Things to do on New Year's Eve in Valencia: ideas that are a must

Hotel Balneario Las Arenas – €398

Hotel Las Arenas invites you to a gala dinner by the sea, dancing and a party with an open bar provided by Studio 54. Don't worry about getting home. The price includes a night's accommodation, with check-out at 4 pm, and breakfast.

There are nine cold starters, four hot starters, a "New York Station" with three more dishes, a buffet of Iberian ham and oysters, and then a gourmet experience.

Leave room, because the menu continues!

Starters include oxtail cannelloni with truffles, followed by "Bianca Jagger" sea bass, ‘Wellington Nights’ beef, and for dessert, Saint Honoré Remix cake.

I'm up for a great time at Las Arenas

Hotel Olympia – €150

If you are looking for a complete New Year's Eve, one of those that start with a good dinner and end up dancing until your body says enough is enough, choose Hotel Olympia.

The evening begins with a varied centrepiece of six canapés and special dishes, followed by seafood cream soup, hake with cava sauce, lamb with thyme blossom, artichoke hearts and baby potatoes, followed by a Christmas assortment and the "New Year's Eve Fantasy".

There will also be a party with an open bar, a DJ with live music until 4 a.m., and free parking.

I want to say goodbye to the year at the Olympia

Casino Cirsa – From €139

If you want a New Year's Eve with options to choose from, Casino Cirsa makes it easy. And not one, not two, but three different experiences to bid farewell to the year.

Of course, the gala menu is the same for everyone!

It features three welcome bites and a culinary selection that begins with a carpaccio of scarlet prawns with pistachio pesto, wasabi emulsion, and citrus pearls.

Next comes the loin of wild sea bass steamed in muscatel with clam risotto and nori seaweed, followed by a medallion of matured beef tenderloin with truffled potato gratin and seasonal demiglacé mushrooms.

For dessert, a chocolate truffle on cocoa sablé with red fruit sauce and freeze-dried fruit. And of course, lots of Christmas sweet treats!

• New Year's Eve Dinner at Restaurante One VLC
  From 8:30 p.m. to 1:00 a.m., you can enjoy a welcome drink, a gala dinner, partying, and, of course, the bell chimes to welcome 2026 in style. Perfect for those looking to spend the night out.

• Casino Royale New Year's Eve Party
  This event runs from 8:30 p.m. to 2:00 a.m. and includes a welcome drink, gala dinner, New Year's Eve party featuring live bells, DJ, complimentary drink, and a Casino Experience with €20 to play whatever you want.

• New Year's Eve party in the Sala de Fiestas
  The longer party runs from 8:30 p.m. to 4:00 a.m., with a welcome drink, gala dinner, partying and bells ringing, DJ and two complimentary drinks.

Restaurante La Marítima en Veles e Vents – €160

La Marítima invites you to bid farewell to the year by the sea with a carefully selected menu and a wine cellar to match.

The dinner starts with five welcome appetizers and, as starters, grilled artichoke heart with Périgueux sauce and pine nut and lobster gazpachuelo.

Main courses include sea bass loin with fig leaf pilpil sauce and a foie gras royale, beef cheek and black truffle.

To top it off, a hazelnut coulant with ice cream adds a sweet touch.

I choose La Marítima

Hotel Santa Clara – €150

Santa Clara invites you to enjoy a well-rounded New Year's Eve dining experience. The evening starts with five appetizers and continues with a starter of Vele al Tartufo ravioli with burrata, prawn tartare and bisque.

Main courses include turbot with ‘escalivada’ vegetables and garlic turnip greens, and beef cheek with sweet potato parmentier and cassava chips.

Dessert is a dulce de leche coulant with Madagascan vanilla ice cream, as well as Christmas sweets.

Exquisite, right?

Make your reservation by calling +34 960 131 000 or sending an email to front.santaclara@achmhotels.com.

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Grand Hotel Centenari – €250

The Centenari serves up an elegant New Year's Eve with a welcome drink, a delicious dinner and a party overlooking the City Hall square.

The banquet begins with three appetizers and continues with a consommé with boletus and duck confit.

For main courses, turbot with beurre blanc and caviar and suckling pig terrine with potato and truffle.

And to top it all off, a strawberry daiquiri, chocolate and caramel mousse with citrus fruits, nougat and lucky grapes.

To add to the fun, the evening will feature live piano music until midnight, followed by a rooftop party with an open bar and DJ until 2 a.m.

Book by calling +34 961 64 42 40 or sending an email to areception.centenari@grandhotelcentenari.com.

Take a look at the menu

Restaurante Kuzina – €95

Kuzina offers you a New Year's Eve dinner with Mediterranean flair and Greek touches starting with a welcome snack, juicy lamb croquette, prawns wrapped in kataifi, octopus slices with vinegar and capers and mussels in tomato sauce with feta and ouzo.

Next comes sea bass with risotto in saffron and fennel sauce, followed by slow-cooked lamb with thyme and potato purée.

And the finale is a crispy kataifi ekmek with syrup, custard and fresh cream.

I want to have dinner at Kuzina

Restaurante El Poblet – €400

If you want a New Year's Eve fine dining experience, El Poblet pulls out all the stops with chef's appetisers and dishes as impressive as pine nut gazpachuelo with seasonal mushrooms, foie gras with sweet potato and malt whisky, or eel with cauliflower and caviar.

Next comes the turbot with beurre blanc and bergamot, followed by matured beef and a sweet finish with chocolate and citrus fruits, lucky grapes and petit fours.

New Year's Eve in El Poblet

Llisa Negra – €180

Llisa Negra goes all out with its products to bid farewell to the year.

The meal begins with an appetiser and a round of starters to share: flambéed olive oil bread with aioli and penjar tomatoes, shrimp with ajoblanco and trout roe, French oysters on ice and Josper-grilled red prawns from Dénia.

Main courses include grilled sole with pilpil sauce, slow-cooked suckling pig with parmentier and morel mushrooms with rabbit pâté cream.

To finish off, desserts to share such as cheesecake and Quique Dacosta nougat.

And, of course, lucky grapes.

I want to end the year at Llisa Negra

Vuelve Carolina – €148

At Vuelve Carolina, New Year's Eve is celebrated with highly creative appetisers.

The menu kicks off with an appetiser to whet your appetite and starters to share, such as foie gras cubalibre, Thai razor clams or Valencian tomato tartare with pickled mango yolk, among many others.

Main courses include sea bass with hoja santa salmorreta and ras el hanout lamb pastela.

The night's sweetest treat is the chocolate cake with hazelnut cream and caramelised nuts, as well as Quique Dacosta nougat and lucky grapes.

I'm going to Vuelve Carolina

A tu Gusto – €75

If you're looking for a delicious and well-rounded meal, A tu Gusto offers a New Year's Eve menu with starters to share: a platter of Iberian ham and cheese, Olivier salad with tuna belly and prawns, caramelised leeks with pickled vegetables and red prawns, and oxtail croquettes.

And then you can choose between cod with garlic and clam soups or veal cheek with potato parmentier and black truffle.

The finishing touch is a Belgian chocolate coulant with Bourbon vanilla ice cream, Christmas sweets and lucky grapes.

I'm having dinner at A tu Gusto this year

Casa Quiquet – €150 € or €170

Casa Quiquet offers two ways to experience New Year's Eve: the "All the Time" menu and the "Premium" menu, both with a full wine cellar, lucky grapes, party, open bar, drinks and disco with DJ.

The first includes dishes such as foie gras millefeuille, sea bass with prawns, Iberian pork cheeks in port wine sauce and a special New Year's Eve dessert.

The "Premium" menu features Bellavista seafood, cod supreme, roast lamb and the same sweet finale, but with the added bonus of live music.

I celebrate it here

La Perfumería – €265

La Perfumería is putting together a New Year's Eve celebration to be enjoyed course by course.

You'll be greeted with a welcome cocktail and a series of nibbles packed with character: an oyster tribute to Café Madrid, lamb and mint delicacies, matured sirloin bonbons with strawberries and butter, and a foie gras ingot with Xúquer persimmons.

The starters maintain the high standard with grilled parpatana with tomato and olives, Iberian bacon ravioli, blue lobster and boletus with sea urchin carbonara, and scallops on celeriac and coffee.

Main courses include uroko-yaki turbot with pine nut oil, mushrooms and meat juice, or a low-temperature cooked suckling pig ingot.

Before dessert, a fresh pre-dessert of blood orange and basil is served, and to finish, the dessert ‘La última campanada’ (The Last Bell), followed by a glass of cava and party favours.

I don't want to miss out

Atenea Sky – €190

Atenea Sky hosts a New Year’s Eve celebration of the tallest order (literally), with dinner and spectacular panoramic views of the Plaza del Ayuntamiento.

There will also be party favours, grapes, chimes from the balcony, views of the fireworks and a two-part musical celebration that will last until 5 a.m.

Dinner begins with two snacks and an individual starter made up of scarlet prawn bisque and shellfish ravioli with red prawn confit.

The entrée is roasted turbot in pil-pil sauce with sweet potato purée and mini vegetables; and the main course is beef tenderloin with foie gras, parmesan cake, sautéed red leaves and truffle sauce.

The pre-grape snack will be tocino de cielo (a traditional Spanish dessert) with passion fruit sorbet, crumble and lime-lemon crunch.

The evening includes all kinds of drinks, nougat and a late-night snack of Iberian pork brascada sandwich and potato omelette with peppers.

If you don’t feel like coming to dinner, you can join in the chimes and the party from 10:30 p.m., or even just come to the celebration from 12:15 a.m. onwards.

New Year’s Eve with a view