New Year’s Eve Menu? SEAFOOD! Here’s Where To Go Eat It

When I think of New Year's Eve, I think of seafood ...

This is because of my dad. He used to love serving up shrimp, calamari, lobster, clams, and cod for our feast. But Christmas is where we should have eaten it!

Tim Sheehan reminded me of a traditional Italian feast that I remember eating as a kid, the Feast of the Seven Fishes (or for my paisans out there: festa dei sette pesci), which is eaten on Christmas Eve.

The Fest of the Seven Fishes consists of seven different courses of seafood including, but not limited to: baccala (salted cod fish), fried smelts, calamari, anchovies, whiting, lobster, sardines, eels, octopus, shrimp, mussels, and clams. 

Yes, it does take a lot of cash to make this feast happen ... seafood isn't cheap. And you will be the favorite person on the garbage route the week after, it stinks to high heaven at low-tide!

But, damn is it tasty! Try it.

If you didn't eat the festa dei sette pesci, you can take on my father's tradition and celebrate New Year's with some seafood. Here's some local seafood places open on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day:

Jim Barbarie's - 47 Padanaram Rd., Danbury, CT (203) 743-3287

Marketplace Kitchen & Bar - 33 Mill Plain Rd., Danbury, CT (203) 616-5853

Purdy' Farmer & the Fish  - 100 Titicus Rd.. North Salem, NY (914) 617-8380

Ocean House  - 49 N. Riverside Ave., Croton-on-Hudson, NY (914) 271-0702