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Rent Out Next, The Aviary or The Office for New Year's Eve

By Chuck Sudo in Food on Dec 1, 2011 11:20PM

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The interior of the Office, via Grant Achatz's twitter.
It isn't too soon to start making plans for New Year's Eve. The folks at Next recognize this and are selling some serious sizzle. From their Facebook page:

"Here's something different for New Year's Eve: One Golden Ticket each to Next, the Aviary and the Office. Rather than get the tired champagne at midnight toast, why not rent out: Next for you and 61 friends; Aviary for you and 84 friends; the Office for you and 17 friends. You pick the friends, the music, the toast... let us make sure it's a genuine, once in a lifetime party. It won't be cheap, but these will be the best food and parties in the city."

Suddenly renting out Fish Bar seems tame, by comparison.

Achatz, Kokonas and company are asking for serious inquiries only to email them at NYE@nextrestaurant.com and NYE@theaviary.com for pricing, which we expect to be out of our price range even with 17-84 of our best-heeled friends.