Metro Diner’s carrot cake pancakes are a seasonal option for Easter brunch.
Metro Diner
Let’s say you’re not a planner, but you still want to enjoy a nice meal for Easter in Charlotte without a ton of shopping or figuring out where to order in advance. We’ve got you.
If you do want to at least browse a few menus, we’ve rounded up where you can pre-order a holiday meal for Easter takeout or make reservations for a prix fixe meal or brunch buffet.
But there’s nothing wrong with spontaneity. If that’s more your speed, here’s a list of restaurants in Charlotte that will be open for service on Easter Sunday, no reservations needed.
You can show up and enjoy Easter brunch or Easter dinner here:
Angry Ale’s will open for Easter brunch at 10 a.m., offering customizable mimosas for $4. Try the bonuts — fried biscuit dough tossed in cinnamon sugar and served with cream cheese dipping sauce ($4.95) — or dive into a Ron Swanson biscuit with sausage gravy and a sausage patty ($6.95).
All Bob Evans locations will be open for breakfast, lunch and dinner, serving special Easter meals and its regular lineup of favorites. You can start the day off with country fried steak and eggs ($12.49) or settle into dinner with turkey and dressing ($13.68) or a hickory-smoked ham steak ($12.68).
If you don’t want to dine in, Bob Evans’ Farmhouse Feast is available to pick up and take home. Ryan Benyi Photography
Location: Multiple, including Charlotte, Concord, Fort Mill, Gastonia, Kannapolis, Matthews, Mooresville and Rock Hill
You can always drop in for brunch at Cracker Barrel, which serves all-day breakfast every day. Try a steak and egg hashbrown casserole ($12.49), or its stuffed cheesecake pancake breakfast ($11.99).
Emmy Squared will be serving up its new brunch offerings on Easter Sunday from 10 a.m.-3 p.m., which include breakfast sandwiches, pancakes and even a breakfast burger. Later in the day for Easter dinner, you could stop in for its Detroit-style pizza, along with a lineup of salads, burgers and chicken sandwiches.
Emmy Squared is now offering brunch, with options including pancakes, breakfast sandwiches and yogurt. Emmy Squared
Hellenic, a restaurant from the family behind The Mad Greek, will be open Easter Sunday. Offerings will include its standard menu, which includes classic Greek items such as lamb chops, souvlakia and spanikopita. Specials include $7 mimosas and $8 Bloody Marys.
At Kid Cashew, you can celebrate the Easter holiday with vegan Mediterranean fare such as a Quinoa Stuffed Avocado or Wood-Fire Grilled Spanish Octopus. Or if you’re craving a burger, the Big Mac Daddy — with two all beef patties, special sauce, shredded lettuce, white cheddar cheese and pickles on a local sesame seed bun — would do the trick. Its Sunday specials are $3 mimosas and $5 Bloody Marys.
A burger from Kid Cashew. CLT Dish by Curtis Groll
The Mad Greek, a staple for decades in the city’s Greek and Mediterranean food scene that’s one of Charlotte’s Classic Eats, will be open for Easter with no reservations. Browse the wide variety of choices, including 12 options for pita sandwiches, or a dinner of pastichio, calamari or moussaka.
Order a gyro and feta fries from The Mad Greek of Charlotte. Ebony Morman CharlotteFive
You can pre-order a family meal from Metro Diner, or you can show up for Easter brunch to chow down on the restaurant’s carrot cake pancakes, waffles or bread pudding. For Easter dinner, you can enjoy fried chicken, meatloaf or a fried shrimp platter.
No reservations are taken at the Central Avenue location of Midwood Smokehouse, where you can choose an Easter dinner of ribs, a Lone Star brisket sandwich or Hickory smoked chopped pork and finish it off with banana pudding.
Midwood Smokehouse’s wide variety of barbecue options makes it a popular restaurant for tourists and locals alike. Rémy Thurston
All of Optimist Hall’s food stalls will be open on Easter, including Boxcar Betty’s, Botiwalla, Papi Queso and more. With a variety of options, you can grab something to take home or meet up after everyone you’re with chooses their meal of choice.
Enjoy hamburgers, butter chicken, gelato, craft cocktails and more at Optimist Hall. Alex Cason Photography CharlotteFIve
Celebrate the Easter holiday with Cuban food at A Piece of Havana. The restaurant’s Cuban Croquettes can cover your ham cravings, and you can also find family platters for sharing such as its Paella Cubana, with lobster, shrimp, clams, mussels, calamari and more tucked into savory yellow rice.
Go Latin this Easter with a spread of street food with influences from El Salvador, Dominican Republic, Venezuela, Mexico and Colombia at one of 18 locally owned Sabor restaurants. Choices include arepas, burritos, tortas, nachos or even a family meal box.
The Mexican Torta at Sabor has al-pastor pork, refried beans, mozzarella cheese, lettuce, sour cream and freshly made guacamole on a toasted bolillo bun. Alex Cason CharlotteFive
YAFO Kitchen locations will be open Easter Sunday for you to build a Mediterranean bowl or pita. You could also celebrate the holiday by trying Israeli Hot Chicken or Kibbeh Pita Tacos.
YAFO Kitchen’s menu has items for meat eaters and vegetarians. Remy Thurston
Heidi Finley is a writer and editor for CharlotteFive and the Charlotte Observer. Outside of work, you will most likely find her in the suburbs driving kids around, volunteering and indulging in foodie pursuits.Support my work with a digital subscription
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