New Year's Eve at Dear Sainte Eloise

Overview

You've heard it before: how you choose to ring in the new year is a sign of how you'll spend the rest of the year. If you would like to spend 2024 sipping top-shelf champagne and snacking on oysters and caviar (you bougie thing, you), we have just the thing.

Dear Sainte Éloise is hosting a special New Year's Eve party so you can bid adieu to 2023 in style. The Potts Point diner will be open from midday, serving a seafood-heavy menu and hard-to-find wines. The set menu ($130pp), designed by DSE's new head chef Elias Selloum, kicks off with small bites like kangaroo tartare and buckwheat blinis topped with caviar and crème fraîche. And, because no summery celebration is complete without them, there'll also be oysters with a Sichuan mignonette.

Next up, enjoy heirloom tomato salad with Meredith Dairy goat's curd, nori and basil oil, and house-whipped foie gras parfait served with Fabbrica sourdough. The main is French Provençal-style bouillabaisse, stuffed with seafood galore — think John Dory, blue-eye trevalla, clams and mussels. It'll all wrap up with a classic summer dessert: roasted peaches with lavender crumb, salted caramel and yoghurt.

Sample drops throughout your meal from DSE's well-curated wine cellar, like pineau d'aunis, a rare red wine from France's Loire Valley, and Brisson-Lahaye champagne.

Dear Sainte Eloise will be open on December 31 from 12pm–12am (last available booking is 8.30pm). Bookings are essential and can be made via the website. 

Images: Trent van der Jagt