Spring means many things, including religious celebrations of renewal like Passover and Easter. Along with sunrise services, egg hunts, bonnet parades, and all things sacred and profane, there is the Easter feast, typically a brunch, but sometimes a dinner, or something in between. Forthwith, some of the local offerings for those who want their Easter meals served to them, whether at a restaurant table or their own.
1770 House
At East Hampton's 1770 House, Easter dinner will be served beginning at 5. Easter specials will round out the usual selections from the $65 two-course menu. Look for spring pea soup and Dijon and brioche crusted rack of lamb with rosemary potatoes, leeks, peas, and pancetta. The menus are available for takeout as well.
The inn will also hold its annual chocolate bunny raffle for a 24-inch, 10-pound milk chocolate bunny to benefit the Flying Point Foundation for Autism. Tickets are $5 each or five for $20. The winner will be announced on March 30, in time to take home the bunny for Easter Sunday.
Nick and Toni's
Nick and Toni's in East Hampton will have an $80 three-course brunch on March 31 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. in celebration of Easter. The cost does not include tax or tip.
Appetizer options are strawberries with whipped ricotta and toast, chilled sweet pea soup with prosciutto, seared yellowfin tuna, and roasted baby beets with pistachio yogurt. The main courses are lemon ricotta pancakes, spinach and artichoke lasagna, spring onion and lobster quiche, roasted wild salmon with avocado toast, Long Island duck hash, pan-seared halibut, grilled rack of lamb, or skirt steak and eggs.
Dessert choices are salted caramel pots de creme, almond cake zabaglione, tartufo, sorbet, or gelato.
There are also supplements to be shared such as breakfast pastries, focaccia, fried zucchini, and a Sardinian flatbread. At 5 p.m. the restaurant will serve an a la carte menu with holiday specials.
The dinner menu has same options for the table, swapping out the pastries for Castelvetrano and Alfonso olives. The appetizers are a little gem salad with gorgonzola, Lioni burrata, crispy artichokes, roasted baby beets, and seared yellowfin tuna. Main course options are penne with a spicy tomato sauce, pasta with a lamb sauce, lasagna, pan-seared scallops, pan-seared halibut, roasted chicken, grilled rack of lamb, or prime New York strip steak. Desserts remain the same as the brunch menu.
Children's menus will be offered for both meals. The children's brunch is two courses for $24. It consists of an entree and dessert. Entree choices are chicken Milanese with fries, mac and cheese, French toast, or scrambled eggs. Dessert is ice cream or sorbet or a brownie sundae.
For dinner, the children's menu has spaghetti and meatballs, mac and cheese, penne with tomato basil sauce, or chicken Parmigiana with fries. The dessert choices remain the same as brunch.
Reservations are recommended and can be made by calling 631-324-3550 or by visiting the website.
Topping Rose
In addition to Easter egg hunts at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. hosted by none other than the Easter Bunny himself, Bridgehampton's Topping Rose House has an all-day brunch in its restaurant. The three-course menu is $98, and a two-course children's menu is $49.
The appetizer options include tuna tartare, crispy salmon sushi, warm shrimp salad, asparagus and avocado salad, and kale salad. Entree selections are buttermilk pancakes, eggs Benedict, Faroe Island salmon, steamed black sea bass, beef tenderloin, and grilled lamb chops. Dessert is a choice of puff pastry rhubarb tart or warm molten chocolate cake.
Reservations, which are encouraged, can be made on Resy.
L&W Market
Also in Bridgehampton, L&W Market brings the Almond restaurant experience home with a selection of holiday specials that must be ordered online by Friday, March 29, to be picked up on March 31 between 10 a.m. and noon.
Appetizers and platters feature deviled eggs, a charcuterie board, a crudite platter with smoked ranch dressing and hummus, a cheese board with nuts and dried fruit, shrimp cocktail, and antipasto.
Entree choices feature traditional favorites such as a honey-mustard-glazed ham and roast rack of lamb. The sides to match are roasted beets, a medley of sweet peas, snap peas, and spring onions with house smoked bacon, roast asparagus, Parker House rolls from Newlight Breadworks, and Almond's mac and cheese. Available condiments are a fermented black bean sauce, chili crisp, sweet chili garlic sauce, and sriracha sauce.
Desserts are chocolate croissant bread pudding and olive-oil lemon cake.
Lulu Kitchen and Bar
At Lulu Kitchen in Sag Harbor, there is a wood-fired lamb feast being served on March 31 from 11:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. The dinner will be served to tables for two and above, priced at $59 per person plus tax and tip. Lulu's regular a la carte menu will also be served.
The lamb entree will be served with mint-merguez stuffing, harissa yogurt sauce, English pea polenta, grilled asparagus, and blistered cherry tomatoes.
Reservations are recommended and can be made by calling the restaurant at 631-725-0900 or going on the restaurant's website.
Art of Eating
Art of Eating catering in Bridgehampton has unveiled its Easter and spring menu. Those interested in orders for Easter will have to place them by Tuesday at 631-267-2411.
The menu is as bountiful as usual with hors d'oeuvres such as jumbo shrimp, beef rollups with micro greens and horseradish cream, pigs in a blanket, a smoked salmon platter, a cheese platter, crunchy roasted shallot dip, and hand-cut potato chips with sea salt.
The meal starters are a mezze platter or a choice of two salads, one with early spring greens and one with roasted beets and Cara Cara oranges and goat cheese.
The entree choices are rack of Australian lamb, roast organic salmon, grilled marinated filet of beef, a bone-in smoked Berkshire ham, and a portobello steak with eggplant, spinach, and a cashew basil yogurt. Available sides are a spring vegetable medley, roasted sweet potatoes, buttermilk mashed potatoes, green beans, a quinoa tabouli, organic roasted asparagus, sourdough rolls, and mac and cheese.
Desserts are a choice of assorted cookies, double chocolate chunk brownie bites, lemon bars, buck eyes, margarita pops, chocolate-covered strawberries, chocolate ganache souffle cake, and mini carrot cupcakes.
Modern Easter
Sylvester's Modern General store in Sag Harbor has elevated Easter goodies to take home for the kiddos or to enjoy yourself. They also make great host or hostess presents for guests at the big feast.
Bissinger's pastel peanut butter bunnies or milk chocolate carrot cake truffle bar are featured along with chocolate quail-sized eggs in an egg carton. Milk chocolate and dark chocolate solid bunnies are there, plus unusual chocolate bars by Raaka as well as Spring and Mulberry. There are also non-food items like a soft plush bunny and faux forsythia branches for floral arrangements.
