What To Do At Home This New Year’s Eve
Defected Virtual Festival
Defected Virtual Festival is set to present a New Year’s Eve edition of ‘We Dance As One’. On 31st December, sets from Dom Dolla, Eats Everything, Gorgon City, Inner City, Low Steppa, Roger Sanchez, Sam Divine and Sonny Fodera will be broadcast from socially distanced locations around the world, to close out a year where virtual parties reigned supreme. The third instalment of ‘We Dance As One’ will also offer a sneak peek into Defected’s new London HQ, where at least one of the artists will grace the decks in the brand-new media and content creation hub, due for official opening in 2021.
Stream the event here
Fish For Thought
Fish For Thought is a Cornish seafood company that supplies restaurants such as The Pig, Rick Stein and Restaurant Gordon Ramsay. This month it’s launched a ‘Cornish Surf and Turf’ box for nationwide delivery. Inside, you’ll find an 800g Cornish lobster, cooked, split and cleaned; two 6oz pedigree Cornish beef rib-eye steaks; and a roll of classic ‘Café de Paris’ butter. Ideal for anyone after a low-key, but luxe New Year’s Eve.
Visit FishForThought.co.uk
Digital Hogmanay
The world-famous NYE celebration, Hogmanay, is taking a 2020 approach to ring in the new year. With no live events planned this year, the event will – for the first time in its history – move to an entirely online celebration with a series of spectacular ‘moments’ to be watched from home. Produced by Underbelly on behalf of the City of Edinburgh Council, the free online series of shows promise visually spectacular moments every evening from 28th December through to 1st January. The events will be hosted by the likes of Doctor Who’s David Tennant, award-winning poet Jackie Kay, Celtic fusion band, Niteworks and Scottish actors Lorne MacFayden and Siobhan Redmond.
Visit EdinburghsHogmanay.com
Bonne Franquette X Noilly Prat
Bonne Franquette is the new scheme from Masterchef: The Professionals finalist Yann Florio – and the team has released a home banqueting box for New Year’s Eve. The meal and cocktail delivery box will be sent out on 30th December and can be delivered anywhere in the country, with both meat and vegetarian options available, from £75pp. Created using local ingredients sourced in east London, the meal delivery kit comes with everything you need to create a French-inspired five-course festive feast, complete with Noilly Prat’s ‘Le Sud’ cocktail. The cocktail will be accompanied by artisan bread with seaweed butter, followed by a choice of hors d’oeuvres, including wild mushroom pâté with marsala and tarragon pesto; and classic croque madame with 24-month aged comté.
Visit BonneFranquette.co.uk
Digital Murder Mystery Co.
Digital Murder Mystery Co has two themes in store for New Year’s Eve: Studio 54 and 1920’s Paris. The latter will be a Jazz Age-inspired soirée. Paris is one non-stop dazzling party where eccentric aristocrats dance the night away with penniless writers, in a world where anything feels possible. On this particular night, Coco is hosting another one of their famed gatherings – a who’s who of the world’s most talented, beautiful, and powerful – when one of the guests is found poisoned to death. The doors are locked, and everyone is kept inside. Someone at the party is responsible – and it’s your job to see through their glittering charm and unmask the secret killer.
Visit DigitalMurderMystery.com
Hame
Award-winning chef and restaurateur Adam Handling has launched a NYE menu box via his nationwide delivery service, Hame. Adam and his team have put together a six-course tasting menu for two, featuring signature dishes from Adam’s flagship restaurant, Frog by Adam Handling, including wagyu and caviar tartare; ‘lobster wagyu’; and beef wellington with clotted cream mash, greens and roasted carrots. The kit also includes a chocolate and raspberry delice cake and a truffled tunworth whole cheese. To round off celebrations, the Hame box also includes a bottle of Adam Handling own label English sparkling wine for your midnight toast, plus a 500ml bottled negroni cocktail from Eve Bar. The New Year’s Eve box is £350 for two people and is available to order for delivery on 30th December.
Visit AdamHandling.co.uk
Eschaton
Eschaton is a virtual nightclub which launched this year. And for New Year’s Eve, the team is pulling out all the stops to bring the clubbing experience into your own home. The event – named ‘The Dissolution – will start at 11pm and will be a 60-minute experience. Tickets will also give you access to an additional 60-minute after party experience. Dressing up is very much encouraged.
Visit TicketTailor.com
Club Mexicana
Club Mexicana has devised a decadent ‘NYE Mega Taco Box’. Start the celebrations with a plate piled high with fully loaded nachos. To follow, diners can feast on the ‘Taco Mega Mix’, featuring a medley of Club Mexicana’s classic tacos; the Al Pastor, made with homemade al pastor seitan spiked with Mexican chilis and doused in adobado sauce, accompanied by corn tortillas, caramelised pineapple and salsa verde; the BBQ Short ‘Rib’ with garlic mayo, dill pickle and slaw; and the ‘Cheezeburger’ with a burger sauce for dipping. The feast will finish with a dark chocolate orange mousse. Each menu can be upgraded with boozy add-ons of two 500ml bottles of homemade cocktails: a classic margarita or coffee-infused tequila negroni. Delivery is nationwide.
Visit Shop.ClubMexicana.com
Rave To The Moon
Rave To The Moon is a charity rave-a-thon taking place worldwide on NYE. Participants will be able to join forces in raising thousands of pounds of charity funds and generating the world’s largest digital rave in the process. With collective steps being counted in real-time using the free app Sweatcoin, revellers can rave at home and battle for the top spot in the live leader board to win big prizes. While the livestreamed party is free for anybody in the world to watch via global music community Mixcloud Live, up to 1,000 ravers will take centre stage in the Zoom Room, being projected on a giant video wall alongside the artists playing – which include the likes of Mr Scruff, Rob da Bank and DJ Yoda. Partygoers will be able to donate or fundraise by setting up a special JustGiving page for any charity of their choice.
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Bocca di Lupo
Designed for two, Jacob Kenedy and the team are ringing in the 'Capodanno' with a five-course feast which will take diners on a gastronomic tour of Italy featuring Lombardic panettone, Venetian prosecco, chocolates from Turin, Emilian cotechino and Roman-roasted suckling pig. To begin, diners can snack on miniature taralli with pecorino cream while sipping on Bocca di Lupo’s pre-made negroni mix. Up next is a radish and celeriac salad, generously topped with fresh truffle, before tucking into Italian sausage cotchino served on a bed of warm lentils with salsa verde. Delivery is London only, and the boxes are priced at £140.
Visit BoccaDiLupoAtHome.com
Hello 2021
Hello 2021 promises to be an unmissable New Year’s Eve party, beamed right in your living room. Available on YouTube, there’ll be exclusive performances from Dua Lipa, Joel Corry and MNEK, Aitch and AJ Tracey, and Anne-Marie, alongside apperances from Behzinga, Calfreezy, WillNE, Big Narstie, and Katherine Ryan, plus special guests including Michaela Coel and Joe Wicks. Guests can tune in on 31st December at 10:30pm till late. Admission is free.
Visit YouTube.com
Big Night
Big Night is a new restaurant delivery service, bringing together independent restaurants in London and high-quality food suppliers. Created for restaurant lovers by restaurant lovers, Big Night is the brainchild of The Laughing Heart owner, Charlie Mellor, in partnership with tech product manager and fellow foodie, Pavel Baskakov. Top restaurants available on Big Night are: Quo Vadis, Berry Bros. & Rudd, Tacos Padre, The Camberwell Arms, Snackbar, Mangal 2, Luca at Home, Royale, The Laughing Heart, Levan and Legare – many of which will be serving food on New Year’s Eve if tier three restrictions remain in place in the capital.
Visit BigNight.App
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