Treat mom right this Mother’s Day – with food!

Mother’s Day is coming up on Sunday, May 12, which means it’s time to honor the mother or maternal figures in your life. Cooking up breakfast and delivering it to mom in bed or getting a bouquet of flowers may be the classic plans, but if you want to elevate and outsource the festivities and treats, here are some ideas to get you started – from gourmet chocolates to classic brunches to a foraging campout by the coast. 

The Sea by Alexander’s Steakhouse 

Feeling fancy? The Sea by Alexander’s Steakhouse is offering a three-course prix fixe Mother’s Day brunch menu designed by executive chef Pratik Mungre ($110) from 10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. on May 12. The menu includes an amuse bouche; a choice of heirloom tomato salad, eggs Benedict, clams or shrimp with vermicelli noodles as a first course; a choice of steak, chicken breast, salmon or seasonal ravioli as a second course; and choice of ube tiramisu, mochi doughnuts or guava cheesecake with candied kumquats for dessert. A $23 kids’ menu featuring a choice of chicken tenders and fries or pasta is also available. 

The Sea by Alexander’s Steakhouse, 4269 W El Camino Real, Palo Alto; 650-213-1111, Instagram: @theseabyash. 

Mother’s Day Weekend Seaweed Foraging Camp

Looking for a more unusual adventure this Mother’s Day? The nonprofit organization Healing Tide is hosting a weekend-long campout May 10-12 in Pescadero focused on teaching participants all about the nutritional benefits of various seaweed types and how to sustainably forage for them, as well as creating delicious seaweed recipes, seaweed spa treatments and having fun with family and friends in a beautiful coastal setting. Tickets are $450 per adult, $300 per teen and $250 per child age 7-12. 

Healing Tide’s Mother’s Day Weekend Seaweed Foraging Camp, Pescadero; 510-517-7862, healingtide.org. 

Manresa Bread (Palo Alto, Los Altos, Campbell and Los Gatos)

For all those moms who are as sweet as pie, Manresa Bread is offering Mother’s Day baked goods available for preorder and pickup May 11 and 12. Treats including Meyer lemon cheesecake ($55) and berry shortcake ($65) can be preordered as whole cakes, while all five Manresa locations will also be selling cakes by the slice. 

Manresa Bread, multiple locations, Instagram: @manresabread. 

Timothy Adams Chocolates

Palo Alto’s longtime gourmet chocolate shop Timothy Adams Chocolates is offering two delectable and springlike Mother’s Day truffle collections ($37-$118). The Mother’s Day Cameo Collection features passion fruit gelee with white chocolate ganache and a dark chocolate couverture, plus raspberry cream with dark chocolate ganache, while the Rose and Violet Collection features the flavors of the titular flowers, along with honey and white chocolate.

Timothy Adams Chocolates, 539 Bryant St., Palo Alto; 415-755-8923, Instagram: @timothyadamschocolates. 

St. Stephen’s Green

Grab your sassiest shoes for this one: The Mountain View pub is celebrating with a Mothers Day Drag Brunch Disco Party ($5 admission), featuring drag queens, disco grooves, dancing and brunch options. Brunch service begins at 11 a.m. on May 12, drag performances start at noon and go until 1:30 p.m., and disco dancing carries on until 3 p.m.

St. Stephen’s Green, 223 Castro St., Mountain View; 650-964-9151, Instagram: @stephensgreen. 

Palo Alto Elks Lodge

The Palo Alto Elks Lodge is hosting a Mother’s Day brunch buffet from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on May 12 featuring smoked salmon and bagels, corned beef hash, chilaquiles, berry parfait, mini quiches and a bounty of other classic breakfast items, plus mimosas and bloody marys. Each woman attending will receive “a rose as lovely as she is,” the lodge’s website states. Tickets are $60 per adult and $24 per child. 

Palo Alto Elks Lodge, 4249 El Camino Real, Palo Alto; 650-493-4249, Instagram: @paloaltoelkslodge1471. 

Cafe Wisteria

The Allied Arts Guild restaurant Cafe Wisteria is offering an al fresco Mother’s Day brunch buffet served May 12 in the cafe’s garden, set to the sounds of live music. Tickets are required and can be reserved by emailing hello@cafewisteria.com. The earlier seating is sold out but a few tickets ($125 for adults and $65 for children) were still available for the 1:15 p.m. seating as of Tuesday, May 7. The menu includes salad, fruit, a seafood station, a hot buffet, desserts and bottomless mimosas, and the ticket includes admission to Allied Arts Guild for the day. Ten percent of the Mother’s Day brunch proceeds supports uncompensated care at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital. 

Cafe Wisteria, 75 Arbor Road, Menlo Park; 650-838-9002, Instagram: @cafewisteria.