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Tasty Easter Brunch Offerings In New York City

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Looking for a place in New York City to have a great Easter brunch? A few top restaurants are offering delicious Easter specials.

Adour Alain Ducasse at The St. Regis New York is serving an Easter 3-course prix fixe brunch with choice for $85 (a menu for children is also available upon request for $30). The elegant menu includes seared duck foie gras with grapes, roasted pears and a vin jaune sauce; warm jumbo asparagus with creamy morels and an egg purse; and roasted Pennsylvania lamb with spring vegetable fricassee and marjoram scented lamb sauce. For dessert the deliciousness continues with raspberry/pistachio tartellete, hazelnut éclair, fromage blanc with fruit jams, chocolate and caramel mousse in a chocolate cup, and cookies, marshmallows and caramels for the kids. The Easter menu will be available at 2 seatings: 12:30pm and 2:30pm.

For Easter Sunday, A Voce Columbus will be offering a three course prix-fixe brunch for $50 (a menu for children under 10 yrs. is also available for $30). Executive Chef Missy Robbins' Italian-inspired menu features a selection of antipasti dishes such as Stracciatella (creamy Pugliese mozzarella, pears, speck, arugula) and Cavatelli (Brussels sprouts, bacon, Sicilian almonds, whipped sheep's milk); secondi dishes such as Uova in purgatorio (poached eggs, San Marzano tomatoes, rosemary, percorino) and Castrato d'Agnello (grilled leg of lamb, Meyer lemon puree, herbs, crispy Yukon golds), as well as a selection of desserts.

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Spring Treats From Bouchon Bakery

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Ready for your Easter treats? Chef Thomas Keller's Bouchon Bakery in New York City has created some tempting treats in celebration of Spring/Easter. The list includes seasonal macarons in flavors like Lemon Meringue, Pistachio, and Coconut, buttery cookies in bunny and egg shapes. You've got just another day or so to nab the homemade flourless chocolate cake being offered through Passover. Shown above is the Easter Egg Carton, a six-piece egg carton with marshmallows and chocolates eggs for $10.75. The full menu of treats is after the jump.

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Adorable Bunnies for Your Littlest Ones' Easter Baskets

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Filed under: Children

Centered in the middle of most all Easter baskets for children is the ubiquitous stuffed bunny rabbit. Often they can be found in unappealing pastels and made out of questionable fabrics. For those who want their littlest Easter holiday participants to have a super soft, squeezable bunny and do not want to sacrifice quality for cuteness D. Porthault has several options.

In Paris at the turn of the 20th century D. Porthault opened his first lingerie store. His wife later pressured him into expanding into selling fine linens. They were one of the first stores to carry printed sheets. The patterns were inspired by a love of Impressionist art and the gardens at Giverny. By the 1940' the company was printing the world's first printed terry towels and would soon expand their line to include sheets made of cotton percale and voile in addition to flax. The company moved into custom bedding and "Les Coeurs", still one of their most coveted designs, was inspired by the sketches of Duchess of Windsor.

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Vivian Alexander Easter Eggs Purse, Handbag of the Day

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Easter is such a happy holiday, full of bright whites and pastels and of course all the new life and greenery that comes with the spring season. We covered Vivian Alexander's egg purses awhile back but I think they deserve a revisit -- especially because of this cheerful Easter Egg Purse that catches the whimsical side of the holiday. It features a pattern of multi-colored pastel eggs on a pearlized white background with 18k gold trim, feet, and chain. There's also this darling Easter Parade Pink Mini Purse -- a perfect gift for a daughter or niece.

Made from real eggshells that are enameled and decorated with precious metals and gemstones, $475.

Gallery: Vivian Alexander Hand-Embellished Evening Purses

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Temple St. Clair Crystal Egg Pendant

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Filed under: Jewelry

Temple St. Clair's stunning craftsmanship is shown off in this elegant and simple pendant necklace. The Crystal Egg Pendant features a translucent, polished crystal egg that is suspended in a cage of four, 18-karat gold bands. Each of the bands is further embellished with .22-karat brilliant-cut diamonds, centered on each of the bands, which set off the sparkling crystal egg. The not-too-large 1.8-cm length allows the pendant to fit both long and short chains equally well. Price: $2,300.

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Diamond Stella Egg

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Chocolate, diamonds and it's not even from Tokyo. The £50 000 ($87,025) diamond-encrusted Easter egg (shown being touched up by Christophe Lambert in this AP photo) is being shown off in London at La Maison du Chocolat. The Diamond Stella Egg is over in 100 half-carat diamonds and is around two feet tall. The chocolate egg came from Paris and once in London a chef melted small parts of the egg in order to attach the diamonds. The inside of the egg includes peach and apricot chocolate and pralines.

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Lux List: Favorite Egg-cellent Items

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Designers love eggs. Eggs have beautiful, clean lines and a great shape. The egg shape is perfectly symmetrical when cut vertically, but has a soft slope that draws the eye along its curves when viewed as a whole. Egg shapes can and do appear just about anywhere anwhere, in both small and large sizes. We've noticed this, as egg-shapes have come up repeatedly on Luxist, but we still have our favorites. Let's face it: some egg designs work better than others. These are some of the good ones:

Vivian Alexander Egg Purses - These novel purses are made out of real Rhea egg shells. They are enameled and decorated to perfection by hand with a variety of precious and semi-precious stones. The interior of the purses are lined with silk and they retail from $1000-7000. The Chanticleer Purse, pictured, costs $2,875.

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World's Most Expensive Bunny

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Filed under: Auctions

Harrod's is showcasing the world's most expensive bunny. The bunny is made to look like the iconic Lindt chocolate bunnies, which are traditionally wrapped in gold foil and sold around the Easter holiday. Though the critter matches the 200-gram chocolate double in size, the Harrod's bunny is inedible, made not of chocolate but of 24-karat gold. It is inlaid with diamonds, rubies, citrine and topaz, and is valued in excess of £20,000, or approximately $35,000.

On display until April 16th, you can bid on the bunny by visiting it in the Candy Room at the Harrod's Knightsbridge store. All proceeds will be given to the Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity. Alternatively, you can buy yourself an edible Lindt chocolate bunny, sold in a set of three for $10.99.

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Carved and Sculpted Eggs

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Forgo those cheap plastic eggs that seem to be overflowing supermarket shelves in the weeks before Easter and satisfy your craving for the seasonal egg-shapes with something that will last. Real eggs of various sizes can be carved and sculpted into a variety of surprising shapes and astonishingly beautiful patterns. Ron Cheruka, the "Egg Man", has been doing egg art for many years and uses modified dental tools with carbide and diamond bits to hand cut every egg that he makes. He uses ostrich, rhea, emu and standard eggs in his work. The emu eggs are visually stunning due to the natural pigments in the shells, which range from teal to black, but the nearly cantaloupe-sized ostrich eggs are the most spectacular. Their thick shells allow for the most detailed carvings, like the dragon pictured here, and the finished egg resembles polished ivory. Dragon Egg Price: $500.