choice of warm Maine oyster or raw wagyu beef, bitter greens or potato soup for the second course, bucatini or mafaldine pasta for the third, and pork loin or fried steak for your entree. For dessert, there will be a gelato with chestnut and white truffle. You can also add on a wine pairing for an additional cost. Book your table here.

Dine at The Ritz-Carlton, Dallas this New Year’s Eve to partake in a special four-course menu including lobster bisque, surf and turf carpaccio, lamb chops, beef Wellington, and dessert. Your meal will also come with a complimentary glass of champagne and caviar. Reserve your spot for $225 for adults and $35 for kids by calling 214-922-4848.