How to celebrate New Year's Eve in New Orleans

These are our top picks for things to do for New Year's Eve in New Orleans:

🕎 Celebrate Hanukkah at the Pelicans game on Dec. 30 with a menorah lighting and kosher bites. (Tickets)

🥳 Take your young kids to count down to noon at the Louisiana Children's Museum. (Details)

🍴 Dig into special, fixed-price menus as restaurants around town offer up dining deals for the night. Options include:

• Lobster risotto Milanese on a tasting menu at Osteria Lupo.
• A six-course "feed me"-style dinner, including a glass of wine, at Good Catch.
• Struffoli for dessert to end a four-course menu at BABs.
• Daube glace in a four-course menu at Jewel of the South.

🎤 Juvenile and Mannie Fresh host a party at the Saenger Theatre. (Details)

🪩 Big Night New Orleans features Trina, Yung Joc, Brass-A-Holics and performances from Inferno Burlesque at the Fillmore. (Tickets)

🎆 Watch fireworks over the river from The Riverview Room. (Tickets)

• The Cannery and The AllWays Lounge also have ticketed parties.

🏈 Watch the Allstate Sugar Bowl on New Year's Day at the Caesars Superdome. (Tickets)

• The Sugar Bowl Parade rolls on New Year's Eve through the French Quarter. (Route)

⚜️ Count down to the new year at the city's inaugural "New Orleans Eve" block party in the French Quarter and watch the fleur-de-lis drop. (Details)