New Year’s Eve celebrations will look vastly different this holiday season. With social distancing orders still in effect, restaurants, bars, and nightclubs are banned from holding their traditional ball dropping events. Despite COVID, Detroit is yet gearing up to welcome 2021. Detroit Restaurants are offering high-end take-home options complete with customary champagne to ring in the new year.
The Apparatus Room, located in the Detroit Foundation Hotel, offers a special menu for the new year. Available for takeout, the menu includes filets, shrimp and crab bisque, and, for an extra charge, champagne and caviar. Patrons are encouraged to order early via phone or email at mweirich@detroitfoundationhotel.com.
Also offering a New Year’s Eve spread is Midtown’s Grey Ghost. Offering items such as build-a-burger kits, cheese fondue, and deviled eggs. Serving as a one-stop-shop, the bar is also providing cocktail and Bloody Mary kits. All items are to-go and must be scheduled for curbside pick up by December 30 between 2 p.m. and 6 p.m. Visitors can place orders https://nye-ghost-to-go.square.site.
Oak and Reel, a contemporary Italian restaurant in Detroit’s Milwaukee Junction neighborhood, offers meals to feed up to six. Guests can choose from Lobster Thermidor, Black Truffle Potato Salad, and shrimp cocktail. Oak and Reel are also offering champagne and additional a la carte options on their site https://www.oakandreel.com/provisions/New-Years-Eve-Holiday-Dinner-p264692454. Dinners can be picked up curbside on December 30 or December 31.
For Detroiters looking to have the party experience, several virtual celebrations live streaming or broadcasting to living rooms across the city.
The iconic televised event, Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin Eve, hosted live from Times Square in New York City, will take on a new look this COVID season. Although there will be no live audience, the show will still showcase a lineup of industry giants. Headlining this year’s show will be singer Andra Day. The show will also feature live performances from Jennifer Lopez, Machine Gun Kelly, Billy Porter, Cyndi Lauper, and many more.
Grammy-nominated rapper Snoop Dogg is also hosting a live virtual concert to ring in the New Year. The west- coast rapper is hosting the event from his home in partnership with TBS, where the show will be broadcasted. Fans can also dance to the sounds of famed DJ Cassidy, DJ Battlecat, and Fredwreck. Viewers will also get a chance to take a virtual tour of Snoop’s estate and have a sneak peek of The Go-Big Show. Hosted by Snoop Dogg alongside a panel of judges, TBS’s newest competition show will feature huge talents and their chance at taking home the $100,000-dollar grand prize.
Famed 1980’s group New Edition will also perform a free concert via Facebook. Footage from their 2014 All Six concert will be shown in its entirety. Presented by Concert Daily, as a part of their quarantine concert series, the media company is streaming archived full-length concerts to viewers. The New Edition concert will air on January 1 at 8 p.m. Viewers can watch the performance via Facebook.
Although New Year’s Eve celebrations will look different for 2021, Detroit residents are
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