The Ultimate Father's Day Restaurant Guide Slideshow
Los Angeles
Fleming's Prime Steakhouse & Wine Bar: This Sunday, the steakhouse is offering a special prix fixe three-course menu for $34.95 per person. Filet mignon benedict and French toast are among the options. Bonus: Dad gets a $25 dining card to use on his next meal.
Tavern: Suzanne Goin and Caroline Stynes restaurant is hosting a Fathers Day special for the big day. The $45 per person prix fixe menu will be served for dinner and includes tomato salad, barbecued brisket, and chocolate brioche bread pudding. (pictured at left)
The Larder at Tavern: The subset of Tavern is offering brunch for Fathers day with an extensive take-away menu. Try the barbeque picnic box, or simply get the Fathers Day brunch to try a slew of different foods. Order quickly, because Fathers Day orders must be placed by Thursday, June 14.
Miami
Villa Mayfair: Free dessert anyone? Villa Mayfair in Coconut Grove is offering a complimentary dessert for dads as well as a special three-course menu for $28 per person.
Area 31: Area 31 is really stepping up their meat game for this years Fathers Day. A $75 per person tasting menu (or $95 with scotch or beer pairings) is being offered for the meat-lover in the family. The tasting menu will feature steak tartar with fried egg and potato chips, sunchoke soup with pork cheek, and suckling pig Bolognese with pappardelle. (pictured at left)
Tudor House: Chef Jamie DeRosa is holding a cookout to celebrate the day. A whole hog and whole snappers will be the main event. A bourbon bar will be open for an hour, and PBR will be available to quench dads thirst. All of this comes at a price of $65 per person.
New York
Corner Table Restaurants: The Smith East Village, The Smith Midtown, and The Jane are offering a Fathers Day special for the seafood-loving dad. The $29 clambake is made with little neck clams, lobster, mussels, shrimp, and calamari steamed in a white wine broth.
Caffe Vita and Via Tribunali: Whats a better deal than FREE? Via Tribunali is offering a free margherita pizza to all dads on Fathers Day (recent grads out with the pops can also get in on this by getting a free pizza for showing a picture of their diplomas). After lunch, dads get a free French press coffee from Caffe Vita to wrap up the meal. (Caffe Vita pictured at left)
Asellina Ristorante: Think your dad might dig a complimentary cigar? Asellina Ristorante at The Gansevoort Hotel is having Sunday Supper on Fathers day with a three-course meal for $35 per person. A cigar-roller cart will be going around, giving each father a hand-rolled cigar with dinner.
-Bouchon Caf: The Time Warner Center eatery will be offering chef Thomas Kellers famous fried chicken for Fathers Day. From 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m., for $38 per person. The meal comes with asparagus salad with a poached egg; fried chicken with leek bread pudding, celery root remoulade, and cornbread; and blueberry pie with buttermilk ice cream.
Seattle
Library Bistro: Take your literary father to this 40s and 50s style restaurant, which has bookcases filled with books. There is a special brunch offered this Sunday with extra dishes. The bloody Mary bar is sure to make this Dads day one to remember. (pictured at left)
Mortons the Steakhouse Seattle: Lets face it: most dads love steak. Check out Mortons and its $69 per person prix fixe menu this Fathers Day. For other guests who dont love red meat, pork chops, chicken, and salmon are also on the menu.
Local 360 Caf and Bar: For the early-bird in the family, Local 360 will start serving Fathers Day brunch at 8 a.m. The $35 three-course menu features baby back ribs, steak, or rockfish.
Washington, D.C.
The Dupont Circle Hotel: Get your Don Draper on this Fathers Day. The Mad About Dad package comes with exclusive access to Level Nine Martini Bar and hors dOuevres, a shave at the grooming lounge, the Don Draper specialty cocktail at Bar Dupont, and a morning-after brunch at Caf Dupont. The men of Madison Avenue would be proud.
Bastille: The French restaurant is offering a $49 prix fixe menu this Dads day. Among the menu options are Warm goat cheese cromesqui and organic mesclun, with local peach and pecan nuts, and grilled main lobster paella.
Jackson 20: Is your dad an animal lover? Jackson 20 is featuring a petting zoo by Pony To Go this Sunday for Fathers Day. Admission is free for anyone coming in to enjoy brunch. AS always, bottomless $12 mimosas are also available. (pictured at left)
Austin
Chez Zee: The American Bistro is offering a special dessert and dinner for Fathers Day. A special cheesecake has been created just for the day, as well as a smoked prime rib that shows off that Texas flare. (pictured at left)
Cypress Grill: This Louisiana-style caf is offering up something extra special for dad this Sunday: a roll of duct tape! Enjoy a meal of Cajun food and leave feeling really full and really ready to fix something.
Green Pastures Restaurant: Green Pastures is hosting a Fathers Day brunch menu for $50 per person. The brunch includes a huge assortment of salads, pickled dishes, fish, meats, and dessert. For the picky eater, this meal has it all.
Boston
Aragosta: Men and their scotch. Chef David Daniels is offering a 20 oz. porterhouse steak this Fathers Day and hes pairing it with a glass of scotch. Sounds like a heavenly meal for dad.
Clink: Chef Joseph Margate is throwing one heck of a Fathers Day bash. Clink is hosting a pig roast in the courtyard of the Liberty Hotel. For $45 per person, one can enjoy live music, artisanal side dishes, a Michters cocktail, samplings of Michters bourbon, whiskey, and rye, and a hand-rolled cigar.
Craigie on Main: This restaurant is adding extra special dishes inspired by dads to all of its menus this Sunday. For brunch, Chef Tony Maws is adding a Papa Panino. For dinner, a 4-course prix fixe meal will be offered with big slabs of meat, according to the menu. Or for the night owl, check out the Chefs Whim offered after 9 pm. For dear old dad, the chef is featuring a three-course burger and buffalo whim. (pictured at left)
Chicago
David Burkes Primehouse: Located in The James Hotel, the restaurant is hosting a special Fathers Day brunch. The main feature is a Dads steak box which includes vegas strip steak and eggs, chorizo hollandaise, and bourbon barrel dry aged tenderloin. (pictured at left)
Fiorentinos: The authentic Italian eatery is offering some specials for dad this Sunday. Among the dishes is creamy risotto with Chesapeake Bay soft shell crabs, 12 oz. New York strip, and pork cop alla Romana. Dads also get a $20 gift certificate toward their next visit.
Harry Carays: If your dad is a baseball enthusiast, this Italian steakhouse is the place to be this Fathers Day. As the Chicago Cubs take on the Boston Red Sox, the restaurant will be offering a variety of specials from both cities. From Chicago, shrimp de Johnge and chicken Vesuvio will be available. From Boston, fresh Cod and Lobster will be featured. The restaurant also has flat screen TVs, so dad can always be watching the game.
Las Vegas
Aureole: Its easy to expect big things from Las Vegas, and this 5-course prix fixe menu wont disappoint. The meal begins with yellowfin tuna, and moves on to rabbit, lobster, and filet mignon. The whole meal costs $85 per person. (pictured at left)
Simon Restaurant and Lounge: If your dad is more of a buffet guy, Simon is the best place for your and your family. At $49 per adult, the restaurant will offer an array of pork loin and prime rib. The potato bar is also sure to be a big hit, as well as the dessert buffet featuring bacon waffles with bourbon maple syrup.
Coasta Cantina: For a less pricey Las Vegas Fathers Day, try Coasta Cantina, where for just $17.99, dad can enjoy salad, fajitas, marinated skirt steak, and tres leches cake.
New Orleans
Muriels: Located in the heart of Jackson Square, this jazz restaurant offers a Fathers Day brunch sure to please any Creole lover. With dishes such as crawfish and goat cheese crepes, Louisiana alligator hash, and shrimp and Andouille sausage omelets, you cant go wrong! (pictured at left)
Zea Rotisserie and Grill: After enjoying a Sunday meal this Fathers Day, dad can take home a 4-pack of free beer from Zeas!
Galvez Restaurant: Located in the French Quarter, this Spanish restaurant is hosting several drink specials including $3 mimosas and Bloody Marys. A three-course brunch is offered for $25 per person. Dads first drink is on the house!
Philadelphia
Gypsy Saloon: The steakhouse is offering a $35 per person menu this Fathers Day. After choosing which salad and meat dad wants, he also has the opportunity to choose his special sauce for his meal including hollandaise and lemon butter caper sauce. (pictured at left)
Jacks Firehouse: Chef Jack McDavid hosts a Fathers Day brunch with such novelties as Philly steak omelets and golden brioche bread French toast. For dinner, the daredevil dad should opt for the chefs special, a 4-course meal that the chef whips up on the spot. Brunch is $25 and dinner is $40.
Davios: The Northern Italian steakhouse is offering a prix fixe menu for dad this Sunday. For $65 a person, you get the 3-course steak tasting menu. And just for dad, a complimentary beer!
San Francisco
Park Chalet Garden Restaurant: The Park Chalet is offering a special Fathers Day brunch for $35 per person. Enjoy the live music on the lawn while dining on smoked brisket with Rip Tide Red barbeque sauce and beef carpaccio with capers and shaved Parmesan.
Urban Tavern: For dad, Urban tavern is offering their regular a la carte menu, but also featuring an a la carte barbeque dinner, which includes ribs, chicken, and sausage, as well as, cucumber slaw and grilled corn. Dads get a complimentary mason jar full of Urban Taverns signature steak sauce, which is sure to come in handy come during summer cookouts.
Beach Chalet Brewery and Restaurant: This Sunday, Beach Chalet is serving a slew of brunch specials such as smoked salmon benedict, Canadian bacon benedict, and crab benedict. Not in the mood for brunch? There are dinner specials, too, including a burrata salad, a bacon lobster burger, and Thai chili ribs. (pictured at left)