100 Best Brunch Spots In America List Out In Time For Mother’s Day

ACROSS AMERICA — The nation’s moms have taken a back seat to the COVID-19 pandemic for past two years, but their children plan make up for lost time at some of the most sought-after tables in the country named to OpenTable’s list of the 100 Best Brunch Spots in America.

The online reservation service said an analysis of its data shows Mother’s Day reservations to its clients are up 39 percent compared with pre–pandemic 2019, and up 13 percent compared with 2021.

And in a survey of 1,255 adults, 45 percent said they plan to make up for time lost with their mothers and mother figures during the pandemic by “going big” this year. And 48 percent of moms surveyed said their ideal Mother’s Day involves going out to brunch or dinner.

Among those, nearly half (47 percent) are opting for brunch. The most popular cuisines represented on the list are American (30 percent), French (19 percent), contemporary American (11 percent) and seafood (10 percent).

Here’s the full list released by OpenTable, listed by alphabetically by state, with links to OpenTable reservation pages:

Arizona

California

Connecticut

District of Columbia

Florida

Georgia

Hawaii

Illinois

Indiana

Louisiana

Maryland

Massachusetts

Minnesota

Missouri

Nevada

New York

North Carolina

Ohio

Oklahoma

Pennsylvania

Tennessee

Texas

Vermont

Virginia

Washington

More about the list can be found at OpenTable and OpenTable’s Mother’s Day planning hub.

This article originally appeared on the Across America Patch