Mother’s Day takeout dining guide: Treat mom to surf & turf, quiche, mimosas and more
Mother’s Day is usually one of the biggest dining days of the year. Whether it’s for brunch or dinner, Lexington restaurants are often booked well in advance.
But not this year when Mother’s Day rolls around May 10.
With restaurants closed to dine-in as a precaution during the coronavirus pandemic, local restaurants are getting creative so that families can still celebrate.
Which is great, because Mom shouldn’t have to cook her own meal. And takeout means fewer dishes for everyone.
For more options, on LexGoEat.com check out our takeout dining guide featuring more than 190 Lexington restaurants and our family meals takeout guide.
The restaurants listed here have curbside pickup options and some even deliver but extra fees may apply.
Azur
Azur Restaurant and Patio will have a special offering for Mother’s Day; watch the restaurant’s Facebook page for details and call to order.
Backroads Bakery
Backroads Bakery is offering 20 percent off Mother’s Day goodies such as cheesecake. And will delivery. Call to order.
Bayou Bluegrass Catering
Bayou Bluegrass will have a menu of favorites, including entrees, sides and desserts. You can also add on a gallon of bourbon punch. Call or order online at facebook.com/BayouBluegrass/.
Bonefish Grill
From May 8 through May 10, guests can call in advance to place an order Mahi & Shrimp Family Bundle ($49.90) that feeds up to five people and includes a choice of house or caesar salad, served with family-style sides including garlic mashed potatoes, seasonal veggies, fresh bread with pesto and dessert. Order online at bonefishgrill.com.
Carabba’s Italian Grill
Specials include Fettuccine Weesie (created in honor of founder Johnny Carrabba’s sister), Lasagne (created by Johnny Carrabba’s grandmother) and Polla Rosa Maria (named after Johnny Carrabba’s mother Rose). Family Bundles that serve up to 5 people, starting at $39.99 complete with choice of entrée like Lasagne, Chicken Parmesean or an assortment of pasta bundles served with Fresh Bread and choice of salad, also available. Call or order online at carrabbas.com.
Crank & Boom
Crank & Boom Ice Cream is offering a Mother’s Day Sundae Party Pack of two pints, two toppings, one sauce and spring sprinkles for $25. Order online at cbonlinesstore.square.site/shop/small-batch-club-pre-orders-/8.
CRU Food & Wine Bar
Cru at The Summit has a menu of specials available for pickup from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.; a la carte or $28 per person. Entrees include CRU steak & eggs, CRU crab cake benedict, parmesan crusted lemon sole and frittata carciofi. Add on a mimosa kit for $25. Order online at cruwinebar.com or call.
Doodles
Doodles will be open for a pop-up take-out brunch on Mother’s Day weekend. Menu will be posted on their Facebook page at facebook.com/doodleslexky. Call to order.
Dudley’s on Short
Dudley’s on Short is reopening, just in time for Mother’s Day weekend. They will have brunch items, including quiche, quarts of chicken salad, banana bread, muffins, deviled eggs, bloody Mary mix and mimosas. Limited dinner menu available for Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Add ons include flowers in crocks from Jon Carloftis, ordered separately on his web site. Call to order Mother’s Day items in advance.
Dupree Catering
Dupree has a special Mother’s Day Brunch, including sandwich bites, salad, entree, sides and desserts for four for $80, for six for $115 or for eight for 4150. Add-ons including cheese grits souffle, sausage egg & cheese casserole, French toast casserole, chocolate bread pudding and mimosas. Call to order by 4 p.m. May 2.
Forage
Forage Food Truck is offering a Mother’s Day Brunch that serves four to six. Options include quiche, shrimp and grits, stuffed French toast and lasagna. Call to order.
First Watch
First Watch is giving away a dining meal gift card for the month of June and July (dine-in only) for each order on Mother’s Day. Call or order online at facebook.com/FirstWatch.
Fresh Market
The Fresh Market is offering a Mother’s Day brunch and dinner option, so mom can have an entire day off from cooking without leaving home. The meals can be conveniently ordered online at thefreshmarket.com/our-products/holiday-meals for pick-up in store. Brunch serves four for about $40, including quiche, bacon, fruit bowl, blueberry muffins and flowers. Surf & Turf dinner serves two for about $50 and includes file mignon or Chilean sea bass, mascarpone whipped potatoes, asparagus tips, chocolate dipped strawberries and flowers.
Heirloom
Heirloom in Midway is offering a Mother’s Day special: Four entrees for $79 or three courses for $45 per person. Choose from marinated skirt steak, egg frittata, shrimp and grits, buttermilk fried chicken or French toast. Call to order.
Holly Hill Inn
Holly Hill Inn in Midway will have a Gourmet Brunch Meal Kit for four with a dozen local eggs, herbed potato casserole, Weisenberger cheese grits, pre-cooked Stonecross Farms breakfast sausage patties, a pound of local asparagus and a dozen mini Betty Ann Scones in a take-and-bake tin for $45. Or get a take-and-bake Hot Brown casserole made with Farmer Joe’s Kentucky Proud turkey and Stonecross bacon for $20. Holly Hill also will have three-course dinners with pan-roasted halibut, spring vegetable lasagna and Stonecross Beef tenderloin for $30-$35. Add ons include Kentucky Proud flower bouquets from Hazelfield Farm for $20. Order online.
J. Render’s
J. Render’s Southern Table & Bar will have a Mother’s Day Family Meal for four for $60 including smoked beef tenderloin with red wine reduction sauce, mashed potatoes, honey & chili glazed Brussels sprouts, salad, yeast rolls and housemade strawberry shortcake. Call to order.
Keene Dining
Keene Dining in Nicholasville has a meal for mom that feeds four or five for $110. Pick two entrees from shrimp & grits, salmon piccatta, smoked turkey hot brown casserole and roasted chicken with creamy sun-dried tomato sauce. Add on beef tenderloin. Salad, sides and dessert included. Call to order.
LaRosa’s Pizzeria
On Mother’s Day weekend LaRosa’s will be offering 20 percent off on all menu items. Also available: New Family Meal for Four Deal for $24.99 and another family special on any large pizza for $5 when you add a hoagie, calzone or Rondo. Call or order online at larosas.com.
Martine’s Pastries
Martine’s has Mother’s Day cookie boxes with a set of MOM cookies, plus flowers and hearts for a full dozen, three bags of royal icing and four sprinkle cups. Call to order.
Midway Bakery
Midway Baker has scratch-baked cookies in a box, 24 for $36.99 including shipping anywhere in the U.S. You get lemon-basil shortbread, orange-rosemary sugar, lavender violet sugar, chocolate chip, sorghum and vanilla cranberry. Order online at ouitamichel.com.
Minton’s at 760
Minton’s has a special Mother’s Day brunch for four for $56 that includes sprign vegetable quiche, baked croque monsier, hash brown casserole, bacon and a biscuit flight with three housemade jams. There’s also dinner for four for $75; choose chicken Florentine or apple-braised pork tenderloin, with sides. Dessert options include Key lime pie, strawberry cake with cream cheese icing, lemon raspberry cake and more. Call to order.
Outback Steakhouse
From May 6 through May 12, moms can enjoy a Filet & Lobster Tail or a Prime Rib and Crab Cake Dinner. Guests can also add a Lobster Tail to any entrée for $9.99 or a crab cake for $6. Order online at outback.com.
Proud Mary BBQ
Proud Mary has a full menu including seafood boil for $30 per person; beef tenderloin for four with sides for $65; grilled chicken, shrimp or salmon over jambalaya with sides for $48; two slabs of baby back rips and sides for $44; and the five-meat feast for $55. Add-ons include peanut butter pie, cobbler, bread pudding, banana pudding and strawberry shortcake. Call to order.
Ranada’s Bistro
Ranada’s is offering a prix fixe three-course dinner for two, with a bottle of wine AND a Zoom ticket for a jazz concert with Keith McCutchen for $100. Meal includes a sharred appetizer, two entrees and two desserts, plus a bottle of red, white rose or champagne. Call to order.
Selma’s Catering
Selma’s on Henry Clay Boulevard has a Mother’s Day breakfast, brunch or dinner for four, six or eight. You can get quiche and either creamy cheese grits casserole or hash brown casserole, plus sliced smoked ham, fresh fruit salad and homemade pastry tray for $20 per person. Or get a pancake kit, with mix, bacon and sausage, chocolate chips, fresh berries and maple syrup for $12.50 per person. For dinner, there’s cooked beef tenderloin or rib eye ready to grill at home, with sides for $28 per person. Add-ons include country ham and biscuits, jumbo shrimp cocktail, mini crab cakes, cheesecake, pound cake and dessert trays. Plus drink kits including mimosas and bloody Marys. Call or order online selmascatering.com.
Skyline Chili
Skyline Chili will be giving a free cheese coney to every mother that comes through the drive-through on Mother’s Day.
The Stave
The Stave in Millville between Versailles and Frankfort has a three-course meal for $30 per person. Choose an appetizer (fried green tomatoes with Comeback Sauce, asparagus & strawberry salad or country ham & biscuits), a main (beef Wellington, chicken cordon Bluegrass, leg of lamb or blackened catfish & grits) and a dessert (fruit pie, strawberry short cake or Backroads Chocolate cheesecake.) Beef Wellington is $10 extra. Call to order.
Wild Thyme Cooking
Wild Thyme has a range of catering options for Mother’s Day, including whole roasted chicken, arugula orzo pasta salad, Derby chicken salad, quiche, peach French toast bake, smoked salmon, corn pudding, hummingbird cake, cinnamon rolls, mini country ham biscuits and much much more. Order a la carte online.
This story was originally published April 30, 2020 at 10:35 AM.
