Palm Beach restaurants will feature sumptuous brunches and dinners for Easter.
Depending on where you dine for the April 5 holiday, a buffet or special menu is likely to include an Easter favorite: roast leg of lamb.
Perhaps the Easter bunny will stroll by tables while handing out sweets as acoustic musicians play live music.
Here’s a taste of Easter offerings at the island’s restaurants:
Coco’s at The Vineta
363 Coconut Row
This new Mediterranean-cuisine restaurant at The Vineta Hotel is featuring a three-course Easter brunch menu ($260 for adults) along with a separate three-course children’s menu ($85).
Entrees on the adult menu include Wagyu beef Wellington, Alaskan halibut with citrus beurre-blanc and a spring-pea risotto with shaved asparagus, morel mushrooms and celery root puree.
Four family-style appetizers to share at table range from Royal Miyagi oysters with yuzu mignonette and yuzu pearls, to heirloom tomato carpaccio with kalamata olives, lemon oil and basil.
Hasselback Yukon Gold potatoes and grilled white asparagus are among the side dishes offered.
For dessert, guests can choose from such selections as Key lime and coconut cheesecake and Guanaja chocolate flourless cake.
The three-course Easter children’s menu at Coco’s offers such entrée selections as crispy chicken tenderloins with French fries or rigatoni pasta with short-rib tomato sauce.
Salute Restaurant
44 Cocoanut Row
Live acoustic music will be featured here between noon and 3 p.m. on Easter as part of a special holiday brunch at Salute, a Bice Group restaurant located in the Palm Beach Towers condominium.
Look for Salute favorites, such as crispy zucchini flowers, beef carpaccio and pan-roasted branzino, as well as traditional and innovative Easter specials with an Italian twist.
La Goulue
288 S. County Road
La Goulue plans to celebrate Easter with festive holiday decorations, chocolate eggs at each table and special a la carte brunch and dinner menus.
In addition to the French bistro’s favorites, La Goulue will feature several traditional Easter-inspired dishes, including herb-crusted roasted leg of lamb ($68) served with flageolet beans, slow-baked tomato and garlic confit.
That’s a dinner special along with such other dishes as such dishes as John Dory filet with Champagne and black truffle sauce, fingerling potatoes and spring vegetables ($82).
The brunch/lunch menu features such dishes as split-pea soup topped with crispy bacon ($22); Norwegian smoked salmon topped with Altima caviar and asparagus and finished with a light Hollandaise foam ($48); and duck-eggs Benedict on toasted English muffins with morel sauce and drizzled watercress ($52).
Look for such dessert specials as a chocolate Charlotte trio with candied orange peels ($24).
Dining venues at The Breakers
1 S. County Road
The Easter bunny is set to make visits to two of the resort’s elegant brunch venues: the Ponce de Leon Ballroom and the historic Circle dining room.
Given its perennial popularity, Easter brunch at The Circle already is on wait-list status since. It will feature a copious buffet with festive desserts and unlimited Champagne cocktails, Bloody Marys and glasses of the Breakers’ custom-blended wine.
The Circle’s Easter brunch is $285 for adults and $100 for children 12 and younger. A harpist and guitarist will provide live music.
Easter brunch at the Ponce de Leon Ballroom also will feature an elaborate buffet as well as unlimited Champagne cocktails and The Breakers’ custom-blended wine.
A trio will provide live music at the affair, which is $285 for adults and $100 for children 12 and younger.
Elsewhere at The Breakers, a special three-course Easter menu will be served all day at Flagler Steakhouse.
Whether guests enjoy dining in the dining room or on the terrace overlooking The Breakers’ golf course, the Easter menu featuring steakhouse classics and holiday specials is $165 for adults; $75 for children 12 and younger.
Swifty’s at The Colony
155 Hammon Ave.
Easter brunch guests and their children at Swifty’s can participate in a variety of activities, ranging from an egg hunt (11:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m.) to children’s arts-and-craft activities (11 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the hotel’s Solarium).
The Easter bunny will make the rounds, too, while guests enjoy an a la carte holiday brunch menu with appetizer, entrée and dessert specials.
Entrée specials include a “fisherman’s pie” ($52) with Scottish salmon, shrimp and cod in herbed cream with capers, English peas and egg—all served in a cheddar-mashed potato pir crust and a side of grilled broccolini.
Southern-style fried chicken and glazed ham are among the other Easter entrée specials.
Among the dessert specials, look for Swifty’s signature chocolate-chip cookie skillet ($20) with vanilla ice cream and salted caramel.
Café Boulud at The Brazilian Court
301 Australian Ave.
This popular French-American restaurant by famed chef-restaurateur Daniel Boulud will feature a three-course Easter brunch menu ($165 adults; $75 children younger than 10).
Appetizers, entrees and desserts are by executive chef Chrisopher Zabita and head pastry chef Rosana Quintero.
Bluefin-tuna tartare, grilled octopus, jumbo-shrimp cocktail and tomato-and-burrata salad are among the appetizers.
A variety of entrée selections range from eggs Florentine and a wild-mushroom omelet, to grilled lamb chops served with couscous, feta and pickled red onion.
For dessert, look for such choices as a strawberry-and-rhubarb pavlova with elderflower cream; chocolate cake with crème fraiche and blackberries; and carrot cake with pecans, cream cheese and white-chocolate ice cream.
Café ĽEurope
331 S. County Road
This longtime Palm Beach restaurant will feature gracious Easter décor — especially fresh flowers, a Café L’Europe hallmark — and will serve an a la carte holiday menu at dinner.
Executive chef Alain Krauss has planned such specials as oven-roasted lamb with cauliflower puree and mint au jus ($86); and carrot-ginger bisque ($18).
A lemon tart with blackberries and crème fraiche ($22) will be among the holiday dessert specials.
Children can enjoy such Easter specials as bowtie pasta with creamy cheddar-cheese sauce.
Le Bilboquet
245 Worth Ave.
Easter decorations will add a welcoming touch to the holiday at Le Bilboquet, where a three-course Easter brunch menu will be served in the dining rooms and Via Encantada courtyard.
Easter candies will be given to guests.
The special brunch menu ($130 a person) features such appetizers as a spring salad; Madai sashimi with strawberry ponzu, yuzu oil and micro shiso; and King crab cake with gribiche and salad greens.
Mahi mahi fillet with grilled pineapple salsa, honey glazed carrots and salsa verde, and potato gnocchi with morel mushrooms, green asparagus and petit pois are among the entrees offered.
Roast lamb also will available, but a $15 upcharge.
Le Bilboquet’s signature Le Poulet Cajun — spice-rubbed grilled chicken served with pommes frites — will be offered.
Easter desserts will include a citrus pavlova and a chocolate trio with praline and vanilla ice cream.
Stir Bar at Eau Palm Beach Resort
100 S. Ocean Blvd., Manalapan
A prix-fixe brunch menu will be served for $95. For $35 more, guests can opt for unlimited Bloody Marys and pours served from a mimosa cart.
A choice of appetizers, entrees and desserts are offered.
Among the entrees: Lamb chops, King crab croque madame, eggs Benedict, and steak and eggs.
This article originally appeared on Palm Beach Daily News: Palm Beach restaurants plan tasty Easter brunches and dinners
Reporting by M.M. Cloutier, Special to Palm Beach Daily News / Palm Beach Daily News
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