Looking for dinner plans before the ball drops? These 5 restaurants have New Year's Eve specials

From a seven-course dinner with braised oxtail tortellini and opera cake at Bar Cecil in Palm Springs, to a family event with carving stations and dancing at bluEmber restaurant in Rancho Mirage, there are plenty of dining options in or around Palm Springs this New Year's Eve.

The following five restaurants or resorts across the Coachella Valley — and many more — are offering dinner specials before the ball drops, and some include champagne toasts as the clock strikes midnight.

With only a few weeks away until the start of 2022, those hoping to dine out for New Year's should also make reservations for some restaurants sooner rather than later.

Bar Cecil in Palm Springs

This hip spot, a relatively new bar and bistro in Palm Springs that pays homage to the artist, diarist, designer and overall bon vivant Cecil Beaton, has two options for its New Years Eve "soirée."

The first, dubbed "the Beaton experience," is served from 6 to 9 p.m. and includes a seven-course dinner, which spans welcome drinks and canapés, braised oxtail tortellini, beef Wellington, opera cake (ganache, mocha buttercream, almond joconde) and more. The meal starts at $350 a person.

Another option, starting at $30 a person and lasting from 10:30 p.m. to 1 a.m., involves a Veuve Clicquot midnight champagne toast with a light a la carte menu available. Guests should email NYE@barcecil.com to make reservations — there are only a few spots left.

Bar Cecil, 1555 S. Palm Canyon Drive, Palm Springs. (442) 332-3800. barcecil.com.

Miracle Springs in Desert Hot Springs

Miracle Springs Resort & Spa will host a luau-themed party — with a buffet, bar, champagne toast at midnight and a balloon drop. The menu features a salad bar, hors d'oeuvres, select entrées, sides and a dessert station.

Reservations are required by calling (760) 251-6000. The party lasts from 7 p.m. until midnight. Prices are $39.95 per adult, $69.95 per couple and $19.95 per child.

Miracle Springs, 10-625 Palm Drive, Desert Hot Springs. (760) 251-6000. miraclesprings.com.

The Pink Cabana in Indian Wells

The Pink Cabana, an artfully designed space in Indian Wells' Sands Hotel & Spa, will hold its own "extravaganza" on New Year's Eve with a five-course menu curated by executive chef Ethan Brown.

As a first course, guests can choose between a lobster bisque or winter squash velouté; next, a l'orange duck crepe or beef tartare; third, an endive or persimmon Waldorf salad; fourth, a Chilean sea bass or a rosewood petit filet or truffle gnocchi; and finally, chocolate truffles or goat brie.

The restaurant added that there could be last-minute changes to the menu, as well as champagne specials. Dinner service stretches from 5 p.m. to the last seating at 9 p.m. The meal is $120 a person and $148 with wine pairings.

The Pink Cabana, 44-985 Province Way, Indian Wells. (760) 321-3771. sandshotelandspa.com.

Jillian's in Palm Desert

Jillian's, a fine dining restaurant in Palm Desert, will host a four-course dinner with a glass of champagne for $140 a person (plus tax and gratuity). Guests will enjoy appetizers of miso-glazed shrimp with Asian slaw and a Maine lobster salad; choice between beef Wellington, Icelandic halibut, presidential whitefish or a roast rack of veal forestière; a dessert "extravaganza;" champagne toast, coffee and select teas.

Only an earlier seating at 5 p.m. is still available. Reservations can be made by calling (760) 776-8242.

Jillian's, 74-155 El Paseo, Palm Desert. (760) 776-8242. jilliansfinedining.com.

bluEmber in Rancho Mirage

The restaurant bluEmber, within Omni Rancho Las Palmas Resort & Spa, is offering a family New Year's Eve "spectacular" from 6 to 10 p.m. The event, which costs $85 for adults, $40 for children age six to 12, and free of charge for those age 5 and under, will include a feast with carving stations, a DJ and dancing, live feed of the ball drop on the East Coast and a champagne toast.

The following morning, visitors can return for a champagne brunch from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., complete with carving stations, "hangover" specialties and a bloody Mary bar. The brunch costs $55 for adults and $25 for children. To make reservations for both events, call the resort's concierge at (760) 862-4518.

bluEmber, 41-000 Bob Hope Drive, Rancho Mirage. (760) 834-2110 or (760) 862-4518.

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