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New York's Eve - Oops! Make that New Year's Eve!

New York ’s Eve, er, that’s New Years Eve in New York

Our good friend Party Crasher has hinted at some hot spots for New Years Eve and with any luck some of us will be able to get in on some exclusive action. Drool, drool.


For those hoping to score a table at one of Zagat’s Most Popular (Mo-Pops) Restaurants, you may find yourself out in the cold. Tables have been booked for months now, and there simply is no room at the inn.

Reservations about Reservations

For those of you with commitment problems and those who squandered earlier opportunities to book a table at a fab spot, well, you are not alone. There will be plenty of elbowing all over the city as hopeful couples try to shoe-horn their way into a prix-fixe New Years Countdown, with complimentary champagne.

TIP: Try calling some of the larger restaurant groups, like Union Square Hospitality, BR Guest, Jean-Georges, or Flat Iron. Find out if any of their locations have a table for two or a waiting list.

What’s with the cocktails?

Today’s urban mixologists are to cocktails what the Impressionists once were to painting: A revolution of the senses and ones own expectations. Rather
than devoting the entire evening to cheap sparkling wine (let’s be honest – it’s not all Tattinger), many of the hot spots on the glitter map are serving wildly eccentric cocktails, visual and in all ways corporeal stimulants. Maybe popping in for a drink will help you ring in the New
Year in a festive yet less stressful way.

Egg whites? YES. Just in time for the New Year, part of the old ova delecta has found its way into the Silver Lining, a cocktail designed by Joseph Schwartz at Little Branch. These foamy high balls of rye-based pleasure with no doubt will be cloned all over town. Little Branch is located at Seventh Avenue South at Leroy Street; (212) 929-4360

A sprig of thyme? YOU BET! What better way to bring in the New Year than with magical herbs? Chemist (oops!), I mean mixologist Eben Klemm has designed an array of impressive drinks around the menu’s Mediterranean theme. Try a few at Level V, the late-night lounge scene at Vento. Located at 675 Hudson Street at 14th (and Avenue, in the triangle building); (212) 699-2400.

Inexplicable…

Club Pegu is now the prime spot for going out on a cocktail limb. Sure to be packed to the gills, Pegu promises surprise after surprise from the mad-scientist mind of Audrey Saunders. Let’s leave it at that. Located at 77 W. Houston Street, 2nd floor, between West Broadway and Wooster Street; (212) 473-7348

If all you want is champagne…

Then you must go to one of the two Flute locations, where champagne is the raison d’etre. Located at 205 W. 54th Street (between Broadway
7^th Avenue) or 40 E. 20th Street(between Broadway & Park Avenue South.

Or, if you like to wander around, head to the Brooklyn Bridge with your own bottle of bubbly and pop your cork there. Afterwards, you can do a bar crawl along Delancey or Bowery.

Whatever you decide to do, enjoy the New Year and please don’t get too tanked to make it home safely. Call a cab.

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