Where to celebrate New Year’s Day?

Where to go to drink well and eat well on December 31? Our team presents its selection to you to welcome the new year!

Baby: to put to study

Don’t worry, you won’t be forced to open your school books for the New Year! The study is the name of the experience offered at the new Baby bar, from the A5 group, led by Nic Urli, Jean-François Gervais, Jam Depaname and Mathieu Keyser. Offered from Thursday to Saturday (including the 31st) in the hotel’s magnificent private room, this unique experience includes three cocktail services, for a maximum of 12 people at a time. The first theme, named Flora, was imagined by mixologist Tao Zrafi – a second will follow at the end of January. In particular, you can taste a sour-type cocktail, whose green acid base was made with tomatillos, carrot tops, oxalis and various herbs. Baby is also an inclusive bar open seven nights a week. Here too, the cocktails are exciting and surprising, perfect for the adventurous taste buds – roll the wooden dice to choose yours blind or opt for variations around classics. We promise a festive, eclectic and unique atmosphere starting at 5 p.m. on December 31. (PGI)

$100 per person (taxes and tip included), services at 6:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m.

Omnivorous or vegetable in Ratafia

The Ratafia has really given itself at the end of the year with not one, but two top-flight menus. The first includes scallops, tuna and lamb, while the second, vegan, offers creations around potatoes, cauliflower and mushrooms, among others. There will be a first course of five courses, from 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., for those who wish to eat early, then a second course of six courses with bubbles, from 9 p.m. to late. (ED)

$75 with meat or $60 without (first course); $100 with meat and $80 without (second course), liquid pairings at $45 or $60.

Lloyd: a taste of nostalgia

House-smoked salmon and caviar, beef Rossini, crispy brie with truffles… For the evening of December 31, chef Kevin Mougin gives a nod to the history of the Marriott Château Champlain, where the recently renovated restaurant is located. Inspired by the 1970s, the four-course menus, from 6 p.m., or six courses, after 9 p.m., will certainly amaze, especially if you intend to count down to midnight with a glass of champagne in hand! (PGI)

$110 (4 services) or $175 (6 services), $60 for the deal

Peruvian New Year’s Eve

The Barranco (rue Saint-Denis) and Nikkei (avenue Laurier Est) restaurants, which belong to the same small group, offer you the Peruvian way of smashing the year round. It will be more relaxed at the first address, with a four-course table d’hôte menu that includes a few choices, then a dance and percussion show for the first two courses (out of three). At the Nikkei, the seven-course menu is imposed and imposing! There will be a wine and sake pairing to wet it all down. (ED)

$75 at the Barranco; $89 at the Nikkei, add $50 for the deal

Pastaga: for one last time…

For its final round of service with its current owners – chef Martin Juneau and his precious sidekick Louis-Philippe Breton – Pastaga is offering a last service on December 31 in a tasting format. Everything indicates that we will celebrate hard and that we will eat very well with dishes such as the Blanc de Gris oyster mushrooms served with burrata and the chicken skin crumble, which have made the reputation of this restaurant which opened 11 years ago. . (PGI)

$100 for a 5-course menu or $150 for 7 courses (after 8 p.m.), glass of bubbles included

Theophile: party of family

At this elegant and tasty table on the South Shore, chef Robin Filteau Boucher offers to celebrate the transition to 2023 in style with a festive five-course menu, inspired by his parties of family. Thus, it’s abundance: oyster bar as an aperitif, foie gras nougat, homemade lobster cavatelli, beef Wellington, not to mention champagne! It all starts at 6 p.m. and a DJ will liven up the place until the stroke of midnight. (PGI)

$150, add $90 for wine pairing

Local toast at Wills

Fred Hébert-Soucy, events pro, and Isaac Larose, creative director in fashion and hospitality, are hosting a local beer and wine evening at Bar Wills, in Mile-Ex. The brews will come from the Ayawan microbrewery (Val-Morin) and the wine will be that of the Lieux commun estate, whose vines are in Oka and the cellar in Montreal. Admission is free. There will be no meals, but bites that will certainly be delicious! (ED)

La Belle Histoire: gastronomic experience in the heart of the Laurentians

Located in Sainte-Marguerite-du-Lac-Masson in the former Bistro à Champlain, La Belle Histoire is one of the best restaurants in the Laurentians. The menu at 31 will be faithful to the signature of the owners, sommelier Sophie Allaire and chef Étienne Demers, while exceptional local products finely crafted and an impeccable selection of drinks will be offered. (PGI)

$120 for the 5-course menu (from 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m., aperitif included) and $180 for the 7-course menu (from 8:30 p.m. to midnight, glass of champagne included)

Le Bedeau: celebrating the beauty of our region

At Bedeau, a new wine bar in Old Quebec, chef Arnaud Marchand has teamed up with executive chef Pierre Gagnon. The latter offers for the evening of December 31 a very nice menu in which the products of our region are in the spotlight (oysters, scallops, algae from Gaspésie, deer, squash from Quebec, etc.), very well accompanied by food pairings. -wines, including champagne! (PGI)

$175 including tuning

Celebrate chic at H3

H3, in the Humanity complex, will serve a four-course menu for those who book between 5 p.m. and 6 p.m., then a six-course menu for late eaters. We can expect very refined dishes and exceptional wines. The party will continue in the lounge, with bubbles, DJ and giant countdown. (ED)

$95 for the 4-course menu and $145 for the 6-course