Easter menu templates for UK restaurants, pubs and bakeries

Easter Sunday 2027 is 28 March, with bank holidays on Good Friday 26 March and Easter Monday 29 March in England and Wales, so plan a four-day weekend rather than a single lunch. Restaurants and pubs need a Sunday lunch, a brunch and a Good Friday fish menu; bakeries need a pre-order list for hot cross buns, simnel cake and eggs. Each template here is free: lift the wording into Google Docs, Word or the free printable menu maker.

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Easter 2027 and 2028: the four-day weekend

GOV.UK lists Easter Monday as a bank holiday in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, but not in Scotland, where Good Friday is the Easter bank holiday. Two more things to note for 2027: the clocks go forward at 1am on Easter Sunday itself, so a 10:00 brunch will feel like 9:00 to your team, and Mothering Sunday falls three weeks earlier, on 7 March (see our Mother's Day templates).

Post your Easter opening times early. Our free closed sign maker makes a holiday-hours sign for the door and your socials.

Choose an Easter menu

Easter Sunday lunch set menu

Easter brunch menu

Good Friday fish menu

Bakery Easter pre-order list

The free holiday order form prints this as one A4 sheet with your logo and terms, and the cake order form handles celebration cakes. More ideas for bakers are on our bakery ordering page.

Example: hot-cross-bun pre-order schedule, Thursday to Saturday

Example only: a small bakery taking pre-orders by the half dozen, baking each morning, with 15% extra for walk-ins.

Good Friday takes half the pre-orders here, so it gets the earliest start. Close each day's orders the afternoon before the bake and read the total from your order list, not paper slips. Our menu price calculator helps price the half dozen.

Allergens, labelling and VAT at Easter

• Allergens. Chocolate eggs usually contain milk and often soya, and some carry "may contain nuts" warnings. Simnel cake contains almonds in the marzipan, plus egg, wheat and milk. Hot cross buns contain wheat and usually milk, and some recipes use egg or soya. On the fish menu, tartare sauce contains egg and often mustard, and battered fish brings wheat. Record each item from its recipe: see the 14 allergens guide.
• Pre-packed bakery boxes (PPDS). A bag of six buns or a boxed simnel cake that you pack before anyone asks for it, and sell from your own shop or market stall, is prepacked for direct sale. It needs a label with the food's name and the full ingredients, allergens emphasised. Packing a box once an order comes in isn't PPDS, though you still owe customers allergen information, and for online orders it must be available before they pay and when they collect. The Natasha's Law guide goes deeper, and our free allergen label maker prints PPDS labels.
• VAT. HMRC's Notice 701/14 zero-rates most bakery products (bread products and cakes, including fruit cakes) when they aren't sold in the course of catering, but chocolates are standard-rated, which takes in chocolate Easter eggs. Under Notice 709/1, food heated to order, such as a toasted teacake, is standard-rated, and so is anything eaten on your premises. The notices don't name hot cross buns, so if you sell them toasted or for eating in, check with your accountant. See our VAT on takeaway food guide.

Easter timeline for 2027

Run Easter through Menuthere

1. Bakery pre-orders (Lite). In Prebooking settings, switch on takeaway prebooking, let customers pick Date & time, and set the Date range to 25–27 March with fixed collection times. Under Applies to, pick Specific items and tick the Easter range. Set the Earliest booking time to 1 day and Only made on to Thursday, Friday and Saturday. One notice setting covers every ticked item, so either set the notice your slowest item needs or mark simnel cakes out of stock once their orders close. A basket that mixes Easter items with everyday bakes is asked to split the order. Pre-orders land in the Prebookings tab, where the Prepare now box shows what's due next.
2. Easter Sunday bookings (Lite). Open 28 March for table booking with lunch time slots and Ask number of people. You're sent a push notification an hour before each table.
3. The Good Friday fish special. "Show dishes at set times" works by weekday and time, not by date, so a fish menu set for Fridays will reappear every Friday. Switch it off after Good Friday, or simply switch the dishes on for the day and off again.
4. Discount codes by date (Lite). An early-bird code for bun pre-orders can run from 8 to 21 March only, with a minimum order. Codes follow weekdays and dates, never a time of day.
5. Tell your customers. Schedule a pop-up banner (Lite) for the pre-order window, and put a QR code on the counter. A branded app of your own lets you push an alert to its users on the morning bun orders open.

Everything above runs on Lite (US$17 a month, charged in US dollars), and no order carries commission. Try it free for 7 days first; a card is needed to start, and there's no charge before the trial is over. See pricing, and how guests reserve on our table booking page.

open Easter pre-orders on Lite.

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Next in the year: our restaurant marketing calendar lists every date, our Christmas templates pick up again in the autumn, and the UK menu templates gallery holds the rest.