What Are You Doing For New Year’s Eve?
It’s the question everyone begins asking the second Christmas is over.
We made our decision late this year, but as it turns out, HobokenFoodCritic will be dining this New Year’s Eve at Trinity, which overlooks the water on the corner of 3rd and Sinatra Drive.
Last year, we kept things pretty low key and just had a couple people over at our apartment and made all kinds of food and drinks. This year, however, we kind of wanted to get all dressed up and have a fancy night out. That’s not a difficult thing to do in Hoboken, especially for New Year’s Eve, but it can be difficult to avoid spending an arm and a leg in doing so.
Most of the nice restaurants in Hoboken and the surrounding area charge upwards of $100 to $150 per person for a prix fixe or buffet dinner, along with open bar throughout the night, and a champagne toast at midnight. The more casual bars offer buffet and open bar specials for $65 to $85 dollars. When you think about it, these prices might not seem totally off the wall–you can easily spend over $200 on a nice dinner for two and an entire night of drinking–but we wanted to keep things as reasonable as possible, and still have a formal and elegant night out.
Trinity is one of the few restaurants we’ve found that does not offer a hefty “all-inclusive” cover charge. Rather, we are going to have a normal, sit down dinner, where we will have the choice of ordering from the standard menu or from a prix fixe menu. Afterwards, they have a $20 per person cover charge to hang out at their cash bar (with DJ), and receive a complimentary champagne toast at midnight. I imagine it will be nice to just have a good time at our own pace rather than worrying about whether we are “getting our money’s worth”. We’ll let you know how it turns out…..
So, what are you doing for New Year’s Eve? Let us know–post a comment below or send us an email!
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