Is your ideal Easter meal an elegant dinner with wine, a relaxing dinner at home, or a family friendly brunch?  For this week’s Patch Picks, we focused on the best Easter eats around.  Across the board caterers and restaurateurs offer this advice – book your reservation and place your catering orders now.  These hot spots are guaranteed to fill up fast!

Bedford Post Inn’s Easter Egg Hunt and Brunch 954 Bedford Rd, Bedford

There is something for everyone at the Bedford Post Inn’s Easter brunch.   The Annual Zen Garden Easter Egg Hunt begins promptly at 12:00 p.m., with a second hunt scheduled for 2:00 p.m.  Over at the Farm House, guests are invited to enjoy a 3 course prix-fixe menu ($65 per person).  For dessert choose from a gianduja mousse, yogurt panna cotta, or an Easter basket.

Easter Dinner & Wine Pairing at La Panetière  530 Milton Rd, Rye

 La Panetière invites foodies and wine lovers to enjoy their prix-fixe Easter dinner menu ($72 per person) and a wine pairing ($48 per person).   Dinner, which will be served from 12:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m., will include a sea scallop “scramble,” boneless rack of spring lamb with rosemary jus, and a nest of chocolate eggs.

Crabtree’s Kittle House Easter Brunch Buffet 11 Kittle Rd, Chappaqua

Crabtree’s prix-fixe ($55 per person) Easter buffet offers the Easter brunch crowd a sampling of  freshly baked pastries and breakfast breads, creamy vegetable quiche, hickory smoked bacon and country sausage, and Belgian waffles and challah French toast.  Guests enjoying the buffet-style brunch – which runs from 11:30 a.m. until 3:30 pm – will also enjoy an unending supply of mimosas, bloody marys, and wines by the glass.

Bernard’s Contemporary French Brunch 20 West Lane/Route 35, Ridgefield, CT

 Travel to Ridgefield, CT for Bernard’s brunch which offers modestly priced prix-fixe French cuisine ($45 per person).  Bernard’s promises a duck, pistachio and truffle terrine appetizer, lemon & black pepper linguini with sautéed shrimp entrée, and special Easter trio of deserts.

Catered Easter Dinner at Home

 Bedford Gourmet (652 Old Post Road, Bedford)

With a simple phone call to Bedford Gourmet – placed no later than April 19^th – you can host Easter brunch at home without the stress of cooking.  Choose from a diijon encrusted rack of lamb, cider glazed smoked ham, filet mignon in a ruby port sauce, or an oven-ready, herb-stuffed turkey.  All orders can be picked up on Easter Sunday between noon and 4:00 p.m.

Sgaglio's,  127 Katonah Avenue, Katonah

Their menu, accessible on Facebook, includes spring leg of lamb, ham cooked three different ways, pork loin roast and beef brisket. Call 232-9444 to place your orders.

Don't forget dessert!

La Tulipe Desserts – 455 Lexington Ave., Mount Kisco. 914-242-4555. Indisputably, this bakery is of of the finest in the area. You'll find Chocolate bunnies, frogs, fish and chickens for your Easter baskets. Marzipan hens, rabbits, and ducks are hand sculpted for a sweet treat, according to their website. They also told Patch about two special cakes for Easter: the Bird's Nest, a vanilla cake filled with chocolate mousse, topped with hazelnut cream and Easter chicks, for $39 and the St. Honore, a chiboust cream (lightened pastry cream) cake with fresh pineapple, topped with a ring of carmelized puff and whipped cream, for $38. Both can be ordered up until Thursday April 21.