Table Talk

NYE Parties Around Town

Loads of local restaurants and bars are hosting New Year’s Eve events tonight. If you’re still hunting for something to do, use this guide to get you started! Since this is a day-of share, make sure you check each spot before you go to ensure they aren’t sold out. Some require tickets, and others don’t!

• The Garrison: The seven-course New Year’s Eve dinner at The Garrison (located on the lower level of The Ozark Mill at Finley Farms) is an upscale affair, with tasty treats like caviar, scallops and more. Wine pairings are available too.

• The Vineyard Market: The New Year’s Eve Black & White Ball is all about live music, dancing, great drinks and cigars—all alongside a five-course dinner. Black and white cocktail or formal attire is encouraged.

• Good Spirits & Co.’s headquarters is having a party with bubbly and other great drinks to ring in the new year. Reservations are optional, and dressing up is encouraged!

• Hotel Vandivort: This one’s a two-parter! Start with The Final Pour at The Order, featuring a five-course prix fixe meal and live music. Seatings go from 5 to 10 p.m., so you can get a fab meal before you finish your night upstairs with Countdown & Cocktails at Vantage Rooftop Lounge & Conservatory. There you’ll find craft cocktails and a DJ all the way up until the midnight toast.

• Branson Convention Center: At the Midnight Masquerade event, you can munch on hors d’oeuvres and a dinner buffet, sip drinks all night long, enjoy live music, and see the sky light up with fireworks at midnight. There’s even a hidden speakeasy on site.

• Big Cedar Lodge: The adults-only New Year’s Eve Party 2025 is filled with tasty eats, drinks and live music ends with a champagne toast, firewoods and balloon drop at midnight. Bonus: There are separate New Year’s Eve parties for kids and for teens, so you can bring the whole fam to celebrate at Big Cedar at events made just for them.

• 14 Mill Market: The Bubbles & Bourbon event features cocktails from Wisner Bar, food from some of 14 Mill Market’s restaurants, music from DJ Miguel, a champagne toast at midnight and more at this NYE party.

• Moxy Springfield Downtown: At downtown Springfield’s newest hotel, you can celebrate the new year at the Midnight #attheMoxy event. There’s live jazz, special cocktails, a DJ, dancing, tasty food and more at this New Year’s Eve event. At midnight, you can cheers on the rooftop with a glass of champagne.

• Ariake Sushi & Robata: At the Disco New Year’s Eve Party, there will be disco music and a midnight countdown in a chic restaurant space.

• Oasis Hotel & Convention Center: The Sober New Year’s Eve Celebration is a family-friendly and alcohol-free New Year’s Eve event that includes a 1980s throwback theme, dinner, dancing, live music, a professional photo booth and a sparkling juice toast at midnight. Kids can enjoy balloon animals, face painting and more.

• Cellar+Plate: The New Year’s Eve dinner at Cellar+Plate includes happy hour (with bubbly) at 4 p.m. followed by dinner from 5–10:30 p.m.

• Hold Fast Brewing: It’s a Roaring ‘20s theme complete with jazz music by The Brueggemann Gouge Jazz Band. Food is available from El Sabor, and the brewery is ringing in the new year at 8 p.m. A great option for folks who aren’t night owls!

• Tie & Timber Beer Co.: Hear live music by Drew Beine & Friends (plus David and Steven from Red Light Runner) and sip on locally brewed beer until the ball drop and taste at midnight.

• 4 By 4 Brewing Co.: The Fremont location is hosting an NYE party with a Studio 54 theme. Dress in your disco best for this one! Their sister location in the Galloway neighborhood will be open too, for a “low-key evening” and midnight ball drop.

• And if you want to grab a meal before you head out to your final NYE destination, head to Sleepy Opossum Cafe from 6–10 p.m. for their New Year’s Eve Nocturnal Breakky Takeover. The menu features morning meal faves in the evening, like breakfast bowls, a sweet potato cheesy hashbrown casserole, a super-creative and wintry salad and more.

• Another “before the evening parties” spot to hit is Before & After Brewing, where they are offering a tasting of sparkling wines from around the world, tasty hors d’eouvres and chilled bottles of bubbly you can take to go

Recovery Mode

After a late night out celebrating the start of 2025, you might need a little something to help you recover from all that fun. There are a lot of soups (especially noodle soups) that are known to help ease those nasty symptoms, and you can find them at restaurants around the Ozarks. First up is the aptly named John’s Hangover Ramen from Karai Ramen + Handroll. It features a spicy chicken broth that’s filled with mixed seafood, chicken, rice noodles and spinach. The mexican soup menudo is also known for its hangover-curing properties, and you can get it at several restaurants around town, like Señor Julian Mexican Bar & Grill. Vietnamese pho, with its rich broth and fresh toppings, is a winner too. Get several varieties at local spots like Pho Kim and Hong Yen.