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New Year’s Eve Dinner

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Happy New Year! Hope you enjoy my New Year’s Eve Dinner ideas. May you all enjoy a safe start to the New Year with your Family and Friends! Thanks for a great year and all of your continued support. Love you all! My New Year’s Eve Dinner guide is here to help you celebrate the final night of the year with style, flavor, and ease.

Whether you’re hosting a festive party or creating an intimate meal at home, this collection highlights elegant appetizers, stunning mains, dazzling cocktails, and indulgent desserts to make the evening unforgettable.

Choose a few favorites, mix and match, and build a menu that feels celebratory and fun. It’s perfect for ringing in the new year with great food and even better company.

🎉 Celebratory Cocktails & Drinks

Start the night with sparkle and toast to the year ahead!

Two champagne cocktails in champagne flutes sitting on a wooden cutting board with a bottle of champagne in the background. These are featured as part of my New Year's Eve Dinner.
A tall glass filled with vodka and cranberry juice with ice and a few olives. There is a bottle of vodka in the background. This is a great drink to prepare for New Year's Eve Dinner.
Two champagne cocktails which are featured in New Year's Eve Dinner.
  • Champagne Cocktail
    • Ingredients:
      • Champagne or Prosecco
      • 1 sugar cube
      • 2–3 dashes Angostura bitters
      • Sugar for rimming
      • Lemon twist, optional
    • Instructions:
      • Lightly moisten the rim of a Champagne flute and dip it into sugar to coat.
      • Drop one sugar cube into the bottom of the glass.
      • Add 2–3 dashes of bitters directly onto the sugar cube.
      • Slowly pour chilled Champagne over the top to fill the glass.
      • Garnish with a lemon twist, if desired, and serve immediately.
  • Charlotte Fashion Plate Cocktail

🍢 Appetizers & Small Bites

Perfect for grazing as you mingle or start your dinner.

A large white platter lined with ice and filled with chilled poached shrimp and lemon wedges, garnished with fresh parsley. Two dipping sauces are in the middle of the platter in small, rectangular bowls. One is a cocktail sauce and the other is a shrimp Louie sauce.
A plate of Oysters Rockefeller. The oysters are baked with a golden crust from the cheese. Topped with crisp bacon pieces and served with lemon wedges. The baked oysters are sitting on a bed or rock salt.
A white platter with silver trim holding nine baked stuffed mushrooms. These are great to serve for New Year's Eve Dinner.

🥩 Main Courses — Elegant & Special

Make this New Year’s Eve dinner one to remember.

Three broiled lobster tails sitting on a flat cast iron skillet with melted butter and fresh parsley topping each tail.
A blue flowered plate holding an individual Beef Wellington cut in half to show the temperature of the beef at medium-rare with whipped potatoes and asparagus.
A filet mignon and lobster tail in a cast iron pan with a side of risotto and asparagus. This is great to add to your New Year's Eve Dinner.

🍽 Sides & Sides Worth Celebrating

Compliment your mains with delightful flavors.

A bowl of creamy Parmesan risotto garnished with fresh parsley.
Garnish.
A spoonful of baked cauliflower au gratin taken out of a yellow casserole dish
A blue casserole dish of Dauphinoise potatoes with me holding a silver spoonful of the potatoes. The cheese is browned on the top and garnished with fresh thyme.
Serve immediately.

🥂 New Year’s Day Lucky Foods (optional)

Good luck traditions to start the year right! Many believe you should avoid poultry and backward-moving seafood like lobster or crab on New Year’s Day to keep your luck moving forward!

A white bowl with a mound of white rice in the middle and Southern Black Eyed Peas around the rice. All is garnished with fresh chopped parsley. Serve right after New Year's Eve Dinner when the clock strikes midnight.
A platter of roast pork with sauerkraut laying around the edges of the roast.

GET TO KNOW ME!

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WELCOME! My name is Melissa Latin aka. Charlotte Fashion Plate. Happy to meet you! I am more than just recipes. I love fashion and style too! Most importantly, I love my Family (my Hubby and my Fur Babies). My Husband (aka my “Kitchen Bitch”) means the world to me. He’s pretty damn cool too. Not only is he one of the nicest guys you will ever meet, he also has had a lengthy career in professional hockey. Not only winning two Stanley Cups with the Pittsburgh Penguins in the early ’90’s, but most recently winning the Calder Cup with the Charlotte Checkers, amongst many other accolades. If you live in Charlotte and play hockey, or have a family member who plays, be sure to contact him!

Our life has changed dramatically in the past few years with the passing of our two goldendoodles, Vegas and Viva. We were lucky enough to have Vegas for five years (totally wish it was longer). Most recently, losing our Viva to a brain tumor in July of 2020. We welcomed our mini goldendoodle 7, almost seven years ago. We just added the amazing Hazel! Of course, I am always posting tons and tons of photos! Be sure to check out my recipe for Pet Bone Broth! This broth is super rich in nutrients and will provide your pet with a multitude of health benefits!

In addition, I’m so very excited to announce I have published my first e-book and paperback, “Mastering Thanksgiving – A Guide to Perfecting Your Thanksgiving Dinner.” Your support would mean the world to me.

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