Palm Beach dining: Restaurants to go all-out for Mother's Day
The second Sunday in May is always one of the busiest dining-out days of the year in Palm Beach: It’s Mother’s Day, after all.
It falls this year on May 8, and restaurants will feature brunches, prix-fixe menus, daily specials and more.
Some also will offer their regular menus. Making advance reservations is required or strongly encouraged.
Brunch options abound
Brunch at the Four Seasons’ Florie’s ($195 a person) will feature a buffet, live music and a complimentary glass of sparkling wine for diners. Along with “land and sea” carving stations, there will be signature dishes, a raw bar with shrimp, stone crab and more, and a pastry showcase of desserts.
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Three venues at The Breakers will host Mother’s Day brunch.
The Ponce de Leon Ballroom ($185 adults; $75 children 12 and younger) will feature a pianist, plus unlimited Champagne cocktails and The Breakers’ custom-blended wine. Look for such buffet offerings as beef tenderloin, rack of lamb, fish and an array of desserts.
In The Breakers’ historic Circle dining room, brunch ($185 adults; $75 for children 12 and younger) will offer an assortment of attended food stations and signature desserts while a live harpist plays. Unlimited drinks will include Champagne cocktails, The Breakers’ custom-blended wine and Bloody Marys at a make-your-own bar.
The brunch menu at The Breakers’ Flagler Steakhouse also will be available at dinner. The three-course menu with steaks and seafood is $185 adults; $75 for children 12 and younger.
At Café Boulud at The Brazilian Court, a three-course brunch ($135 adults; $65 children younger than 12) features such selections as Belgian waffles, lobster Benedict, cedar-roasted Ora king salmon and D’Artagnan chicken with spring peas, asparagus and wild mushrooms. Chocolate cake with pistachio ice cream is among the desserts planned.
The Colony’s Swifty’s restaurant will offer its regular brunch menu along with a special flower wall where family members can take pictures with their moms.
Alongside its regular Sunday brunch, Meat Market will give moms a complimentary Mimosa, plus a box of chocolates upon departure.
La Goulue plans to feature daily specials along with its regular menu at its Mother’s Day brunch. Among them: heirloom tomato salad ($18) with red onion, crumbled Roquefort and prosciutto “chips”; daurade ($42) with basil, lemon, toasted baby fennel and sauce vierge; and a trifle ($16) with berry cake and cream.
Daily specials at Almond's brunch will include smoked pastrami and eggs with home fries and sourdough toast ($22) and an omelet ($19) with goat cheese and Gratitude Garden mushrooms. Moms will receive a complimentary lavender-hued cocktail called The Same But Different.
Ambassador Grill at The Ambassador has planned a la carte specials for brunch and “bottomless” mimosas for moms. Spinach and feta quiche ($19); macadamia-crusted chicken roulade ($32) stuffed with spinach and prosciutto and served with herb-roasted potatoes and baby carrots; and mini cheesecake ($12) with fresh berries are among the specials.
Le Bilboquet will offer daily specials at both brunch and dinner: among them, heirloom tomato-and-berry gazpacho with King crab ($20); Ora king salmon crudo ($32) with grapefruit-and-fennel salad; chicken supreme ($52) with morel and asparagus fricassee; and charlotte aux fraise ($16) with vanilla shortcake and fresh strawberries
Flagler Museum, Chesterfield offer tea service
Two special tea services will be offered on Mother’s Day.
While the Flagler Museum’s Café des Beaux-Arts has closed for the season, it’s reopening for Mother’s Day, when it will feature a Gilded Age-style tea with seatings at noon and 2 p.m. in the museum’s waterfront Flagler Kenan Pavilion.
Moms will receive a surprise gift at the tea services. Cost is $70 for museum members; $80 for non-members; and $35 for children 12 and younger.
Mother’s Day afternoon tea at The Chesterfield’s Leopard Lounge & Restaurant will feature a variety of teas along with pastries, tea sandwiches and scones with strawberry jam and Devonshire cream.
The Leopard’s tea service ($48 a person) also will offer specialty cocktails for an additional cost, such as the “Mom-tini” ($18) with Absolut vodka, lemongrass syrup, cranberry-pomegranate juice and a splash of sparkling rose wine.
Dinner specials
Restaurants also will offer Mother’s Day dinner specials.
Café L’Europe will feature such appetizers as a trio of chilled soups ($15; red gazpacho, yellow gazpacho; and cucumber and mint) and pan-seared scallops ($36) with asparagus and Riesling beurre blanc. Main-course specials are set to include roasted chicken Provençale ($46) with lavender herbs and spring vegetables. Look for a special dessert of grilled pink pineapple ($17) with dark rum-raisin ice cream and Chantilly cream.
A prix-fixe dinner menu at La Goulue is $130. Along with a specialty cocktail called the Raspberry French 75, the menu will offer a choice of appetizers, entrees and dessert. Selections include vol au vent de homard (lobster, cauliflower, baby fennel and lobster bisque); daurade with basil, roasted baby fennel and sauce vierge; and linguini with morels, peas, cherry tomatoes, garlic, brown-butter velouté and quail egg.
For dessert, look for such selections as panna cotta.
LoLa 41 will feature such brunch and dinner specials as lobster quiche Florentine ($49) and prime rib ($59).
Among other restaurants ith specials on Mother’s Day: Al Fresco, Bice, Bricktop’s, Buccan, Café Flora, Cucina, The Honor Bar, Imoto, Palm Beach Grill, PB Catch, Pizza al Fresco, Renato’s, Restaurant 44, Sant Ambroeus, Ta-boo and Trevini.
This article originally appeared on Palm Beach Daily News: Mother's Day restaurants: Palm Beach restaurants have special menus
