Gastropod: a couple of burners, an oven, and some of the most interesting food in town.
  • Beth Crook
  • Gastropod: a couple of burners, an oven, and some of the most interesting food in town.

Thinking of dining out on New Year’s Eve? Several restaurants—some reasonably priced, others requiring you to drop serious cash—are offering special prix-fixe menus. Seating is often limited, so make your reservations sooner rather than later:

Sodo’s Gastropod is where I had my favorite dish of 2014: a “tuna melt” made of broiled hamachi collars with a black garlic and Comte cheese sauce, brioche bread crumbs, and pickled peppers. They’ll be offering four courses of some of the city’s most creative food ($65, each course paired with an Epic Ales beer) at two seatings (5:30 and 8 p.m.).

Chefs Mike Easton and Miles James (of the dearly departed Dot's Delicatessen) are teaming up to offer a four-course feast at Il Corvo with four seatings throughout the night. Cost (which includes food, drink, tax, and gratuity) is $132 for the 6 and 6:30 p.m. seatings $142 (you get an extra glass of champagne at midnight) for the 9 and 9:30 p.m. seatings. Tickets available here.

Capitol Hill’s Altura is offering two menus of its seasonal Italian food: a six-course tasting menu for reservations between 5:30 and 6 p.m. ($155 per person, $87 for wine pairings with each course) and an eight-course menu for reservations at 8 p.m. or later ($195 per person, $115 for wine pairings).

Eastlake’s Blind Pig Bistro will host an eight-course tasting menu of its inventive, locally driven dishes for $75 per person (plus $35 for a wine pairing).

Cafe Lago in Montlake, which has been cooking in a wood-fired oven before wood-fired ovens were everywhere in Seattle, is offering a $35 prix-fixe menu. To celebrate the restaurant’s 25th anniversary, all adult diners will get a free glass of Prosecco.

Three of Chef Matt Dillon’s restaurants are offering special prix-fixe menus of their flawless, utterly Northwest food (e.g., smoked oysters on toast with shaved matsutake mushrooms, lamb saddle with soured huckleberry and parsnip sauce). Prices range from spendy to all-out blowout, and all include free entry to Bar Ferd’nand’s New Year’s Eve party in Melrose Market: $100 at Pioneer Square’s Bar Sajor , $140 at Sitka & Spruce on Capitol Hill, and $250 at The Corson Building in Georgetown.

Other restaurants offering prix-fixe menus: Agrodolce, Bastille, Cicchetti, Joule, Lark, Loulay, mkt., Monsoon, Osteria La Spiga, Pomerol, Poppy, Restaurant Marron, Stoneburner, Volunteer Park Café.

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