Five Brunch Spots You Can Book Right Away for Easter

It’s cliche to suggest that the year is flying by, but facts are facts: Holidays have already come and gone. Whichever ones your family like to observe, it’s still unbelievably easy for them to slip your mind — not to mention forget nabbing that table for a celebratory brunch. So consider this a friendly reminder. 

To assist you in your reservation-making for Easter weekend, the following are five restaurants south of Chambers Street that have lined up some A+ menus for scrumptious mid-morning meals. 

The Bar Room at the Beekman

On Sunday, April 9, both Tom Colicchio’s Bar Room and Temple Court inside the Beekman Hotel (5 Beekman St.) are preparing first-rate dishes for its three-course, $75 prix-fixe menu. Starter items include inside cured king salmon (crème fraîche, spring peas, salmon roe) on crostinis, but don’t sleep on the brioche French toast with strawberries and chantilly cream. Make your reservation online.

Harry’s 

The brunch menu at Harry’s (1 Hanover Sq.) includes spring pea soup with crème fraîche and pancetta, and they’re bringing back that ever-reliable lobster nicoise salad with haricot vert, olives, new potatoes, quail eggs and drizzled chardonnay vinaigrette. Grilled baby lamb chops as the main? Yes, please. The meal is served from 11:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Grab yourself a table right here.

Industry Kitchen

We’re big fans of the sweeping views and tasty entrees at Industry Kitchen (70 South St.), so endorsing the Seaport darling’s Easter lineup sight unseen is an awfully safe bet. Besides, executive chef Jonathan Haffmans’s and chef de cuisine Saul Pardo’s game plan for that Sunday sounds amazing. Set aside one of those merguez lamb sausage and harissa ratatouille, puh-leeze. Reservations can be made online. 

Mezze on the River 

For Easter Sunday, Mezze on the River (375 South End Ave.) will surely dominate the Mediterranean side of things in Lower Manhattan — what with their menu of Greek delights such as pan-fried cod for an appetizer (roasted garlic puree, lemon, Greek olives) and naturally that moussaka entree (layered eggplant, zucchini, potato, chopped lamb, veal, beef, pork). Book a table with a view while they’re still available. 

Del Frisco’s Grille

The legacy steakhouse franchise has their Easter menu locked and loaded at Brookfield Place (250 Vesey St.). Carnivores won’t be disappointed with those super-thick cuts of bacon on the starter salads, and that 14-ounce prime rib with au jus and horseradish cream is a tried-and-true method to send one into a blissful comatose state for the remaining daylight hours. Just be sure you book a table on the early side if you’re pursuing that sort of strategy. 

photo: Industry Kitchen