Just like that, 2024 has neared its final days, and we are busy sorting out plans to end the year in style in Hong Kong. For those lucky enough to be celebrating in the city on the last night of the year, we have a few recommendations for wining, dining, and letting loose on the ultimate night of December.
We have compiled a list of the best New Year’s Eve dinners and parties to savour fine food and drink and ring in 2025 with all the gastronomic abandon befitting the foodies we are.
The best New Year’s Eve 2025 dinners & parties in Hong Kong
Quiero Más
Spanish-Mediterranean restaurant Quiero Más is hosting the vivacious ¡Viva La Noche! New Year’s Eve Ball 2025, featuring a six-course dinner and free-flow rooftop countdown party. With a dress code of flamboyant and flashy, you can kick back with DJ Paul Michael and Spanish flamenco dancing on show. The dinner menu features top-quality tapas like Barca hamachi with Avruga caviar, scallop ceviche and avocado mousse, Spanish red prawn, and pan-seared foie gras, plus a choice of red snapper “Robespierre” or dry-aged M7 Wagyu sirloin for the main course and truffle burnt Basque cheesecake for dessert.
Quiero Más, 20/F, M88, 2–8 Wellington Street, Central, 2383 0268, book here
The six-course dinner and countdown party (HKD1,188 pp) is on from 8:30PM–1:30AM, the countdown party (HKD550 pp) is on from 10:30PM–1:30AM, and dinner only (HKD688/HKD798) has two seatings: 6–8:30PM and 8:30–10:30PM.
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The Bayside
Venture to Hung Hom on the 31st of December for The Bayside’s Glitz & Glam New Year’s Eve Ball, an adults-only celebration from dinnertime till the wee hours of New Year’s Day. The festivities begin with cocktails and canapés (these bites include chicken shish taouk, prawn tempura, and salmon dill cream crostini), before a Mediterranean dinner buffet arrives laden with dry-aged rib-eye, roasted fish fillet, penne arrabiata, and lots more scrumptious eats. An all-night open bar is also on the cards, offering free-flow wine, beer, spirits, and bubbly. To patch you back up after dancing all night with the DJ, refuel with The Bayside’s hangover breakfast.
The Bayside, Shop G1, G/F, One Harbourfront, Whampoa Garden, 18 Tak Fung Street, Hung Hom, 2123 2177, book here
The dinner buffet and countdown party (HKD1,188 pp; early-bird price before Dec. 8 is HKD1,088) is on from 8:30PM, whilst the countdown party (HKD888 pp; early-bird price before Dec. 8 is HKD788) only is on from 11PM. Breakfast will be served at 2AM.
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Mott 32
Mott 32 has a lot to celebrate this year, marking 10 years as the world’s most talked-about Chinese restaurant. The eatery’s 10th anniversary peaks with the New Year’s Eve sharing menu, showcasing a selection of chef Lee Man Sing’s newly launched anniversary dishes alongside tried-and-true Mott 32 favourites. To complement these elevated Chinese plates, a special pairing of 2014 wines will also be available.
If you really want to ring in 2025 in majestic style, you can order one of the bespoke Henri Giraud champagne gift boxes produced in honour of Mott 32’s decade of culinary excellence, with each personalised bottle bearing the restaurant’s logo design for the upcoming Year of the Snake.
Mott 32, B/F, Standard Chartered Bank Building, 4–4A Des Voeux Road Central, Central, 2885 8688, book here
The New Year’s Eve sharing menu is available from 5:30PM and is priced at HKD1,280 per person for a minimum of two diners or HKD1,680 per person for a table of 6–8. The Henri Giraud x Mott 32 champagne gift box has a price tag of HKD2,288.
Castellana
On New Year’s Eve at Castellana, the five-course dinner kicks off with a complimentary glass of Dom Pérignon Brut 2013 champagne, before launching into chef Romeo Morelli’s spread of Piedmont-inspired stunners. Menu highlights include the prawn tartare and lake weed, gold-flecked aged Carnaroli risotto with saffron, and Fassona veal tenderloin with Parmesan sauce – northern Italian feasting at its finest. Optional wine pairings up the festive ante.
Castellana, 1/F, Club Lusitano, 16 Ice House Street, Central, 3188 5028, book here
The five-course menu is available from 6:15PM and is priced at HKD1,680 per person. The wine pairings come with an additional cost of HKD880 or HKD1,080.
Magistracy Dining Room
Magistracy Dining Room’s grand space is a fitting spot to lavishly welcome the new year, more so with chef Alyn Williams’ indulgently British ten-dish countdown menu, accompanied by a convivial live band. Diners can expect to enjoy a wide range of Blighty-inspired delicacies, including chef signatures of Scottish razor clam accented with garlic olive oil and fines herbes, steak tartare, Dover sole meunière, and burnt Cambridge cream, the British version of crème brûlée.
Magistracy Dining Room, G/F, Central Magistracy, Tai Kwun, 1 Arbuthnot Road, Central, 2252 3177, book here
The 10-course menu can be booked from 9PM and has an early-bird price of HKD1,588 per person if reserved by Dec. 14.
Louise
Named the Foodie Forks 2024 Best French Restaurant, Louise is a prime dining option for a Michelin-starred New Year’s Eve meal. The seven-course menu crafted by chef Loic Portalier screams French decadence, starring classic yet creative dishes such as langoustine with Obsiblue prawn consommé and yuzu koso, sweetbread with Jerusalem artichoke and girolle, and duck pithivier with foie gras and Périgueux sauce. There’s a live band on board to boot.
Louise, G/F, PMQ, 35 Aberdeen Street, Central, WhatsApp 5722 3269, book here
The seven-course menu can be booked from 6:30PM and is priced at HKD1,888 per person.
CulinArt 1862
CulinArt 1862 gives diners two superb options for dinner on New Year’s Eve, depending on budget and preference. Chef Stanley Wong’s festive modern European menus can be savoured in either four or six courses, featuring refined plates such as kelp-marinated hamachi, lobster and butternut squash millefeuille, and mulled wine apple tart tatin. The special holiday cocktail – Bonfire – is a must-order upgrade to the dining experience, made tableside with a blend of chocolate-infused bourbon, hazelnut liqueur, orange bitters, and homemade maple-cinnamon syrup, garnished with a toasted marshmallow for good measure.
CulinArt 1862, G/F & 1/F, Chinachem Leighton Plaza, 29 Leighton Road, Causeway Bay, 2884 2603, book here
The four-course menu is priced at HKD888 per person, whilst the six-course menu is priced at HKD1,188 per person, with optional wine pairings costing HKD788. The holiday-exclusive cocktail has a price tag of HKD148. Both menus can be booked from 6PM.
Hutong
Hutong is always a glamorous choice for dining, with killer views to match, but on the 31st, the culinary team take the allure up a notch. There are two eight-course menus on offer, varying according to the seating time and ingredients utilised. The late-night menu gives diners the opportunity to gawk at the stunning fireworks display that Hutong’s sky-high location affords. The consistently high-quality northern Chinese dishes range from the early-night menu’s abalone with peppercorn oil and tiger prawn with garlic and pepper to the more luxe grilled Japanese A5 Wagyu beef tenderloin with foie gras and mala lobster spicy tail offered as midnight approaches. No matter which menu you book, you’ll be treated to a crispy dim sum platter to start and mala chocolate mousse with guava sorbet for dessert. If you opt for one of the 120-minute free-flow champagne packages, bottomless sips of sake, Chinese wine, red and white wine, and beer are part of the deal.
Hutong, 18/F, H Zentre, 15 Middle Rd, Tsim Sha Tsui, 3428 8342, book here
There are two seatings for the eight-course New Year’s Eve menu: 5:30–8:30PM (HKD888 pp) and 9PM–1AM (HKD2,025 pp). The three free-flow champagne packages are priced at HKD400, HKD600, and HKD2,200.
Jimmy’s Kitchen
Hong Kong culinary institution Jimmy’s Kitchen, back with a bang in 2024 nearly a century after its initial debut in the city, has curated three- and four-course menus for New Year’s Eve dubbed “A Culinary Countdown to Celebrate” in honour of the eatery’s own new beginnings. Displaying the restaurant’s trademark traditional British flair, both menus are highlighted by a flurry of amuse-bouche the likes of Irish oyster no. 1, pork and foie gras pâté en croute, and smoked beef carpaccio. Main course selections include seared duck breast, sea bass with saffron butter, prawn, and creamed potato, and beef tenderloin with roasted bone marrow bordelaise sauce. For dessert, there’s only one British pud to match the indulgence of the preceding courses, and that’s Jimmy’s legendary sticky toffee date pudding!
Jimmy’s Kitchen, M/F, Pedder Building, 12 Pedder Street, Central, 2526 5293, book here
The three-course menu (HKD788 pp) can be booked from 6–8PM, whilst the four-course menu (HKD888 pp) is available for reservations from 8:30PM onwards.
FUMI
With a location in the heart of Lan Kwai Fong, Japanese restaurant FUMI is an ideal dining venue on New Year’s Eve; after getting your fill of the Hokkaido king crab leg semi-buffet dinner, you can party on at any of the many watering holes of LKF. This crustacean-focused feast features an unlimited spread of premium seasonal appetisers, sashimi, sushi rolls, grilled items, and a live oden station. There’s also a choice of one main course for each diner. In addition to the never-ending Hokkaido king crab legs up for grabs, the white shrimp with caviar, hairy crab coral roll, and A4 Kumamoto Wagyu rib-eye are standouts. For those organised enough to book in advance, FUMI is offering an unbeatable 15% discount with every deposit secured.
FUMI, 6/F, California Tower, 30–32 D’Aguilar Street, Lan Kwai Fong, Central, 2328 3302, book here
The semi-buffet dinner is on from 6:30–9:30PM and is priced at HKD850 per adult and HKD425 per child aged 3–11. The two free-flow packages are priced at HKD298 and HKD438.
Cardinal Point
Forty-five floors above street level, new bar-with-a-view Cardinal Point is set to play host to the Shanghai Yè New Year’s Eve party, “where the opulence of the Belle Époque era meets the vibrant spirit of the French Concession.” Dust off your finest glad rags for this epic countdown bash featuring DJ Fergus, live performances, and jaw-dropping views of the fireworks once the clock strikes midnight. The standard ticket package is inclusive of free-flow Perrier-Jouët Grand Brut champagne, premium spirits, and cocktails, along with unlimited light snacks.
Cardinal Point, 43–45/F, FORTY-FIVE, Gloucester Tower, LANDMARK ATRIUM, 15 Queen’s Road Central, Central, 3501 8560, book here
The countdown party is on from 10PM–1AM, with standard tickets priced at HKD1,680 per person and table packages priced from HKD5,000.
