Father's Day specials

(Credit: Courtesy of Brio Tuscan Grille)

Moms get the motherload (couldn't help myself) of special treatment for their special day, so why not Dads too? These local restaurants are giving back to Dads with some one-day specials:

(All dates are Sunday, June 21 unless otherwise noted.)

Brio Tuscan Grille: 11 a.m. - 3 p.m. - Father's Day Brunch featuring cinnamon apple pancakes, crab crepes, grilled salmon, sweet potato hash and two beef tenderloin dishes. Reservations strongly recommended.

Ethos Vegan Kitchen: 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. -  Father's Day Brunch featuring cinnamon French toast.

Funky Monkey Wine Company: 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. seating - Family style barbecue ($29 per person) with performances by the Funky Monkey Dancers and special guests Andy Howard and his cloggers. (Regular menu not available; reservations required.)

Fulton's Crab House: Chef Ron Cope will prepare a special dinner including BBQ St. Louis Ribs, fresh corn on the cob and crispy onion straws for $29.95. Dad can wash it down with $3 Bass Ales. (Oh and those rugrats eat free.)

Morton's The Steakhouse: Special menu ($65) featuring a choice of soup or salad (baked five onion soup, caesar salad, center cut iceberg), entree (double cut filet mignon, signature cut New York strip steak, cajun ribeye steak, broiled salmon fillet, chicken christopher), one vegetable or potato and a dessert (carrot cake or key lime pie). They are also hosting a Best Dads contest. 

Portobello: Chef Steven Richard will be cooking up a three-course menu ($39.95) with a choice of tomato soup or baby greens with balsamic vinaigrette to start; rack of lamb with roasted garlic whipped potatoes, asparagus and rosemary sauce round out the meal with a chocolate paradiso cake topping it off. (Also available will be the single malt scotch flight ($13.95) with Glenmorangie, 10-year old Glenmorangie Quinta Ruban and Glenmorangie Nectar D'or.

Smokey Bones Bar: Dads get a free meal with the purchase of a meal.

TCBY (at participating locations): Free cup or cone.

Texas de Brazil: Starting at 11 a.m. - Serving the dinner menu and price all day. Reservations highly recommended.

Wolfgang Puck Cafe: Dad can taste beers from around the world in the World Beer Tasting ($40 per person), featuring three different types of beer paired with a complementing dish. The menu includes shrimp in Thai green curry paired with tiger beer from Thailand for the appetizer; Guinness Sorbet as an intermezzo; peppered steak with wild cherry demi complemented by La Fin Du Monde from Canada for the entree; and for dessert will be bananas foster paired with New Castle from England.

Other events

On the non-restaurant front, for Dads wanting a little entertainment in their weekend, Osceola Heritage Park (exhibition building) will host the FCW and WWE Hall of Fame Legends Father's Day Salute on Friday, June 19 at 8 p.m. The salute will feature WWE Hall of Fame legends and their son's as well as a heavy weight tag team match, heavyweight title match, queen of Florida match, and an autograph session with WWE Diva Champion Candice Michelle. Kids and under are free with their Dads; free photo with FCW superstar.