Best Restaurants Serving Easter Brunch In Los Angeles

One of the spring season's most festive holidays is back, and it's always a popular day for brunch and sweets. Spend your Easter weekend around tables filled with roasted meats, tasty fish, seasonal vegetables and colorful, and most likely chocolatey, desserts. Here are a few places around town with Easter culinary celebrations. Reservations for sit-down service is highly recommended.

Herringbone Santa Monica
1755 Ocean Avenue
Santa Monica, CA 90401
(310) 971-4460
www.herringboneeats.com

Herringbone's brunch menu has a number of gems, including sticky buns, steak & eggs and lobster scramble. The Easter specials celebrate land and sea fare. The first, rack of lamb with pistachio and lavender crust, sits atop a creamy beet-pomme purée with pickled onions and roasted heirloom carrots. The second will appeal to seafood lovers--Arctic Char with grilled endive, toasted almonds and blood orange beurre blanc.

Pitchoun! Bakery
545 South Olive Street
Los Angeles, CA 90013
(213) 689-3240
www.pitchounbakery.com

DTLA's French bakery and café is a bustling eatery for breakfast and lunch crowds in the area. Pop in over the weekend for dishes like the spring salad of housemade tuna rillette, spinach, mushrooms, oranges and an orange-laced caesar dressing, the savory caprese pancake topped with buffalo mozzarella, tomatoes, arugula, and lemon olive oil dressing and housemade chocolate bread. The latter is a sweet sourdough loaf flavored with rich cocoa and dotted with chocolate chips. As for sweets, whimsically decorated eclairs will fill the dessert case, and you'll also find a number of holiday-themed chocolates and candies.

Del Frisco's Grille
Shops On Lake Avenue
55 S Lake Ave Ste 150
Pasadena, CA 91101
(626) 765-9913
www.delfriscosgrille.com

Both of Del Frisco's Grille L.A. locations (Santa Monica and Pasadena) will offer their Easter special on Saturday, April 15th and Sunday, April 16th. In addition to the traditional brunch menu, which includes truffle-chive deviled eggs and lemon cake, the restaurant will serve a hefty 16 ounce slow-roasted USDA prime rib. Sip on the weekend's caffeine-pumped Peepin' Cold Brew - a blended cocktail featuring vanilla vodka, cold brew coffee, salted caramel syrup and a Peep marshmallow topper.

Paley Hollywood
6115 Sunset Boulevard #100
Los Angeles, CA 90028
(323) 544-9430
www.paleyhollywood.com

At Paley, Easter specials are made for the person with a sweet tooth. First things first, indulge in Paley's regular brunch menu, which includes tender custard French toast, ham & cheese on brioche, and a perfectly executed French omelet, just to name a few. Then, trace your finger down the dessert list that will feature housemade marshmallows inspired by those ever-popular pastel Peeps, along with a Cadbury egg-shaped devil's food cake sheathed in ganache and filled with a chocolate-caramel custard.

CBC at Malibu Beach Inn
22878 Pacific Coast Highway
Malibu, CA 90265
(310) 460-7509
www.malibubeachinn.com

Carbon Beach Club, also known as CBC, recently announced a $90 three-course, prix-fixe menu for Easter Sunday that includes a sommelier's wine pairing for each course. An assortment of breads and pastries precede the meal, followed by your choice of dishes like Baked Eggplant with honey, manchego and brie cheese, tuna tartare with vanilla grapefruit vinaigrette, wild king salmon with saffron farro salad and farmer's market vegetables, Spanish-spiced Lamb Loin a la Plancha, and a flat iron steak with crispy, smashed potatoes. Ricotta Fritters or a Tuscan Torte are two of the highlights on the dessert menu.

71 Above
633 W. 5th Street, 71st Floor
Los Angeles, CA 90071
(213) 712-2683
www.71above.com

Looking for a terrific brunch with the best views of Los Angeles? At 71 Above in downtown L.A., you'll get just that and more! The restaurant will be offering a special Easter menu with options including fresh biscuits, ricotta toast with beets, citrus, pistachio, an Easter egg radish with fresh goat's milk cheese, and much more to start. For entree's, dine on a traditional omelette with asparagus, goat cheese and morel cream, as well as a tasty pork belly benedict, a shakshuka (a must!) with a poached egg, feta, terragon and aleppo peppper, and much more.

Toscana
11633 San Vicente Boulevard #100
Los Angeles, CA 90049
(310) 820-2448
www.toscanabrentwood.com

Take advantage of a spruced up lunch and dinner menu on Easter Sunday. The day's menu includes Torta Pasqualina with spinach and ricotta, Garganelli with rabbit ragu, and Roasted Colorado Rack of Lamb with crispy fried vegetables, along with the restaurant's regular classic dishes. Slip next door to Bar Toscana, only open during the evening, for pistachio-crusted Lamb Chops served with grilled asparagus and mashed potatoes. While you're there, indulge in the rustic wine bar's reliably perfect cocktails and small plates menu.

Ivory On Sunset
8440 Sunset Blvd
West Hollywood, CA 90069
(323) 848-6000
www.ivoryonsunset.com

Are you looking for a great place to dine this Easter Sunday? Located on the famed Sunset Strip, The Mondrian LA's chic restaurant, Ivory on Sunset, is offering the perfect atmosphere to celebrate Easter Brunch. The restaurant also boasts a terrific patio with sweeping views of the city, allowing guests to take full advantage of Los Angeles' beautiful weather. Featuring specials such as shrimp & grits, a duck benedict, and biscuits & gravy, you won't find it hard to find something delicious on the menu. Make sure to make a reservation as tables tend to get filled up quickly!

Love & Salt
317 Manhattan Beach Boulevard
Manhattan Beach, CA 90266
(310) 545-5252
www.loveandsaltla.com

Love & Salt's wood-fired ovens provide much of the flavor foundation behind the Cali-Italian menu. A new addition to the brunch menu will be housemade, wood-oven rye bread toasted and piled high with griddled mortadella, melty fontina and runny fried eggs with a bright spring pea tendril salad on the side. The restaurant will also serve a sweetly, earthy spelt carrot cake made with premium, artisan flour.

Tavern
11648 San Vicente Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90049
(310) 806-6464
www.tavernla.com

Suzanne Goin and Caroline Styne's popular Brentwood neighborhood restaurant Tavern will is a hotspot which boasts a glass-roofed atrium, lively bar and delicious Californian food. Offering popular á la carte menus for Easter brunch and dinner on Sunday, April 16, 2017, brunch and dinner will be prepared by Chef de Cuisine Amy Deaderick and include pastries, savory egg dishes, sandwiches, salads, main courses and child-friendly dishes. Some favorites on the menu are their lemon ricotta pancakes with blueberries, Meyer Lemon Marmalade & pistachios, as well as a smoked fish plate with toasted rye and goat cheese, a chorizo and eggs, baked eggs "Shakshouka" with roasted tomatoes, harissa, black olives & feta yogurt, their Tavern "Benedict" with prosciutto, gruyère & hollandaise and much more.

Petrossian
321 North Robertson Boulevard
West Hollywood, CA 90048
(310) 202-6400
www.petrossian.com

Petrossian's signature Egg Royale are back in all of their colorful glory as we approach Easter. Perfectly executed soft, scrambled eggs arrive in egg cups reminiscent of the brightly hued, plastic eggs hidden in corners and under bushes on Easter Sunday. Your Egg Royale is topped with Petrossian's legacy caviar, of course. You'll be convinced that grabbing caviar from the attached boutique is the best idea.

The Tuck Room
10850 Wilshire Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90024
(310) 307-7004
www.thetuckroom.com

Head to The Tuck Room with an appetite, and share a few starters like the Crispy Latke Fries, Monkey Bread Babka or Smoked Salmon Popovers with friends. Make sure your ride share app is ready because the Ultimate Bloody Mary Bar will be hard to resist. Three bases will be available--classic, pescatarian and carnivore--for you to garnish with a variety of ingredients such as crispy bacon, shrimp, pickled vegetables, cheese and more. Look out for the Hipster Bunny who will hop through brunch service as well.

Ocean Prime
9595 Wilshire Boulevard
Beverly Hills, CA 90212
(310) 859-4818
www.ocean-prime.com

In addition to the dinner menu, Ocean Prime's ready to serve a hungry brunch crowd for Easter. Start the meal with a Bloody Mary topped with jumbo shrimp, or put in a request for the Blood Orange Mimosa with hints of Cointreau. Two dishes of note include Crab & Eggs--a benedict variation with lump crab cakes, poached eggs draped, and a traditional Hollandaise--and Braised Short Rib Surf & Turf with a gouda potato cake and lobster claw with a poached egg and Hollandaise.

Napa Valley Grille
1100 Glendon Ave #100
Los Angeles, CA 90024
(310) 824-3322
www.napavalleygrille.com
Make your Easter celebration extra special this year by visiting Westwood's Napa Valley Grille. The eatery will offer a special Easter Brunch menu from from 11am to 3pm. The pre-fixed menu offers a three-course brunch selection, available for $45/person, with starters like a Vichyssoise Soup with scallions, espelette and bacon bits, or a compressed watermelon salad with feta cheese, upland cress, mint and a balsamic glaze.Entrees include chicken and waffle fries with buttermilk chicken breast, maple syrup aioli, cabbage slaw, waffle fries and a brioche bun, and a cured steelhead gravlax with herb créme fraiche, frisbee & mitzuna salad, pickled red onions, lemon vinaigrette and pecan raisin bread. For dessert, end with selections like a deconnstructed black forest cake with black cherry compote, mascarpone cream and cocoa nibs, or extra tasty key lime bars with raspberry coulis, dehydrated lemons, torched vanilla meringues.

Chrystal Baker is a freelance food and events contributor for CBS Los Angeles, Basil Magazine and Frugivore Magazine. She is the co-editor of a recipe blog, The Duo Dishes, and manages her own lifestyle and travel blog, Any and Everywhere.