Jazz, soul and craft beer for the grown-ups, a petting farm with lambs, goats, ducks and rabbits for the kids — and face painting, simnel cakes and Bread Ahead hot cross buns for all.
Ice cream shop Four Winters and baker the Meringue Girls are pairing up to serve meringue chicks and a cluster of speckled mini chocolate eggs, all nestled in half a golden milk chocolate Easter egg with an ice cream base.
Springfest is an Oktoberfest spin-off, with beers, bratwurst, and live music from oompah bands and Club De Fromage DJs. The Great Hall will be transformed into a giant Bierkeller, serving the best Meister Pils.
Bubbledogs has hidden imitation champagne bottles and hotdogs around Fitzrovia and Soho to be exchanged for a glass of fizz and one of its New Yorker or guest “dog shiitake” foot-longs.
Don’t bowl hungry: All Star Lane’s Easter Weekend bowling package ties together a lane for a family of four, dinner, and a mouthwatering Reese’s S’mores fondue, all for £60.
Embrace the escape room challenge with a seasonal edition of east London Time Run’s universe-spanning adventure. Hunt golden eggs that have disappeared through a time portal, all against the clock.
Like a 24-hour Lionel Richie, Oval Space’s Easter party is all night long, plus the day too, with funk-and-soul royalty Norman Jay OBE and Jazzie B MBE cranking out hits from 4pm until 6am.
Easter fun: Enjoy the long weekend with a night at Ballie Ballerson
10. Ivory hunters
Brunch to the Beat
The Piano Works, EC1, Saturday to Monday
Your song requests, played by a live piano band, accompanied by a bottomless lunch menu that features eggs benedict, a Bombay omelette or a full English, and limitless prosecco or Bloody Marys.
By day, The Village Butty, a floating community hall stocked with vinyl, vintage clothing, hand-made jewellery and hedgerow cocktails from the bar, will be on the Regent’s Canal near Angel. By night, the waterway’s Flotilla installation in Merchants Square will set adrift a 180-strong fleet of illuminated origami boats.
Have an unholy amount of fun with this Christ-themed pub crawl in which participants dress like Jesus and visit biblically named pubs, from The Trinity in Borough to the Silver Cross in Whitehall.
15. Ivy league
The Ivy Chelsea Garden
SW3, tomorrow until Monday
Enjoy an Easter roast at The Ivy Chelsea Garden. Finish with a chocolate bunny dessert accompanied with a drizzle of caramel sauce.
Improvised comedy meets immersive theatre at Hendrick’s Curious Chronology Cellar, where familiar tales like Romeo & Juliet take a new spin with the help of the audience.
The veteran stand-up — winner of the best Edinburgh Fringe joke of 2009 for “Hedgehogs. Why can’t they just share the hedge?” — makes a special bank holiday appearance.
