Easter is this weekend. Here’s where to eat out in Fresno if you don’t want to cook
Easter is a time to let juicy meats, spring veggies, and colorful desserts shine.
So what do you do if you’re not up to making all that food? Or you don’t have a huge family around to eat it?
You dine out.
Many restaurants are open on Easter, Sunday, April 21. Some do a special Easter meal. Some just happen to be open on the holiday.
Make sure you make a reservation as these restaurants book up on holidays.
Also, please note this is not comprehensive list of all the places open in Fresno on Easter. If your favorite place to eat isn’t here, give them a call and ask.
Here’s a rundown of some interesting places to eat on Easter in the Fresno area.
Texas de Brazil
This newly opened restaurant in River Park will open early on Easter at 11 a.m. It serves Brazilian-style barbecue, with about 15 kinds of meat roasted over an open flame and brought to the table on large skewers. Waiters dressed as Brazilian cowboys cut the meat into individual portions.
It’s all-you-can-eat style, which includes the meats and a salad buffet with more than 50 items for $47.99 per person. On Easter, the full dinner menu will be available, but also brunch items like scrambled eggs, bacon and croissants until 3 p.m.
Details: (559) 899-1900.
Elbow Room
The Fig Garden Village restaurant has an Easter brunch buffet planned. It’s from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. and costs $38 for adults and $15 for kids.
The buffet includes prime rib and Dijon ham carving stations, and an omelet-making station. Other options include creme brulee French toast, seafood, salads, pasta and desserts.
Details: (559) 227-1234.
Erna’s Elderberry House
This fine dining restaurant in Oakhurst is hosting Easter brunch and dinner for people who really want to do the day up big. The restaurant is the only Forbes four-star restaurant in the Central Valley.
Brunch includes dishes like smoked salmon, lamb loin, and an “Easter egg hunt” with crab, caviar, avocado and chive. Dessert is a chocolate Fabergé egg with coconut mousse and pistachio sponge cake.
Brunch seatings are at 11 a.m., noon, 1 p.m. or 2 p.m. It costs $75 per person.
Easter dinner is at 6:30 p.m. The menu will include dishes like wild Alaskan halibut with lightly creamed potatoes and smoked cauliflower, and spring lamb tenderloin. Dessert is an “Easter indulgence” concoction made with raspberry, pistachio, dark chocolate glaze and raspberry sorbet.
Dinner costs $112 per person.
Details: (559) 683-6800.
The School House
The School House Restaurant in Sanger is hosting a fixed-price Easter brunch for $46 per person. The menu is online.
Diners can choose an appetizer, entree and dessert. Options include crab cakes Benedict, stuffed French toast and the restaurant’s signature burger.
Dessert is a choice of lemoncello cheesecake, cranberry bread pudding or a chocolate truffle bar served with almond-toffee-coffee ice cream.
Two specialty cocktails will be available that day too, including a bloody Mary, made with a mix made from housemade vegetable stock. A “Dennis Fizz” drink is also available, named after the father of the owner. He died two weeks before the restaurant opened and the drink is his twist on a classic Ramos gin fizz.
Details: (559) 787-3271.
Campagnia
Campagnia Bistro is serving an Easter dinner buffet from 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
The buffet includes prime rib, leg of lamb, crab legs, salads, pasta and desserts like a berry trifle and a lemon shortcake.
The dinner costs $32.99 for adults and $15 for children under 12.
Brunch that day is from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and costs $32.99 for adults and $15.99 for kids. Its buffet is similar to the dinner buffet, but with breakfast items like scrambled eggs, waffles and fruit.
Details: (559) 433-3300.
Fleming’s Prime Steakhouse is offering Easter meals for kids and adults. The three-course meal for adults comes with a starter, two sides to share, dessert and a main dish. The entree choices include eggs Benedict with filet mignon, shrimp tempura and a salmon Cobb salad. Adult meals start at $30. Childrens meals start at $16 and include a filet mignon for kids option.
Details: (559) 222-5823.
Macaroni Grill
Romano’s Macaroni Grill has a special Easter brunch from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The menu includes nine options, like avocado toast, biscuits and gravy, and French toast with melting Nutella filling or sweet berry topping. Most dishes range from $13 to $15.
Yard House
The River Park restaurant is open regular hours on Easter. The restaurant won’t have an Easter specific meal, but it does have a huge menu and probably the most beer taps in town.
One Easter-ish option? Yard House’s twist on deviled eggs, which includes candied bacon, spicy tomato sauce, sweet chili and chives.
Details: (559) 261-2165
Boston Market
The affordable restaurant is selling Easter meals that can be eaten in the restaurant on Easter Sunday and also take-home feasts that can feed a crowd.
The individual ham meals for $12.99 on Easter Sunday include boneless ham served with two sides, fresh-baked cornbread and a slice of apple pie. You can also get a feast for three for $34.99 that includes boneless ham with three large sides, three pieces of cornbread and a whole apple pie.
If you want to eat at home, the restaurant is offering two take-home feasts. The chilled meals are designed to be reheated at home and feed four to six people or 12 people. They feature ham, turkey or both and range in price from $69.99 to $119.99. Individual sides are also available
To order, call (559) 977-9090.
California Pizza Kitchen
This pizza-centric restaurant doesn’t have Easter-specific meals, but it did just debut its spring menu.
It includes a spicy Milano pizza and sticky Asian cauliflower. You can also get a Baja sangria or a tropical sangria. Non drinkers can order sparkling blood orange Perrier.
Details: (559) 448-0801.
This story was originally published April 12, 2019 at 12:02 PM.
