WHETHER YOU WANT come-as-you-are casual or go over-the-top, Houston has any style of ambiance or flavor of cuisine to celebrate Mom — and lots of free mimosas. There’s still time to make ressies for this Sunday, May 14, but you’d better chop, chop (so you won’t have to in the kitchen)!
Adair Concepts
Chicken and waffles at Eloise Nichols (photo by Duc Hoang)
The family-owned restaurant group behind a slew of go-to neighborhood spots is celebrating Mother's Day with easy-breezy style. Stop by Eloise Nichols, Los Tios, Adair Kitchen, Skeeter’s Mesquite Grill, or go al fresco at Betsy’s at Evelyn’s Park. Each offers approachable Sunday brunch menus and all-day $3 “MOMosas.”
Brennan's of Houston
Strawberry shortcake at Brennan's
Jazz, fine Creole fare, and a coveted courtyard… What more could Mom want for Sunday brunch? Perhaps a complimentary mimosa! Start with citrus roasted duck crepe and move on to Gulf flounder Creole. Don’t miss Robin’s lemon meringue pie with limoncello and blueberry coulis for dessert.
Eunice
Shrimp and grits at Eunice
Airy and chic Eunice welcomes all moms with a complimentary glass of prosecco on Mother’s Day. Cajun-Creole family favorites on the elevated brunch menu include shrimp and grits with green onion-sausage gravy and Three Sisters Farm eggs, or Drew's smoked chicken and sausage gumbo with okra, tasso, and popcorn rice. Eunice will open early at 10:30am and close at 8pm Sunday.
Jūn
Jun's fried chicken
Just in time for Mother’s Day, Jūn, located in the Heights, is rolling out its first brunch menu. Top Chef finalist Evelyn Garcia and her biz partner Henry Lu are dishing exciting Asian fusion options. Look for fried chicken with General Tso’s glaze, scallion waffle and habanero maple syrup; soft scramble toast with Chinese sausage; Gulf shrimp aguachile; and eclectic desserts.
Le Colonial
Le Colonial (photo by Neil Burger)
The restaurant’s authentic French-Vietnamese cuisine, stylish palm-lined dining rooms and airy patio create a special setting for celebrations. Enjoy a menu full of shareables and savory bites such as Goi Ga, or Vietnamese chicken and cabbage salad with Texas pink grapefruit and sweet chili garlic vinaigrette; Ca Hoi Nuong, a.k.a. roasted salmon with shiitake mushrooms, bok choy, and coconut lobster broth; and Shaking Beef starring caramelized filet mignon with sweet onions, and watercress drizzled with lime pepper vinaigrette.
Le Jardinier
Le Jardinier Burrata (photo by Emily Chan)
Take Mom to this modern, French-inspired restaurant for artistic fare with a side of fine art from 12pm-7pm on Mother’s Day. The Bastion Collection will have a special four-course menu ($145) with savory highlights like poached shrimp with cucumber herbal yogurt, spring pea ravioli, miso glazed cod, and strawberry cheesecake mousse for dessert. Guests may add offers for the table at an additional price, such as an artisanal cheese plate. Kids may select a la carte from the Mother’s Day menu.
Little Hen
Little Hen
Everything’s coming up roses at this floral-flocked breakfast, brunch and afternoon tea destination in River Oaks District. Rose-petal pancakes, a caviar omelet with smoked salmon, or avocado eggs Benedict will surely melt her heart.
Navy Blue
Navy Blue branzino (photo by Caroline Fontenot)
Indulge in brunch at Aaron Bludorn’s newest concept in the Rice Village. The three-course, pre-fixe menu ($85) starts with hamachi tartare with papaya, coconut and tapioca chips, or burrata tartine with English peas and prosciutto. For mains, choose the dramatically plated branzino with cucumber and skordalia (Greek garlic dip), crab Benedict, or cavatelli pasta with pesto and vegetables. Gratis cinnamon rolls for the table! Reservations can be made on Resy.
NoPo Café, Market & Bar
NoPo avocado toast (photo by Kirsten Gilliam)
All Berg Hospitality concepts including this handy café on Post Oak will offer a complimentary bellini or mimosa to Moms on Mother’s Day. Drop in for brunch from 10am-4pm and enjoy classics like stacked avocado toast, crème brulee French toast and egg dishes galore. If dining at home, pre-order cookies or pretty “I love Mom” iced cakes.
Postino
Brunch at Postino
Let mom sleep in on Mother’s Day and take her to one of six Postino locations for brunch. Available until 3pm, the brunch menu includes cocktails like the Sherry Mary, a riff on a classic Bloody Mary. Elevated breakfast bites range from Panettone French Toast tothe Morning Remix: fancy scrambled eggs, with crème fraiche, Parmigiana Reggiano, chives, crispy fingerlings and a side of bacon.
State Fare
State Fare's brunch boards (photo by Audrey West)
For Mother’s Day at all three locations (Memorial, Sugar Land, The Woodlands), a special brunch board will be on tap, along with the regular menu of hearty Texas favorites. The board includes strawberry waffles, crab cake Benedict and avocado toast.
The Post Oak Hotel
The five-star Uptown hotel will celebrate Mother’s Day with an over-the-top “Springtime in Paris” brunch where guests will be transported to its version of Rue Cler, Paris’s renowned market street of charming cafes and shops. Visit the butcher’s station for carved lamb and filet mignon or the Poissonnerie for fish dishes like roasted salmon. Move on to the Sushi Bar; the Brasserie for caviar and oysters; the Fromagerie and Charcuterie, and a Creperie, plus desserts. Hit the Bubble Bar for myriad sparkling libations. Brunch is May 14 from 10am-4pm in the Post Oak Ballroom ($160 per adult; $68 for kids age 5-12).
Tony's
Tony's brunch (photo by Becca Wright)
Only the best for the best! Treat Mom to a special Mother’s Day brunch featuring a three-course prix fixe menu ($80 adult; $30 children 12 and under). Caviar and spritz add-ons are on offer. Visit OpenTable for reservations and click here for the full menu. Available May 14 from 11-3PM.
Traveler's Table
Travelers Table (photo by Becca Wright)
Enjoy deliciously exotic brunch specials for dine-in and take-out on Mother’s Day from 10am-2:30pm. Highlights include Japanese Kaki fried oysters, lobster eggs Benedict, smoked salmon omelet and the Mother’s Day Out cocktail topped with sparkling rosé. Visit Resy for reservations.
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AUGUST 19, 1968. CHICAGO. The Democratic National Convention is underway. Inside the International Amphitheatre, and on the streets outside the Conrad Hilton hotel, all hell is about the break loose. The events leading up to a four-day-long confrontation between thousands of young protestors and thousands of equally young police officers, national guardsmen, regular army troops, and city workers is the subject of Open Dance Project’s new dance theater performance 1968: The Whole World is Watching, conceived and directed by ODP artistic director Annie Arnoult.
During a time in which our country feels more divided than ever, it’s instructive, cathartic and, yes, entertaining to see those events translated into an audience-immersive experience by Arnoult’s company of veteran and relatively new dancers, some as young as 24.
Brenden Winkfield, 32, a seasoned and award-winning tap dancer who has performed with Open Dance Project for two years, finds Arnoult’s dedication to eliminating the boundaries between the audience and the stage inspiring, but challenging. “Not only am I dancing, I’m speaking, and I’m singing,” says Winkfield. “I’m doing all of these vulnerable things, and people are literally just a few feet, sometimes inches away from what I’m doing.”
What Winkfield and nine other dancers are doing, as the audience moves freely among them, is yelling (the show’s title is the chant protestors shouted outside of the Democratic National Convention), whispering, and singing while evoking some of the era’s most indelible images and personalities with complex movement and theatrical gestures. At one point, Winkfield takes on the role of boxer Sonny Liston in his first match with a then loquacious upstart named Cassius Clay (who would soon change his name to Muhammad Ali). “Annie felt like the powder keg that 1968 became started in 1964 with this fight,” says Winkfield. In another tableau, the dancers stand ten-hut like ghosts on a battlefield, awaiting orders to march into oblivion. At other key moments, they lie on the floor in the fetal position or with their hands behind their backs as if handcuffed, ready to be dragged into a police van.
Given the intensity of the history that Arnoult is asking her dancers to imagine and embody during rehearsals, Winkfield acknowledges that emotions run high for everyone involved. “We have to learn, in immersive theater, to check that at the door,” says Winkfield. “And that’s really hard sometimes. Especially when you’re throwing punches at each other or throwing someone to the ground.”
And then there’s a moment where the ensemble rushes together toward an imaginary podium and suddenly freezes as the voice of Bobby Kennedy, Jr. is heard to say, “I have some very sad news for you … ” before telling his audience Martin Luther King, Jr. has just been assassinated. As Kennedy’s famous speech continues — an impromptu call for peace he delivered just two months before being assassinated himself — the dancers rewind their movements, slowly moving backward as an ensemble, like a flock of angels being pulled against their will into an uncertain future.
Speaking of time, if you’re going to evoke the ’60s, you’ve got to have great music. Thankfully, Arnoult avoids turning 1968 into a jukebox musical by including a handful of original rock songs composed and performed by Paul Beebe, whose music and lyrics evoke the spirit of that time without sounding like a pastiche. Beebe’s music works especially well in a section where the dancers just cut loose and joyfully get their groove on, like a corps of flower children high on the potential for peace and love.
“This is a form of entertainment,” says Winkfield of Open Dance Project’s look back at one of the most tumultuous years in our country’s history. “But it’s entertainment that’s saying something.”
1968: The Whole World is Watching runs May 12-20 at MATCH.
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