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Best Restaurants For Easter Brunch 2017 In Orange County

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This year, Easter brunch in the Orange County means backyard parties, extensive buffets and prix-fixe dining. If you haven't decided whether to eat in or go out, there are a few options that may convince you to do the latter. Several are child friendly, so the kids can still tag along to your usual bottomless brunch blowout.

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Orange Hill Restaurant
6410 E Chapman Ave
Orange, CA 92869
(714) 997-2910
www.theorangehillrestaurant.com
Date: April 16, 2017

Join Orange Hill Restaurant for a grand Champagne brunch buffet on Easter Sunday! From 9:30am to 5pm, the restaurant will be offering a wide variety of delicious options, including eggs benedict, a lobster benedict, and mode to order omelets. There will also be a carving station featuring leg of lamb, roasted prime rib, rope breakfast sausage and orange glazed ham. Oysters on the 1/2 shell and crab legs just help top off this incredible offering! The restaurant will also serve s'mores, a charcuterie plate and much more. Plus, sip on bloody mary's while your kids visit with the Easter Bunny and play in the photo booth! Brunch is $65 for adults and $30 for children.

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The Ranch Saloon
1025 E. Ball Road
Anaheim, CA 92805
(714) 817-4200
www.theranch.com
Date: April 16, 2017

Anaheim's Ranch Saloon is throwing their own Easter Sunday bash, with a special brunch menu from 10am to 2pm. The menu, which includes endless glasses of Champagne, or mimosas, is $75 per person and they even offer a children's menu. On the main menu, start with a first course like their country fried petaluma quail or a soup and salad. Then, dine on options like a Maine lobster benedict with poached farm eggs, Delta asparagus and hollandaise on an English muffin, as well as Mary's Free Range Duck Chilaquiles, a duck chorizo with a sunny side up duck egg and much more. End your brunch on a sweet note with dessert! Options include a strawberry rhubarb crisp, a pudding, and goat cheese fritters.

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Hotel Irvine
17900 Jamboree Rd
Irvine, CA 92614
(888) 230-4452
www.hotelirvine.com
April 16, 2017

Hotel Irvine takes its Easter party outdoors this year with a grand picnic. Bring your friends and family to The Backyard at Hotel Irvine for an Easter extravaganza where kids can take part in a great Easter Egg hunt, take photos with the Easter Bunny and then put on a big smile in the photo booth for some good fun. Then, make sure to hop on over to a great chef-curated buffet, which will be full of delicious options like a smoked salmon eggs benedict, prime rib, huevos rancheros, and more. You can even create your own mimosa at their build-your-own-mimosa bar. Tickets can be purchased here. Pricing is $65 for adults, $15 for children 5-12, and children under 4 are free!

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Bayside Restaurant
900 Bayside Drive
Newport Beach, CA 92660
(949 721-1999
www.address.com
Date: April 16, 2017

Bayside Restaurant's harbor views are just one of the many enjoyable parts of dining at the eatery. Easter brunch is a three-course, prix-fixe meal featuring white asparagus soup, bresaola carpaccio, a linguini pasta, tiger prawn risotto, a crab cake benedict, and their classic Bayside benedict. Other favorites include their slow roasted American kurobuta pork chop, as well as the open face Maine lobster salad sandwich. For dessert, choose either dark chocolate cake with crushed chocolate sandwich cookies or a strawberry almond tart with Bavarian cream. There's a separate three-course menu for kids, which includes soup or salad, crispy chicken, pasta or salmon, and vanilla ice cream. The price for adults is $48.75, and children 12 and under, the cost is $21.75 (12 and under).

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Provenance
2531 Eastbluff Drive
Newport Beach, CA 92660
(949) 718-0477
www.provenanceoc.com
Date: April 16, 2017

Provenance's four-course, prix-fixe Easter brunch will run from 10am-3pm. Every table will be graced with yogurt biscuits and housemade honey butter as an amuse bouche. Then, the menu includes items like a salmon corn chowder, a garden lettuce salad, housemade granola, and seasonal fruit to start. For mains, options include a crab cake benedict, a plancha seared New Zealand sole fish, a French rolled omelet with asparagus, leeks, spinach, and goat cheese and much more. The dessert bar features a selection of mini European-inspired pastries. Lucky for you, champagne is complementary. There will be additional menu items for guests under 12. The cost per guest is $49.

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Oak Grill
Island Hotel Newport Beach
690 Newport Center Drive
Newport Beach, CA 92660
(949) 759-0808
www.IslandHotel.com
Date: April 16, 2017

From 10:30am-3:30pm, Oak Grill's buffet will include classics like pancakes, sausage, omelets, and pastries, as well as signature restaurant items. Pick up a yogurt parfait with housemade quinoa granola, head over to the seafood bar for oysters and seared salmon, or make room for roasted chicken and filet of beef. Make your sweet tooth happy thanks to the design-your-own ice cream treat station for dessert. Kids can nosh on chicken tenders, hot dogs and quesadillas. The buffet will be $90 for adults and $25 for kids 11 and up. Bottomless mimosas are included in the brunch, but there will also be a Bloody Mary bar for an additional $10 per person.

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Citrus Restaurant
Duke Hotel Newport Beach
4500 MacArthur Blvd
Newport Beach, CA 92660
(949) 476-2001
www.marriott.com
Date: April 16, 2017

Citrus Restaurant inside the Duke Hotel Newport Beach is the perfect spot for a grand Easter breakfast this year. Their Easter breakfast buffet will take place from 9am to 1pm on Easter Day and include assorted muffins, baked pastries, croissants, Easter beignets, handmade doughnuts and brioche sticky buns to start. Then, indulge in fresh berries, parfaits, antioxidant morning juices, a cereal bar, and a wide range of brunch classics like scrambled eggs, brioche French toast, thick cut bacon, maple pork sausage, and much more. Citrus will also offer a chefs station with poached eggs, artisanal breads, baked ham and so much more!

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