Japanese ube pancakes at Traveler's Table
Bloom & Bee
Bloom & Bee
Easter Brunch at this flower-driven Post Oak Hotel stunner starts with a luxurious choice of deviled eggs with prosciutto and black truffle or white asparagus soup. Mains range from lobster eggs Benedict with caviar to herb roasted lamb leg with thyme lamb jus, plus a dessert buffet of French pastries and cakes.
Brennan's of Houston
Brennan's of Houston
The iconic Creole house has three dates for Easter dining this year starting April 7 with Brunch with the Bunny starring photos with the Easter Bunny. April 8 is the Very Hoppy Brunch, also family friendly with live bunnies on the terrace from nearby Boling Bunny Farms! Sunday brunch April 9 is the most leisurely with seatings throughout the day. Reservations are required for all events.
Crú
Dessert at Crú (photo by Robert Tsai)
This smart, cozy spot features a three-course wine country-style brunch, along with brunch cocktails and specials on Domain Chandon rosé and Veuve Cliquot by the glass. Highlights include crab cake Benedict, smoked salmon deviled egg toast, and desserts.
Four Seasons Houston
Cheese station at Four Seasons brunch
The Four Seasons Houston’s annual extravagant Easter Brunch in Toro Toro will feature classics with a Latin twist from 10am-2pm ($155 per adult and for $65 per child, 12 and under). Reservations can be made on the website.
Guard and Grace
Seafood tower at Guard and Grace
Downtown Houston’s modern steakhouse will keep guests ‘hoppy’ with a special menu for Easter brunch. Start with smoked salmon rillette with crème fraiche and smoked trout roe or TG wagyu beef dumplings. Its raw bar features a Bubu sashimi plate, Crispy Tuna with ahi, avocado, serrano, yuzu and tempura sushi rice, and a custom-built Seafood Tower for six.
Le Jardinier
Le Jardinier
Who wouldn’t want to be in “the garden” (translation of the restaurant name) on Easter Sunday? Take your time because this MFAH gem serves its three-course menu from noon to 7pm. Anticipate lovely choices including Murray’s burrata with strawberry rhubarb; spiced roasted lamb, and Ora king salmon. Save room for the award-winning desserts!
Local Table
Local Table (photo by Jenn Duncan)
It’s easy to find a Local Table as they are all over town with a casual family-friendly menu of egg dishes, chicken and waffles, and savory sidekicks. We hear the Easter Bunny will be hopping around from table to table this year.
Navy Blue
Navy Blue
Celebrate Easter Sunday in the heart of Rice Village at Aaron Bludorn’s modern American seafood concept. A la carte lunch with Easter specials will be served from 11-2:30pm, as well as dinner a la carte from 5:45-9pm. Lunch on house smoked salmon served with jumbo asparagus, poached egg with Bearnaise sauce, and rack of lamb persillade served with spring vegetables.
Traveler's Table
Cruise on over to this light-filled Montrose fave for a special three-course prix-fixe Easter brunch (dine-in or take-out). International dishes include shitake edamame dumplings, Japanese Ube pancakes, and Norwegian smoked salmon latkes with onion-dill crème fraiche.
Ostia
Ostia
Surrounded by bougainvillea, lemon trees and greenery, this chic restaurant evokes a picturesque spot for brunch. Chef Travis McShane’s focaccia French toast with blueberries and mascarpone; ricotta pancakes with maple syrup; and pizza dough doughnuts will appease carb lovers. Savory dishes include grilled Gulf fish with Calabrian chili, pizzas, gnocchi, and a frittata. Brunch runs from 11am-3:30pm.
Ouzo Bay
Lobster omelet at Ouzo Bay (photo courtesy of Atlas Restaurant Group)
Let Ouzo Bay handle the holiday spread this Easter with Mediterranean takes on classic brunch dishes including short rib chilaquiles with fried pita, tzatziki, and salsa verde; and the roasted lamb Greek Breakfast Gyro with scrambled eggs, tzatziki and Greek oregano fries. Brunch also spotlights Ouzo Bay’s fresh seafood program with crab cake Benedicts and a Maine lobster omelet.
Postino
Postino (photo by Becca Wright)
Looking for come-as-you-are casual? Try the eye-opening brunch menu, perfect for dining al fresco on the restaurant’s large, shaded patio. Served weekends, the menu offers myriad shareable dishes. Think Umbria egg toast, cast iron sticky bread, and seeded avocado toast. Sip $6 mimosas and bellinis and refreshing wine-based and beer-based brunch cocktails.
Xochi
Chef Hugo Ortega and his team will serve an epic Sunday brunch buffet from 10am-3pm this Easter. Expect the usual coastal Mexican favorites as well as a carving station, new seasonal items and Easter desserts.
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"My Hands My Mind" (left) and Jason Moran (right)
Conceived by Pazda, who like Moran is an HSPVA grad, the art exhibit is an exclusive for Houston, and last Saturday’s opening, not surprisingly, was packed. Conceptually speaking, pairing artwork by these two forward-thinking musicians makes total sense. But in person, the dialogue “across time” between these two feels like a bit of a stretch. But then again, maybe that’s the idea here, to explore how supposedly different creative enterprises, be it Black American jazz or Black Mountain, have always drawn inspiration from the other.
Cage the composer could be highly critical of improvisation and despite having been alive to witness the evolution of the music from swing to bebop, was dubious in his appreciation of jazz. However, he did collaborate with such jazz outliers as reeds master Joseph Jarman and Saturn-by-way-of-Birmingham-born keyboardist Sun Ra. Meanwhile, Moran’s roots are in jazz, and he has paid tribute to those roots with recordings and multimedia performances honoring Fats Waller and Thelonious Monk, as well as his Robert Rauschenberg-inspired DACAMERA commission Holed Up, featuring legendary Houston vocalist Horace Grigsby. But he has also stretched any definition of the music to include live, freely improvised performances with pioneering video artist Joan Jonas, and co-curating Bleed, a five-day, multi-media residency at the Whitney Museum organized with his wife singer Alicia Hall Moran. But unlike Cage, Moran is exploring a vernacular, rather than inventing a new language, which just means there’s some history to consider here, which can only lead to an even deeper appreciation for each man’s work outside of music and in the medium of visual art.
'Medicine Drawings' by John Cage
'Before the Downbeat,' by Jason Moran
The works by Cage in Across Time are pretty diverse and include twelve compositions of medicinal herbs on handmade paper (Medicine Drawings, 1991) and twelve 36-note wind-up music box mechanisms (Extended Lullaby, 1994), which when activated by visitors, create an intimate, stately texture of unpredictable sounds. (Kudos to the gallery for allowing folks to “touch the art.”) Meanwhile, Moran’s cobalt-blue pigment on paper works are variations on a single theme. To create these works, Moran drapes his piano with thin, Japanese Gampi paper, covers it with pigment, and then proceeds to play the keys, capturing a moment in time as the powder brings an image into relief. Moran’s Barline Hopkins Deathbed, which showed last summer at Lawndale as part of Tierney Malone’s multi-year exhibit The Sankofa Project, was created using the same messy, performative technique. But while Barline was elegiac and haunting, Moran’s works in Across Time are more congenial, like pages from a composer’s sketchbook, with many titles describing his musical practice in transcendental terms. (“My Hands, My Mind.” “Five Minutes, Five Hours.”)
Throughout the exhibit, one feels a sense that these two artists are reaching “across time” without actually grasping the others’ hands. But without such attempts at provocative conversations, no matter how awkward or painful they may be, what hope is there for forward movement in art, culture, and our divided society?
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