If you feel like celebrating New Year’s Eve out on the town, here are a few local options:
• The British Bankers Club bar and restaurant at El Camino Real and Santa Cruz Avenue in Menlo Park is holding a New Year’s Eve party with live dance must by the No Mercy band and a fixed dinner menu for $39.95. For information and to make reservations, call 327-8769.
• The Village Pub at 2968 Woodside Road in Woodside will ring in the New Year with a four-course early dinner at $100 per person. A six-course dinner, champagne toast, live music and dancing to the Freddie Brooks Band is $140 per person. Both dinners include such dishes as parsley soup, Dungeness crab salad, a choice of scallops, seared bass, or New York steak, and a trio of chocolate. For reservations, call 851-9888 or go to www.thevillagepub.net.
• Other local restaurants will be serving New Year’s special dinners including the Stanford Park Hotel, 100 El Camino Real, Menlo Park, where dinner will be served between 5:30 and 10 p.m. at $70 per person. For reservations call 322-1234.
• Little House activity center at 800 Middle Ave. in Menlo Park is hosting a dinner dance from 7:30 p.m. to midnight. Dinner will include chicken cordon bleu, salad, asparagus, and rice medley, with carrot cake for dessert. There will be dancing to Mike Johnson and his Sound Wizards starting at 9 p.m. Tickets are $27 for dinner only, $35 for dinner and dancing, and $12 for dancing only. Reservations are a must. Call 326-2025, ext. 231.
• Hillbarn Theatre, located at 1285 E. Hillsdale Blvd. in Foster City, is presenting “Smokey Joe’s Cafe.” The New Year’s Eve gala begins at 6:15 p.m. with pre-show hors d’oeuvres and drinks. The show features song hits of the 1950s and 1960s by Leiber and Stoller, including “On Broadway,” “Hound Dog.,” and “Yakety Yak.”
A post-performance buffet dinner and dessert table will begin at 9 p.m. followed by dancing to the live music of Smokey Joe’s Band. Tickets are $110 for adults and $75 for youth. For information, call the box office at 349-6411, or go to www.hillbarntheatre.org.



