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Haven't made those New Year's Eve plans yet? Here's a map of 30 solid dining options for the big night. Some of these restaurants are offering prix fixes and some are offering party packages, but none of them are total rip-offs.
—Chloe Shildhause
Cotogna is hosting a late night party, starting at 10 p.m. with music from DJ Kool Karlo, caviar, pizza and bottomless prosecco ($150 per person).
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Chef Chris Thompson creates a 6-course menu ($95, +$75 with wine pairings) that includes Dungeness crab with frisee, fried lemons and peranzana olives, pork sausage with Umbrian lentils and truffle mascarpone, and for dessert, a ricotta torte with candied orange.
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Jardiniere is offering a five-course prix fixe with options like smokey monterey abalone with caviar and a chocolate gateau for dessert ($150 for early seating,$225 for late night seating). Or, you can drop in for a glass of champagne at the bar and a bite anytime during the night.
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Nojo offers its kaiseki menu ($83 for first seating; $95 for second seating): a tasting of over ten items ranging from grilled beef fillet with tokyo turnip gratin to miso cured yuba.
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Boxing Room is open all day long, offering the regular a la carte menus with special additions like a cane syrup glazed ham with black eyed peas and cabbage casserole.
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Absinthe will be open during regular dinner hours, with New Year's Eve additions to the menu like Dungeness crab fritters ($16), and slow roasted guinea fowl with black truffle potato gratin ($38).
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Comal’s one night only dance party will feature Oaxaxan style snacks from Matt Gandin and special cocktails from bartender Matt Campbell. Latin and funk music goes all night from DJ Jose Ruiz. (9 p.m. to 1:30 a.m., $25 in advance, $30 at the door).
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On the last day of the year, the Cliff House's bistro offers an a la carte menu (last seating at 7:30), then at 9:30 p.m., the restaurant turns into an oceanside dance club, with sweet and savory "bites," music from DJ Eric of Spintronix, and a champagne toast at midnight ($35).
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Chef Matthew Dolan offers a five-course tasting dinner with wine pairings. Dishes include Maine lobster with white currant-dill emulsion, and roasted goose with lingonberry reduction ($105 for first seating, $125 for second seating).
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SPQR celebrates the new year with a ten-course prix fixe from chef Matthew Accarrino and optional wine pairings from wine director Shelley Lindgren. ($135 per person, plus $70 for wine pairings).
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Michael Tusk creates a 7-course tasting menu ($250), peppered with champagne and live music from the Patrick Wolff Jazz Quartet.
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One of the only New Year's Eve menus with a beer pairings option for each course (for a total price of $150) Chef Adam Dulye offers a four-course prix fixe that includes root vegetable risotto, squab crepinette and monkfish with cippolini onion. $95 if you want it sans pairings.
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Bocanova offers a traditional New Year’s Eve Argentine “Asado” for $78 per person. A barrage of sausages, prime rib-eye, pumpkin tarte tatin and a glass of sparkling wine are all included.
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Presidio Social Club is hosting a yellow, black and white masquerade ball with two options. The first seating is five courses for $95, and the second is six for $125. Both start with caviar and include "surprises.
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Chefs Suzette Gresham and Mark Pensa have a luxe five-course tasting menu, including Maine lobster medallions and pancetta wrapped veal loin with black truffle ($225 per person, and $95 for wine pairings).
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Chef Marc Dommen creates a three-course menu with dishes like pan seared day boat scallops, potato purée and lobster emulsion.
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Top of the Mark Hopkins, San Francisco. [Photo: Flickr/seligmanwaite]
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Chef Yuko Kajino is creating a 3 to 5 course prix fixe dinner, ($85-175) with live music from Santos Perdidos Trio plus some entertaining Caribbean dance performers. Ole.
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Chef Russ Moore has a special 5-course prix fixe ($85) that has an optional per-course truffle supplement for $20. The meal starts with a Dungenes crab broth with a broiled "bundle" of crab, wood-oven-roasted rib-eye, and everything can be paired to wine for $55.
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Monk’s Kettle is having a New Year’s Eve Party in lieu of the restaurant being open. It will be an evening of drinks and food like oysters on the half shell, bone marrow butter popcorn, and strip loin with horseradish whipped potatoes. $175 per person, 8 p.m. start time.
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Chef Francis Hogan creates an early evening four course menu (from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. for $90) or a late night five-courser (8 p.m. to 11 p.m. for $110). Both include cauliflower-truffle flan, roasted duck breast with butternut squash purée and chocolate orange grand marnier mousse.
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Festivities start at noon with an all-you-can-eat and drink Drake's Bay oysters and champagne till 4 pm ($50). Dinner is a 3-course prix fixe from Chef Carlo Espinas with a soundtrack from a live jazz band to complete the mood (6 pm - midnight).
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Bar Agricole is having a three course menu which costs $80, including one cocktail. Chef Brandon Jew is posting the menu on the website any second now.
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Choose from a four or five course menu ($95-$115) with options like risotto bianco and roast duck breast with rainbow chard and kumquat sugo. For dessert, there’s a chocolate millegolie torte with brandied vanilla bean and chocolate truffle ice cream.
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Central Kitchen rings in the New Year with a five course tasting menu. Expect sturgeon with caviar, pork belly, duck and Dungeness crab.
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Castagna’s three course prix fixe begins with appetizers like duck confit au jus in puff pastry, then moves on to entrées like Maine lobster risotto and lamb tenderloin. Three seatings: $51 at 5pm, and $60 at 6:45pm or 8:45pm.
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RN74 is hosting a four course NYE meal with options like sea urchin and Dungeness crab, Mediterranean sea bass, and grilled wagyu flat iron steak.
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Heirloom Cafe is offering a three-course or four-course prix fixe with a wild mushroom tart appetizer and entrées like duck breast and local sautéed cod. Dixieland music starts at 9 p.m.
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Book soon, if you want to be there for Bar Bambino's swan song on New Year's Eve. It's guaranteed to be a fun, if emotional, way to ring in the New Year with fantastically refined Italian cuisine.
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A special $80 four-courser includes tuna sashimi, spiny lobster gnocchi, rack of lamb and chocolate torte. Wine pairings are only $40.
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Foreign Cinema is celebrating the New Year with the color Red by decking the place out in red flowers and screening the Warren Beatty '81 classic, Reds. This, and a special three-course prix fixe from Chefs Gayle Pirie and John Clark.
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Cotogna is hosting a late night party, starting at 10 p.m. with music from DJ Kool Karlo, caviar, pizza and bottomless prosecco ($150 per person).
Chef Chris Thompson creates a 6-course menu ($95, +$75 with wine pairings) that includes Dungeness crab with frisee, fried lemons and peranzana olives, pork sausage with Umbrian lentils and truffle mascarpone, and for dessert, a ricotta torte with candied orange.
Jardiniere is offering a five-course prix fixe with options like smokey monterey abalone with caviar and a chocolate gateau for dessert ($150 for early seating,$225 for late night seating). Or, you can drop in for a glass of champagne at the bar and a bite anytime during the night.
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