There’s no reason to spend $150 or more for a champagne dinner in a fancy restaurant on New Year’s Eve when plenty of places are offering open bars and nibbles for $50 or less per person. Here are three affordable last minute suggestions from New York Magazine for partying your way into 2010:
Bondi Road, Lower Manhattan, has a three hour buffet and open bar, 9 p.m. to midnight, at $25. The open bar continues from midnight–2 a.m, but without the buffet, at $20.
Havana Central, Midtown, Latin hors d’oeuvres, open bar, and TV monitors showing the Times Square countdown, 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. is $50 per person. From midnight on, it’s a cash bar and $10 cover.
Bark Hot Dogs 6 is calling their New Year’s Eve celebration a ”Pre-Game Party”. From 6 p.m. to 9 p.m., all-you-can-eat hot dogs, french fries, and onion rings, plus a half bottle of sparkling wine, is $30.
