Still perfecting your egg poaching skills? There’s still time to book a Mother’s Day brunch or lunch for this weekend. Outsourcing the hard work will mean you can focus on the important stuff: spoiling mum, dining and imbibing with no washing up after. Yes, please.
A three-course lunch of reimagined classics will please the seafood-loving mum in your life. Expect wood-fired mussels, prawn cocktails and fish and chips – but not as you know them – at the sustainably minded Iki-jime. Finish with a sticky fig tart and smiles all round. 430 Little Collins Street, Melbourne $65 per person, $35 for kids ikijime.com.au
Spanish Sunday brunch stalwart Nomada is offering a set menu for both lunch and dinner this Mother’s Day. Feast on Coffin Bat oysters, slow-cooked egg with creamed leek, spanner crab and Yarra Valley caviar before coal-grilled calamari and milk-braised lamb hit the table. Save room for the churros with chocolate. 412A Brunswick Street, Fitzroy $66 per person for the set menu nomada.com.au
Spoil mum this weekend at The Langham Hotel. There’s a number of ways to do this with high tea, a decadent buffet lunch (think Roast Gippsland rib filet beef with Yorkshire pudding or tandoori prawn cutlets), and a made-to-order dinner at Melba Restaurant all on offer. And of course, there’s the option to treat mum to a pampering session on-site, too. 1 Southgate Ave, Southbank High tea: from $95; children aged 4- 12 years $47.50 Lunch: $225 includes a free flowing sparkling wine, espresso coffee and tea; children $99 Dinner: $105; children $52.50 langhamhotels.com
For something a little more relaxed, NOLA are hosting a Louisiana-style high tea in their French Quarter. Expect southern classics like lobster rolls, smoked chicken and leek rolls, and Louisiana-style scones with bourbon and peach marmalade. Does mum sport a sweet tooth? She’ll love the s’mores with blackberry and smoked chocolate, and the pecan southern comfort tart. There’s bottomless Fresh lemonade or southern iced tea plus options to upgrade. If savoury is more her thing, a lunch set menu of share plates is on offer, too. Tower 1, 100 Barangaroo Avenue, Barangaroo South High Tea – $60pp High Tea with cocktails – $70pp Lunch set menu: $85pp nolasydney.com
Take Mother’s Day brunch up a notch with a four-course feast and the sparkling Pacific Ocean as your backdrop. Forget eggs Benny – it’s an all luxury affair by Monty Koludrovic at Icebergs Dining Room with breads, pastries and whipped Pepe Saya butter and preserves to kick things off. Then it’s a fish egg tart and caviar and your choice of glazed Kurobuta ham or roasted field mushroom fried eggs and potato fritters; or Harris Smokehouse smoked salmon crème fraiche, capers, lemon and nasturtium. Finish with a rehashed strawberries and cream. A glass of NV Perrier-Jouet ‘Blason’ Rose Epernay France is almost mandatory when the food and view is this good. 1 Notts Ave, Bondi Beach $90 set menu includes a glass of NV Perrier-Jouet ‘Blason’ Rose; $20 for kids set menu idrb.com
Celebrate the great woman (or women) in your life with a plant-based menu by one of the city’s best chefs. Choose from brunch or lunch set options – brunch menu highlights include a coconut and almond bircher; and poached eggs with kohlrabi noodles, beetroot leaves and vegetables broth, served with a tasty ensemble of sides (tomato, stracciatella and lemon myrtle being one of them). Lunch is an equally green affair with eggplant, corn and black garlic; or leek and shimeji, housemade bread and butter; horseradish and cured duck yolk, sheep’s yoghurt, blueberry and liquorice honeycomb just some of what’s waiting. 57 MacLeay St, Potts Point Brunch: $50pp Lunch: $80pp yellowsydney.com.au
Treat the family to Sunday lunch at e’cco Bistro’s new home at Haven Newstead. Warm up with freshly shucked oysters, Danny’s bread and poached octopus with fermented chilli before working up to chargrilled local bugs with coconut, lime and shallots and a dry-aged Wagyu. Finish off with a strawberry and raspberry cheesecake or a DIY ice cream sandwich. Bookings: 07 3831 8344. 63 Skyring Terrace, Newstead eccobistro.com.au
Celebrate mum in style with a three-course meal and glass of sparkling on arrival. As the current 2018 Australian Wine List of the Year winner, be sure to save room for a glass as you and mum enjoy plates like venison, lardo, chestnut and apple; and roast duck with carrot, orange and wood ear mushroom. 1 Eagle Street, Brisbane City $105pp; $60 children Bookings: 3233 2555 ariarestaurant.com
Spoil mum with a relaxed buffet breakfast in the Mayflower Restaurant. Non-alcoholic sparkling and barista coffee and tea await her. Buffet highlights include Berkshire honey spiced ham on the silver roll top carving trolley, crispy bacon, sweet corn fritters, poached eggs florentine, smoked salmon, and more Portuguese custard tart, ricotta cannoli, Danish pastries and scones with jam and cream finish off the sweet side of things. 45 King William St, Adelaide From $49 mayfairhotel.com.au
While there’s no Mother’s Day set menu per say, no round-up of Adelaide dining options is complete without mention of this mod-Aus stunner. Taking its inspiration queues from our nation’s First People, chef and owner Jock Zonfrillo’s menu has made waves the world over. 1/285 Rundle St, Adelaide From $195 restaurantorana.com
In the heart of the North Freo village, Propeller offers breakfast, lunch or dinner options this Mother’s Day. Fusing Middle Eastern and mod-Australian flavours, chef Kurt Sampson’s menu is designed to share on their gorgeous terrace or inside the dining room. 222 Queen Victoria St, North Fremantle propellernorthfreo.com.au
Enjoy a produce-driven meal with the special lady in your life in the surrounds of Kings Park at Perth’s Fraser’s. A buffet breakfast and lunch or a set-menu dinner are all available, and you can even add a bouquet of flowers to your booking and they’ll have them waiting for Mum when she arrives. Fraser Ave, Kings Park, West Perth From $48pp frasersrestaurant.com.au
