Tasty treats for Mother's Day

Serenity Spanish Bar & Restaurant

Mums will love both the harbour view and authentic paella at this Spanish restaurant. Crisp and slightly burnt at the base and using Boomba rice, which is said to absorb flavours three times more than normal types of rice, there are eight varieties: squid ink, seafood, lobster, scampi, vegetarian, cod fish, pork, and cray fish. #01-98/99 VivoCity, 1 HarbourFront Walk (6736 8185). MRT: Harbourfront. 13 May; 11am-11pm. $53++ for two persons.

The Halia

Mums have a choice of ordering this beautiful pan-fried line-caught sea bass fillet (with yuzu orange reduction, siphon of truffle mashed potato and lait de soja) ala carte or as part of the four-course set dinner. Singapore Botanic Gardens, via Tyersall Ave (6476 6711). Take a taxi. 11-13 May; 6.30-10pm. $65++ seabass ala carte $140++ with beef main course, $150++ with seabass main course. Top up $46++ for three glasses of wine.

Novus Café, Bar & Courtyard

Sit mum down to a six-course Saturday dinner with a choice of three entrées, two mains and one dessert lovingly prepared by executive chef Stephan Zoisl (ex-chef at the Fat Duck). Make sure she orders this picture-perfect Duck Tea, made of duck consommé, quail egg, trumpet and brown enoki mushrooms, smoked duck breast and black truffle. She also stands to win a pair of tickets to a cooking demonstration by chef Stephan. #01-02 National Museum of Singapore, 93 Stamford Rd (6336 8770). MRT: Dhoby Ghaut. 12 May; 6-10pm. $138++.

Oriole Café & Bar

Mums can tuck in to any breakfast item for free when they dine in with at least one paying adult or two kids. We recommend the Oriole Big Breakfast ($24) – minute steak, sausage, ham, egg, mushroom, potato wedges and tomato chutney. #01-01 Pan Pacific Serviced Suites, 96 Somerset Rd (6238 8348). MRT: Somerset. 13 May; 10.30am-3pm. Various prices.

Feast@East

Mums tend to get nostalgic on their special day, so make sure you match her mood with a Peranakan-themed lunch ($45++), high tea ($22++) or dinner ($40++) buffet that will surely bring back memories of old Singapore. 3/L Grand Mercure Roxy Hotel, 50 East Coast Rd (6344 8000). Take a taxi. 11-13 May.

Orchard Café

It’s all about summer and the season’s fresh ingredients – mums tuck into an Italian antipasti selection, sea bass with pastis and fennel, grilled scallops with baby asparagus, strawberry tiramisu and trifle, smoothies and English summer pudding with red berries. There’s also a weekend lunch fashion show, with a Tocco Tenero clutch bag and a leather namecard holder to be given away, while stocks last. ‘We Love Mum’ room packages are also available. 1/L Orchard Hotel, 442 Orchard Rd (6739 6565). MRT: Orchard. 12 & 13 May; noon-2.30pm, 6-10.30pm. $48 per adult for lunch, $58 per adult for dinner.

Bedrock Bar & Grill

Mums get a complimentary two-course set lunch (worth $32++) when they dine in with one paying adult or two kids. It includes a choice of starters or desserts, and either apple-wood grilled chicken, grilled ribeye steak or crispy-skin sea bass as main course. #01-05 Pan Pacific Serviced Suites, 96 Somerset Rd (6238 0054). MRT: Somerset. Various prices.

Pantry at the Stables

The caramel-covered Apple Cobbler Cupcake ($4.80++) is the perfect finish to a dinner where mothers get a free main course when their dining partners order one. Mains include spaghetti carbonara with a 62ºC sous vide egg ($24++), and pork and fennel-seed lasagne with mushrooms and parmesan ($24++). 55 Fairways Dr (6467 9382). Take a taxi. 8-13 May; 6-10.30pm. Various prices.

Café Mosaic

Bring the whole clan along to the Mother’s Day Weekend High Tea Buffet, which will please mum and the little ones with its variety: dim sum, scones, sandwiches, roasted beef, braised duck, curry chicken and desserts like durian pastries and chocolate fondue, just to name a few. Each family also leaves with four home-made cupcakes, a family photo and a complimentary Molton Brown gift set for mum (while stock lasts). 1/L Carlton Hotel, 76 Bras Basah Rd (6311 8195). MRT: Bras Basah. 12-13 May; noon-4pm. $48 per adult), $24 per child aged 9-12, free for children 8 and below (one child dines free for every one paying adult).

Café Swiss

Just for mum, the chefs are preparing smoked Norwegian salmon with capers, marinated onions and apple horseradish cream, Canadian oysters, and pepper steak with horseradish and red wine shallot jus. A maximum of two kids aged 12 and below can dine free. A pearl necklace grand prize awaits one mum at the lucky draw. 2/L Swissôtel The Stamford, 2 Stamford Rd (6338 8585). MRT: City Hall. 13 May. $64++ per adult, $32++ per child.

Min Jiang

The deep-fried crispy quail is the star dish in the lunch and dinner set menus ($88) that includes other meaty treats like camphor tea-smoked duck and pan-fried kurobuta cutlet with black-pepper sauce. Want something lighter? The dim sum buffet ($42.80-$46.80) is your solution. 1/L Goodwood Park Hotel, 22 Scotts Rd (6737 7411). MRT: Orchard. 12 & 13 May; 11am-4.30pm dim sum, 11am-2.30pm lunch, 6pm-10.30pm dinner.

Fat Cow

Mum needs a drink, so whet her appetite with The ChrysantheMUM Collins, a cocktail concocted by mixologist Matthew Radalj. Then make sure she gets her hands on the yuzu butter-poached lobster, part of a six-course set-dinner menu which also includes kegani (hairy crab) cream croquette, grilled Nikka-glazed Wagyu short rib, and black sesame brownie Smores. Book 24 hours ahead. #01-01 Camden Medical Centre, 1 Orchard Blvd (6735 0308). MRT: Orchard. 7-12 May; 6-10.30pm. $150++ per person.

Brasserie Wolf

If this Parisian-inspired bistro had its way, Mother’s Day would always be a ‘French Affair’. Chef de cuisine Claudio Sandri has whipped up a three-course lunch and dinner menu that includes a bowl of traditional French onion soup as a starter and, as a main course, French escargots in puff pastry with tomato confit; beef Wellington with mashed potatoes; or grilled Scottish salmon with creamed leeks, orange and fennel salad. Don’t forget to match it with mum’s choice of Austrian and premium Old World wines from the cellar. #01-13 The Pier at Robertson, 80 Mohamed Sultan Rd (6735 3476). MRT: Clarke Quay. 13 May; noon-10pm. $55++ per person.