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Celebrate New Year’s Eve with three-course meal at Milton’s

Executive chef Derek Dollar is curating the lavish meal

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By Kiersten Willis
Dec 28, 2019

Looking to have a fancy New Year’s Eve celebration? Milton's Cuisine & Cocktails in Alpharetta has you covered.

A buffet won’t be found at this gathering. Instead, the restaurant wants to wine and dine guests.

» RELATED: Alpharetta Central City Tavern to host first New Year's Eve bash

From 5 p.m. - 10 p.m., attendees can enjoy a three-course meal curated by executive chef Derek Dollar.

On the prix-fixe $75 menu is a first course including lobster bisque, spinach and warm brie salad and oysters on the half shell. The second course includes bacon-wrapped filet mignon and a spiced and smoked duck breast. For dessert, guests can choose from a chocolate bundt cake, humming bird cake or a poinsettia triffle. The latter features a Champagne sponge cake, cranberry mousse and candied orange.

» RELATED: Ring in the new year with Cherry Street Brewpub at Halcyon

Milton’s is located in Crabapple’s Historic District and is housed in a restored 150-year-old farmhouse and a 1930s cottage. Dollar joined the eatery in 2011 as a sous chef before a promotion to chef de cuisine in 2013. He then quickly became executive chef that year.

New Year's Eve at Milton's!

$75 per person

5 p.m. - 10 p.m.

Dec. 31

Milton's Cuisine & Cocktails, 800 Mayfield Rd, Alpharetta, Georgia 30009

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Kiersten Willis is a native advertising specialist at the AJC.

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