5 Queens Eateries to Celebrate Easter With
This Astoria restaurant is offering an all-day four-course fixed price menu. Find Chef Antonio Morichini’s delectable concoctions, including foie gras with dried figs, pistachios, orange dust, and red onion marmalade. Lamb comes two ways, as a ragu atop a pappardelle, served with asparagus and black truffle sauce, and as lamb chops, with almond crumbles, broccoli rabe and sweet garlic sauce.
Photo via Sam Moqadam
This Sichuan and Hunan restaurant, nestled in Forest Hills, is offering a special $100 regional Easter banquet. Among the eight courses will be squirrelfish (also called soldierfish) with spicy Sichuan garlic sauce; tea-smoked cured pork belly; lacquered pork ribs; mortar-and-pestle smashed eggplant; firecracker chicken wings; and green tea flan with black sesame ice cream.
Braised Pork Belly at Spy C via Instagram
The Rockaway Hotel
The Rockaway Hotel’s Easter specials include Eggs Arlington (poached eggs on an English muffin with smoked salmon and Hollandaise); mortadella flatbread with pistachio pesto, stracciatella and pepperoncini; and corned beef hash with crispy potatoes and caramelized onions.
Exterior of the Rockaway Hotel via Instagram
Chip City’s Easter flavors are making a comeback, including traditional chocolate chip cookies topped with Cadbury Mini Eggs, carrot cake cookies made with carrots, toasted pecans, and filled with sweet cream cheese icing, and bunny funfetti cookies, which are vanilla sugar cookies mixed with rainbow sprinkles and topped with bunny sprinkles.
Chip City’s Cadbury Mini Egg cookies via Instagram
Aigner Chocolates
Aigner Chocolates will be having extended hours leading up to Easter, from Thursday to Saturday, 10AM to 8PM, and then on Sunday morning from 10AM to 2PM. Not only do they have chocolate-covered Easter peeps, but they have a 21.5 pound chocolate bunny named Harvey that they will be raffling off. All proceeds from the raffle will go to the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society Long Island.
Aigner Chocolate bunnies via Instagram