Celebrate New Year's in Speakeasy Style With French Cuisine, Cabaret & More at Bistro Chat Noir

This New Year's Eve, Bistro Chat Noir (22 East 66th St. / www.BistroChatNoir.com / 212-794-2428) will offer a special 1920s Speakeasy-Themed Celebration complete with four courses of stunning French cuisine, plus drinks, dancing, and a special performance of Speakeasy Moderne, an entertaining cabaret show featuring an intoxicating blend of Jazz Age Manhattan, vaudeville, and a touch of burlesque.

Perfect for couples or groups, the restaurant's lively New Year's Eve will have two seatings: a 6pm prix-fixe menu & cabaret show ($100) and a 9pm prix-fixe menu & cabaret show (reserve by 12/30 at 5pm, $200, after $250); 9pm guests will also have a midnight countdown with Laurent Perrier Champagne Toast and a DJ for the night. Reservations are required (call 212-794-2428).

Tucked away just a block from Central Park and located in a Louis Candela designed townhouse, Bistro Chat Noir's cream stripped walls, crimson banquettes, and low lighting wrap you in a romantic glow while enjoying top-notch French cuisine made with the freshest of local ingredients. Reservations are required (call 212-794-2428).

Dinner on 12/31 begins with a delicious Canape Plate with tuna tartare, foie gras on brioche & more; Appetizer options include flavorful Onion Soup with guyere cheese crouton; Pumpkin Ravioli with pumpkin, sage tempura and balsamic cream sauce; and a Tuna & Salmon Tartare Duo. Entrée options include herb-crusted Rack of Lamb with potato gratin, merguez sausage and mint sauce; Seafood Risotto with lemon zest, asparagus, tomatoes, zucchini, carrots, shrimp, tuna & scallops; and a tender pan-seared Long Island Duck Breast with carrot, parsnip and eggplant puree trio, caramelized apples and white turnips, and a cumin & blood orange sauce.

Desserts include Homemade Cheesecake with red berry coulis; Profiteroles with vanilla ice cream and Valrona chocolate sauce; and Apple Tarte Tatin with French vanilla ice cream. The Specialty Cocktails for the evening are the Purity Coconut Martini with egg white and coconut water; and the Chat Noir Negroni with gin, vermouth and Campari.

With a range of songs from Broadway, standards, and today, Speakeasy Moderne is a truly charming and engaging cabaret show hosted by Hank Stampfl. He will be joined by Bronwyn Tarboton, Jessica Coffman, Kristin Ewing and Kimberly Schafer on New Year's Eve.

Reservations are required for New Year's Eve; diners can call 212-794-2428.

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