Special New Year's Eve Menu and New Year's Day Brunch at Metropole Cincinnati

Metropole, the acclaimed Cincinnati restaurant located in the 21c Museum Hotel (609 Walnut Street), is offering a special prix-fixe New Year's Eve Menu on Tuesday, December 31, beginning at 7:00pm. The menu includes four courses and an amuse-bouche, prepared by chef Michael Paley; tickets are $95 per person, and a Champagne toast will be included at midnight. Metropole will also be open for its regular a la carte menu prior to the New Year's Eve seating, from 5:30pm – 7:00pm. For additional information or to make a reservation, customers can call Metropole at 513.578.6660. Menu details enclosed below:

• Amuse Bouche: Yeasted ‘Everything’ Pancake: beets, charred pears, scallion & horseradish goat cheese
• First Course: Choose from: Mixed Lettuces: shaved radish, pecorino & red wine vinaigrette; Burnt Carrot Salad: avocado, pickled onion, feta & pumpkin seeds; Bone Marrow & Sweet Onion Tart: oxtail marmalade & foie gras mousse; Seared Octopus: fresh garbanzo, blood orange, fresno pepper & upland cress
• Pasta Course: Handmade Tortellini: chestnuts, amaretto, brown butter & sage
• Main Course: Choose from: Diver Scallops: cara cara orange, fennel, red cerignola olive & jalapeño; Charred Quinoa: pumpkin broth, pomegranate, scallion & a sesame cracker; Braised Lamb ‘Crepinette’: mustard jus, mache & kennebec ‘chips’; Muscovy Duck"breast & sausage, hazelnut, cannelloni beans, pickled black cabbage & roasted grapes; Grilled NY Strip Steak: charred maitake mushrooms, taleggio, tarragon & citronette
• Dessert: Choose from: Bittersweet Chocolate Budino: gingersnap & pear sorbet; Blood Orange Semifreddo: with pistachio & nougat

New Year's Day Brunch at Metropole will be available from 10:30am to 2:00pm on Wednesday, January 1, 2014. The menu will include several "Hangover" cocktails, and a full food menu. Cocktails will include:

• Grandma’s Elixir: Blood orange mimosa with a floater of Grand Marnier
• Hair of the Dog: House Bloody Mary with Finlandia, garlic, rosemary
• Release the Hounds: Metropole's take on a salty dog- gin, Stiegl grapefruit radler, grapefruit juice, lemongrass simple syrup, and a salted rim
• Garage Shandy: Bourbon, house ginger beer, OK pilsner