New Year's Eve - To Go!
Bubbly rings in the new year…and we are READY!
Place orders for your carefree New Year’s Eve celebrations now. Below are details from a few of Pittsburgh’s wonderful restaurants. If your favorite isn’t on the list, pick up the phone and give them a call. They need us all to show up at the carry out window this winter. If you do your part, your plate will be full, the chefs’ hearts will be warmer…and our small business community might sleep better from having heard from you!
Morcilla
New Year’s Weekend Menu
Morcilla is offering a special New Year’s week menu from December 30th to January 2nd - so your New Year’s plans can be flexible. Appetizers of freshly shucked oysters on the half shell and Spanish Conserva make for easy replating and enjoyment, while also featuring a Half Roasted Duck for two with fennel, pomegranate, blood orange salad and herbs. The duck will be precooked and require reheating, so it comes out of your oven the perfect temperature. Finally, don’t forget to add on some of Severino’s famous charcuterie, and top it off with various cocktail options to go. (Items are priced ala carte)
Fl. 2 at The Fairmont
Fl. 2 at the Fairmont
You can ring in 2021 with a festive party to-go party from Fl. 2. Offerings include a cheese and charcuterie board, spinach and artichoke dip, crudité vegetable platter and hummus, a seasonal fruit and berry platter with brown sugar crema, and a dozen deviled eggs. Also available are appetizers to-go, pricing per person, including vegetable spring rolls with citrus soy, mac and cheese squares with habanero aioli, coconut shrimp with sweet chili sauce, beef wellington with red wine jus, and duck spring rolls with five-spice ginger sauce. Place orders by December 28th at 3 pm. Packages are for four people ($60 plus tax) or eight people ($120 plus tax).
To order from Fl 2., call 412-773-8848 or email pittsburgh@fairmont.com.
Cioppino
New Year’s dinners
You can ring in 2021 with bowls of lobster bisque, fresh wedge salad, four-ounce filets with truffle demi, four-ounce crab cakes with tartar sauce, asparagus, mini chocolate mousse pie or champagne panna cotta for $80 for for two . Order up until December 31 for contactless curbside pickup.
To order, call 412-281-6593.
Black Radish Kitchen
New Year’s Day dinner
A traditional New Year's Day dinner is available, with generous helpings of lucky and comforting foods like pork, sauerkraut, mashed potatoes, black eyed peas, collard greens, pickled veggies, and house focaccia with apple butter and herb butter. Romane is also throwing in two soups for the freezer. The package is $150 and includes delivery on December 31st.
Casbah
Christmas Eve, Christmas and New Year’s Dinners
This Mediterranean oasis offers dinners for 2 with a “take and bake” message: pick it up at the restaurant and put it in the oven at home!
The New Year’s “take and bake” combo is a crab and leek potato gratin dish, served with couscous, butternut squash, spinach, pepitas, apple slaw and apple cider tahini; winter salad with goat cheese, apples, lentils and cranberries in a pomegranate vinaigrette. The dessert here: bread pudding with crème anglaise.
Even more spectacular is the New Year’s Eve four course tasting menu. At $65 per person, Casbah provides an over the top buffet of tuna tartare, Chilean sea bass, and petite Filet — each of which comes with its own fantastic sauces and sides. Dessert is flourless chocolate cake with raspberries and Champagne pastry cream. Sparkling wine to go options include Revino Prosecco ($35), Juve y Camps Brut Rosé Cava ($55) and Thierry Triolet Brut Champagne ($75).
The Commoner
New Year’s Eve Dinner
The Commoner’s kitchens, helmed by Executive Chef Dave Racicot, are keeping things merry and bright this holiday season.
The three-course meal starts with a choice of Salmon Tartare with preserved cucumber, lemon oil and shisho or Champagne Risotto with grilled maitake mushrooms, Parmesan, and brown butter. The main event includes Beef Tenderloin with black truffle jus gras and celery root-potato gratin or Halibut Shellfish Stew with roasted vegetables and radishes. The meal ends with a choice of desserts that include Dark Chocolate Tarte with luxardo cherries and pistachio ganache or Cheesecake Custard with passion fruit, cocoa and espresso.
Station
Christmas dinner
Ease into Christmas dinner with Chef Curtis Gamble’s mini-ham dinner for two, priced at $70. Two cured ham shanks with brown sugar glaze are accompanied by spiced pear salad, scalloped potatoes, honey mustard-glazed carrots, and a quarter-pound wedge of fudge, flavor of your choice, from Fusion Fudge. Everything arrives ready to heat. Pick-ups are December 23 from 3pm to 8pm, though appointments for other times can be made if necessary.
Curtis recommends a pre-dinner cocktail of his sumptuous house-made red sangria, white sangria or rum punch. All are designed to sip on all day (to ease those holiday stresses and strains). Made with luscious ingredients, they come in batches of four or eight servings.
Food and drink details, and more, at the link above.
Khalil’s
New Year’s Eve Dinner
The enthusiastic turnout for their Syrian Thanksgiving dinner offering put sisters and owners Leila and Dalel on the path to bringing more of their family traditions to Pittsburgh dinner tables for the New Year. Khalil's is keeping it light going in to 2021 and offering a taste of the Mediterranean for the evening.
SMALL BITES SPREAD
A mix of h'ors oeuvres from around the Mediterranean including "Fig and Feta" mini pizzas drizzled with Pomegranate sauce, Za'tar, date walnut and honey mini pizzas, sweet and spicy Mahamara dip, Mediterranean Cheeses, Mix of Olives, Figs, Greek vegetarian grapeleaves, and Cheesecake Baklava bites. Includes Bottle of Champagne. Also offering Beers from around the Mediterranean (Greek, Lebanese, Turkish, Spanish, Italy).
Kaya
New Year’s Dinner
Kaya’s good luck pork and cabbage meal will be ready for pickup after noon on New Year’s Eve or New Year’s Day. Heating instructions are included. Please order by phone by 5pm on December 30. Packages for two ($55) or four ($95) are available.
This delicious bringer-of-good-fortune meal includes a Kaya salad, braised Jerk pork shoulder, Jamaican steamed cabbage, sautéed sweet plantains, rice and beans, Mojo Rojo sauce, and a choice of coffee rum cake or banana chocolate bread pudding. Try a traditional side of macaroni and cheese for $15.
If you’re in a Caribbean frame of mind, a quart of sorrel tea toddy, made of Wigle Landlocked Oaked, hibiscus tea, lemon, honey is a fantastic idea ($25).
Pane è Pronto from DiAnoia’s Eatery
New Year’s Day
If you’re looking for an activity along with some delicious eats, check out Pane e Pronto New Years Day meal kit, which makes a fun family activity. All served cold with cooking and reheating instructions.
4- 4oz Salty Pork Bits and DiAnoia’s Sweet Italian Sausage
1 Qt White Wine Braised Cabbage and Fennel
1 Qt Braised Lentils
$36 per kit
Square Cafe
New Year’s Eve
The colorful cafe that has recently made the heart of East Liberty its new home announced its acquisition of a liquor license right before the holiday season. Now slinging cocktails to-go, the Square Cafe staff has assembled a “one stop shop” New Year’s basket for $75.
To celebrate:
- 750ml Bottle of Lamarca Prosecco
- Two plastic champagne glasses
- Party hats & favors
For the Day after:
- Pancake Kit with Yeanys Maple Syrup & butter
- Ground coffee
- Two packets of Liquid IV
- Two hot chocolate bombs
Scratch & Co
New Years Day Dinner
Scratch & Co. is setting good intentions for the New Year with a traditional dinner with a twist. Order up slow-cooked pork shoulder paired with Scratch’s own MADE by Scratch & Co. brand red sauerkraut and fermented turnip purée. The MADE brand of products are locally sourced shelf-stable items that focus on four core values- they are sustainable, equitable, charitable, and local. MADE produces shelf-stable products from fruit butters to a variety of pickled and fermented goods to specialty sauces and relishes.
Dinners are $18 each and can be combined with a MADE gift pack of 2 items of your choice for $29.
Carry-out orders can be scheduled for pick-up and Scratch & Co.’s Troy Hill location or at Bar Botanico as a part of the winter Scratch & Co. x Bar Botanico pop-up.