Your 2025 guide to New Year’s Eve in Montréal

Old Montréal’s not-so-hidden treasure of luxury boutique hotels roll out the red carpet on New Year’s Eve and provide excellent jumping off (or staying in) points for the night. The chic W Montréal is offering festive three-course and six-course sittings at their Tbsp. restaurant preceding a banger of a dance party in their Living Room space featuring DJ sets and a special performance by BLK PRL. Towards the Old Port, the stylish and contemporary Hôtel William Gray will host its lavish annual Grand New Year’s Eve Ball soirée. Tickets include a welcome cocktail and appetizers, a five-course meal with wine, open bar, live music during dinner, DJ and dance floor, champagne at midnight and even a photo booth. 

The historic, amazingly old world, stone-walled Auberge Saint-Gabriel is renowned for its legendary parties. At the very popular Bord’Elle, expect an elegant and enchanting evening with performances, a DJ and the restaurant’s signature 1920s-inspired vibe. The eve is chic at La Voûte supper club, housed in the former vault of the Royal Bank of Canada, and anticipation always runs high for its spectacular countdown, plethora of artistic surprises and world-class entertainment. And rocking culinary styling that sees the flavours of Thailand’s shores crashing into the beaches of Hawaiian cuisine (a fusion they like to call “Thaiwaiian”), The Farsides will keep the NYE vibes vibrating at their “Back in the Day,” 1990s and 2000s, old-school dance party on January 1.

As is the custom, Montréal’s beautifully restored Ritz-Carlton Hotel — at its haute cuisine, in-house restaurant Maison Boulud — will be hosting its annual New Year’s Eve Gala dinner soirée, offering a six-course fine-dining experience as well as live jazz, a DJ and dance floor, a photobooth and midnight toasting. Gala attire is, of course, required. Getting in on the exclusive New Year’s action is also the esteemed (and imaginatively renovated and redesigned) Fairmont The Queen Elizabeth hotel. The “Queen E” celebrates New Year’s Eve on two fronts: restaurant Rosélys will welcome you with a delicious kir, followed by a seven-course New Year’s Eve menu with live music, while Bar Nacarat never fails to impress with the kind of outstanding mixology that inspires new resolutions. Nestled within the Montreal Marriott Chateau Champlain, escape to a tropical paradise at Lloyd restaurant, which has two options available. The first is an exceptional buffet to start the evening, and the second is the buffet followed by a festive evening at Caf’Conc’ — an intimate hidden gem of a venue, also within the hotel, inspired by the decadence of the Roaring ’20s — with the band Shine.

Over in the Quartier des Spectacles, with its commanding views of downtown and Place des Arts, the DoubleTree By Hilton Montréal’s in-house resto Bivouac (equal parts social lounge, artisan bar and modern bistro) will be offering a special Québec-sourced NYE menu. Enjoy it in one of their utterly unique, heated, immersive outdoor domes overlooking Place des Festivals, which are open throughout the cold weather months. The lavish Four Seasons Hôtel Montréal transforms into a festive wonderland this holiday season, and its highly acclaimed gourmet restaurant, Marcus, will be serving New Year’s Eve revellers a special Marcus 54-themed menu.

The stylish Le Boulevardier restaurant of the boutique Hôtel Le Germain Montréal will have an exceptional six-course menu with wine pairings and a complimentary flute of bubbles. Haute cuisine and cocktails are king at the elegant and sophisticated Vietnamese restaurant Hang, tucked in between Old MTL and downtown in a dramatic setting. And the chic, boutique Hyatt Centric Montréal’s upscale Cartier Arms British pub is offering an exclusive culinary experience to tantalize your taste buds and set the tone for an incredible year ahead.

The Casino de Montréal will ring in the New Year with a marathon celebration that will entertain the heartiest of partiers until 5 a.m. On the casino’s dance card are live bands and DJs throughout the casino’s spectacular structure (it consists of two eye-popping Expo 67 pavilions), a one-of-a-kind countdown and much more as it transforms itself into a one-stop fun shop. There are three different “Experience” ticket options and, take note, only NYE party ticket holders will be admitted to the casino for most of the day. Le Balcon on Sainte Catherine Street will be doing what they do best when they bring the house down with an ultimate Disco Chic New Year’s Eve Party guaranteed to put the boogie in your woogie. Their popular, annual New Year’s Eve party dinner-and-live-show ticket includes a multi-course gourmet meal and a toast at midnight. Show and VIP tickets are also available.

Keeping legendary party zone Crescent Street’s NYE energy peaking will be Club Electric Avenue with an ’80s and ’90s vibe. The spectacular resto-nightclub Yoko Luna will be hosting their annual Japanese-themed, Neo-Tokyo New Year’s Eve bash boasting a dizzying array of dinner/party ticket options and VIP offerings. The city’s club scene goes mobile with the Montréal NYE Club Crawl, which promises a short hop between four dance venues, culminating with a countdown at the final club. 

Le Cathcart Restaurants et Biergarten in Place Ville Marie is not only a fancy food hall for finer tastes with a crazy glass ceiling that looks out into downtown Montréal, they are also renowned for their cool special events. Expect New Year’s Eve to be one of them with DJs, dancing and, of course, superior eats and drinks. And just to make sure all bases are covered, Montréal institution the Sir Winston Churchill Pub Complex has all the things on three floors under one roof: a nightclub with a bangin’ dance floor, a live music pub space and a laid-back club lounge with glamorous décor, all decked out with NYE bells and whistles.

When it comes to places to go dancing in MTL, our NYE cup runneth over. On the city’s always-buzzing Saint-Laurent Boulevard — or “The Main” as it’s known to the homegrown — there’s club scene action all along the strip, beginning on lower Saint-Laurent. The ultra-modern Society for Arts and Technology (a.k.a., the SAT) is one of the more unique spaces in the city, with immersive visuals that lend themselves to a cutting-edge electro dance party every year.

Further up Saint-Laurent, the two floors (one a lounge, the other a dance club) of party mainstay Rouge will be bouncing to the sound of hip-hop, club anthems and Top 40 hits. Over at Muzique, similar musical stylings will be on offer in multiple themed rooms for their annual, swanky “Montréal Ball,” “where the champagne never stops flowing, the music never stops playing, the jewels never come off and the party never ends.” And it’s a New Year’s booty shaker at Montréal’s legendary Club Balattou, which will host a Caribbean/African live music, tropical dance party with bubbly to usher in 2026 at midnight. 

Wholly unique Griffintown party palace New City Gas, built in the historic, industrial-age New City Gas complex that lit Montréal streets once upon a time, is a New Year’s staple for dance music partygoers. This year, Moldovan DJ Andrew Rayel, Forester and Michael Louis, among others, will keep the tables turning. If you’re the kind of person who only gets their party started by the time most clubs are closing, The Village has the answer at the iconic Stereo – which boasts the city’s best sound system – where they programme a marathon run of DJ sets featuring the biggest names in dance music. Also in The Village, the three-floor Club Unity, which bills itself as MTL’s biggest inclusive nightclub, is a supremely solid go-to for night-lifers of all stripes at all times, and New Year’s is a no-brainer.

Celebrate the New Year in wild style at Cirque De Boudoir’s “A Surrealist Masquerade”, a reality-defying Carnavalesque party at Théatre Paradoxe, a stunning repurposed church. It features DJs (house, electro, techno) all night as well as circus, burlesque and fetish performances, gogo dancers, spicy play areas, trippy visuals and more. And who wouldn’t want to eat, drink and dance in an enchanting underground forest? The completely unique Soubois (resto by day, woodsy subterranean party jungle by night) will host their annual event featuring an irresistible menu and an array of DJs.

Resolve to eat well this New Year’s Eve as Montréal’s many world-class restaurants get creative with their cuisine. To wit, let Maggie Oakes, where the finest Québec-produced foods are featured, offer you a luxurious environment in an ambiance of refined elegance, and where an unforgettable, gourmet menu awaits. The ever-popular Méchant Boeuf Bar-Brasserie is preparing a two-service offering that leans heavily into a couple of their specialties with a DJ spinning tunes deep into the night. Nearby, the much-loved Vieux-Port Steakhouse will ring in the New Year with cocktails, canapés and a raw bar, followed by an elevated-course dinner with wine and an open bar. Toast the midnight hour with bubbles and enjoy a DJ and dancing all night.

Pastis is king at Modavie (recently named one of the Top 100 Restaurants in Canada), where they’re putting together five-course and seven-course menus complete with live music to complete the festive late-night affair. And expect an equally lively atmosphere at the next-level Bevo Bar + Pizzeria, where they’re preparing a special NYE menu inspired by Italian traditions.

Tuck into a multi-course menu of gourmet comfort food in Taverne Gaspar’s warm and rustic setting, while the elegant, Parisian pub-inspired Brasserie 701 in the prestigious Hôtel Place d'Armes will have two seatings, a four-course menu and a six-course menu, to choose from. Restaurants in the city’s Little Italy district are getting into the swing of things in a big way with inventive and outstanding holiday menus from Italian cuisine institutions such as Ristorante Pizzeria Corneli. And craving a Parisian New Year’s Eve? Look no further than brasserie Le Pois Penché, a Golden Square Mile dinner tradition. Expect a feast of original French flavours, a full house, Parisian atmosphere, warm hospitality and a DJ on deck.

The classy Les Enfants Terribles brasserie in Place Ville Marie is offering a magical, festive evening complete with a gourmet dinner, DJ entertainment and a midnight countdown. And the vibrant Time Out Market, a foodie’s dream, in the heart of downtown is not just for next-level eating, it’s a cool jumping off point for your NYE festivities. Enjoy an amazing meal in a unique atmosphere in the company of a DJ who will set a festive mood for the evening.