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Mother's guide
Victoria Stewart and Jasmine Gardner20 Mar 2009
Forget the scented soap, here are some of the best treats for mums this Sunday...
DAYS OUT
Discount dance (and tea)
Readers can get £10 off tickets to a Mother's Day full afternoon tea and dancing at The Park Lane Hotel. The dancefloor will be open to guests, with a string quartet and ballroom dancing performances from experts.
£49 or £39 each for Evening Standard readers who email standard@afternoontea.co.uk. Sunday 3pm, The Park Lane Hotel, W1, 020 7499 6321, www.afternoontea.com.
Frugal flowers
Let your mum create her own stunning bouquet at Sweet Pea Floral Design's flower-arranging workshop, followed by tea, cake and sparkling wine. She can take home her arrangement plus a lovely goody bag (and a 20 per cent discount voucher for her next bouquet or lesson if you quote Evening Standard when booking).
£50, 10:30am-12:30pm/2pm-4pm, Saturday (bouquet workshop) and Sunday (centrepiece workshop), 55 Neal Street, WC2, 084 4561 7286, www.sweetpeaflowers.co.uk.
Creative chocolate
Learn to handmake chocolates at My Chocolate workshop in Farringdon then take them home with a free goody bag containing cocoa butter moisturiser, vanilla candles and a bottle of champagne. Quote Evening Standard and get a 10 per cent discount.
£58.50/mothers, £44.10/offspring. Workshops 10.30am/2.30pm/6.30pm, Suite B1, 16-16a Baldwin's Garden, EC1, 020 7269 5760, www.mychocolate.co.uk.
BEAUTY
Thrifty Threading
No need to be completely altruistic on Sunday. Buy one eyebrow threading treatment for your mum at Blink Brow Bars and get your own brows shaped for free.
£17 until 31 March. Find Blink in Selfridges, Harvey Nichols, Fenwicks and House of Fraser, Westfield, www.blinkbrowbar.com.
Economical eye make-up
Get the experts to make-over your mother at Lost in Beauty make-up boutique in Primrose Hill, with 10 per cent off an eye make-up lesson (quote Evening Standard when booking). Try several looks and get instructions for recreating them. Guests get free afternoon tea.
£45 for 60 mins (mother)/£76.50 for 90 mins (mother and daughter), Sat, 10.30-6.30pm, Sun, 12-5pm, 117 Regents Park Road, NW1, 020 7586 4411, www.lostinbeauty.com.
Prudent pedis and manis
Foot expert Margaret Dabbs is offering a free express manicure, worth £25, to mothers having a pre-Mother's Day medical pedicure at her Foot Clinic & Nail Spa in Marylebone on Saturday. Or, a free express manicure for daughters choosing a supreme manicure for their mums on Sunday.
£75 pedicure (£120 with Margaret Dabbs), Saturday, 9am-6.30pm, £50 manicure, Sunday, 12-6pm, New Cavendish Street, W1G, 020 7487 5510, www.margaret dabbs.co.uk.
FOOD
Low-tariff Tagine
North African restaurant Momo is opening specially on Sunday and any mum who books a table for lunch will get a free copy of the prize-winning Momo Cookbook, normally £25.
£15/two courses, 25 Heddon Street, W1, 020 7434 4040, www.momoresto.com.
Supper Steal
Mothers dine for free from the set menu at pan-Asian restaurant Gilgamesh in Camden, while sons and daughters get 50 per cent off their own meals (usually £40 per head).
£20 pp (except mums), Sunday, The Stables Market, Chalk Farm Road, NW1, 020 7428 4922, www.gilgameshbar.com. (Limit of one mother per table.)
Cut-price carving
Spruce up Mother's Day at the Carvery in the Strand Palace Hotel. Diners can enjoy eating while listening to jazz, and 12.5 per cent of all lunchtime takings will be donated to Ovarian Cancer Action.
£25/three courses per person, Strand Palace Hotel, 372 Strand, WC2, 020 7497 4158, www.strandpalacehotel.co.uk.
Two for one in Mayfair
At Indian eaterie Tamarind in Mayfair, there are special dishes to try like coriander-marinated swordfish steak, or choose the set menu to buy one meal and get one free.
£35/three courses, 20 Queen Street, W1, 020 7629 3561, www.tamarindrestaurant.com.
