We all know the real reason for the season is holiday feasts, so here's our comprehensive guide to where to find nourishment from Noël to New Year's. From a traditional Christmas Eve Feast of the Seven Fishes at Agrodolce, to handmade soba noodles at Kamonegi and a New Year's Eve feast at Seattle's best new restaurant, Junebaby, you'll find everything you need to plan the end of your year. Make sure to hurry and make your reservations before these restaurants fill up. For more festivities, check out our winter holidays and New Year's Eve calendars.
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CHRISTMAS EVE
Agrodolce
Set a warm, festive tone for your Christmas Eve with a pre-celebration brunch at Maria Hines's Agrodolce, featuring "comforting brunch classics with an Italian twist made with locally-sourced, seasonal, and organic ingredients." Later, the trattoria offers their take on the traditional Sicilian Feast of the Seven Fishes, with options for a five-course or seven-course meal.
Belltown Brewing
Seasonal beers like Mexican Chocolate Stout and Vermont Slice of Pie Pumpkin Pale Ale are just-right pairings for this brewery dinner with glazed ham, roasted red potatoes, honeyed brussels sprouts with walnuts, cranberry-pear chutney, and chocolate pot au creme with vanilla mascarpone whip.
Dunbar Room
Pile your plate high with cheese, roasted root veggies, prime rib, cedar plank salmon, and apple normandy tart at the Dunbar Room's classy Christmas smorgasboard at Hotel Sorrento.
Grappa
Enjoy a menu with starters like scallops with pork belly and beets with burrata, with classics like roast chicken, steak, and pasta for the main course, all while being serenaded by guitarist and singer Enrique Henao.
Lark
Lark's characteristically creative, locally sourced Christmas Eve menu begins with starters like foie gras pave on cocoa levain, moving on to beef Wellington and ricotta chard cannelloni, and ending on a sweet note with red kuri squash Japanese cheesecake, banana coconut milkshake with persimmon, and a bourbon-caramel peanut butter mascarpone fudge brownie.
Local 360
On the day of Christmas Eve, Local 360 will host a savory brunch featuring their signature locavore fare, with a veggie scramble, corned beef hash, and fried chicken and waffles. Later, for dinner, theyâll serve a rich three-course tasting menu with pork rillette and cassoulet, and cranberry pavlova for dessert. Add an optional Washington wine flight from Chateau Ste. Michelle Winery for even more Pacific Northwest goodness.
The Nest
You've heard of high tea, but the Thompson Hotel's rooftop bar's boozy "low tea up high" boasts a lofty view and an appearance from a resident rogue elf, with an ugly sweater dress code.
Poppy
Poppy's Christmas menu is bright, fresh, cheerful, and not overly heavy, with celery root ravioli, stuffed delicate squash, and grapefruit meringue tart.
Populuxe
All alone for the holidays? Let Populuxe take you in for their third annual "orphans' night," with a potluck, live acoustic music, and a special beer selection "guaranteed to chase your humbug away." There'll also be raffles for free swag, like glasses, growlers, and T-shirts.
RN74
For Christmas Eve, Michael Mina's downtown French wine bar and brasserie will serve their regular menu as well as a range of holiday-inspired specials.
Tarsan i Jane
Tarsan i Jane continues their Christmas Eve tradition of a 10-course Chinese-inspired tasting menu, featuring some of their favorite Chinese dishes prepared with a Catalan twist.
Tilth
Unsurprisingly, Tilth's warm, generous Christmas Eve dinner is a parade of delights, with sweet Kumamato oysters, duck rillette, hearty cioppino or rich cassoulet, and a Theo chocolate ganache cake or toffee pudding.
Tippe and Drague
Beacon Hill neighborhood pub Tippe and Drague serves up their annual Polish-style Christmas feast.
Volterra
Revel in elegant Italian fare like roasted golden spiral Icelandic lamb served with creamy buckwheat polenta and eggnog panna cotta on Volterra's four-course menu.
Waterways Cruises
Cruise Lake Union and Lake Washington in style, with sparkling sips and a traditional four-course Christmas supper as you take in the glowing holiday lights and skyline.
CHRISTMAS EVE AND DAY
The 5 Point
Celebrate Christmas old-school-diner-style at the 5 Point, with a choice of prime rib, turkey, or field roast and cozy drink specials like mulled wine, the "Sled Dog," and the "Naughty Elf."
Comet Tavern
First, party into Christmas Eve with DJ Damaged Goods at Comet Tavern, with beer, Rumple Minze specials, and football at 1:25 PM. Then for Christmas Day, celebrate with football and food and drink specials, like turkey, prime rib, pumpkin ravioli, and a candy-cane-topped, peppermint Schnapps-spiked shake.
Lost Lake
Lost Lake's Christmas feast features your choice of turkey, prime rib, or pumpkin ravioli, with drink options like a Schnapps-spiked peppermint milkshake and mulled wine.
Ray's Boathouse
The time-honored dockside seafood eatery's three-course prix-fixe menu for Christmas Eve and Day includes a Christmas salad with jicama, prime rib and king salmon, and creme brûlée, bread pudding, or ice cream for dessert.
Ray's Cafe
Ray's Boathouse's upstairs sibling offers a meal on both Christmas Eve and Christmas Day with king crab cioppino, prime rib, and a "chocolate indulgence cake." A menu of favorites from their cafe will also be available.
CHRISTMAS DAY
All Water Seafood & Oyster Bar
Executive Chef Scott Mickelson's Yuletide menu starts out with butternut biscuits and a choice of parsnip soup or shaved brussels sprouts to prime your palate for hearty dishes, like rainbow chard spanakopita, root vegetable pot pie, and chicken galantine with kale. The whole shebang is capped off with a gingerbread "cobbler" with eggnog ice cream or a "peppermint hot chocolate" swiss roll for dessert.
BluWater
BluWater's traditional Christmas dinner includes green salad or butternut squash soup, prime rib, turkey, or ham with all the fixings, and pumpkin pie.
Goldfinch Tavern
Highlights of Joe Ritchie's luxe menu include caviar deviled eggs; a "salad from the sea" with mussels, Dungeness crab, salmon, and geoduck crudo; grilled Wagyu beef; and white truffle ravioli.
Il Bistro
The romantic underground trattoria's holiday offerings include rack of lamb and a rabbit ragu with pappardelle, plus sweets like tiramisu, panna cotta, and chocolate-hazelnut torte.
Margaux
Enjoy a three-course meal with appetizer, entree, and dessert from Belltown brasserie Margaux.
Scout PNW
Brunch, drink, and be merry with steady pours of "holiday Marys" from morning to afternoon on Christmas Day.
NEW YEAR'S EVE
13 Coins Bellevue
This three-course dinner from Executive Chef Tracey Stephenson features a live performance from musician Caety and is capped off with a champagne toast at midnight.
Adana
Adana's snack-happy New Year's will have a photo booth, an all-you-can-eat-buffet, "bubbles for days," "fried chicken wings in maple syrup soy batter," "fried cauliflower tossed in crack salt," and Japanese munchies from Daiso dangling from floating balloons.
Addo
It's been a big year for Chef Eric Rivera, and to celebrate, he's throwing a pop-up dinner "that helps celebrate the journey that has shaped him to the chef he is today and the evolution into what he hopes to become in the future," starting with a cocktail reception and ending with a countdown to midnight.
Agrodolce
Savor house-made focaccia and hand-milled pasta, like rich egg yolk spaghetti with sheep's milk ricotta and truffle carpaccio, from Agrodolce's four-course organic prix fixe menu, a combination of individual and shared plates.
All Water Seafood & Oyster Bar
Scott Mickelson's a la carte menu takes guests on a journey, with wild mushroom lasagna and pork tenderloin "pastor" over pineapple polenta and concluding with Meyer lemon thyme creme brûlée and warm maple bourbon cake with ginger ice cream.
Anchovies & Olives
Spend the last hours of the year enjoying a five-course dinner at Anchovies & Olives. Start with crudo, salads, and foie gras before diving into a spot prawn paccari, black cod, and Snake River Farms New York steak. They're also offering add-ons like a wine pairing or a bubbly starter of three oysters and a glass of prosecco.
Bar Cotto
Bar Cotto's dinner features a fungi pizza, braised pork cheeks will polenta, potato gnocchi with beef ragu, and a warmed brownie with vanilla gelato and salted caramel sauce for dessert.
Big Mario's
Live the high life with Big Mario's cheap and cheerful New Year's Eve, which features $2 specials on the "champagne of beers" all night and a champagne toast at midnight.
The Barrel Thief
Party like it's Prohibition at this '20s-themed bash, which will feature era-appropriate music, black and white gangster films with no sound playing in the background, a Prohibition-inspired cocktail menu, a champagne flight, and a midnight countdown with sparkling champagne toast included with admission.
Bateau
The Bateau crew will be serving up a special four-course prix fixe dinner for New Year's Eve.
Black & Tan Hall
Chef Tarik Abdullah is behind this Pike Place pop-up, which gives you a chance to try Mediterranean, North African and American Southern flavors before the year ends.
Bottlehouse
Bottlehouse's New Year's Eve includes bites, champagne toasts, and a Hershey's kiss at midnight.
BluWater Bistro
Enjoy lobster tail and filet mignon overlooking the marina, with live jazz, party favors, and specials.
Bramling Cross
Upscale gastropub Bramling Cross has a four-course menu with a mix of individual courses and shareable family-style dishes like potato pancakes with caviar and beef tartare. Beer and wine pairings are available, too.
Bruciato
For a more low-key New Year's Eve, try this Bainbridge pizzeria, which will serve their full menu as well as some covetable New Year's Eve specials: a pizza ala Rossini with foie gras, black trumpet mushrooms, truffles, and demiglace; yellow finn potato blinis with smoked salmon, creme, and caviar; and a wood-fired orange black truffle and ricotta cannelloni. They'll also have a great wine selection and a Franciacorte toast at midnight.
Cafe Juanita
James Beard award-winning Chef Holly Smith's Kirkland gem is serving a tasting menu for New Year's Eve.
Canon
This New Year's feast from "whiskey and bitters emporium" Canon is an elegant exercise in hedonism, with oysters, foie gras, lobster cappuccino, 48-hour veal cheek, and a dreamy warm Valhrona chocolate butternut squash mousse for dessert. It's sold out every year, so hurry to make your reservations!
Capitol Cider
If the holidayâs glut of prohibition-themed parties doesnât appeal to you, transport yourself instead to the balmy Bayou with Capitol Ciderâs French Creole fĂȘte, hosted by drag queen Tipsy Rose Lee. Wash hushpuppies and beignets down with crisp sparkling cider as you take in a burlesque performance from âbluestocking bettieâ Jesse Belle-Jones and live music from psych-rockers General Mojoâs. There will also be a magician and psychic readings to add some enchantment to your evening.
Canlis
As you would expect, the cityâs most exclusive restaurant is sparing no expense for their end-of-2017 shindig, which has been in the works since March and which harks back to Canlisâs mid-century roots with a glamorous suggested dress code of 1950s sequins. Theyâre flying in the Chris Norton Band from New York to perform, transforming the upstairs into a Dickâs Drive-In, and have been tight-lipped on details, as they promise a parade of surprises throughout the night of âdancing, libations, and nosh.â Though New Yearâs Eve is typically their most profitable night of the year, theyâre admirably donating every last dime of the proceeds to local charity Big Table, which "exists to see the lives of those working in the restaurant and hospitality industry transformed by building community around shared meals and caring for those in crisis, transition, or falling through the cracks."
Cicchetti
Cicchetti's four-course prix-fixe menu is full of Mediterranean flair, featuring halloumi cheese, Ibérico consommé with za'atar-ham croquette, braised lamb osso buck with whipped bone marrow potato, and Medjool date cake with cashew butter and boharat caramel.
Dead Line
This Gatsby-themed New Year's Eve bash promises Moet & Chandon Champagne, a special Dead Line menu, dancing, giveaways, decadent party favors, and more.
Dexter Brewhouse
This four-course dinner from Dexter Brewhouse pairs hearty pub fare like a lamb shepherd's pie with beers from Mollusk Brewing.
Dead Line
This Gatsby-themed New Year's Eve bash promises Moet & Chandon Champagne, a special Dead Line menu, dancing, giveaways, decadent party favors, and more.
E. Smith Mercantile
Adorable gift-shop-speakeasy E. Smith Mercantile clears their space for some long family style tables. Guest chefs Neil and Zarah Duncanson will prepare an "oysters and pearls"-themed menu with oysters on the half shell, scallops with brioche and caviar, and duck confit, finishing with a tapioca pudding. Custom cocktail pairings are available.
Eden Hill
James Beard Awardânominated chef Maximillian Petty of Eden Hill is known for his playful and imaginative creations: a foie gras âcake batter,â a pig head candy bar, kettle corn brussels sprouts. Heâs sure to bring that same sense of whimsy and innovation to his decadent five-course New Yearâs Eve prix-fixe menu, which begins with a Marcona almond tartlet with fresh ricotta made in-house that afternoon and ends with a dark-chocolate ball drop that you can eat just before the Times Square ball drops.
Eve
Where better to spend New Year's Eve than a restaurant called...Eve? The whole-food-minded eatery in Fremont will serve a four-course prix-fixe menu and a limited a la carte menu with some of their signature dishes.
Goldfinch Tavern
Seattle restaurateur Ethan Stowell is throwing a lavish bash with two seatings at his elegant Goldfinch Tavern at the Four Seasons Hotel. Chef Joe Ritchie's locally sourced five-course prix-fixe meal features a selection of oysters, crudo, crab, wild mushroom gnocchi, lobster, rabbit, and Wagyu beef, just to name a few. For the second seating, DJ Nelson Estrada will step in to provide music, capped off with a Moët & Chandon champagne toast when the clock strikes midnight.
Heartwood Provisions
Dine on foie gras bon bons, geoduck, and filet mignon while sipping Dom Perignon at Heartwood Provision's luxurious dinner.
The Herbfarm
Welcome in the new year with an extravagant dinner celebration at the Northwest's "original farm-to-table restaurant." The evening offers live music, festive décor, and a variety of wines.
Hitchcock
The European-inspired eatery from James Beard-nominated chef Brendan McGill rings in 2018 with an eight-course meal full of imaginative options like cumin macarons, sweet potato terrine, weathervane scallops over parsnip pudding, and a sous-vide mangalitsa pork loin. Diners will receive a glass of sparkling wine with their amuse-bouche, and late-night guests will take part in a champagne toast.
Hot Stove Society
Spend your New Year's Eve with Tom Douglas and friends! Join Tom, his wife and partner Jackie Cross, Tom Douglas Seattle Kitchen CEO Pamela Hinckley, and her husband Michael Teer from Pike and Western Wine Shop for a five-course New Year's dinner and demo. The meal will start with prosecco, appetizers, and two kinds of oysters shucked by Tom, followed by a five-course dinner with demonstrations and wine pairings for each course. You'll also get a chocolate babka to take home and the class will end promptly at 11 so you can watch the fireworks at the Space Needle or toast the New Year with a drink nearby.
How to Cook a Wolf
Ethan Stowell's M.F.K. Fisher-inspired How To Cook A Wolf in Queen Anne starts with a medley of shareable dishes like foie gras mousse bruschetta with huckleberry agrodolce and Ahi crudo with pomegranate, radish, and chili. Add truffles or kusshi oysters for even more decadence.
Il Bistro
The chefs at Il Bistro will cook up a four-course holiday celebration menu.
Itto's West Seattle and Itto's Capitol Hill
The Moroccan-Spanish tapas joint celebrates with a five-course prix-fixe menu and champagne cocktails at both of their locations.
Joule
Korean-fusion steakhouse Joule will serve a creative five-course prix-fixe menu with salmon caviar, smoked cauliflower "panna cotta" with pickled mushrooms, Dungeness crab fried rice with brussels sprouts, and black trumpet mushroom dumplings with mascarpone and XO sauce.
Junebaby New Year's Eve 2017
Junebaby has been named the best restaurant of the year in the nation by Eater, so what better way to ring in 2018 than by partaking in their four-course tasting menu featuring fried chicken and their beverage pairing?
Lost Lake
Pop bottles of J Roget, Gruet, Mama Napa Brut, and Nicolas Feullatte Brut Cuvée until the wee hours with Lost Lake.
Kamonegi
In Japan, eating toshikoshi soba (âyear-passing noodlesâ) on New Yearâs Eve is thought to impart longevity and prosperity, in part because of sobaâs association with the marvelously resilient buckwheat plant and in part because itâs believed that the noodles, which are easily cut, aid in severing the hardship of the previous year. You can test this theory for yourself with Kamonegiâs soba noodles, made meticulously by hand with buckwheat ground in-house. Their efficacy is said to be proportional to how delicious they are, so know that youâll be in good hands: Chef and owner Mutsuko Soma was just declared the 2017 Seattle chef of the year by both Eater and its readers.
King's Hardware
Groove to DJ Galactic Gold and clink glasses at midnight at King's Hardware.
Loulay
French restaurant Loulay will provide a special prix-fixe menu and extended Sunday hours.
L'Oursin
In classic L'Oursin fashion, this seven-course is super French, with natural wine, San Juan singing pink scallops, pink Champagne, foie gras, uni, grilled octopus, and more.
Margaux
Margaux is located just eight blocks from the Space Needle festivities, so you can enjoy their three-course prix-fixe menu with butternut squash ravioli and creme brûlée before taking in the show.
Marine Hardware
Marine Hardware's meal is a harbinger of a sweet year ahead with truffles, bonbons, and cookies, plus tagliarini with uni butter and Dungeness crab, scallops with spaghetti squash, brown butter, sultanas, and crisped sage, and a Moulard duck breast with roasted persimmon. There's also an optional wine pairing.
The Market Hall
Market Hall will serve pizza, pasta, and shareable plates with a complimentary glass of champagne.
Maximilien
At this romantic Francophile dinner from Maximilien with two seatings and menus available, you can dine on French classics as the sounds of Rouge's jazzy Parisian cafe plays in the background.
Mercato Stellina
Mercato Stellina is offering a tasting menu with crab, oysters, scallops, game meats, and an optional Italian-focused wine pairing. There's a complimentary champagne toast for guests dining at the later seating.
Mkt.
Ring in an auspicious New Year with a luxe four-course prix fixe menu that includes beef carpaccio, black truffle raviolo, and grilled lamb loin.
Nirmal's
Join Mumbai chef Nirmal Monteiro for a night of sophisticated Indian food, including pumpkin avocado shorba, a choice of baingwan tawa baja or pompano sailana, and his signature gulabi anjeer kulfi ice cream for dessert.
No Anchor
Thereâs the phrase âchampagne taste on a beer budget,â but as the GIF says, why donât we have both? Belltownâs James Beard Awardânominated âweird beer and good foodâ bar No Anchor highlights upscale sparklers and tasty suds alike on their high-low New Yearâs Eve dinner menu, with a roster of rare and unusual craft brews and âdope natural bubblesâ poured alongside luxuriously snackable bites like smoked trout and foie gras on crackers.
Omega Ouzeri
At Omega Ouzeri's dinner, you'll be handed a glass of Akakies sparkling rosé to sip upon arrival and will get to choose from the prix-fixe menu of Greek dishes, like chicken avgolemono soup and rabbit stifado with semolina gnocchi, with Greek honey cheesecake, milopita (Greek apple cake), or galaktoboureko (a semolina custard) for dessert.
POCO Wine + Spirits
Toast to an effervescent new year with sparkling cocktails and lots of bubbly.
Poppy
Jerry Traunfeld's fresh, modern restaurant will serve a four-course prix fixe menu.
Red Cow
Red Cow in Madrona offers a four-course meal beginning with starters like oysters and bone marrow. Meal options include frisee salad with bacon and poached egg, lamb rack with flageolet beans, and Valrhona white chocolate and vanilla bean crÚme brûlée.
Revel
For New Year's Eve, Rachel Yang and Seif Chirchi's acclaimed Korean-French fusion space offers holiday specials and a pre-set menu along with their regular menu.
Rigoletto
Wear black and white to this 1920s-themed "high octane" Prohibition-themed New Year's Eve soiree. Enjoy plentiful food, wine, and music.
Serafina
Serafina's chefs have created a five-course prix-fixe menu with options that include beef tartare, foie gras mousse, lobster ravioli, and herb-crusted rack of lamb.
Tarsan i Jane
Tarsan i Jane's decadent New Year's Eve dinner includes lobster, sea urchin, and wild venison. Guests have the option of supplementing their meal with a beverage pairing, flower bouquet, Royal Ossetra/Sturgeon Caviar, 5J Iberico de Bellota (cured ham), and/or carabinero (deep-sea prawn) for additional fees.
Volterra
The intimate Italian restaurant pulls out all the stops with two seatings with menu offerings like lobster ravioli, braised lamb shank, and warm chocolate cake with white chocolate peppermint bark gelato. Guests who select the second seating will enjoy intermezzo, a glass of bubbles, and party favors to greet 2018.
Rione XIII
Rione XIII's meal opens with bruschetta with burrata and pear and Prosciutto di Parma and continues with sheepâs ricotta ravioli with chestnuts and leeks and beef tenderloin with hedgehog mushrooms and brussels sprouts.
RN74
Executive Chef Thomas Griese offers a trĂšs-French five-course tasting menu, with Smoked Maple Leaf Farm's duck breast with apricot mostarda; Mishima Ranch Filet Mignon with Matsutake mushrooms; Le Bar Aux Chocolate with passion fruit en chemise and more, and optional wine pairings and supplements like lobster.
Salare
Acclaimed chef Edouardo Jordan offers a seven-course chef tasting menu with wine pairings.
Spinasse
Chef Stuart Lane crafts a six-course meal with options for raviolo with egg yolk, gnocchi with caviar, and pan-seared scallops.
Staple & Fancy
Staple & Fancy's supper commences with a "fancy-style smattering of plates for the whole table," with dinner options such as grilled NY striploin with Cippolini onion, red wine sauce, and parsnip mash and gnocchi with smoked mussels and saffron crema. Add-ons include wine pairings, white truffles, and caviar for maximum hedonism.
Stateside
The French-Vietnamese fusion gem serves a meal for two with mussels and rice cakes in a curry laksa broth, crispy duck fresh rolls, pan roasted tai snapper, and soy glazed beef short ribs.
TavolĂ ta Belltown and TavolĂ ta Capitol Hill
Both locations of TavolĂ ta will serve four-course meals starting with foie gras, Hamachi crudo, and fried risotto. For the main course, feast like a royal with âThe King" (rigatoni with spicy sausage and tomato, linguine with geoduck and uni, and winter squash ravioli) and other pasta and meat options. Save room for TavolĂ taâs famous lemon zeppole with chocolate ganache and salted caramel sauce.
Terra Plata
"Earth to plate" restaurant Terra Plata offers a champagne toast at midnight.
Tilth
Tilth will reprise their four-course Christmas Eve menu for New Year's Eve.
Trove
Snap up the chance for an all-you-can-eat BBQ feast from the special New Year's menu at Rachel Yang and Seif Chirchi's fresh Korean street food joint. Their regular menu will be available as well.
Tutta Bella
Dine at the Neapolitan pizzeria with a full view of the Space Needle fireworks, live music from Geena Fontanella, and a complimentary prosecco toast at midnight, or opt to take in the pyrotechnic festivities from their viewing patio and bar at Piazza Bella after dinner.
Vendemmia
Vendemmia's tasting menu will feature appetizers, fresh pasta, entrees, and dessert, with a complimentary champagne toast for those dining after 10 p.m.
Volunteer Park Cafe
Volunteer Park Cafe presents a fresh pear-fennel salad, foraged mushroom chowder, filet of beef, and chocolate molasses pudding with toffee shortbread.
The White Swan Public House
The White Swan Public House will have specials like mushroom poke, brandade agnolotti, and three layer condensed milk cake, available a la carte or as a four-course dinner.
NEW YEAR'S DAY
Big Mario's
Shake off your hangover with football, brunch pies, champagne, "Bloody Marios," and $2 Miller High Life all day.
Lost Lake
Soak up the booze and celebrate National Bacon Day with Lost Lake's bacon brunch menu, which satisfies your yen for salty, crunchy pork with pancake-battered deep-fried bacon and gravy, a bacon pineapple bread pudding made with brioche, and waffle bacon benedict.
Motif
You don't even have to change out of sleepwear for this hangover-recovery brunchâin fact, showing up in your pajamas earns you 50% off your first cocktail. There's a brunch buffet with an omelet and carving station, plus bars for building your own mimosas and bloody Marys.
Ray's Cafe
Start 2018 off savory with bloody Marys and fish and chips.
W Bellevue Living Room Bar
All you can eat of the most important meal of the day, with unlimited pancakes, eggs, and bacon and a complimentary mimosa.
