Tuesday, December 31, we’ll be counting down to 2025. Today, December 20, we’re counting up ways to do that:
10 a.m. to 2 p.m. | New Year’s Eve Potluck Brunch. At Armada Brewing, “bring a dish to share and enjoy a laid-back start to your celebrations with fellow brunch lovers and craft beer enthusiasts.”
2 to 7 p.m. | New Year, New Haven. The Proprietors of the New Haven Green present a “giant slide and carousel, live ice sculpture carving, arts and crafts station, community mural, photo booth installations, live music and DJ sets, food trucks, heated tents… and so much more.”
4 p.m. to close | New Year’s Eve at Barcade. | In addition to the usual mix of cover-free craft beers, bar food and vintage arcade games, Barcade is marking the occasion by “tapping rare and obscure beers [and] offering a free champagne toast at midnight.”
6:15 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. | Sparkling ’70s Soiree. “A premium dinner train experience” at Essex Station promises “a night of nostalgia, fun, and unforgettable moments! Get ready for a dazzling evening filled with trains, libations, mystery, dining, dancing, and a champagne toast to ring in the new year at midnight,” with 1970s attire encouraged.
6:30 p.m. to 12 a.m. | New Year’s Eve Dinner. Fire at the Ridge, the restaurant at the Middlefield ski resort Powder Ridge, promises “a delicious six-course plated prix fixe dinner” with a cash bar and DJ/dancing.
7 p.m. to 1 a.m. | New Year’s Eve Bash. At Anthony’s Ocean View, a “top-shelf open bar” tops off four-course dining and DJed dancing bookended by an “hour of hors d’oeuvres” and a “midnight toast and late-night snack.”
7 p.m. to 1 a.m. | Dinner and Dancing. Woodwinds in Branford’s party sounds a lot like Anthony’s in New Haven’s, with the addition of a “specialty martini bar” and more detail about the d’oeuvres, desserts and late-night snack on offer.
8 p.m. to close | NYE 25: The Great Gatsby. At Rumaj Night Club, “expect 700+ attendees, complimentary… party favors, [a] complimentary champagne toast at midnight, confetti blasters and Great Gatsby-themed surprises,” with DJs Donny D and Gell presiding.
8 p.m. to close | New Year’s Eve Havana Night. At its new conjoined location with 80 Proof, Barracuda hosts an “open bar celebration… with Cuban-themed specialty cocktails [and] passed appetizers,” plus “DJ entertainment playing the best salsa, bachata and more!”
9 p.m. to close | Vaud-evil New Year. The Sanctuary party series invites vaudevillains “dressed in your best goth dapper, flapper, mobster or cabaret attire” to a dark dance party and burlesque show.
9 p.m. to close | “TBA.” Three Sheets has a New Year’s show shaping up, with live music from The West Rockers, a DJ set from Mo Niklz “and [more] TBA!”
9:30 p.m. to close | New Year’s Eve Blacklight Party & 50th Anniversary Celebration. Toad’s Place hosts blacklight parties all the time, but it’s presumably not every day that it celebrates five decades in business.
10 p.m. to 3 a.m. Vandome New Year’s Eve. Club Vandome offers “DJ El Niño and DJ Koky in the main room featuring the best of bachata, salsa, merengue and reggaeton” and, “in the warehouse, DJ JRoc and DJ Solo delivering the best of R&B, hip hop, dembow and top 40” and, also, “hats and noisemakers with a champagne toast at midnight.”
Whatever blows your noisemaker, happy New Year’s, New Haven.
Written by Dan Mims.
