Now we soon say goodbye to 2025 and toast 2026 with a bang. New Year's Eve is truly one of the most festive holidays of the year where fine china adorns the dinner tables and everything from New Year's food to beautiful New Year's decorations is planned down to the last detail. Even the choice of New Year's table setting and menu takes center stage at this wonderful event. But what is best to serve for starter, main course, and dessert on New Year's, and how do you succeed with the most elegant and radiant New Year's table setting? Check out our best tips below for your ultimate dinner menu and table setting.
Beautiful New Year's decoration for the dinner - Details for the New Year's table setting
A New Year's dinner is not like any other meal, and therefore the table setting shouldn't be either. Whether you want to create a New Year's table setting in silver or gold, or maybe even both, there are some things that spruce up the dinner table and add that little extra. Let yourself be inspired by our advice here:
- The more the merrier. Remember to fill the table with china, plates, candles, flowers, glitter, and other decorations. A New Year's table that looks bare and empty is not recommended. By creating fullness, you get a more luxurious feel. Dorre has beautiful details to decorate your table with. For example, place wine glasses on stylish coasters, and preferably set out a beautiful oil & vinegar set that guests can drizzle on their salad or snacks.
- Lay out knives, forks, and spoons for starter, main course, and dessert for an elegant touch to the table setting and feel free to use a slightly nicer cutlery set for the New Year's dinner. Dorre's delightful cutlery is perfect for a festive dinner party.
- That little extra. Yes, when is there not a better occasion to spruce up to the max than on New Year's Eve itself? For example, make a beautiful napkin fold for New Year's and put on neat napkin rings and decorate the dinner table with elegant glass candlesticks with taper candles for a warm and cozy feeling.
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Your ultimate New Year's menu for 2025 - Starter, main course & dessert
New Year's starter - Luxurious Toast Skagen
Is there anything tastier and more traditional than Toast Skagen as a starter on New Year's? I don't think so. Buy a really delicious Skagen mix, or make your own with shrimp, mayonnaise, red onion, and more, and serve on grilled sourdough bread with luxurious roe plus a small dill sprig and lemon slice on top. Yum!
New Year's main course - Classic juicy beef tenderloin
What would New Year's Eve be without a main course that includes beef tenderloin and a bit of red wine sauce? You don't need to complicate things unnecessarily and come up with something revolutionary to serve as a main course when a juicy beef tenderloin always hits the spot. Need a vegetarian main course for New Year's as well? Then be sure to also prepare, for example, some portabello and grilled cheese so everyone has something to eat. Then serve the whole feast with a really good potato gratin.
New Year's dessert - Fruity & simple panna cotta
The Italians have many tricks up their sleeves when it comes to food and panna cotta is of course one of them. This dessert is also perfect because it is super easy to make, contains few ingredients, and keeps in the fridge for a couple of days. You can therefore prepare your panna cotta for New Year's already the day before so you don't have to stress on New Year's Eve itself, nice right? The only ingredients needed are: Gelatin sheets, whipping cream, granulated sugar, vanilla sugar, and some berries or fruit as topping, and voilà you have your New Year's dessert!
Bonus tip! Also be sure to serve some snacks or canapés and a pre-dinner drink when the dinner guests arrive for a complete dinner party.Click here for inspiration for the perfect charcuterie board to serve before the meal, or here for our absolute favorite recipe for the tastiest pre-dinner drink: Moscow Mule!