With Christmas just a few days away, it’s easy to forget about making your New Year’s plans. Well, you’re in luck this year. We’re providing you with a convenient list of New Year’s Eve options that everyone will love! From seven courses of Northern Italian cuisine to a savory Southern dinner, we’ve got the scoop on how to celebrate in style.
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Aqua blue in Roswell is offering a special three-course menu for $49 per person and $69 with wine parings that's available at three seatings: 5:30 p.m., 7:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. DJ starts up at 9 p.m. Guests will enjoy a complimentary champagne toast and party favors at midnight, and the restaurant will offer a complimentary breakfast buffet at 12:30 a.m. The regular menu also is an option. For reservations, call 770-643-8886.
• Chef specials, a DJ and a complimentary champagne toast at midnight make for a fun New Year's Eve at
Atkins Park in Virginia Highland. Dinner reservations are recommended. Come in for New Year's Day brunch and fill up on a little "hair of the dog" along with Hoppin' John, collard greens and all of those traditional good luck dishes!
• Ease into an elegant 2011 over a festive four-course dinner for $85 per person at
Aria. Add wine pairings at an additional cost. Call 404-233-7673 for reservations.
• Chef Bennett Hollberg at
Davio's Northern Italian Steakhouse is creating an incredible seven-course menu (amuse bouche + six courses) on New Year's Eve for a savory $95 per person or $125 with wine pairings. For reservations, call 404-844-4810.
• A rootin'-tootin' good time is in store for all as the doors swing open to a DJ and a complimentary midnight champagne toast at
Deadwood Saloon. There's no cover for this party that cranks up at 10 p.m.
• New Year's spreads over three days at
Fleming's Prime Steakhouse & Wine Bar. From Thursday, December 30 through Saturday, January 1, guests can choose from three memorable
menu selections of filet mignon and crab-stuffed shrimp, North Atlantic lobster tail or New York strip and giant shrimp ($59.95 - $79.95; excluding wine, tax and gratuity). For bubbly, order the legendary Veuve Clicquot Champagne by the glass ($25). Call 770-698-8112 for reservations.
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JCT. Kitchen & Bar will be serving a $60 four-course menu (a "taste" + three courses). For reservations, call 404-355-2252.
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La Tavola Trattoria is offering a truly authentic three-course Italian prix fixe dinner with lots of course options for only $49 per person (plus tax and gratuity). Call 404-873-5430.
• There are now seven
Marlow's Tavern locations where you can ring in 2011! All seven are offering a $35 (plus tax and gratuity) three-course prix fixe menu that includes some savory dishes from the featured "Lobsters & Libations" menu.
• All three locations of
Ray's Restaurants (
Ray's in the City,
Ray's at Killer Creek and
Ray's on the River) will be open from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. on New Year's Eve (with the bar open until 1 a.m.). Appetizers, shareable sides and special prix fixe menus ($55-$85 per person) are the talk of the day. For earlier risers, Ray's at Killer Creek is doing a New Year's Day brunch from 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Make reservations online or by calling the restaurants.
• Times Square has nothing on Southern New Year's traditions -- especially the culinary ones. Dine on three Southern courses for $39.95 at
South City Kitchen Midtown and Vinings. Both locations will be open from 5 to 11 p.m. For reservations, call the specific restaurant: South City Kitchen Midtown, 404-873-7358; South City Kitchen Vinings, 770-435-0700.
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Spice Market, located inside the W Atlanta Midtown, is offering two seatings and two different prix fixe menus on New Year's Eve. At 6 p.m., guests can enjoy a four-course menu for $48 per person and wine pairings for an additional $22. The second seating is from 8:30 to 11 p.m. and features a five-course set menu with a glass of champagne for $65 per person; add wine pairings for an additional $33. Tax and gratuity are not included in either menu price. For reservations, call 404-724-2550.
• In addition to the regular prix fixe menu,
Woodfire Grill is creating five-course vegetarian and pescatarian menus on New Year's Eve. The regular and pescatarian menus are priced at $100, and the vegetarian menu is priced at $85. Add wine pairings for an additional $50. Reservations are required and can be made by calling 404-347-9055
Hannah Queen lives in Georgia, where she's a baker, a photographer and a philosopher of contentment. She likes good pie, fall leaves, muffins with LOTS of streusel, cameras, black tea lemonade and bluegrass. And, she tweets and blogs. 
With Christmas just a few days away, it’s easy to forget about making your New Year’s plans. Well, you’re in luck this year. We’re providing you with a convenient list of New Year’s Eve options that everyone will love! From seven courses of Northern Italian cuisine to a savory Southern dinner, we’ve got the scoop on how to celebrate in style.
Woodfire Grill Chef-Partner Kevin Gillespie has recently been spotted with a new friend named Yukon Cornelius, whose red beard is thought to resemble Gillespie's. Gillespie met Yukon at the Center for Puppetry Arts during a recent performance of "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer." 
In honor of his puppeteering doppelganger, Gillespie is now serving up a Yukon Cornelius cocktail (pictured lef) at Woodfire Grill to warm up guests. The $10 cocktail is a mix of High West Silver whiskey, maple bitters, Zirbenz liqueur, allspice dram, egg and half and half. While this concoction won't put a red beard on your face or hair on your chest, it will certainly raise your spirits. 
