Celebrate New Year's Eve at The Fish House!

The Fish House, located on the water in downtown Pensacola, is once again preparing to celebrate the New Year. We will be open for walk-in dining, serving from our standard dinner menu all evening.

The Fish House will be offering two special seatings for the evening, in the main dining room, for our annual New Year’s Eve wine and food event. The seating’s will be held at 6 p.m. and 9 p.m. and will feature the culinary creations of Chef Jason Hughes with a fixed-price, five-course menu along with hand-selected wine pairings. The cost per person is $85 (excludes tax and gratuity) with complimentary favors included. As always, we will offer walk-in service all evening throughout the complex, serving from our standard menus. 

The featured menu for the New Year’s Eve Wine Dinner is as follows:

Amuse Bouche – For the table

Smoked Salmon Rillettes

Creamy house-smoked salmon and dill spread wrapped in cold-smoked salmon and topped with salmon caviar.  Served with crusty bread and herbed creme fraiche paired with Piper Sonoma, Blanc de Blancs, California N/V

First Course – Choice of 

Quail Fesenjan (GF)

Grilled spice-rubbed Mississippi quail glazed with pomegranate molasses and served on a slow-simmered sauce of butternut squash, pomegranate, and roasted walnut with Parsi saffron rice

Lobster-Stuffed Oysters Thermidor

Baked local oysters topped with Maine lobster in a Gruyere and whole-grain mustard cream sauce

Both paired with Stag's Leap Winery, Viognier, Napa Valley 2023

Second Course – Choice of

Game Bird Gumbo

Duck confit, roasted turkey, smoked chicken, and andouille sausage simmered in a Cajun dark roux, served with basmati rice and cornbread crackers

Pear Salad (GF)

Balsamic-marinated pears, applewood bacon, gorgonzola, candied pepitas, red onion, shaved brussels sprouts, and arugula tossed in honey-dijon vinaigrette

Both paired with Resonance Wines, Chardonnay, Willamette Valley Oregon 2024

Third Course – Choice of

Blackened Redfish

Wild redfish filet over local field pea hoppin’ John, braised collard greens with smoked ham, and sweet corn spoonbread. Finished with creole choron

paired with Black Stallion Winery, Los Carneros Pinot Noir, Napa Valley 2024

Cane-Lacquered Duck (GF)

Seared Pennsylvania duck breast basted with Steen’s cane syrup, served with smoked gouda duchess potatoes and asparagus roasted with Roquefort cheese.  Topped with orange-bourbon glaze and spiced Renfroe pecans paired with Allegrini Palazzo Della Torre, Red Blend, Italy 2023

Short Rib Udon Bowl

Braised Angus short rib served over udon noodles in a rich bone broth with narutomaki, baby bok choy, roasted carrots, water chestnuts, and scallion. Drizzled with bone marrow soy glaze paired with Clos du Val, Cabernet Sauvignon, Napa Valley 2022

Dessert – Choice of

Coffee Panna Cotta

Coffee panna cotta with millionaire shortbread, pistachio cream, coffee bean chocolates

Vasilopita

Greek orange yogurt cake with banana pudding, chocolate-dipped vanilla wafer, and hazelnut caramel sauce

Both paired with Penfolds, Club Tawny Port, Australia N/V

To reserve your table for New Year’s Eve Wine Dinner at the Fish House for the 6:00 p.m. or 9:00 p.m. seating, please contact Taylor Dawson 850-287-0200 taylor@goodgrits.com.