Ring in the new year with a fabulous meal in the city!
If you’re looking for a grand place to kick off 2025, these iconic restaurants are serving absolutely memorable spreads guaranteed to start your year off right and have you coming back for the many years to follow.
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300 Spear St., 415-247-7770 / Website
Celebrate in style with a meal at the Infinity Towers' Michelin-recognized restaurant. For $125 per person, you'll enjoy a three-course meal with starters of burrata, Dungeness crab salad, wild boar bolognese and so much more. Mains include options of wild mushroom risotto, local petrale sole, California lamb chop and tornedo rossini. For dessert, enjoy chestnut meringue, caramel budino, chocolate trio or comte cheese tart.
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101 California St.; 415-535-0184 / Website
Simply stepping into PABU feels like a magical celebration every time, and so New Year’s Eve here will be effortlessly stunning and grand. Step into 2025 with a five-course meal that celebrates Japanese flavors and the best in surf and turf. For $150 per person and an optional $80 beverage pairing, you'll enjoy kanpai with sake; family-style ahi tuna poke, miso-cured yellowtail and kakiage; fresh nigiri; yakimono with American wagyu, a dessert course of Persimmon panna cotta and more.
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301 Mission St.; 415-660-2656 / Website
International Smoke truly puts an emphasis on homestyle family cooking with a warm, casual atmosphere. Start off the new year surrounded by your favorite people and delicious bites from chef Michael Mina and Ayesha Curry’s three-course menu. Start with duck wings, lacinato kale caesar salad and ahi tuna. The second course brings black truffle gnocchi, and the third your choice of maple-glazed salmon, 14-ounce prime New York strip, miso yaki black cod, a half rack of ribs, 16-ounce prime ribeye or whole roasted tai snapper. Sides include grilled oyster mushrooms, whipped potatoes and creamed spinach. Dessert offers midnight chocolate decadence with 24K gold flakes!
St. Regis, 125 3rd St.; 415-284-4188 / Website
Welcome 2025 with a prix-fixe menu in collaboration with Perrier-Jouët & GH Mumm. Live jazz music will accompany your meal, which comes at $150 per person with an optional $75 wine pairing.
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369 Embarcadero; 415-369-9955 / Website
You've got a couple options for feasting at Epic this New Year's Eve. There are two seatings for the pre-set dinner, a first for $125 per person and a second for $195. The first seating is a two-hour experience with three delicious courses, and the second is a night-long event with four courses, party hats, favors and a midnight champagne toast. Choose the dinner that best suits your evening plans!
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3000 20th St.; 415-826-7004 / Website
Come to the Mission District for a fun, festive evening with five courses in a progressive family-style meal. For $145 per person, enjoy handmade pasta and an optional wine pairing.
With all of these showstopping restaurants, your year will certainly be off to a perfect start!
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