Treat your mother to good food this weekend

This Sunday is a special day for all the moms out there as many will be celebrating Mother’s Day. Across Baton Rouge, numerous restaurants will be serving up specials and hosting events to commemorate the day. If you’re looking for a special place or even want to cook your own Mother’s Day meal, 225 Dine has you covered.

Juban’s will be serving a special menu with your choice from nine entrées, including veal and grillades, crab cakes and the restaurant’s signature Hallelujah Crab.

18 Steak at L’Auberge Casino & Hotel Baton Rouge also has a Mother’s Day menu with soups, salads, brunch and steak options.

Portabello’s Grill will have brunch items, soups and salads as well as fresh fish and seafood, steak, chicken, pork and pasta dishes for Sunday. The menu also includes drinks such as brandy milk punch, a Pimm’s Cup and Strawberry Basil 75 as well as a chef’s three-course combo with your choice of starter, entrée and a dessert of Frangelico Mousse.

Zoroona Mediterranean Grill will have a $24.99 menu with your choice of Caesar or feta cheese salad or lentil soup, an entrée of half a rosemary chicken with oven-roasted potatoes and rice or grilled salmon with grilled asparagus and garlic-roasted potatoes, and dessert options of baklava, warbat or tiramisu and rosewater tea or Turkish coffee.

Stroubes will feature its full menu as well as specials for Sunday, including crab cakes Benedict, duck confit grillades and poached eggs, eggs Sardou, crab Sardou and lobster bisque.

Mansurs on the Boulevard will also have a Mother’s Day menu with a selection of appetizers, charbroiled oysters, soups, salads and entrées, including brunch items as well as Creole Chicken Piccata, Duck Mansur and a 7- or 10-oz. filet mignon.

If you’d rather make lunch at home for Mom, check out the latest 225. In the issue, Tracey Koch and Stephanie Riegel have prepared an easy menu complete with a salad of spring greens with roasted beets and oranges, a homemade crepe with creamy crab filling and delicious chocolate shortcakes for dessert. Get the recipes here.