On May 12-13 (12-4:30pm), Café Brio at the lobby of the Grand Copthorne Waterfront will be serving lunch and high tea buffets featuring barbecue items such as prosciutto wrapped with cantaloupe, jumbo king prawn with asparagus spear and mild spicy tomato cream sauce, and crispy pork belly with Thai chili sauce. Mothers will take home a goodie bag and stand a chance to win attractive lucky draw prizes. $52 per person and $92 with free flow of sparkling wine, house wine, beer, juice and soft drinks (excludes additional charges). Book by April 29 and enjoy a 20 percent early bird discount.

On May 12-13, Bontá Italian Restaurant & Bar will have a special Mother's Day menu featuring trout, homemade angelhair pasta and braised Wagyu beef cheek. $88++ with coffee or tea.

From May to July, District 10 Bar & Restaurant will give a couple of classic dishes a blue spin to represent tranquility and stability, which are said to be mommy-like traits. Expect blueberry pancakes with maple syrup, penne with blue cheese sauce and cherry tomatos, as well as three blue curacao-based cocktails: Nutty Sea, Barrio 10 and Long Beach.

If you just want to get out of the city for a bit, The Glass House at Hotel Fort Canning is a great option. There'll be an instant photo booth set up on Mother's Day (May 13), as well as a special buffet lunch (available 12-3pm for $68++ per adult) featuring Asian favorites such as sushi rolls, pan fried carrot cake, Singapore laksa, roasted spring chicken, assorted nyonya kueh and even an ice kacang station. Moms dine free with a UOB credit card (minimum four paying adults).

Planning to spend the weekend in Orchard? Goodwood Park is offering special Mother's Day menus (May 12-13) throughout the hotel, with a lunch/high tea buffet (12-2:30pm, 3-5:30pm; $54) at the Coffee Lounge serving items like pork knuckle with fermented beancurd and chicken curry with bread. A four-course set lunch ($88) and six-course set dinner ($118) will also be available at Gordon Grill, with everything from cold angel hair pasta with abalone, caviar and white truffle vinaigrette, to slow-cooked ibérico pork loin with savoy cabbage, apple puree and natural jus. You may want to take home the hotel's signature durian mousse cake ($58-155) too to celebrate.

Dinner at the airy Graze at Martin No. 38 gains a refreshing experience with executive chef Chris Donnellan's special Mother's Day creations: the eight-hour slow-roasted lamb with portobello mushroom mousseline, sweet corn puree and confit shallots ($38), as well as the Spanner crab omelette with black truffle salsa ($27). Moms will receive a complimentary glass of Prosecco or mocktail.

For a quiet and relaxing Sunday brunch, head to Graze at Rochester Park for their charcuterie and seafood platters. Special dinner menus will also be available, with highlights such as crispy barramundi and roasted lamb leg. Mothers celebrating with family will enjoy a complimentary Mimosa.

Thai restaurant Kha will make an exception for Mother's Day in Singapore and open that Sunday (May 13) with an attractive set menu for four and a special one-day-only item: the mother-in-law eggs with chili jam, traditional Thai sauce nam prik plaa and herbs. Moms enjoy an anti-oxidant mocktail on the house.

Aside from a menu featuring dishes popular with the ladies (they're Thai crabmeat salad, soft shell crab vermicelle in hotpot and seabass fillet with black pepper sauce if you're interested), Lerk Thai is also offering 90% off the Mother's Day set menu ($198) for 90-year-old mothers, while 100-year-old mothers dine for free.

Chef Laurent Peugeot will be whipping out recipes from his own mother's collection for LP+Tetsu's elaborate Mother's Day dinner menu (May 12-13; $150++ per person). If you haven't experienced Chef Peugeot's adventurous culinary style, this will be a good time to try, with Japanese favorites such as tairagai and itoyori fillet, scampi and French mainstays veal and Brillat-Savarin cheese as highlights. Moms also receive a heart-shaped chocolate cake and attendance to a free cooking demo in June.

From May 12-13, Intercontinental Singapore will host buffet high tea and dinner, as well as set menus special for Mother's Day. The high tea buffet (12:30-4pm; $42) at Olive Tree will feature Indian food, dim sum and local delights such as Teochew porridge and kueh pie tee, while the dinner buffet (7-10:30pm; $58will consist of a fresh seafood selection, assorted maki roll and sashimi, plus Olive Tree's signature drunken prawns in herbal broth. If your mom loves Cantonese fare, pick a set menu (11:40am-3:30-pm and 6:30-10:30pm; $288-988 for up to 10 persons) at Man Fu Yuan, which includes longevity buns.

For large families, we recommend checking out the TungLok Group of restaurants, which will make available special menus for the period of May 1-13. Lao Beijing ($168-688 for up to 10 persons) will have traditional roast Peking duck and Beijing-style sweet and sour fish amongst other things, while LingZhi ($168-578 for up to 10 persons) will serve signature vegetarian dishes such as chilled chlorella lace noodles served with spicy sauce and chilled bird's nest with apricots. Our Muslim friends may want to indulge in some hearty Indonesian fare at Garuda Padang ($30-112 for up to 4 persons) with beef rendang, ketupat and gado gado, as well as deep-fried mackerel with belado sauce as highlights.

From 12pm onwards on May 13, Picotin will be serving a special Mother's Day lunch menu ($55++ per person), featuring goat's cheese salad, lobster bisque, grilled salmon, roasted lamb and desserts like banoffee pie and rhubarb tart.

If your mom loves Penang cuisine, treat her to a buffet at Copthorne King's Hotel's Princess Terrace, where she can pick from dishes like double-boiled chicken with ginseng and herbal soup, assam laksa, Hokkien prawn mee soup and kueh pie tee. Available on May 4-6, 11 and 13 for $48-58. 

At Putien, you can pick from six set menus ($128-578++ for up to 10 persons), all prepared in the traditional, healthy Putien way with only one deep-fried dish per menu. Enjoy delicacies such as double-boiled duck soup with abalone and cordyceps, braised abalone with oyster mushroom and broccoli and hot yam paste with pumpkin, accompanied by "Mazu Ping An" noodles (available with every menu)—a significant Fujian dish for longevity. Available May 1-14.

Mothers dine free (with every three paying adults) at the Concorde Hotel's Spices Cafe, where they've got the Weekend Afternoon Tea Buffet (noon-4:30pm) and International Buffet Dinner (6:30-10pm) May 12-13. For $50-68++, you can savor dishes such as Pacific clam marinated in Thai sauce, fresh tiger prawns with French bean salad and four treasure soup of abalone. Mom also receives a free serving of whole baby abalone with sea cucumber, fish maw and mushroom at dinner.

Another good option is The White Rabbit's Mother's Day Brunch ($98), available from 10:30am-1pm for the early-risers and 1-3pm. Expect items like gazpacho with prawns, buttermilk waffles and bouillabaisse, as well as a spread of desserts including Baileys bread and butter pudding, and mango-passion fruit mousse.

Just want a simple brunch? Check out our list of brunch places for special occasions. Or take her out to one of Singapore's best spots for high tea.