These Raleigh and Durham restaurants will toast the New Year with special takeout meals
If you hear a crashing sound at the stroke of midnight on New Year’s Eve, it’ll be the collective world toasting to the same thing: 2020, good riddance.
Following a year of unrelenting horribleness, the bar for 2021 to go down as an exceptional year could not be lower.
As for New Year’s Eve, due to North Carolina’s current stay-at-home order, which closes dining rooms and bars at 10 p.m., ringing in the New Year will largely be done at home.
A handful of local restaurants are preparing New Year’s Eve meals for takeout, or dine-in.
Are there any others? Let us know at jdjackson@newsobserver.com
Alley Twenty-Six
320 E. Chapel Hill St., Durham. 984-439-2278 or alleytwentysix.com.
Offering a three-course meal for $60 per person, with options like salad or shrimp bisque, braised pork shank or vegetable lasagna or chocolate pot de creme and cinnamon bread pudding. The deadline to order is Dec. 28 at 4 p.m. A la carte options include cocktails, wine and charcuterie.
Boricua Soul
705 Willard St., Durham. 919-902-0520 or boricuasoulnc.com.
Located on Durham’s American Tobacco Campus, offering New Year’s meals, including New Year Potlikker soup, whole pernil, mac and cheese, collards and empanadas. Orders for New Year’s must be placed by Dec. 29 for pickup Dec. 31 from 12 to 5 p.m.
The Durham
315 E. Chapel Hill St., Durham, in The Durham hotel 919-768-8831 or thedurham.com/dining
The Durham is offering two New Year’s Eve options, an in-person three-course rooftop dinner for $85 per person, or a take-home three-course meal for $55 per person. The meals include options like braised lamb shank or mushroom risotto and white chocolate cheesecake. Orders for takeout must be placed by Dec. 28, with pickup Dec. 31 from 2 to 5 p.m.
Garland
14 W. Martin St., Raleigh. 919-833-6886 or garlandraleigh.com.
This a la carte New Year’s menu includes Garland’s take on “Luck & Money,” with ginger-braised collard greens and Punjabi-spiced black eyed peas, chili crab cakes, collard dolmas, plus gooey butter cake, cocktail kits and bottles of champagne. Orders can be picked up Dec. 30.
Lantern
423 W. Franklin St., Chapel Hill. 919-969-8846 or lanternrestaurant.com.
Offering a New Year’s Day take-and-bake meal, including Hoppin’ John, collards, crispy smoked pig tails, cornbread and Georgia tangerines. The cost is $85 and the deadline to order is Dec. 28 at 4 p.m., with pickup Dec. 30 from 4 to 6 p.m.
Margaux’s
8111-111 Creedmoor Road, Raleigh. 919-846-9846 or margauxsrestaurant.com
This North Raleigh restaurant will be serving a New Year’s Eve menu from 5 to 8:30 p.m., for in-person dining and takeout.
Metro Diner
6325 Falls of Neuse Rd. #73, Raleigh. 919-578-9053 or metrodiner.com
Serving a prix fixe menu, plus a New Year’s Day brunch.
Parizade
2200 W. Main St., Durham. 919-286-9712 or parizadedurham.com
Serving a four-course prix fixe menu for $99, including wine pairings. Seatings are from 4:30 to 9 p.m. Menu options include burrata and tomatoes, phyllo-wrapped shrimp, baked feta, spaghetti with shrimp, tomatoes and feta, grilled salmon with ratatouille and vanilla bean creme brulee.
Picnic
1647 Cole Mill Rd., Durham. 919-908-9128 or picnicdurham.com
This one is for New Year’s Day, as this Durham whole hog barbecue restaurant will offer a family-style meal for two, including fried chicken or pork barbecue, slaw, Hoppin’ John collards, cornbread and sauce for $45.
Poppyseed Market
8801 Lead Mine Rd. #107, Raleigh. 919-870-4997 or poppyseedmkt.com.
serving a family style take home meal for four to six people, including steak, lobster polenta cakes, loaded mashed potatoes, Parker House rolls and dessert. The cost is $185 and can be picked up Dec. 31 from 2 to 5 p.m.
Vidrio
500 Glenwood Ave., Suite 100, Raleigh. 919-803-6033 or vidrioraleigh.com
Serving a special New Year’s Eve menu from 4 to 10 p.m., the a la carte menu includes grilled octopus, cornbread with truffle butter, duck a l’orange and other items. The restaurant is also serving a New Year’s Day brunch.
This story was originally published December 21, 2020 at 2:57 PM with the headline "These Raleigh and Durham restaurants will toast the New Year with special takeout meals."
