Park Hyatt New Year's Eve Party

The Music Room in the Park Hyatt -- the highest bar in the world -- hosts a New Year's party with free flow champagne, live music from Carlton J. Smith and JazzAmar. 2 Prices: 888rmb on the 31st of December; 788rmb pre-sale.

JW Marriott 31K Celebration

Riviera hosts their yearly New Year's Eve bash. "31K Celebration" is flow drinks in a ritzy environment... hotel package deals available. Contact Riviera events at contact@rivieraevents.com or 61325119 ext 809 (Kenn) for discount options. Party cover: 480rmb pre-sale / 680rmb door

1933 Arka at 1933

ARKA-SHANGHAI will play host to up to 5000 New Years Eve revelers in 1933. Two rooms, a big lineup of DJs, and partying until sunrise. Presale tickets are 100rmb -- 150rmb at the door.

Chinatown NYE at the Centre of The Universe

Chinatown celebrates NYE at the centre of the universe. Tickets: Showroom 688rmb per person for free flow Laurent Perrier, House Wines, Standard Spirits, and more. Private Boxes are "Limited availability" -- call ahead to book.

Not Me 2010: You Were Warned

DJ Yen (Antidote, RMB) hosts an epic, earth-ending NYE bash at Not Me. Full card of guest DJs, death, destruction, and the emergence of a New World Order. Cover is 30rmb.

The Shelter Welcome to 2010 & Shelter 2.0

Shelter re-opens for NYE with a full line-up of DJs and MCs, playing drum n bass, hip hop, dub step, and more. Cover: 50rmb. Djs: Siesta, Jay.Soul, Uprooted Sunshine (live), The Lab (live), Sickstar + guests.

Kaiba (Kangding Lu) Le Festival of Gluttony

Kaiba, Kuluska, and Cuvee at 528 Kangding team up for a New Years dinner and party with food, drinks, Mau Mau and Ben Triller on the decks. Tickets are 600rmb (all you can eat, drink), 400rmb (just drink), 300rmb (just eat). Call 86 139 1820 5170.

D2 New Year's Eve DJ BIG KID

D2 in the Cool Docks hosts Singaporean DJ Big Kid. Real-time countdown on their big screens, MC, dance shows and more. 120rmb (incl a drink).

Dada High Society New Year's Eve

High Society returns to Dada for big ole electro bashing NYE. DJs: Adept [STD], Mau-Mau & Heatwolves! [Baijiu Robots], Ozone [Antidote], and Bad-Boy Ronnie D. [Zoo / ex-Bonbon slut]. No cover.

Sin New Year's Eve Bash 2010

For their New Year's party, Sin hosts DJ Katsuya from Space Lab Yellow Tokyo, and sensual glamorous dance performances. Amazing indoor fireworks and confetti cannons. Boom boom. Cover: 200rmb (including one glass of Champagne).

Mi Tierra Charity Party

Mi Tierra grand opens in Shanghai with a Charity New Year Party (with BAOBEI Foundation). From 8pm, four hours free flow of margaritas, tequila shots, beer. Food until 11pm. Live band and more. 298rmb per person. Please call 6225 7639 or email tierramexicana@gmail.com for reservation.

Lost Heaven (Bund) Electrograss Music Festival New Years Eve Party

The minds behind the Electrograss Festival drop into Lost Heaven on the Bund to throw a NYE party. 2 floors of music. No cover. DJs: Elnomo, Mr Tsang, Kidplasik, and more.

Pavillon Costes 20NYE10

Pavillion Costes does their Thursday cocktail party with any two cocktails from 118 choices for 118rmb. DJ Philippe Ortega and guests on the decks. Expect surprises & treats throughout the night. No Cover - All Welcome VIP Guest List & Table Bookings Tel: 139 1860 9805 or vip@costeschina.com.

Bar Rouge Party Like A Rockstar!

Bar Rouge rocks it into 2010. Open terrace, champagne bottles flying everywhere. Entrance ticket: presale 200rmb / at door 300rmb (including one glass of champagne).

Lounge18 L18 New Year's Eve 2010

Start your New Year's Eve off with dinner including free flow Champagne for 588rmb, party starts from 10pm til late with Anthony Mansfield will bringing in 2010, with great view of the Bund concert and fireworks. If that's not enough, revel in the New year After party starting from 3am till the sun rises.

Glamour Bar New Year's Glam Eve

It's a glam New Year's Eve with Tokyo's DJ Fujiko spinning the tunes (11pm-late) with resident DJ Alessandro on the turntables beforehand. Electro, pop, disco, rock and 80's new wave for a spectacular end to 2009. No cover.

Mural Red Hot New Year's Eve

Mural hosts Latin beats from live band, Chili Pepper Men. Party goes from 10pm til late. Cover: 30rmb

The Box Red Hot Flames New Year 2010

The Box on Henshan brings the HEAT. Hot music, sexy guys, great friends and dancing all night long. Dress Code: RED, HOT, SEXY. Cover: 70rmb (incl. a drink).

Zapata's The BEST of Zapata's

Zapata's is hosting live entertainment, live music, dancers and 2 floors of partying. Buffet dinner beforehand is 7pm-10pm, all you can eat for 250rmb. And, 2 bottles of Moet Champagne + 1 bottle of house spirit for 2010rmb. Call ahead to reserve.

Enoteca (Taicang Lu) Final Countdown Party

Count down the end of the decade with DJ Chester Copperpot, this year at Enoteca Taicang Lu. From 10pm-2am.

Judy's Lounge New Years Eve 2010

The new Judy's Lounge hosts an open bar New Year's Eve party. 100rmb. Specials on champagne (680rmb for a bottle of Moet).

The Fat Olive Fat New Year's Eve

Fat Olive hosts a NYE open bar: 300rmb for all you can drink between 8pm and 1am. Specials on champagne and sparkling wine.

881 South Beauty 2010

From 9pm till Midnight: Free flow Freixenet with unlimited finger food. Yubi, Dan and VinX on the decks. Tickets are 180rmb pre-sale, 200rmb at the door.

The Bulldog New Year's Eve Party

Bulldog hosts the cheapest all you can drink on NYE: 100rmb. From 11pm to 1am, taps are flowing. Free glass of champagne at midnight.

Cotton's Cotton's Four-Year Anniversary

Cotton's celebrates their four year anniversary and the new year all in the same night. They've got a live band and some fireworks action.

Kaiba (Kangding Lu) Le Festival of Gluttony

Kaiba, Kuluska, and Cuvee at 528 Kangding team up for a New Years dinner and party with food, drinks, Mau Mau and Ben Triller on the decks. Tickets are 600rmb (all you can eat, drink), 400rmb (just drink), 300rmb (just eat). Call 86 139 1820 5170.

Mesa & Manifesto New Years Eve - Boogie Nights

mesa|manifesto turns back the clock to welcome the new year with a retro buffet, casual seating and live entertainment from 7pm to 10pm with free flow of drinks until 2am. Just drinks with DJ Jigz from 10 pm to 2 am. Tickets from 7pm until late are 850rmb in advance and 900rmb at the door. Tickets from 10 pm until late are 550rmb in advance and 600rmb at the door.

Mi Tierra Charity Party

Mi Tierra grand opens in Shanghai with a Charity New Year Party (with BAOBEI Foundation). From 8pm, four hours free flow of margaritas, tequila shots, beer. Food until 11pm. Live band and more. 298rmb per person. Please call 6225 7639 or email tierramexicana@gmail.com for reservation.

Napa New Year's Eve at Napa

Clink wine glasses, munch a six-course classy Euro menu, in Napa's lovely old mansion villa. 880rmb per person, reservations essential. On tap: fin de claire oyster, foie gras cromesquis, herb-encrusted tuna, spiced duck consomme with duck confit tortellini, sea scallop and prawn ravioli, duck breat with foie gras jus or Aussie lamb triad, warm Valrhona chocolate fondant. 520rmb for the accompanying wine flight.

Azul New Year's Eve at Azul & Vargas Grill

Eduardo Vargas pushes two of his restaurants together -- Azul and Vargas Grill -- for a multi-level NYE dinner and debacle. Three-course menu with free-flow wines, beer, sangria, mojitos and margaritas from 6-10pm; big bash and a countdown upstairs from 10pm on, with the same free-flow drinks. Just dinner, 348rmb. Just drinks, from 10pm on, 148rmb. Dinner, drinks, party-all-night and a Vargas-sized hangover, 448rmb per.

Lawry's The Prime Rib New Year's Eve at Lawry's

Only the classics at Lawry's, the staunchly old-fashioned House of Prime Rib. On the 595rmb per person holiday set menu: lobster bisque, the signature spinning salad, a lobster tail or crab gratin, prime rib (carved tableside) or roast turkey, and Christmas pudding.

Paulaner (Fenyang Lu) New Year's Eve at Paulaner

All-you-can-drink Paulaner beer, plus wine, gluhwein, long drinks, lucky draws galore, and a big 'ol buffet to sop it all up with. Main course is served, but the rest is laid out and free for the taking, after laying down the 608rmb door charge. Starts at 5.30pm.

Kathleen's 5 New Year's Eve Under the Stars

Celebrate New Year's Eve in the glassed-in terrace of Kathleen 5's rooftop terrace, up there on the top of Shanghai Art Museum with a view across People's Park. Five-course menu that includes oysters, scallops, foie gras, salmon ravioli, poached veal loin, and a dark chocolate-passion fruit mousse, for 588rmb per.

Issimo New Year's Eve at Issimo

Glamorous Italian, at boutique hotel Jia's copper-toned Issimo restaurant. Five courses of fabulous, including a glass of Veuve champers, some oysters, risotto with fines herbes and foie gras, all manner of pastas, a traditional cotechino with lentils (for some Italian luck), and more, more, more. With free-flow prosecco, 1,088rmb; without, 888rmb. Reservations essential.

Maya New Year's Eve at Maya

Maya uses their Mexican-ish menu as the jumping off point for a big 'ol New Year's dinner party, with a 420rmb set menu -- tequila-cured salmon, oysters, ancho-dusted seared tuna, shrimp & scallop enchiladas, a lot more -- and 220rmb pitchers of margaritas.

Lounge18 L18 New Year's Eve 2010

Start your New Year's Eve off with dinner including free flow Champagne for 588rmb, party starts from 10pm til late with Anthony Mansfield will bringing in 2010, with great view of the Bund concert and fireworks. If that's not enough, revel in the New year After party starting from 3am till the sun rises.

Bistro Latitude New Year's Eve at Latitude

Free-flow sparkling wine, and three French courses, at an intimate French Concession NYE party. Scallops with peppered golden raisins or foie gras ravioli with artichoke puree for the first course, sea-bass and baby squid in lemon-butter sauce or beef tenderloin with foie gras and black truffle sauce for the main, and the unspecified chef's "special signature" dessert to finish. 388rmb per person.

Barbarossa New Year's Eve Dinner

Celebrate the New Year with 6-courses New Year’s Eve Dinner plus a glass of Laurent Perrier Champagne at 618rmb. Special offer for Laurent Perrier Champagne at 580rmb per Bottle.

Zapata's The BEST of Zapata's

Zapata's is hosting live entertainment, live music, dancers and 2 floors of partying. Buffet dinner beforehand is 7pm-10pm, all you can eat for 250rmb. And, 2 bottles of Moet Champagne + 1 bottle of house spirit for 2010rmb. Call ahead to reserve.

Ambrosia New Year's Eve at Ambrosia

Wedding-cake mansion Ambrosia throws a Middle East, Arabian-fantasy party, and starts the night with a Far East, all-you-can-eat lobster, sashimi, and seafood buffet, plus German beer from the neighboring Paulaner, and free-flow sparkling wine. So int'l. Two tickets prices -- 688rmb and 888rmb, respectively -- depending if you're upstairs in the yakiniku part of Ambrosia, or downstairs in the teppanyaki area. Starts at 5.30pm.

Sin (Restaurant) New Year's Eve at Sin

Dinner at Sin's restaurant, inclusive of entrance to their NYE bash, at 688rmb. Menu starts Japanese -- oyster with ponzu foam and lime skin; scallop carpaccio with ikura and daikon sprouts -- and then gets French -- foie gras, duck breast, celeriac soup, John Dory with langoustine jus or strip loin with truffled mashed potatoes. Seven courses in all.
 

Streetside BBQ and hand-pulled noodles options abound in the early morning hours. Places with a bathroom, electricity, and chairs are a bit rarer. Here's fifteen or so options, from veal Grenobloise on the Bund to Cantonese greasy spoons, and their NYE closing hours:

Mr & Mrs Bund, the elegant queen of after-hours dining, for Paul Pairet's worldly French (until 4am); 24-hour delivery from McD's or Melrose Pizza; Anadolu, for doner kebabs in the Hengshan Lu area (until 2-3am); Hengshan Cafe for satisfying Cantonese right down the street (until 3am); Tsui Wah, for beef noodles and fishballs (until 2am); Xinwang (until 6am), Bi Feng Tang (24 hours), or Grandma's Kitchen (until 4am), all veterans of serving cheap and greasy Canto classics to sauced clubbers; Charmant and Bellagio for their classier Taiwanese cooking, and classic Taiwanese iced desserts (both until 4am); drunken dipping at Hot Pot King, Xiao Fei Yang, and a bevy of other hot pot joints (until 3.30 and 4am, respectively); burgers and pancakes at Super Diner (24 hours) or burgers and milkshakes at Bistro Burger (until 4am).

Globus is Shanghai's undisputed Champagne specialist, stocking a carefully cultivated range of boutique Champagnes; the basement supermarket at Parkson has the best prices on, and the largest selection of, Veuve Clicquot and Moet & Chandon; prices at Carrefour, for everything else, aren't easy to beat; for expensive Taittinger and a few sparkling wines, order direct from wine distributor Torres (they sell to the public); for Freixenet, Bollinger, and a wide, wide selection of affordable sparkling wines, buy straight from ASC, China's largest wine distributor.