Clark County restaurants help ring in the New Year

Celebrating New Year’s Eve sets the tone for the arriving year, so consider your options carefully. Here are Clark County bars and restaurants offering festivities Dec. 31.

Party till 9

For those who can’t keep themselves awake until midnight, Vice Beer, The Grocery Cocktail & Social and The Elbow Room are ringing in the year at 9 p.m. when the ball drops in New York City’s Times Square.

At Vice (705 S.E. Park Crest Ave., Vancouver), you can also celebrate co-owner Bria Perozzo’s birthday and receive a complementary toast. As always, El Viejon will be serving taco goodness from their truck parked outside.

The Grocery Cocktail & Social (115 W. Seventh St., Vancouver) is also adopting Eastern Standard Time for the evening by ringing in the new year at 9 p.m. with a countdown as well as classic New York cocktails like the Manhattan or a New York sour (around $13).

The Elbow Room (1800 Broadway, Vancouver) will offer two countdowns, one at 9 p.m. for the early-to-bed revelers and another at midnight. The bar will be open until 2 a.m. A special New Year’s Eve happy meal will join the menu: a high-low combo of a 40-ounce Miller High Life (The Champagne of Beers) or two cans of Archer Roose bubbly accompanied by a 1-ounce tin of caviar served with smashed tots and all the accoutrements ($65). Guests can also receive tarot or astrology readings.

If the Roaring ’20s are more your speed, Trap Door Brewing (1834 Main St., Washougal) is transforming into a speakeasy for the evening for a 1920s-themed party. Slip into a fringy flapper dress and a beaded headband or a pinstriped suit and fedora to celebrate the New Year from 6 to 10 p.m. with a New Year’s toast at 9 p.m.

Polynesian-inspired tiki bar The Coral Club (106 E. Evergreen Blvd., Vancouver) will offer a five-course dinner that includes a mug to take home ($85, add rum pairing for $40). Seatings will be in two time slots: 5 to 7 p.m., and 8 to 10 p.m.

Party past midnight

New Orleans-themed Magnolia Tavern (8611 Northeast Ward Road, Vancouver) will have live music and a complimentary Champagne toast at midnight. Specials include bubbles ($9), espresso martinis ($12), creole seafood linguini ($24), and Magnolia’s NOLA take on surf and turf — a 14-ounce rib-eye steak and Cajun shrimp ($64).

The annual New Year’s Eve celebration at UnderBar (1701½ Broadway, Vancouver) is from 9 p.m. to 2 a.m. with free Champagne toasts and party favors at midnight. Guests will be regaled with drag performances, a comedy skit and karaoke starting at 11 p.m. Happy hour drink specials run until 7 p.m. The kitchen is serving food until 9 p.m. then switching to a special menu filled with appetizers. The cost of admission is $19.42-$25.42 per person and can be bought in advance.

Late night standbys Silver Ball Social Club (114 E. Evergreen Blvd., Vancouver) and Thirsty Sasquatch (2110 Main St., Vancouver) will be open until 1 a.m. with $2 bubbles for a midnight toast. The party theme at pinball-and-cocktail palace Silver Ball will be Silver Soiree. Golden Glow-Up 2026 is the vibe at Thirsty Sasquatch. Interpret as you like.

Shanahan’s and the more upscale cocktail bar next door, The Infirmary (both at 209 W. McLoughlin Blvd., Vancouver), typically close at midnight but will stay open until 1 a.m. New Year’s Eve to allow partygoers to welcome in the New Year with a Champagne toast. The Infirmary has over 300 whiskeys as well as unique and rare spirits.

Vancouver’s late-night honky-tonk, Six Shooter (611 Main St., Vancouver), is throwing a shindig from 8 p.m. to 2 a.m. with a DJ and party favors ($20 per person cover). Sidle up the bar for a Redneck Paloma (tequila, watermelon liqueur, grapefruit juice and lime, $12), a cold can of PBR ($6), or a Lemon Drop Shot ($10) and say howdy to the New Year.

Rachel Pinsky: [email protected]