Six Grown-Up Easter Treats to Hunt Down Around Brisbane

We reckon that you're never too old for Easter. Let's be honest: when an occasion involves copious amounts of chocolate, that's something that you never outgrow (and if you claim you have, we call fibs).

Sure, egg hunts and bunny ears seem better suited for kids; however, there's still plenty of tasty concoctions that'll make even the most mature among us start salivating. You just need to know what to look for — from Easter eggs that melt into fondue and chocolate hot cross cruffins through to banoffee cocktails (and more).

Easter Eggs That Melt Into Fondue, Bunny Cookies and Bottomless Champagne at Belle Epoque

There's never a bad time to treat yo'self to high tea, but Easter is one of the best. Plenty of spots around town celebrate the occasion with exactly that kind of spread — and this list includes more than one. So, what makes Belle Epoque's high tea stand out? Firstly, there's the fact that it's available for more than just a few days, hanging around for a month this time around. Tuck in daily from 10.30am–1pm up until Wednesday, April 30. This feast includes sea salt caramel whip bunny cookies, an edible garden with cocoa soil, a red velvet and raspberry cake, scones, quiches, and smoked salmon and beetroot sandwiches. It also comes just with tea or coffee ($80), or you can add bottomless champagne ($130) on top.

Another option: the most decadent of Easter eggs to share. For $45 for two people, your handcrafted chocolate orb will melt in front of you, turning into fondue — which you can dip fruit, marshmallows and cookies into.

Fruit Hot Cross Cruffins and Chocolate Hot Cross Cruffins at Lune Croissantrie

First, Lune perfected croissants, so much so that the Australian bakery chain is renowned for its flaky pastries all round the world. Then came giving cruffins, aka croissant-muffin hybrids, a spin. For Easter, the obvious next step followed: hot cross cruffins, for when you want a hot cross bun, but you're also hankering for a croissant and a muffin — and you don't want to have to choose.

Lune's hot cross cruffins have been popping up annually for years, but 2025's batch is different. This time, they're made using the acclaimed bakery's signature croissant dough. You can also pick between two varieties this year: the OG and chocolate, both for $10.50 each. Can't decide which one, after being unable to select between hot cross buns, croissants and muffins to start with? You can get mixed six-packs featuring the two for for $63.

Banoffee Cocktails at The Terrace

Stop by the Emporium Hotel in South Bank before the end of April and you'll find multiple ways to celebrate Easter. That not only spans Belle Epoque's options above, but also includes boozy choices upstairs at The Terrace — yes, 21 floors up, and with striking views over Brisbane to prove it.

Two seasonal tipples are available for those who like their Easter spirit with some actual spirits. The first is a banoffee cocktail made with spiced rum, caramelised banana, coffee caramel, chocolate and meringue, and will set you back $24. Also available: a $26 drink called the Sunny Side that's made with vanilla vodka and lime zest oleo, and features a mango yolk that looks incredibly realistic.

Hot Cross Scones with Martinis at W Brisbane

Located within W Brisbane, Living Room Bar is home one of Brisbane's most-reliable events: weekend high teas. In 2025, the bar's Golden Glow High Tea is putting on an Easter edition for three weekends only, too, running Friday–Sunday for sittings between 11am–3pm across Friday, April 11–Sunday, April 27 — and yes, Easter eggs are among them.

Those orbs come in a vanilla, cherry and hazelnut combination, and pair well with hot cross scones, the mango and coconut slice, Easter parfait to share, yoghurt and guava profiteroles, green olive crumble bruschetta, tartlets with salmon and avruga caviar, and more. Your price options vary, with $79 covering the high tea, plus bottomless tea and barista coffee; $99 adding a Golden Glow martini; and $109 swapping that cocktail for Veuve Clicquot Champagne NV Brut. You can also just opt for a Golden Glow martini for $26 — it's made with Bacardi Gold rum, peach aperitif, vanilla and clarified oat milk.

Yuzu Custard Bunny Teacups and Cherry- and Chilli Chocolate-Infused Umeshu Cocktails at Hotel Indigo's Bar 1603

At Indigo Isuta Soirée: A High Tea Affair, Easter gets a Japanese spin, complete with yuzu custard bunny teacups, green tea yuzu tiramisu and matcha macarons, plus a cherry- and chilli chocolate-infused umeshu cocktail. The high-tea menu also includes green apple mousse flourless tartlets that come flecked with gold flakes, tamago sandos, mini wagyu burgers and, of course, both hot cross buns and Easter eggs.

You'll pay $99 per person, with a minimum of two people needed, to get feasting from 11am–3pm daily across the entire month of April — right through till Wednesday, April 30, 2025 — at Bar 1603 inside Hotel Indigo on Turbot Street. That cocktail is extra, however, for an additional $15.

Hot Cross Bun Bread and Butter Pudding at One Fish Two Fish

If your Easter routine usually involves a seafood feast, then you might want to make a date with a certain Kangaroo Point fish 'n' chippery this year — and for the last time before it closes down. From Friday, April 18–Sunday, April 20, 2025, One Fish Two Fish is serving up plenty of the ocean's finest for the occasion, all as part of a $125 four-course meal that starts with seafood platters and remains just as indulgent from there.

Those platters are made to share, and come stacked with pacific oysters, Moreton Bay bugs, cooked Mooloolaba prawns, sand crab toast topped with caviar and green-lip mussels. Next, you'll enjoy apple and blackcurrant granita as a palette cleanser, then grilled goldband snapper with fries and garden salad. We've only listed three rounds so far, with the fourth course getting sweet. To wrap things up, you'll be tucking into hot cross bun bread and butter pudding with vanilla ice cream and baked white chocolate crumble.