Mother's Day is Sunday, and there is still time to wow Mom with a fancy meal or toast at places all over the East End.
Nick and Toni's
Nick and Toni's in East Hampton has brunch and dinner options on Sunday, with a special $80 prix fixe brunch and a la carte specials for dinner. A children's brunch menu for $24 is also available.
The Italian-accented brunch menu celebrates some of the bounty of spring with three courses including dessert, which is ice cream or chocolate pudding. The first-course choices are Harry's strawberries with whipped sweet ricotta, a shaved artichoke salad with fennel, truffle, and pecorino; a crispy soft egg served with bacon, lardons, and frisee; a breakfast polenta with mascarpone, berries, a maple syrup, and tuna crudo.
The main courses are brioche French toast, with raspberry and rhubarb jam, bacon, and fresh cream; a frittata with sausage and fingerlings served with Tuscan toast; crab and speck eggs Benedict with herb Hollandaise sauce on a house-made English muffin; avocado toast with smoked salmon and soft eggs; orecchiette with artichoke bagna cauda and grana padano cheese; arctic char with pea puree; roasted chicken breast with spring vegetables and salsa verde; spring lamb with fava bean and purple potato hash, and an elaborate steak and eggs with a ramp pesto, peppadews, Tuscan bread, and truffle fries.
An assortment of items for the table are available for an additional charge. They include breakfast pastries, Newlight sourdough bread with olives, zucchini fritto, and cheese and meat platters.
At brunch, the kids dine on a margherita-style flatbread, mac and cheese, French toast, or scrambled eggs with bacon and toast, as well as dessert.
The appetizer specials for dinner include some of the brunch options, adding a Caesar-style romaine salad, razor clams, burrata, and a friseline salad with grilled trumpet mushrooms.
The bread and charcuterie options are still available to share for dinner. Main-course choices are spaghetti al limone with jumbo lump crab, penne with spicy oven-roasted tomatoes and cheese, agnolotti with spring rabbit, polenta with morels, leeks, and fava beans, roasted halibut, and prime New York strip steak with asparagus and ramp pesto along with some of the options from brunch. The children's menu for dinner is similar, with penne and tomato basil sauce and chicken Parmigiana replacing the breakfast-style dishes.
Brunch will be served from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. and dinner reservations begin at 5. The restaurant recommends reservations rather than risking disappointment. They can be made through Resy or by calling 631-324-3550.
Navy Beach
Montauk's Navy Beach restaurant will have a $55 prix fixe menu served from noon to 8 p.m. The mothers at the table will receive a free glass of sparkling wine with their meal.
First-course choices will be clam and corn chowder, cucumber salad, or a Caesar wedge salad. The second course offerings are mushroom pappardelle, long-line swordfish, or a burger. Dessert is the chef's choice.
The cost does not include tax and tip. The restaurant's regular menu will also be available a la carte.
Bell and Anchor
Serving both specials and from its a la carte menu, the Bell and Anchor restaurant in Noyac is open for brunch on Mother's Day from 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. and dinner from 5:30 to 8.
Brunch options range from a classic eggs Benedict to one tarted up with lobster meat, duck hash, house-smoked salmon, and French toast with bananas and maple syrup. Highlights from the regular menu are appetizers such as a crispy portobello with roasted peppers and mozzarella, tuna poke, and burrata. Favorite entrees are pan-roasted Scottish salmon, bouillabaisse, lobster garganelli, and roasted chicken breast.
The restaurant recommends reservations through its website or 631-725-3400.
Highway Restaurant
Highway Restaurant & Bar has a Mother’s Day brunch planned from 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. along with its regular dinner menu from 5 to 8 p.m. At brunch it will serve spring frittata, chicken BLT, potato croquettes, and a salmon-and-bagel board. To make it real celebration, special brunch drinks such as a kir royale, Veneto Bellini, and "an over-the-top Bloody Mary."
Loaves and Fishes
You can also take home some love to Mom from Loaves and Fishes food store in Sagaponack, which will have fried chicken, veggie summer rolls, and turkey burgers with peach chutney available during the weekend.
The store has special desserts such as strawberry pavlova, lemon meringue cream puffs, and its hummingbird cake.
The full menu is on the website and customers can order ahead in the store, via 631-537-0555, or by email to [email protected]. The store will be open from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sunday for walk-ins or order pickup.
Raise a Glass
Two North Fork wineries are celebrating Mom on Sunday. Sparkling Pointe in Southold has a tasting flight of its wines paired with pastries from local bakeries with seatings from 10:45 a.m. to 4 p.m. in its tasting house. The cost is $40 per person and reservations through Resy are required.
Bedell Cellars in Cutchogue will be open from noon to 4 p.m. with Backyard Blooms selling bouquets from a Volkswagen bus from noon to 3 p.m. Surf Bird Pictures will take photos of Mom and her loved ones in front of the vines.
