Dec. 30. 2025

It won’t be hard to find food and drink specials for New Year’s Eve. Here are just a few of the special offerings and parties we noticed.

• Crave American Kitchen & Sushi Bar has a featured menu that’s available through Jan. 4. Appetizers include seared scallops, a burrata and granny smith apple agrodolce, crab cake and lobster bisque. Entrees are pork porterhouse, crab-stuffed halibut, roasted airline chicken and Argentine-style bavette steak and lobster tail with chimichurri.

• Dada Gastropub and Icon Events are throwing a Back to the New Year party that “jumps decades, cranks the music and ends with champagne at midnight. Costumes encouraged. Dancing required. Time travel guaranteed.” The event hall will re-create 1950s high school prom vibes, including a Grease-style couple’s dance contest, and the Dada Gastropub side will have an ‘80s dance party, including a costume contest. General admission is $10; VIP tickets are $25. Get them here.
• Great Shots has a party package for six to eight people that includes three hours of golf from 7 to 10 p.m., an appetizer platter, dessert bar and complimentary welcome champagne. There will be a DJ and fireworks. Prices range from $325 to $375, depending on the number of people. There’re also an unlimited drink package that ranges from $190 to $250. Make reservations here.
• Boston’s Restaurant & Sports Bar and the Ramada by Wyndham Sioux Falls Waterpark & Convention Center are having a party with acrobatic performances, Dueling Pianos and a live DJ. The waterpark will be open until 1 a.m. There will be food specials, a complimentary midnight champagne toast and more. Hotel guests will have priority seating for the entertainment.
• BibiSol is offering a six-course farm-to-table dinner. Tickets are $120. See the menu and get tickets at bibisol.com/events.
• Harvester Kitchen by Bryan is having its final celebration in its current space on New Year’s Eve. Tickets for Top Hats & Tiaras are $250 per person and include sparkling wine, hors d’oeuvres and a six-course meal. After dinner, there will be dancing, with a toast at midnight and a table of sweets. Add-ons are available. Get tickets here.

• Hook & Ladder Kitchen & Bar is featuring prime rib, which is usually available only on Friday and Saturday, for $25; bone marrow for $8 per “canoe”; and blackened scallop and shrimp linguine for $35. Special desserts are limoncello mascarpone cake and white chocolate blueberry cheesecake.
• Blarney Stone Pub’s dinner specials are Center-Cut New York Strip Oscar for $36 and Atlantic Salmon Oscar for $32.
• Gist Wine Shop will host its annual NYE Champagne Experience. Stop down anytime from noon to 6 p.m. Wednesday to enjoy “three exceptional champagnes perfectly paired with the 3 C’s: chips, cheese and chocolate!” Flights are $65.
• On New Year’s Day, Baltic Corner is having a potluck at 2 p.m. and is serving Tom and Jerrys from 2 to 4 p.m. It will be open from noon to 7 p.m.

The Bar, which is at 1004 S. Six Mile Road in the original Alibi Bar & Grill location, has a new menu, which includes featured cocktails. In addition, new daily specials start Monday. The kitchen serves food until 2 a.m. daily, opening at 3 p.m. on weekdays and noon on the weekend.

Here’s the lineup for the $5 Community Dinners in January at the Sioux Falls Food Co+op. They’re served from 4 to 7  p.m. every Wednesday.

Breadsmith is kicking off the new year with a special. Get $4 loaves of whole wheat or multigrain varieties on Mondays throughout January.

Little Caesars has a limited online-only special. Get two one-topping large pizzas for $5 each. Use the code PIZZAPIZZA.

Scooter’s Coffee has new featured drinks and treats with a brunch theme and flavors of banana bread, cinnamon rolls and waffles.

Changes in hours, service

• Fernson Downtown and Totally Rad Eats will be open on Mondays in January to accommodate Downtown Burger Battle crowds. Hours will be 3 to 9 p.m. On the other days, Fernson opens at 7:30 a.m. and closes at 9 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday, 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 8 p.m. Sunday. Burgers are available all day. New brunch hours on the weekend are 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
• Bread & Circus Sandwich Kitchen also is adding days in January because of the Downtown Burger Battle. It will be open from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. daily.
• The Barrel House has discontinued its Sunday brunch.
• Roam Kitchen + Bar will be closed Jan. 1-8 to replace flooring in the kitchen.
• ThaiTen will be closed Friday through Sunday because of a funeral. It will be open on New Year’s Day.

Here are other food and drink headlines from the past week.

Downtown Sioux Falls announces record 50 2026 Burger Battle participants

From S.D. to Washington coast, salmon trade with local ties brings exceptional fish to Minervas

Remedy Brewing gets creative to overcome kitchen limitations