Sunday is Mother’s Day. Lest you’re still empty-handed in the gift department, here are a few suggestions.Chances are none of your siblings are taking mom for haiku tea and tarot, so why don’t you? Felissimo at 10 W. 56th St. offers this elegant and unusual combo Mondays to Fridays from 3 to 5 p.m. on the fourth floor of their beaux-arts townhouse. Tea sandwiches, mini-scones and pastries are the nibbles accompanying a selection of brews and the reading, and everyone gets a haiku poem to boot. Gift certificates cost $45 per person (not including a tip for the seer). Call (212) 956-4438.
Steak au Poivre (First Avenue and 63rd Street) has been a hotbed since recently acquiring chef David Ruggerio and earning 3 stars from Post restaurant critic Steve Cuozzo. They have a $39.95 three-course, prix-fixe menu from 1 to 9 p.m. on the big day. The food, reviewed as “something else,” will include appetizers such as ravioli of sheeps-milk ricotta and garden herbs with porcini in a fava bean coulis and fried green tomato salad with spare ribs. Spiedini of quail with a polenta of sage, asiago and crispy sweetbreads, and fillet of cod with white bean puree and baby squid are just two of the irresistible entrees. Kids under 12 dine for half-price. Call (212) 758-3518.
In the oh-so-civilized Mark hotel (Madison and 77th), at Mark’s Restaurant and Bar they’ll be hosting Mother’s Day brunch, three courses for $62, $32 for the under-12 set (without tax or tip). A seafood platter, eggs Benedict, pan-roasted lobster, dry-aged sirlion steak and roasted Colorado rack of lamb are some of the choices. And mom gets a rose with the meal. Call (212) 606-4544 to reserve.
Uptown at Patsy’s (56th between Broadway and Eighth Avenue), mama can dine on heart-shaped ravioli in tomato cream sauce or calamari stuffed with seafood. The former Sinatra haunt sends her home with a jar of Patsy’s tomato sauce. Call (212) 247-3491.
While downtown, near the Seaport, at the historic Bridge Cafe seafood from the nearby Fulton Fish Market will be a specialty. The $21.95 three-course dinner features scallop bisque, spring vegetable risotto, grilled salmon and soft-shell crabs with scallion butter. And the structure, said to be the oldest wood-frame building in the city, dates back to 1794. For reservations, call (212) 227-3344.