UPDATE: NEW YEAR'S CELEBRATIONS in the NYC

We've rounded up some top spots for you to celebrate New Years Eve and updated our choices with some of our favorite destinations. Cocktails, champagne toasts, and creative dining options are available all over the city. Make your reservations now and enjoy ringing in 2017.

Flinders Lane (162 Avenue A) The Aussies at Flinders Lane on Avenue A are offering two fun and festive options for New Year's Eve diners. The three-course tasting menu will be served from 5pm to 10pm for $65 and includes highlights like the Crispy Chicken Steam Bun (spicy jicama slaw, cilantro mayonnaise), Crab Pasta (linguine, chili-garlic, fresh oregano) and Braised Beef Cheek (herb polenta, endive). For $125, guests can enjoy the tasting menu and a full open bar. An open bar with beer wine and well spirits is available from 10pm to 2am. Visit http://www.flinderslane-nyc.com/.

RIDER (80 N 6th Street, Brooklyn) To celebrate the much-needed arrival of 2017, James Beard Award Winning chef Patrick Connolly from Rider will supplement the restaurant's a la carte menu with a few special additions, including a delicate and decadent hasselback potato loaded with caviar, bottarga, chives, and sea urchin, a champagne menu and off-the-menu cocktails. Visit: http://www.riderbklyn.com/#home. Rider will also be hosting a cocktail party next door at National Sawdust (https://nationalsawdust.org/) complete with 2 premium open bars, dancing, passed party food and midnight hijinks for $125.. Tickets can be purchased via Resy https://resy.com/.

Monarch Rooftop (71 West 35th Street, 18th Floor) Take New Year's Eve sky high at the elegant rooftop lounge that offers great views of the Empire State Building and Midtown. Indulge in a 5-hour premium open bar along with specialty cocktails like their "2017 Fizz, or the "Midnight Old Fashioned." Enjoy complimentary amenities like passed hors d'oeuvres, stationary platters, a champagne toast at midnight, and festive party favors. Join other partygoers and get down to a live DJ playing your favorite beats. You can also take advantage of Monarch's special VIP seating options and enjoy Table & Bottle Service for larger groups or Couples Champagne Packages for you and that special someone. Created by nightlife impresario Ric Addison, Monarch Rooftop Lounge is an intimate nightlife destination. Visit https://www.eventbrite.com/e/monarch-rooftop-lounge-nye-celebration-2017-tickets-20768144078

Bustan (487 Amsterdam Avenue near West 84th Street) New Year's Eve at this buzzing modern Israeli hotspot will feature a three-course prix fixe menu of specialties from Executive Chef/Partner Rafael Hasid. Exotic Mediterranean options include the grilled lamb merguez with Moroccan spiced black beluga lentils, cannellini beans and spinach stew, crusted prawns with fennel puree, roasted plum tomato and lemon caper chimichurri, and a baklava platter with fresh fruit. The cost will be $75 for three courses, and the final seating will be 11pm.

On New Year's Day, the restaurant will be serving its brunch menu from 11am-3pm. Prepared in the custom wood fired 360 degree-rotating Taboon oven, brunch dishes at Bustan are in a class of their own; the burekas breakfast features 2 eggs any style served with burekas, flavorful taboon-baked pouches of feta cheese and olives wrapped in crispy, sesame seed-sprinkled phyllo dough; the traditional Yemenite fried dough, Mallawach, is accompanied by crushed fresh tomato and zhoug, a spicy sauce of cardamon, jalapeno and cilantro ground in-house; gluten-free potato latkes topped with smoked salmon are joined on the plate by eggs and a side of lebaneh, a light, Lebanese strained yogurt. Two styles of shakshouka are also available. Visit: www.bustannyc.com.

Raines Law Room at The William (24 East 39th Street, between Park and Madison) The Raines Law Room will host a "New Year's Eve Prohibition Party from 9:00 pm to 2:00 am. The luxe evening of open bar and delicious eats will be served in the glamorous retro ambiance with live music and entertainers. Step back in time and come in era clothing and move into 2017 in style. The standard ticket cost is $175 for selected signature cocktails, eats and entertainment. The VIP tickets are $240 and include full Raines Law signature cocktails, eats, private table in "The Library" and a dedicated cocktail server. For more information visit http://www.raineslawroom.com/.

KITANO (66 Park Avenue at East 38th Street) New York City's only Japanese-owned hotel, upholds New Year's Day tradition by offering the Osechi meal in the hotel's critically-acclaimed restaurant, Hak Hakubai. In Japanese culture, New Year's Day, or shogatsu, is considered to be the most important of the annual holidays, and the celebratory custom calls for an elaborate meal setting the stage for a well-balanced way of living in the New Year. This meal, consisting of six-courses, is meant to ensure good health, fertility, a good harvest and a long life in the coming year. The hotel will also feature complimentary Omiki, sake offered to the gods, in its lobby on New Years Day which is thought to remove the negative signs from the previous year and ensure a long life. Visit: http://www.kitano.com/Dining/Hakubai.

Bettola (412 Amsterdam Avenue, between 79th and 80th) There will be an Eastern European New Year's Eve celebration at Bettola on the Upper West Side. The restaurant will be serving Sauerkraut Soup with housemade sausage, pork shoulder, dried porcini and dried plums, and surf and turf options like Ocean Cobia, a lesser-known fish with exceptional flavor and firm texture, New Zealand Flank Steakand Sea Scallops. Bettola will also be offering a late-night happy hour with options like special housemade Mulled Wine, a winter European tradition, made with cinnamon, cloves, orange peel, sugar, brandy, and other special ingredients, available until spring. The menu's inspiration is by Giga Leszay, a veteran manager and a Chef Vlado Kolenic. Visit www.bettolanyc.com.

Oyster Bar (At Grand Central Station) For families, couples, friends and friends looking for an earlier epicurean destination this New Year's Eve in New York City, the last-day-of-the-year reveling leads to the historic Grand Central Oyster Bar. Be it the visions of sugarplums dancing from pastry chef Januz Noka's dessert menu, or a seafood soiree on executive chef Sandy Ingber's a la carte menu, the culinary confections and bounty from the waters are sure to have the taste buds exploding to ring in 2017 "below sea level" at Grand Central Terminal.

The New Year's Eve entrees include sumptuous seafood specials such as Maine Lobster Newburg, Alaskan Red King Crabmeat over Spinach Salad, and Oyster Bar Surf & Turf featuring petite grilled sirloin strip and jumbo shrimp scampi. The dessert menu includes Espresso Sambuca Ports de Crème, Decadent White & Dark Chocolate Cake with Marinated Mixed Berries, and French Caramel Tiramisu. The Oyster Bar will be open from 11:30 AM for lunch through 10:00 PM for dinner reservations. Visit www.oysterbarny.com.

Tender Steak & Sushi (Sanctuary Hotel, 132 West 47th Street) For an elegant sit-down dinner, Tender Steak & Sushi will be serving a prix fixe dinner with two seatings. The first one is at 7:30 pm for $150 and the second is at 10:00 pm for $175 per person. The prix fixe menu includes an amuse bouche, three-courses, and one glass of champagne. Children 12 and under can order a la carte from a limited kids menu.

Dinner guests are invited to join the celebrations on the rooftop at Haven as well. By enjoying the prix fixe dinner at Tender, you can take $25 off the General Admission ticket price per person to Haven Rooftop's New Year's Eve party. Or, you can take $50 off per person for the Table option on the roof following the prix fixe dinner. For more information, visit http://tendernyc.com/.

Paname Restaurant (1068 2nd Avenue) Chef Bernard Ros' cozy French restaurant will be serving a three-course prix fixe menu for $55 per person on New Year's Eve. Guests will have a choice of appetizers like Lobster Bisque, Asparagus Vinaigrette or Beet Salad. Entrees include Wild Black Cod Fish a la Nicoise, Organic Chicken Breast and Black Angus Steak. Dessert is "Chef's Choice," Petit Fours and After Dinner Bubbles. Dinner will be served from 5:00 pm to close. You can make reservations at http://panamenyc.com/paname-reservations/.

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