Uptown’s most exciting restaurant serves dim sum brunch in a fun, upbeat atmosphere on Saturday and Sunday. The offerings will change frequently, as does the dinner menu, but diners can expect a $50, family-style brunch comprised of 6 dishes. It might include Kashmiri fried chicken, Chinese chicken and rice dumplings, or pork lumpia. Don’t miss the enticing brunch cocktails, or $35 bottomless mimosas.

Osteria Lupo is the impressive Northern Italian restaurant from the folks behind nearby Costera, a coastal Spanish tapas restaurant. It’s now serving a comforting, rustic brunch menu with a European flair, dishes like a pesto, pea, and provolone frittata; Eggs in Purgatory with arrabbiata, grilled focaccia, and ricotta salad; a Pane Perduto with rose water berries and lemon curd; and a breakfast sandwich on brioche with sausage, fontina, and an egg. Cocktails are elegant, like the La Mola with Cimarron Blanco tequila, Aperol, citrus, and bitters; and the classic Matralia, with red wine, amaro, and cola.

This D.C. favorite for steak has reopened its New Orleans restaurant on Magazine Street after taking a summer break and along with it an all-inclusive brunch deal that, price-wise, is pretty phenomenal. For $34.95 per person, diners can choose between bottomless bloody marys, screwdrivers, or mimosas; a starter of yogurt parfait, fruit salad, or a mixed greens salad (with bread); and for the main course, a choice of the famed steak frites, steak and portabella eggs Benedict, steaks and eggs, or french Toast and sausage. Hard to beat that.

This charming, beautiful restaurant in the LGD is a delight — family-owned, friendly, and elegant. It’s also already serving brunch, a rarity for most new restaurants. On Saturday and Sunday, the normally seafood-centric menu gets a mid-day makeover with dishes like stuffed French toast, boneless short ribs with poached eggs, crab meat eggs Benedict, Gulf shrimp salad, pear toast, and a BLT.

Shortly after opening in its elegant, soaring Warehouse District space, Plates is serving brunch — a good move for a sprawling downtown space in close proximity to the Convention Center and World War II museum. The regular lunch and dinner menu adds items like chorizo hash, a Spanish tortilla, and steak and eggs, or for something on the lighter side, greek yogurt with granola or a bocadillo.

Jolie is the Warehouse District’s chicest new destination for over-the-top cocktails and elegant French-inspired small plates with a side of entertainment. It’s now serving Sunday brunch, too, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., with a concise but enticing menu of dishes like eggs Florentine; breakfast poutine; a pork belly grits Hangover Bowl; goat cheese frittata; and waffle board with apple butter, strawberry jam, dulce de leche, and Italian meringue.

Weekend R&B brunch at Blake’s Place, the new-school NOLA comfort food restaurant from chef Blake Cressey, offers dishes like fluffy, sugar-dusted waffles with bacon and eggs; ethereal omelets; and savory catfish and grits. Mimosas are a must and reservations are advised, as the restaurant fills up on the weekend.

Mister Oso’s splashy downtown location serves a funky, festive brunch menu of breakfast tacos, tres leches French toast, crunch wraps, and chilaquiles verdes, plus mojo pork, quesabirria, cauliflower al pastor, and smoked chicken tacos. Start the morning with a margarita and end it with an order of churros.

Downtown’s new Tacos del Cartel brings splashy to a new level, with textural, extravagant interiors dripping with art, sculptures, and color; a true feast for the senses. The modern Mexican restaurant specializes in vibey brunch, serving a huge menu of dishes like like tres leches French toast, chilaquiles, a breakfast burrito, oyster mushroom omelette, and Huevos Ahogados, a classic breakfast of eggs poached in smoky tomato salsa. Its cold dishes are another specialty, like black aguachile, green ceviche, and tuna tostadas.

Emeril Lagasse has a new restaurant downtown in New Orleans’s soon-to-be Caesars Casino, marking the celebrity chef’s first foray into French food. The elegant space serves dishes synonymous with a splurge, like a seafood tower, along with classic brasserie staples like French onion soup, tarte flambée, and steak frites au poivre. Beginning December 23 it opens for brunch on Saturday and Sunday (and Mondays during the holidays only), beginning at 10 a.m.

The elegant cocktail bar in Hotel Fontenot downtown serves a brunch menu that aims to get the party started, ideal for a group in every way. An eye-popping brunch tower great includes caviar & potato cakes, truffle deviled eggs, crispy Gulf oysters, salt and pepper shrimp, petite quiche Lorraine, shaved prosciutto di parma, pimento cheese & creole cracklins’ (there’s also Gulf shrimp and grits, bourbon pecan sticky buns, and the banana bread French toast with toffee crumble, bacon jam, and maple syrup). Drinks are equally group-friendly, like the Chambong Spritz for 2 or 8, mimosa service, and the Pineapple Express with vodka, Pimm’s, tepache, strawberry, lemon, and Cava in a punch bowl for 8.

This new restaurant from Nice Guys NOLA in the space formerly home to the legendary Little Gem Saloon, is a tourist-friendly good time that should be equally appealing to locals. The vast menu of New Orleans staples and Southern riffs gets a breakfast twist for weekend brunch, with dishes like crabcake and oxtail Benedicts, catfish and grits, chicken and waffles, and a whole category of omelets. On the sweet side, there are bananas Foster beignets and praline bread pudding, representing New Orleans through and through.

This French Quarter hotspot with a high-touch design and great vibes has introduced brunch — bulgogi and grits, anyone? Brunch offerings follow the same flavorful mashup formula as the regular menu — Asian-American and Korean-centric, but with a good dose of New Orleans flair. The breakfast potatoes are outrageous, a great side to pair with crawfish and grits or the baco breakfast tacos and extravagant cocktails. Served Saturday and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Sunday brunch is a highlight at Palm & Pine, the inventive French Quarter restaurant that blends flavors from the Caribbean, Southern U.S., and Central America. An oft-changing brunch menu might include a crawfish chile relleno, duck boudin omelet, Texas wagyu and eggs, or chilaquiles. Cocktails, both alcoholic and non, are top-notch.

Brand new from chef Julio Machado is Origen, a Bywater bistro serving brunch spreads of tequeños, tostones, and cachapas; Venezuelan-style ceviches; and spit-roasted carne en vara. Origen offers two menus: all-day and brunch. The best way to approach brunch, Machado says, is to order a range of small plates — cheesy tequeños with black beans and rice; tostones with a fried egg and avocados; cachapas (a Venezuelan corn pancake) with cracklings on the side.

Vassiliki Ellwood Yiagazis’s “Greek and Jewish soul food” pop-up is now a fully fledged cafe, dishing up breakfast gyros (soft scrambled eggs, crispy bacon, fried halloumi, French fries, and creamy tzatziki stuffed into a pita) on Bienville Street. Smoke & Honey has been steadily expanding its menu since opening, adding bagels with whipped feta and cucumber salad and hot smoked salmon on rye toast.

Rosella, a gloriously nostalgic restaurant with vintage vibes in Mid-City, debuted brunch this spring, adding to its versatile slate of food, wine, and cocktails. On Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., the charming cafe serves avocado toast topped with smoked catfish dip and Cajun caviar, Huevos Rosella made with a short rib-topped pupusa, mushroom toast, and a Croque Madame, among other delights.