New Year's Eve Dinner at Vandaag - Dining Calendar Learn all you need to know about meatballs on Jan. 16. Free samples of pâte en croûte and house-made butternut ice cream will be served Thursday from 5 to 7 p.m. at Sue Perette, a French restaurant at 270 Smith Street (Degraw Street), Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn. For the New Year, Rice Most restaurants serve a New Year's Eve dinner, often with an early seating and a later, pricier one. Among the possibilities, from 5:30 p.m. to 1 a.m., at Vandaag, 103 Second Avenue (Sixth Street), is an unusual one, a rijsttafel, with 11 plates of food, plus rice, to spice up your celebration; $65, plus beverages, tax and tip: (212) 253-0470. Demarchelier's Milestone During January, to celebrate its 20th anniversary on East 86th Street (and 12 years at a different Upper East Side location before that), Demarchelier Restaurant, 50 East 86th Street, will have a special prix fixe menu for $45, including a glass of Champagne. The regular prix fixe, for $27 without Champagne, will also be served: (212) 249-6300. Method to the Meatballs A workshop on meatballs, including ones made from fish and poultry, is set for Jan. 16, 6 to 10 p.m., at the Institute of Culinary Education, 50 West 23rd Street; $120. It will be repeated on April 19: iceculinary.com. Cin Cin to Sicily A five-course Italian wine dinner, emphasizing Sicily, will be served on Jan. 11 at 7:30 p.m. at I Trulli, 122 East 27th Street; $125, plus tax and tip: (212) 481-7372.