As tempting as it is to make a meal out of Peeps and Cadberry Creme Eggs, Washington-area chefs are preparing special menus for March 31 to lure diners away from their Easter baskets. Here are a ton of different dining options for Easter brunch and more, featuring dishes that embrace spring — with plenty of lamb, rabbit, seasonal veggies, and carrot cake.
—Adele Chapin
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Rabbit or Rack of Lamb? Eater's Guide to Easter Dining

Firefly
From Tuesday, March 26 through Monday, April 1, Firefly’s Chef de Cuisine Todd Wiss is cooking up a four-course prix fixe “Rabbit Tasting Menu.” That means rabbit terrine as an amuse bouche, a first course of rabbit confit in a frisée and spring onion salad, crispy rabbit leg with spring carrots and peas as a main course, and carrot sorbet and housemade rabbit marshmallows for dessert.
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The Grille At Morrison House
Brunch on Easter day at The Grille at Morrison House will run $50 per person and $30 for children ages 12 and under. Dishes on the menu include strawberry rhubarb beignets, escargot, Path Valley Farms spring lamb forager pie, pan-seared Scottish salmon, chocolate cheesecake, and root beer semifreddo with Tahitian vanilla bean cotton candy.
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BRABO Restaurant by Robert Wiedmaier
In Old Town, head to Brabo for an Easter brunch buffet. Priced at $60 per person, expect dishes like honey-glazed ham, eggs benedict, rockfish and grilled asparagus, and roasted prime rib. Bloody marys and a mimosa bar will be on hand, for an additional price.
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Addie's
Easter Day is the official opening of Addie’s patio, and the Rockville restaurant will also set up a tent at the front of the restaurant for Easter brunch. Expect entrees like mushroom quiche, shrimp and grits, eggs Pontchartrain, and fried chicken and waffles.
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Pearl Dive Oyster Palace
Brunch is as usual on Easter Day at Pearl Dive Oyster Palace, but no need to wait in line, since 14th Street restaurant will accept reservations for the holiday.
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Greenhouse at the Jefferson Hotel
The four-course Easter Sunday brunch at the luxe Greenhouse at The Jefferson, DC includes dishes like silver dollar pancakes, crabcake eggs benedict, housemade fettucine, and sugar-dusted doughnut holes for $80 per person and $40 for children ages 12 and under.
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Ceiba
Headed to the Easter Egg Roll at the White House on April 1? Stop by Ceiba for Chef Matthew Britt’s version of egg salad: Molette de Huevos, a Mexican open-faced sandwich with egg salad on a toasted baguette, paired with house made purple potato chips.
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2941 Restaurant
From 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Easter Day at 2941 Restaurant, a special Easter three-course prix fixe menu will be available for $65 per person, or $48 per person for the three-course vegetarian prix fixe menu. Meat eaters can try rabbit “porchetta style,” with fennel raviolini, baby artichoke and saffron broth. Sweets include carrot cake with walnut parfait and the 2941 Easter Basket chocolate cake with pistachio mousse and strawberry sherbet.
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Society Fair
Pick up Society Fair’s $80 Easter Breakfast Bag for a to-go feast, with sparkling wine, white wine, quiche, scones and more. Also available is Chef Cathal Armstrong’s $75 Irish Easter Basket, filled with Irish foodstuffs like Bewley's Dublin Morning tea, Hogan's Irish Scone Mix Folláin Raspberry Jam, Jacob's Afternoon Tea Biscuits, and John Kelly Chocolates. All Easter Breakfast orders must be in by March 27th and picked up on Saturday, March 30.
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Virtue Feed & Grain
Virtue Feed and Grain will serve brunch on Easter Sunday, featuring a la carte brunch specials like smoked salmon eggs benedict and cocktails like the “Church Tea.” For dinner, Chef Ryan Wheeler’s Easter dinner for two is priced at $55 for a spring rack of lamb paired with potato gratin and green peas.
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Art and Soul
The newly renovated Art and Soul will roll out a brunch buffet stocked with Southern favorites like maple ham and fried chicken with waffles for Easter Sunday. The brunch buffet starts at 10:30 a.m. and ends at 3:30 p.m., and is priced at $55 per person and $25 for children. The restaurant will also serve a $45 three-course Easter dinner menu that includes gallontine of rabbit and a roasted leg of Shenandoah lamb.
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Graffiato
Graffiato’s four-course, $40 Easter menu will include items like flatbread with pepperoni sauce, brussel sprouts, meatballs with polenta, and olive oil cake.
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Lincoln
Lincoln is celebrating Easter with a $45 per person, three-course menu that features lamb chop with warm farro salad, Maine lobster parfait, and Meyer lemon panna cotta or a chocolate peanut butter bar for dessert.
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Tabard Inn
The Tabard Inn’s brunch from 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. is reservation only on Easter Sunday, with a la carte menu items ranging from toasted macademia nut waffles to grilled quail over shrimp and oyster mushroom grits.
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Zaytinya
Zaytina is hosting a five-week festival of Easter festivities, kicking off on March 31 and concluding on Greek Orthodox Easter on May 5. Find special Greek Lent and Easter-inspired menu offerings by Head Chef Michael Costa on Zaytina’s menu throughout the festival. And to open and close the festival on March 31 and May 5, Zaytina will offer a prix fixe brunch menu featuring spit roasted lamb shoulder, priced at $35 per person. Zaytina will also host a Greek outdoor market, or agorá, on the restaurant’s patio on Sunday, April 21 starting at 11 a.m. and Monday, April 22 starting at 6 p.m. The market will host live Greek music and vendors with Greek artisanal goods for sale. The Pepe truck will also be on hand to serve “Zaytina lamb sandwiches” during the outdoor markets, and will offer the lamb sandwich on its menu throughout Zaytina’s Easter festival.
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Bombay Club
Go for Bombay Club’s Champagne buffet brunch on Easter Sunday from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., priced at $35 with bottomless Champagne and dishes like lamb palak with spinach and shrimp pepper masala.
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Blue Duck Tavern
Blue Duck Tavern’s Easter brunch menu features dishes like roasted lamb rack with rosemary jus, spring duck confit hash, and sour cream cheesecake with brandied cherries for dessert. The three-course, fixed-price menu is available from 10:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. and runs $95 per person and $45 for children between six and 12.
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Fluffy Thoughts
Fluffy Thoughts Cakes is pulling out the stops for Easter: choose between a cake shaped like an Easter basket, a flower pot-shaped chocolate cake with Oreo crumbs, and carrot cake cupcakes topped with edible bunnies.
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Old Angler's Inn
The rustic Old Angler’s Inn along the C&O Canal is a destination for Easter, with a three-course, prix fixe menu priced at $65 per person that includes dishes like Hudson Valley foie gras torchon with poached raspberries, Berkshire pork loin, and herb roasted rack of lamb. The Easter brunch will be served from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.
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1789
Bring the kids to 1789 in Georgetown this Easter Sunday, where a fuzzy Easter bunny will make an appearance during brunch to hand out candy. For the grownups, brunch includes roasted leg of locally-sourced lamb, marinated in garlic and mint and served with potato gratin. Brunch will be served from 10 a.m. to 3:45 p.m., and an a la carte Easter dinner menu will be served from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
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Tel'Veh Cafe and Wine Bar
Tel’Veh Cafe & Wine Bar on Massachusetts Avenue is offering an Easter brunch, either a la cart or prix fixe for the entire table at $29.95 a person. Mediteranean-influenced offerings include htipiti, a roasted feta spread with chili flakes, and cacik, a yogurt dish with cucumber and garlic, as well as traditional brunch entrees like omelettes and crepes
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Central Michel Richard
Central's Easter Brunch menu includes dishes such as rack of lamb and eggplant gazpacho.
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Jardenea
For $58 per person, Jardenea will offer a brunch buffet featuring dishes like create-your-own omelets.
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