Easter 2020 will be coming your way, coronovirus or not. These Orlando-area restaurants will prepare foods for your celebrations at home.
I’ll keep adding to this list until the holiday rolls around on Sunday, April 12.
Dexter’s New Standard—Easter Food in Orlando 2020
Dexter’s New Standard debuted right before the world turned upside-down, offering creative American fare together with live music. For Easter 2020, the Winter Park restaurant will offer dishes listed below. Call 407-316-2278 by April 9 to place your order. Be sure to report how many children will be with you, as Chef Lydia Murphy, the restaurant’s baker and pastry chef, will make special Easter baskets for each kid.
Main dishes: baked ham ($16/pound), leg of lamb ($20/pound), roast turkey ($10/pound), prime rib ($28/pound)
Side dishes: brown-butter sugar-glazed carrots, asparagus, mac ‘n’ cheese, potato gratin, house salad, parker house rolls, carrot cake with cream cheese frosting. $30 serves two, $50 serves four, $70 serves six, $90 serves eight.
Luma on Park—Easter Food in Orlando 2020
Since I’m a forever-fan of Luma on Park, I’m excited to share the restaurant’s take-out Easter menu with you. Expect contemporary fare made with farm-fresh ingredients.
On offer: family-size portions for 4 to 6 ($145) or 6 to 8 ($165):
Duroc pork loin “ham” in citrus-honey glaze; smoked lamb sausage with fennel seed, pimenton and coriander; roasted Frog Song carrots with goat feta and garden herbs; green bean casserole with local mushrooms and crispy onions; potato puree with truffle oil and chive; milk buns with compound butter; and a choice of carrot cake or lemon tart. Ask about adding on a mimosa or bloody mary package. All wines are half price, and you can order four bottled cocktails: white linen ($40), tequila pine ($32), strawberry fields ($32) and Boulevardier ($30.)
Call 407-599-4111 by April 8, 2020, to receive your meal. Luma on Park will deliver it to your home within a reasonable distance.
1921 Mount Dora—Easter Food in Orlando 2020
Northwest of Orlando, 1921 Mount Dora has a to-go Easter menu of its own. Following the restaurant’s Modern Florida Cuisine theme, the chefs are offering meals for two ($60), four ($110) or eight ($150). Each package includes deviled eggs, roast lamb leg or spiral ham, sweet potato casserole, grilled carrots with buttermilk dill vinaigrette and hazelnuts, milk buns with whipped butter, and buttermilk pie with caramelized apple. Curbside pick-up is on Saturday, April 11, and Sunday, April 12, from noon to 7pm. Choose whether you want your meal hot and ready to serve, or chilled and ready to reheat. Call in your order by 2pm on Thursday, April 9 at 352.385.1921.
Morton’s The Steakhouse—Easter Food in Orlando 2020
Easter dinner will be quiet this year, so why not splurge on a special meal for two? Morton’s The Steakhouse will prepare a dinner-for-two to-go. For $109, the Sand Lake Road restaurant will prepare a design-your-own repast. Choose one starter, one entree, one side dish and one dessert. Options include cold-water lobster tail and filet mignon. Wines are available for half price. In addition, as always during these peculiar times the restaurant will sell Chef’s Table home kits, full of foods to grill or cook inyour kitchen. The Easter version can be for two people or four, and includes butters, sauces, seasonings, au jus for steaks and chops, and bottled water. Place your order by April 9. 407-248-3485
Morton’s The Steakhouse, Easter 2020. Photo courtesy of Landry’s.
Bites & Bubbles—Easter Food in Orlando 2020
Pick up Easter brunch, your choice of menu, at Bites & Bubbles on Easter morning. The Mills 50 restaurant offers four set menus (some pictured here) plus loads of add-ons. Basic info, some in small portions, others large, priced from $25 to $90: ham with cheese, bacon and biscuits; salmon frittata with goat cheese; ham and cheese quiche; bananas foster French toast. Start here.
Luke’s Kitchen and Bar—Easter Food in Orlando 2020
The Easter menu at Luke’s Kitchen and Bar sounds like wholesome goodness. The take-out meal for six to eight people features pork shoulder ham with sweet tea glaze, cornbread with maple pecan butter, cucumber salad, barbecue carrots, potato-artichoke gratin and roasted broccoli and cheese, plus either carrot cake or lemon tart, your choice. Cooking instructions included. The price is $140. Wines are half off, and pre-ordered cocktail kits for Old Fashioneds, spicy bloody marys and spiked blackberry lemonade are $24 to $48. You must pre-order your meal by Wednesday, April 8 at 407.674.2400. Delivery available within 10 miles; otherwise, hop in the car.
SOCO—Easter Food in Orlando 2020
Head to Thornton Park for a take-home Easter dinner from Soco. The New Southern restaurant is offering lots of choices: ham, chicken pot pie or roast leg of lamb; sides including Brussels sprouts and buttermilk biscuits; desserts including chocolate-pecan pie and bread pudding; and cocktails to be enjoyed at home. A fuzzy version of the full menu is below. I’ll swap in a crisper menu when I receive it. Meals $55 to $75 for two people, $110 to $150 for four. It’s better to order ahead but not mandatory.
4 Rivers Smokehouse—Easter Food in Orlando 2020
Go for smoky flavors for Easter this year, as 4 Rivers Smokehouse makes ordering easy. Chilled and ready-to-heat Easter foods area available for pick-up at several locations. Options include smoked brisket, turkey, ham and salmon, plus sides including Southern green beans, collard greens, cole slaw, mac 'n' cheese and baked beans. For dessert: coconut cake. Prices and portion sizes vary. Order by phone (844-474-8377) or online (click here) by Friday, April 10, then swing by the unit you chose and find your food ready to go.
Sister Honey’s—Easter Food in Orlando 2020
Sweet! Sister Honey’s, the SODO bakery with scrumptious old-fashioned desserts, is offering two cakes for Easter in Orlando 2020. Choose a triple chocolate cake, or coconut cake. You’ll need to order by phone on Thursday between noon and 4pm, then pick up the cake on Saturday, again between noon and 4. The staff will bring it to your car. 407-730-7315
Image from Sister Honey’s Instagram feed
The Ravenous Pig—Easter Food in Orlando 2020
Pick up Easter dinner for two at The Ravenous Pig in Winter Park. The complete meal focuses around smoked leg of lamb, which comes with green tomato-olive relish, lemon-oregano potatoes, tomato-dill braised collard greens, Parker House rolls with chive butter, and rhubard cobbler. $65. Order it, and cocktails to go, for curbside pick-up at scott@theravenouspig.com, and leave your phone number for confirmation. Pick-up is Saturday from noon to 7pm.
(The Ravenous Pig has also added a Curbside General Store, starting Thursday, April 9. It will have snacks, nightly dinners, and build-a-meal options. The menu will look like what you see below. Hours are limited: This week Thursday 3-7pm, Friday 3-7pm, and Saturday 12-7pm. Starting 4/15/2020: Wednesdays also.
Four Seasons—Easter Food in Orlando 2020
OMG, the luxurious Four Seasons resort is still open, and it’s delivering Easter meals to your car. You’ll have plenty of choices for the price of $68 per person. Order by 1pm on April 9, 2020—that’s TOMORROW—to place your order and schedule a Saturday or Sunday pick-up. Appetizers: deviled eggs, antipasto or sweety drop peppers. You get all three. Choose a salad: Caesar, garden, or asparagas and chickpea. Entrees: Choose Chilean sea bass, lamb rack, New York strip, dry-aged rib-eye, filet mignon, roasted half chicken, or spiral ham (for six people or more). All meals come with four sides: herb-roasted marble potato, asparagus with Serrano ham, honey-thyme-glazed carrots, and smoked gouda mac ‘n’ cheese. Dessert is either strawberry cheesecake, chocolate cake or gelato.
