A guide to bubbles that will brighten your spirit on New Year’s Eve.

Drinking sparkling wine on New Year’s Eve is a little played out — but regardless, everyone will do it. Most bars include a toast with cover charge, while retailers hammer home their inventory. Realistically, you won’t be focused on pairing your meal this Saturday night — so I’ll throw my hat into the ring for bubbly recommendations, instead.

Ballard’s oldest bar doesn’t look a day over 97, thanks to its satisfying brunch menu.

Some Seattleites might be appalled at the idea of pairing breakfast — the day’s most important meal — with an alcoholic beverage. Sometimes, however, the holidays call for it — the extensive celebration with abrasive relatives where a copious supply of wine is your only refuge, for example.

Japanese and American cultures mesh to bring you the deep fried burger.

Holiday shopping will give you quite the appetite, and sometimes you need a great burger to satisfy that hunger. Enter Katsu Burger, is a hole-in-the-wall located in Georgetown. It’s an easy place to bypass, but don’t miss these mouth-watering, deep-fried Japanese burgers. The menu is full of uniquely named items such as the Tokyo Tower, Godzilla Attack and the Ninja Deluxe.