Mother's little helpers: Breakfast-in-bed basics at the Minnow's "Little Buddy" cooking classes.

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Mother's Day Dining
There is a certain type of Mom for whom Mother's Day means one thing and one thing only: brunch at Tavern-on-the-Green, the mother of all Mother's Day venues. Call her the Traditional Mom or the Old-Fashioned Mom. She will accept no substitutes, and if you haven't made your reservation by now, you'll witness her sudden transformation into the Guilt-Tripping Mom. On the bright side, there's a Mother's Day menu for every personality type.

best of the week
Tribeca Festeja at Pico
To coincide with the Tribeca Film Festival (which runs through May 12), Pico restaurant will be offering this special prix fixe lunch and dinner menu. Hungry cineasts can expect Portuguese-inflected fare like roasted suckling pig, chilled almond-and-grape soup, and a frozen banana souffl�.
Pico
349 Greenwich Street
212-343-0700

object of desire
Tempesta in a Tomato
Arezzo's wood-oven-roasted rack of Colorado lamb would be the perfect, simple springtime dish if only that delinquent season would grace us with its presence. Chef Margherita Aloi rubs the lamb with thyme, sage, and rosemary and serves the fine, flavorful pink meat with pea shoots and a vine-ripe tomato, blanched and stuffed with a luscious mixture of goat cheese and an extra-large-grain couscous that she calls tempesta ("hail" in Italian), perhaps in an attempt to summon some precipitation and do something about the drought.
Arezzo
46 West 22nd Street
212-206-0555