You love Mom, and Mom loves a nice meal. Lots of local restaurants are offering Mother’s Day dining options Sunday, so we’ve put together a list to help you find that perfect mimosa brunch or slab of prime rib or plantain gnocchi. After all, Mom deserves exactly what she wants. What Mom really wants is for you to make a reservation, so you don’t end up sharing beef jerky in the convenience store parking lot.
Hotels & Resorts
The Ritz-Carlton Orlando’s Lobby Lounge will offer a traditional tea for Mother’s Day, 11 a.m. – 3p.m., both Saturday and Sunday. The menu includes both sweet and savory bites, tea varieties, and a gift for Mom at $115 per person.
Primo, the Mediterranean/Italian restaurant inside JW Marriott at Grande Lakes Orlando is serving up a Mother’s Day brunch buffet with seatings from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. That includes eggs benedict, build-your-own omelets, salads and toasts, olive-crusted short rib, and a variety of desserts. Seating is $135 for adults and $60 for children ages 4-10.
The marketplace restaurant at JW Marriott Orlando Bonnet Creek is doing a Mother’s Day Sunday brunch, 12:30 – 3 p.m., with live music and a kids’ activity table to make Mom a custom bracelet. The menu includes a raw seafood bar, prime rib and salmon carving station, omelet and eggs Benedict stations, and desserts and French pastries. The chef team is also making a collection of recipes from their mothers including Chef Vinh’s summer rolls with pork belly and shrimp, Chef Natanael’s roasted pernil pork with chimichurri, Chef Carmelo’s seafood salad with octopus and calamari, and Chef Peter C’s strawberry french toast.
Wyndham Grand Orlando Resort Bonnet Creek
Tesoro Cove is doing both a Mother’s Day breakfast, 7 – 10 a.m., and a brunch, 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. The breakfast is pastries and fresh fruit, made-to-order omelets and waffles, and a hot breakfast station with eggs, bacon, sausage, potatoes and more. Brunch adds fresh and smoked salmon, pork loin and chicken carving stations, salads and desserts. Breakfast is $27 for adults (before tax and tip), $16 for children 6-12, and $8 for children five and under. Brunch is $52 for adults, $28 for ages 6-12, and $8 for five and under.
At Rollins College in Winter Park, the boutique hotel will have 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. seatings in its event space for Mother’s Day brunch. The menu includes seafood and salmon display, salad station, eggs and omelets, frittatas, chicken and waffles, prime rib, ham, grouper cioppino, desserts, and one complimentary mimosa. The children’s buffet has chicken nuggets, french fries and broccoli with cheese sauce. The meal is $89 for adults and $29 for children 5-12.
The open-air kitchen and tavern Traditions is adding some Mother’s Day Sunday specials to the menu. Look for a Mom’s spring salad with Florida berries, goat cheese and candied bacon was well as a seared mahi mahi with sweet pea risotto, and a six-ounce grilled filet.
The Florida-influenced signature restaurant Latitude & Longitude is cooking up a Mother’s Day Sunday brunch, 11 a.m. – 3 p.m., with breakfast favorites including an omelet station, carved red snapper with beurre blanc and smoked striploin, salads, Florida rock shrimp chowder, entrees, sides, and desserts. Adults are $65 (plus tax and tip) and children 4 – 12 are $25. Adults can add unlimited mimosas for $20.
Hyatt Regency Grand Cypress Resort
Four Flamingos is offering a Mother’s Day brunch, 10 a.m. – 3 p.m., with both a buffet, small plates from the kitchen, and unlimited mimosas. The buffet includes raw and chilled seafood, pancakes, bacon and local eggs, and carved porchetta Cubano and roasted whole grouper tostones. Each diner gets two plates from the kitchen including “fish n grits” with swordfish bacon, goat cheese tart, steak and eggs, and plantain maduro gnocchi. Desserts include pies, pastries, cupcakes, and trifles. The meal is $120 for adults (with 18% gratuity) and $50 for children 12 and under.
Hard Rock Hotel at Universal Orlando Resort
The Kitchen, a casual spot for rock-and-roll dining, is serving Mother’s Day Sunday brunch 9 a.m. – 2 p.m. The menu includes smoked salmon display, salads, made-to-order eggs Benedict and omelets, carving station with espresso-rubbed striploin as well as pork, chicken and salmon, as well as desserts. Live musicians and magicians will also perform. For adults, the brunch includes mimosas and bloody marys for $75 (plus tax and tip). Children 3 – 9 are $35.
Universal Orlando Resort and Loews Portofino Bay Hotel
Trattoria del Porto will serve an Italian-inspired Mother’s Day brunch, 11 a.m. – 4 p.m. That includes salads and cheese station, chilled seafood, omelet and pasta stations, salmon and prime rib carving stations, and desserts including tiramisu and cannoli. The kids buffet has pizza, spaghetti, peanut butter and jelly, and more. Adults are $75 (plus tax and tip) and children 3 – 9 are $35.
Close to the airport and Orange County Convention Center, Rosen Shingle Creek’s Mother’s Day brunch is 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. The buffet menu includes salad bar and composed salads, cheeses and antipasto market, bruschetta bar, seafood station, sushi and dim sum, pasta station, carving station with prime rib and porchetta, entrees (snapper, chicken, Korean barbecue, shrimp and grits), omelet and waffle station, and Mother’s Day desserts including pastries and chocolate fountain. The meal is $89.95 for adults (including unlimited champagne and mimosas) and $37.95 for children 4-11. Prices do not include sales tax and 25-percent service charge. Self-parking is free.
On International Drive, the Rosen Plaza resort hotel serving up a Mother’s Day Sunday Brunch, 11 a.m. – 3 p.m. Offerings include salads and antipasto, seafood station, omelet and waffle station, carving station with prime rib and beef au jus, entrees (veal stew, chicken, salmon, chorizo-stuffed pork loin), pastries and ice cream station. Price is $55.95 for adults and $23.95 for children 4-11 (before tax and service charges).
Also along International Drive, Rosen Centre’s Mother’s Day Sunday brunch buffet, 11 a.m. – 4:30 p.m., includes unlimited champagne and mimosas. The buffet includes salad bar, antipasto display, seafood station, pasta station, breakfast station, mojo-marinated pork carving station, made-to-order bang bang shrimp tacos, and desserts including made-to-order crepes. The children’s buffet has chicken tenders, buttered corn, mac and cheese, and mini marinara meatball mozzarella. Price is $65.95 for adults or $58.95 for prepay (before tax and service charge) and $24.95 for children 4-12. Self-parking is free.
A Walt Disney World Good Neighbor Hotel, Moms visiting Rosen Inn LBV for Sunday brunch, 11 a.m. – 4 p.m., will get a free long stem rose. The buffet menu includes charcuterie board, made-to-order pasta station, vegetable frittata, grilled salmon with mango-papaya salsa, grilled chicken with tomato bruschetta, chocolate fountain and bottomless mimosas. Adults with reservations are $35.99 (plus tax and 24-percent service charge) and children 4 – 11 are $17.99. You can save 15-percent with a pre-paid reservation.
Melia Orlando Hotel Celebration
The Wilson’s Mother’s Day Sunday brunch includes buffet, unlimited prosecco, mimosas, beer or wine (+21), and a rose for Mom. Seatings are at noon and 2 p.m. In the Pearl Room, the menu includes pastry station, eggs benedict, Neuske’s bacon, strip loin, mojo pork loin, margherita chicken, salmon, salad bar, and sweets table. Beverages are included and, for adults, that includes beer, wine and mimosas. Brunch is $55 for adults and $15 for children under 12. The children’s table includes chicken fingers, tater tots, and mac and cheese.
Grand Bohemian Orlando’s signature restaurant is expanding into the hotel’s fifth floor art galleries for Easter Sunday with live jazz and unlimited mimosas. The buffet includes oysters to order with seafood platter, charcuterie and cheese, chicken and waffles, breakfast skillet, fresh fruit, desserts and more. Prime rib, lamb rack, Florida citrus glazed ham, and omelets will be made to order as well. Easter Sunday brunch is $99 per person.
Next to the Margaritaville Resort in Kissimmee, The Wharf is adding to its usual Sunday brunch, 11 a.m. – 3 p.m., with a prime rib special all day. For $35, you get a 14-ounce cut with mashed potatoes, green beans, au jus, and dinner roll.
The oceanfront resort has declared “Moms Rock” with a champagne brunch in the Avalon ballroom and terrace, 11 a.m. – 4 p.m. (Last seating at 3 p.m.) The menu includes salads, fruit and cheese, chilled seafood, omelet station, carved prime rib, tandoori chicken, roasted red snapper, chocolate-covered strawberries and a glass of champagne or a mimosa. Adults are $80 (inclusive), seniors are $75, and children 5 – 12 are $40. Local musician Rusty Wilmot will play live.
Disney Springs
The Disney Springs steakhouse is both adding extra Mother’s Day menu items to the usual Sunday brunch as well as serving a special afternoon tea with a glass of prosecco ($69), champagne ($89), or rosé ($99). Extra menu items include short rib or salmon eggs Benedict, blueberry pancakes, or hot chick and waffle. The afternoon tea is built around finger sandwiches, scones, strawberries, that special glass and, of course, hot tea. All moms will also receive complimentary flowers.
The pan-Asian Iron Chef restaurant at Disney Springs is throwing a Mother’s Day luau, 12 – 3 p.m., on Sunday. We’re talking about a poke and sushi bar, food-truck-style garlic shrimp, Morimoto baby ribs, a whole roast pig, mini loco moco, and desserts including haupia squares and butter mochi mini cakes. For live entertainment, there will be a live band, hula dancers, and a strolling ukulele player. Adults are $150 and children 6 – 12 are $50.
Disney Springs’ riverboat-themed restaurant is adding a Mother’s Day special of lobster ravioli in vodka sauce for $38. You can also add a $38 bottle of Rose 83 Cotes de Provence.
Terralina’s usual Sunday brunch will have one extra menu option for Mother’s Day and a wine special. The lobster ravioli with sundried tomatoes and green peas in saffron cream sauce is $32 and the Chateau de Campuget Tradition Rose will be $35.
The Irish pub and restaurant at Disney Springs will treat Mother’s Day moms to a “mom”osa and chocolate candy as part of Sunday’s Rollicking Raglan Weekend Brunch. After brunch, moms get a free glass of prosecco with their dinner order. Irish dancers and musicians will perform for both brunch and dinner.
Pointe Orlando
The Greek and Mediterranean restaurant inside Pointe Orlando is celebrating Mother’s Day by feeding her for free. On Mother’s Day Sunday, Moms don’t pay when a family of four or more dines from one of the family-style menus between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m.
The Pointe Orlando Cuban restaurant and rum bar will have a Mother’s Day brunch buffet, 11 a.m. – 3:30 p.m., and then a dinner buffet, 4 – 9 p.m. Brunch includes waffle and omelet stations, carved sirloin steak and pork loin, entrees such as ropa vieja hash and mango curry-glazed turkey breast, and an assortment of Cuban pastries and desserts. That’s $44.95 for adults (before tax, tip and 3-percent service charge) and $19.95 for children 12 and under. The dinner buffet, 4 – 9 p.m., switches out a few of the sweeter options for the same pricing. All moms on Sunday get a $25 gift card for the next visit to any Cuba Libre locations.
For Mother’s Day, the Brazilian steakhouse at Pointe Orlando is expanding its usual buffet of grilled meats and more with grilled shrimp, lamb chops and salmon in a passion fruit sauce. For the day, lunch and dinner are $62.99 per person for adults with the salad-bar-only price option of $52.99. Children 7-11 are $14.99 and 3-6 are $8.99. Moms also receive one complimentary dinner with purchase of another on the next visit.
The seafood spot at Pointe Orlando is adding a few brunch options to the usual menu, 11 a.m. – 2 p.m. on Mother’s Day Sunday. Those extras include lobster Benedict, crab cake benedict, French toast and Nueske’s thick-cut bacon.
The cocktails and coastal cuisine place at Pointe Orlando promotes its “Rosé All Day” lifestyle, so on Mother’s Day, it’s only right that Mom get a complimentary glass all day.
I-Drive
Sugar Factory American Brasserie
The ICON Park location of the hot spot for your sweet tooth will celebrate Mother’s Day by taking their New York cheesecake, dipping it in dark chocolate and topping it with whipped cream, chocolate -covered strawberries, a raspberry macaron and edible gold.
Serving up Spanish cooking on International Drive, Tapa Toro will have a special Mother’s Day Sunday brunch buffet, 10 a.m. – 3 p.m., for $49 (plus tax and tip) or $18 for children under 10. In addition to the usual dinner menu, Tapa Toro will add a three-course prix fixe option. For $49, you can get a goat cheese garden salad with balsamic glaze and pecans, truffle shrimp risotto mantecatto with zucchini and arugula, and tiramisu with Bailey’s Irish Cream and forest fruit.
Neighborhood Faves
The Winter Park gastropub has a packaged Mother’s Day feast for you to pick up on Saturday and heat up on Sunday. For $160, you get dinner for four with surf and turf (six-ounce filet and crab cake), wedge salad, goat cheese potato grain, and black and blueberry crisp. You can also add pre-mixed cocktails, a mimosa kit, or wine.
Inside the Mills Park development in Mills 50, Bites & Bubbles is usually closed on Sundays, but opening just for Mom and Sunday brunch, 11 a.m. – 2:30 p.m. In addition to an egg and omelet station, they’re putting a grill station on the roof with chicken skewers, beef sliders, grilled vegetables and more. Of course, you’ve also got charcuterie and cheese boards, shrimp cocktail, pastries and croissants, biscuits and gravy, waffles and pancakes, lobster bao, fresh fruit, and desserts. Brunch is $89 for adults and $29 for children under 12. Alcohol, beverages, tax and tip are extra.
The College Park favorite is celebrating Mother’s Day Sunday with a buffet brunch, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m., and a free glass of champagne for all mothers and grandmothers. The buffet menu includes prime rib and leg of lamb, an omelet station, chicken and waffles, cinnamon roll French toast casserole, salad bar, shrimp and grits shooters, desserts and more. Adults are $64.95 for adults (plus tax and tip) and $19.95 for children 4-10. Reservations require credit card authorization.
Mom gets a brunch bonus at the Mexican spot on Sand Lake Rd. With the purchase of an entrée, Mamá can get either a happy hour margarita or a dessert.
In Winter Park, AVA is adding a few Mother’s Day specials including a sharable roasted free-range chicken with Greek honey and lavender ($70), Nantucket Bay scallops ($17), and caramelized apple tatin with vanilla ice cream ($14).
Maitland’s single screen cinema café will have a Mother’s Day Sunday brunch and screening of the 1953 romantic comedy Roman Holiday with Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck. The brunch buffet and live music starts at 10:30 a.m. with the movie starting at 11:30. Tables for two are $99 and tables for four are $198 with the first mimosa included. A VIP option ($145/$290) includes a reserved table, mimosa bar, and a gift bag for Mom.
Avalon Park’s spot for Mediterranean dining has a Mother’s Day Sunday three-course prix fixe meal that comes with a glass of wine. For $40 per person, you get a hummus and fatoush appetizer, choice of grilled picanha (beef) or chicken skewer, and baklava.
Multiple Locations
The locally owned deli chain is doing a Mother’s Day “breakfast in bed to go” option for pick-up or delivery as early as Friday. For $19.95, you get six bagels, a pound of cream cheese and a one-pound fruit cup. Mothers dining in on their Sunday get a free mimosa and the breakfast menu is served all day.
American Social Bar & Restaurant
The first 75 tables at the Sand Lake Rd. location on Mother’s Day get a complimentary glass of La Marca Rosé and a rose for Mom.
On Sand Lake Road, Eddie V’s doesn’t usually do Sunday brunch, but is firing up the kitchen early just for Mother’s Day with both the usual dinner menu and a three-course prix fixe brunch option, 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. The prix fixe option is $55 for adults with cinnamon rolls and choices that include lobster bisque or greens salad, eight-ounce steak and eggs or lobster quiche Florentine, and bananas Foster cake with butter pecan ice cream or seasonal berries with fresh-baked cookies. The $16 children’s special has options including fresh fruit, chicken fingers or scrambled eggs or mac and cheese, and ice cream or sorbet with cookies.
Winter Garden’s waffle and ice cream chain franchise is doing a deal for Mother’s Day weekend. Starting Friday, buy two waffle deserts and you get a third for free. That’s both “build your own” and “signature creation” items.
The Winter Park location of the steakhouse and wine bar is celebrating Mother’s Day with specials on both Saturday and Sunday. For $200, you can pair a chilled seafood tower (ahi tuna poke, shrimp cocktail, North Atlantic lobster tails) with a bottle of Moët & Chandon Brut Imperial Champagne. The prix fixe three-course Mother’s Day meal for Saturday and Sunday is petite filet mignon and crab-stuffed shrimp scampi with salad and dessert is $85. If you upgrade the scampi to lobster tail instead of shrimp, it’s $95.
The Dr. Phillips steakhouse is offering a Mother’s Day exclusive from Friday through Sunday – filet mignon topped with jumbo lump crab, spices and béarnaise sauce. The Mother’s Day cocktail, Radiant Charm, includes vodka, Aperol, strawberry rose syrup, and fresh lime juice topped with prosecco and mint.
All Florida locations of the rock-n-roll family restaurant, co-founded by KISS’s Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons, will have brunch menu specials, 11 a.m. – 2 p.m., on Mother’s Day Sunday and moms get a free cupcake.
In addition to the regular menu, the locally owned chain has Mother’s Day Sunday menu additions both in the restaurant and for the Green Box carry-out service. From 10 a.m. – 2 p.m., extras include crab and cheddar quiche, wood-grilled shrimp and grits, avocado toast, and crab polenta for the table. Green Boxes feed 4-6 with choice of entrée, salad, green beans, potatoes, and six Mini Indulgence desserts for Saturday pick-up.
The Tuscan villa-styled restaurant at Mall at Millenia is offering customizable Mother’s Day catering packages for pick-up or delivery starting on Friday. The restaurant will also be open at 11 a.m. with the usual Sunday brunch and dinner menus.
The Central Florida-owned Italian chain will have customizable Mother’s Day catering packages for pick-up and delivery, starting on Friday. Restaurant locations will open at 11 a.m. with the traditional Italian dinner menu.
Winter Garden is the first location outside New York state for this brewery and gastropub. For Easter Sunday, the special brunch menu runs 9:30 a.m. – 3 p.m. with items including brisket hash and eggs, crabcake Caesar salad, lobster mac and cheese, and deconstructed chicken pot pie.
The Celebration location of “Florida’s Oldest Restaurant” will be adding some Mother’s Day specials on Sunday in addition to offering the dinner menu all day. Look for citrus mojo shrimp and a flatbread topped with “1905” sauce, chorizo, lobster meat, tomatoes and Manchego cheese.
The New Orleans kitchen in Altamonte Springs and Winter Park will give every mom diniing in the restaurant a free hurricane (white rum, triple sec, 151 rum, house mix … and black rum) on Mother’s Day Sunday. Of course, Mom has to be at least 21.
The oyster bar with locations on Alafaya Tr. and Turkey Lake Rd. is plussing up the menu for Mother’s Day Sunday brunch, noon – 3 p.m., with unlimited mimosas, devilled and smoked tuna eggs, and a breakfast risotto with bacon. Guitarist Thomas Watkins will be playing live.