By Polly Campbell
The Cincinnati Enquirer

Where to find a special Easter dinner next Sunday:

Most restaurants that are open on Sunday will be open on Easter. Call your favorite restaurant and see what they're doing. But here are a few suggestions:

• Easter will offer a chance to peek a look at a restaurant that is scheduled to reopen this summer. The Millennium Hotel / Four Points Sheraton, downtown, plans to reopen the revolving restaurant that most recently was Seafood 32 as an Italian steakhouse called Ventana d'Italia. The preview will be Easter, when the restaurant will serve an a la carte brunch.

Expect it to be a family event, with jugglers, balloon artists and egg decorating in the hotel lobby, and a drawing for passes to family attractions in the area.

A three-course brunch will include breakfast items, such as Belgian waffles, and lunch items, such as four-cheese tortelloni or veal Oscar. Cost: $18.95; children under 10 are free. There will be three seatings: 10 a.m., 12:30 and 3 p.m. Reservations: 352-2189 (8 a.m.-2 p.m. daily).

• The Black Forest German restaurant in West Chester Township will have a prime rib buffet noon-7 p.m. Easter. It will include prime rib, ham carved to order, plus chicken breast, pork roast and seafood with pasta. Also vegetables, salads, and peel-and-eat shrimp. Cost: $16.95, $6.95 for children under 10. Reservations: 777-7600.

• Sturkey's in Wyoming will offer a buffet. Among the 35 items will be assorted salads and cheeses, smoked salmon, poached shrimp, roast chicken, salmon with watercress leek sauce, honey-glazed ham, carved roast beef, and a dessert buffet with apple peach cobbler.

Cost: $24.95, $11.95 for children 4-12, free for kids under 3. The buffet will be open 11:45 a.m.-5.45 p.m. Reservations: 821-9200.

• For a somewhat more spiritual atmosphere, you might try the Easter dinner buffet in the dining room at Grailville, the women's retreat center in Loveland. It will include breast of chicken chablis, salmon filet with mayonnaise and leek sauce, cloved ham, sole stuffed with spinach and frozen strawberry mousse tarts. There are always vegetarian items on the menu. Seatings will be 5 and 6:30 p.m. Cost: $15, $8 for children 4-10, free for kids 3 and under. Reservations: 683-2340.

• If you think Easter dinner should include leg of lamb, try the Heritage in Plainville. Its Easter menu will include balsamic roasted leg of lamb, Niman Ranch pork chop with chipotle pomegranate glaze and Bourbon brown sugar baked ham. Most entrees are under $20. Hours: noon-7 p.m. Reservations: 561-9300.

• La Caravelle in Greenhills will offer an Easter brunch buffet, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Cost: $17, $7 for children under 12. Reservations required: 825-7135.

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