If you want your last meal of 2023 to be a memorable one, then one of these high-priced restaurants will leave a lasting impression – not just on your mind, but on your bank balance too.
has compiled the most expensive New Year's Eve celebrations in the USA. Prices start at $598 and go up to $1,500 per person (before taxes and service).
Offerings range from a caviar meal at a chic New York eatery to a French-inspired feast at one of the world's most respected restaurants in California.
Head on down and try out some of the meals that will help you get through this year with a real bang.
Jean-Georges' Mark Restaurant: $598
The Mark Hotel in New York offers guests a special menu priced at $598
Loved by a range of celebrities from Meghan Markle to Emma Watson, New York's Mark Hotel is home to an elegant restaurant helmed by Michelin-starred chef Jean Georges Vongerichten.
This New Year's Eve, he has put together a special menu for guests priced at $598, which includes live music and “a DJ until the night.”
To begin, guests are offered a glass of Ruinart champagne.
As for the six courses, Vongerichten has then resorted to a range of luxurious ingredients including caviar, truffles and lobster, the highlight being a seared Wagyu beef fillet with black truffles, hash browns and a caramelised onion.
Finally, chocolate lovers will get their money's worth with an artfully presented chocolate trio.
Favors and a champagne toast at midnight are also part of the package.
Caviar Caspia: $625
Caviar Kaspia offers a four-course chef's menu for $625 per person
Famous Parisian caviar purveyor Caviar Kaspia has a residency at The Mark Hotel in New York. The elegant restaurant is decorated like a Wes Anderson film set and features waiters wearing bow ties.
This New Year's Eve, a four-course chef's menu is available for $625 per person, including champagne toast.
The first two courses feature a range of shareable dishes, including salmon carpaccio, a caviar trio, black truffle ravioli and grilled king prawns.
For the main course, you can choose between a Wagyu sirloin, a baked potato with caviar or lobster thermidor.
To top it all off, there are three desserts to share, including a baba with vodka, a raspberry chocolate feuillantine and an opera cake.
Single Thread: $650
SingleThread in Healdsburg, California, offers an 11-course meal priced at $650
Located in Healdsburg, California, SingleThread is located at the SingleThread Farm and Inn and offers a selection of seasonal ingredients.
The three-Michelin-star, 55-seat fine-dining restaurant is owned by chef Kyle Connaughton and his wife Katina.
The 50 Best Restaurant awards organization calls it “a destination restaurant in Northern California's wine country that combines Chef Kyle's unique Japanese cuisine with fresh ingredients from Katina's farm.”
Notable past creations include black cod “fukkura-san” (tajine style) with leeks, as well as chamomile dashi and guinea fowl with red kuri squash.
This New Year's Eve, the couple will prepare an 11-course tasting menu “inspired by Sonoma's beautiful winter season.”
Prices start at $650 per person, excluding wine pairings.
Both early and late sessions on December 31st are sold out and are available to the waitlist only.
The River Café: $725
The River Cafe in New York is offering a multi-course meal on December 31st for $725
Located in one of New York's most romantic waterfront locations in Brooklyn and across from downtown Manhattan, River Café offers a multi-course extravaganza to tempt guests on New Year's Eve.
The Michelin-starred restaurant, which has been welcoming guests since 1977, is offering a multi-course meal on December 31 for $725 with champagne and caviar service and amuse-bouche.
There are eight starters to choose from, with the most indulgent creations being Wagyu steak tartare with quail egg and hot foie gras served with a poached quince brulée.
For the main course, there are six options to suit all tastes, with the Nova Scotia lobster tail and a filet mignon Wellington prepared with foie gras and a pinot noir sauce being two of the standouts.
For dessert, guests are presented with three treats, including a wild blueberry and almond tart, a mini chocolate version of the Brooklyn Bridge and a coffee popsicle.
There will be music throughout the evening, with the restaurant's positioning providing a view of the Statue of Liberty fireworks in the distance.
Atomix: $795
Atomix has seats priced at $795 on New Year's Eve at 9:15 p.m
Currently rated the best restaurant in North America by 50 Best, Atomix is serving a multi-course dinner to commemorate this New Year's Eve with seating at 9:15 p.m. priced at $795.
The 14-seat basement counter on the edge of Manhattan's Koreatown is known for preparing innovative, Korean-inspired cuisine, offering dishes from sea urchin with steamed carrot cake to hot Wagyu with cold noodles.
Later seating on New Year's Eve includes a champagne toast to ring in 2024 at midnight. However, there is no indication of what the 12-course tasting menu will include.
There is currently a waiting list for Atomix and all January restaurants are also sold out.
The restaurant received its second Michelin star in 2019, which it retains to this day.
Dowling's at the Carlyle: $895
The Carlyle Hotel in New York offers a dinner priced at $895 for five courses
New York's Carlyle Hotel, first opened in 1930 and named in honor of British essayist Thomas Carlyle, exudes old-school glamor from the moment you enter.
This New Year's Eve, the hotel's elegant restaurant, Dowling's, will offer a sophisticated dinner featuring “interpretations of timeless New York favorites and retro dishes from another era.”
The later dinner, priced at $895, features a five-course menu created by Executive Chef Michael Haugstätter.
Options to choose from include lobster bisque, wild mushroom ravioli, Dover sole with snow crab and acorn squash with cashew puree.
For dessert, guests are presented with a quartet of sweet treats.
Guests can dance to live music throughout the evening in the Carlyle's art deco lobby.
Los Fuegos by Francis Mallmann: $895
Francis Mallmann's Los Fuegos offers dining table seats for $895
Argentinian grill master Francis Mallmann has an outpost at the swanky Faena Hotel in Miami, where his guests enjoy “a modern asado experience with open-fire cooking, local ingredients and a gaucho touch to transform traditional rustic recipes into sophisticated, hearty dishes to transform”.
This New Year's Eve, Francis Mallmann's decadent Los Fuegos restaurant is offering seats at the dining table for $895. The price includes a multi-course meal, an open bar, live music and access to a fireworks display in the garden.
Standout menu items include a truffle ricotta ravioli as an appetizer, Chilean sea bass confit and black truffle as a second course, and a wood-fired Japanese Wagyu fillet as a main course.
A golden croquembouche for two serves as a festive dessert.
The French Laundry: $1,000
Thomas Keller's is serving a $1,000 tasting menu at its flagship restaurant, French Laundry
America's most famous chef, Thomas Keller, bought French Laundry in Yountville, California in 1994, and it remains one of the hardest dinners to score in the country, if not the world.
Keller's flagship restaurant, offering refined French cuisine, has received three Michelin stars and the Wine Spectator Grand Award since 2007 thanks to its extensive wine collection.
As expected, its $1,000 New Year's Eve offer sold out immediately, but there is a waiting list in case of cancellation.
The menu has not yet been announced, but diners can expect a range of fine ingredients, including Ossetra caviar, white and black truffles and Wagyu beef.
Everyone is greeted with a glass of champagne upon arrival and a gift from the famous chef upon departure.
Per se: $1,150
The New Year's Eve menu at Per Se in New York costs $1,150 per person, and the wine pairing costs the same
Opened in 2004, Per Se at Columbus Circle in New York is chef Thomas Keller's second three-Michelin-star establishment, following French Laundry.
50 Best says the chef's daily French-inspired tasting menus are “orchestrated with militaristic precision and unmatched finesse, without a single ingredient ever repeating itself throughout the meal.”
Keller's New Year's Eve dinner menu is $1,150 per person, and the wine pairing costs the same.
There's no indication of what the 10 courses will include, but dinner begins with a glass of Dom Perignon champagne.
There will be a live jazz band for entertainment and the countdown to 2024 will conclude with a rosé champagne toast.
The seven-course lunch costs $685.
Caviar Russe: $1,500
For New Year's Eve, Caviar Russe chef Edgar Panchernikov has put together a decadent menu that you can enjoy “as your last meal of 2023.”
Caviar Russe is proud to be one of the largest caviar importers in the United States and has a glamorous two-story location in Midtown Manhattan.
The upstairs dining room opened in 1997 and has been awarded a Michelin star seven years in a row, which it still retains today.
For New Year's Eve, chef Edgar Panchernikov has put together a decadent menu that you can enjoy “as your last meal of 2023.”
Seats in the cozy upstairs dining room, which has just eight booth-style tables overlooking Madison Avenue, cost $1,500 apiece — making this spot the most expensive in North America as of Dec. 31.
To start, guests are served 25 grams of Gold Osetra caviar with a glass of Dom Perignon champagne.
The tasting menu then begins with dishes of seared foie gras, the restaurant's signature “Golden Egg” (which combines a breaded, runny egg, a dollop of caviar and a frothy cheese broth), seasonal white truffle on tagliatelle, and Dover sole floating as an appetizer.
Finally, the team at the Canelés restaurant conjures up magic with caviar, or of course!