To usher in the New Year, City of Dreams Manila whets up the appetite for festive dining at its signature restaurants Crystal Dragon, Haliya, Nobu Manila, and The Café with special menus inspired by the spirit of the season. The Café and CenterPlay take New Year’s Eve events a notch higher as bands hype up the beat to a midnight countdown.
Crystal Dragon Festive Family Menu
The integrated resort’s signature restaurant for
Cantonese and regional Chinese specialties continues to offer its seven-course
Festive Season Family Set until January 1, 2026 for lunch and dinner at P36,000++.
The menu, which is good for four to six persons, blends refinement, tradition,
and seasonal signatures and consists of a combination platter of Wok-fried
Green Lobster with XO sauce and Stuffed Tiger Prawn with spinach and crabmeat
egg white sauce; and Double-boiled Abalone, Fish Maw, Dry Scallop and Stuffed
Morel Mushrooms with chrysanthemum tofu in consommé.
Completing the Festive menu are the Steamed Live Sea
Grouper in sour broth with fresh enoki mushroom; Shanghainese-style Braised
Duck in caramelized five spice soy sauce; Sea Scallops Tossed with Celery Heart
in pepper truffle sauce; Wok-fried Fragrant Rice with wild mushrooms and smoked
honey-glazed pork belly; and Steamed Taro-shaped Lava Custard Bun.
Crystal Dragon is open from 12 noon to 11 pm daily.
Haliya’s Bagong Taon Menu
City of Dreams Manila’s restaurant for reimagined
Filipino cuisine, Haliya thoughtfully curates a “Bagong Taon” a la carte menu
available for dinner on December 31 and January 1, 2026.
For appetizer, Haliya entices with Pulpo Tocino with
char-grilled cauliflower, pumpkin puree, roasted bell pepper, pickled kamias,
mesclun, and microgreens. The restaurant’s creative take on Sopas is
also offered, which deliciously combines sous vide chicken breast, sweet potato
gnocchi, celery, carrots, and asparagus. The Beef Mechado is the menu’s pièce
de resistance consisting of slow-roasted Angus beef tenderloin, potato truffle
puree, chorizo salsa, and grilled eggplant. The menu’s dessert, Coconut Foam, a
medley of crème caramel, persimmon, sugar palm fruit, mango, berries, kiwi, and
coconut cream spuma (foam) is sweet welcome to the new year ahead.
Haliya’s
New Year menu is available from 5 pm to 11 pm on both dates.
Nobu Manila Omakase and Sunday Brunch
A
refined dinner awaits guests at the Manila outpost of celebrity chef Nobu
Matsuhisa’s globally renowned restaurant, which puts into spotlight a
five-course New Year Omakase menu available on December 31 and January 1,2026 at P6,653.57 net per person. The dinner menu
commences with a chef’s choice of zensai, followed by a refreshing first
course of a mouthwatering Octopus Sashimi with lemon, ginger and aji
amarillo. It continues with a chef’s choice of assorted Nobu-style Nigiri
and Wagyu Inaniwa Noodles with Japanese negi (leeks). Further
exciting the palate are the next courses of Grilled Lobster with nashi pear,
dry miso, crispy yuba (tofu skin) and chives, and Grilled Wagyu with
truffle amazu ponzu, crispy onion, and truffle. The tasting menu ends
with Watermelon Pavlova with meringue, fresh berries and watermelon sorbet.
The
Café Buffet
Hyatt Regency Manila’s interactive show kitchen is
making the New Year’s celebration exceptional with its December 31 lunch and
dinner buffets, with the latter offering two seatings at 5:30 pm and 8:30 pm. A
live band and a DJ rev up the mood at dinner leading to a special countdown at
midnight.
The Café buffets tempt diners with Roasted Salmon Tuscana-style, Osso Bucco, and
mouthwatering variety of premium
meats at the churrasco counter, and alive teppanyaki station.
The carving station features an Herb-crusted Striploin for lunch, and
Slow-roasted Angus Prime for dinner. In addition, freshly cut sashimi from a
whole tuna plus a whole salmon at dinner are certain crowd pleasers, together
with the irresistible seafood selection consisting of prawns, Chilean mussels,
Manila clams, blue swimmer crabs, slipper lobsters, curacha, served
alongside an assortment of sushi, maki, and nigiri. Not-to-missed are the
signature dishes of various cuisines: Italian, Indian, Chinese, Thai, and
Filipino, among others. An array of cold cuts and cheeses, a variety of
holiday-themed cakes and confections, an indulgent chocolate fountain, and
local dessert favorites elevate the New Year’s Eve indulgence.
Lunch is at P3,150, while the dinners are at P4,288 (first
seating) and P4,988 (second seating). The package is inclusive of free-flowing
house red and white wines, draft beer, soda, iced tea, juices, coffee, and tea.
CenterPlay’s New Year Countdown
Besides The Café, City of Dreams’ New Year countdown
party is focused around CenterPlay, the entertainment bar destination,
featuring adrenaline-pumping beats that start at 6 pm, climaxing at 11:30 pm as
the clock ticks close to midnight from live, high-energy band performances of
Part 3, Zyncxation, Eye Candies, and DJ Merlzie. CenterPlay makes available various
countdown packages based on seat preferences, which all include party favors
and a special media noche platter consisting of kinilaw na tanigue (Spanish
mackerel ceviche), camaron rebosado (deep-fried battered shrimp), crispy
lechon belly, and vegetable atchara. The countdown package rates start at P2,500
net for single-seats, inclusive of a glass of Heartcraft sparkling wine and
P1,000 net consumable food and drinks from the bar’s regular menu; P10,000 net for a VIP table for
four persons, inclusive of one bottle of Heartcraft sparkling wine and P4,000
net consumables; and P20,000 for a VIP table of eight persons inclusive of two
bottles of Heartcraft sparkling wine and P8,000 net consumables.
For inquiries and reservations, call
8800-8080 or e-mail guestservices@cod-manila.com. For
more information, visit https://www.cityofdreamsmanila.com/en/whats-on .
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