Let’s celebrate the end of 2024 and ring in 2025! Here’s who’s hosting celebrations in the neighborhood! (We will update daily, so check back for new additions.)
Yellow Door Taco
Ring in the New Year at Yellow Door’s Disco and Tequila-filled evening. They’ll be serving up food and drinks specials all day and night for both brunch & dinner! Reservations are booking fast — grab yours now, and let’s get this party started. BOOK RESERVATIONS HERE
Blend NYE + New Year’s Day Celebrations
Celebrate the end of 2024 and welcome 2025 at Blend. Return to Babylon party at Blend is going to be WILD! Hosted by not one, but two amazing queens from Rupauls drag race @jessicawild and @koriking 🤩 Durty Beatz by the incomparable @wreakingharlowhavoc 💜 Tickets are limited and include Guaranteed entrance, line privileges, and a champagne toast. Entrance is not guaranteed without a ticket! On Thursday, head to the Taylor Swift New Years Day hangover brunch! Join @wreakingharlowhavoc and @alanathicc as they serve some major Swifty! Delicious brunch and hand-crafted cocktails are sure to soothe those New Year’s Eve bad decisions. Book your reservations here!
Lower Mills Tavern
LMT will have food and drinks specials plus live music and a champagne toast on NYE. They will also be open on New Year’s Day for brunch!
The Pearl South Bay
Groove Through The Years at The Pearl South Bay! Prepare for an unforgettable New Year’s Eve as we dance through the decades. Join us for an evening filled with hits from the 80s, 90s, early 2000s, and the modern-day hip-hop and R&B we all love. You can get all the details and tickets here.
dbar
Enjoy a special prix fixe dinner with wine pairing a dbar. You can make a reservation here!
New Year’s Day Brunch at The Bowery Bar + Lucy’s
The Bowery Bar and Lucy’s American Tavern are hosting a New Year’s Day Brunch! Reservations are strongly recommended!
NYE Dinner at Venezia
Celebrate New Year’s Eve with friends and family over a delicious dinner at Dorchester’s Venezia this year. The chefs have prepared a special menu featuring a variety of mouthwatering entrees like prime rib, shrimp and scallop risotto and bourbon glazed short rib. Reservations can be made from 4pm to 11pm and include a midnight champagne toast. Check out the menu here.
DOT Brewing
Pop bottles at Dorchester Brewing on New Year’s Eve. Special taproom offerings include bottle service, wine flights, bottles of sparkling rose, and DOTtails!
Open Doors Studio
Start your New Year’s resolutions early. All morning classes on New Year’s Eve will be as scheduled, with a 4:30 pm hot power flow. Classes are also scheduled for New Year’s Day.
NYE Ice Sculpture Stroll
Boston Harbor Now’s signature New Year’s Eve Waterfront Ice Sculpture Stroll is back! Get ready to count down to 2025 with over TWO dozen ice sculptures hosted by businesses and cultural sites across the waterfront. It’ll be the largest Waterfront Ice Sculpture Stroll EVER! Also, enjoy Touch-A-Truck and Touch-a-Boat kids’ events from noon to 4pm at the Envoy Hotel, and stick around into the night for Year’s End Fireworks to ring in 2024! This event is free and you can learn more here, including an interactive map!
First Night Boston
First Night Boston, New England’s largest New Year’s Eve party, returns to celebrate the start of 2024 in Boston’s Back Bay. The free and family-friendly event runs from 12:00 p.m. on December 31, 2024, through 12:30 a.m. January 1, 2025, and resumes on New Year’s Day with live performances in Copley Square from 11:00 a.m. to 1:40 p.m. Expect dazzling ice sculptures, the “First Night Boston Parade,” a laser and pyrotechnic show, and two sets of fireworks to excited audiences. Local performers will step into the spotlights at Boston Public Library, Copley Place, Boston Common, and surrounding churches. From organ concerts to hip-hop, and country music to figure skating, a full schedule and event details are now available at www.firstnightboston.org.
Maureen Dahill is the editor of Caught in Southie and a lifelong resident of South Boston sometimes mistaken for a yuppie. Co-host of Caught Up, storyteller, lover of red wine and binge watching TV series. Mrs. Peter G. Follow her @MaureenCaught.
