This is “Small Bites,” a South Florida Sun Sentinel feature with tiny tidbits on the food and beverage scene — because we know that sometimes you just don’t have room for a long article. You want a little news brief instead, an amuse bouche of information, if you will. Enjoy!

It’s Mother’s Day Weekend and, gentlemen, you cannot win. Best just
to try to limit the damage, show that you did, in fact, remember and made a conscious effort to find something to do that have her interests in mind. Play your cards right here and maybe you sneak in some pizza, beer and baseball. Because no matter what, you cannot win.

It’s about a week before Top Chef’s 20th season premiere, and Buddha Lo is taking a break from his busy schedule as executive chef of New York City’s HŪSO, a “12-seat caviar speakeasy” that currently has a waitlist more than 3,000 people long. Many of those diners are lining up precisely because of Lo’s status as winner of the reality competition show’s previous season, in which he wowed judges Tom Colicchio, Padma Lakshmi, and Gail Simmons with an unapologetically elevated finale meal, which included—you guessed it—caviar. It’s the type of pressure that the Chinese-Australian chef has been preparing for his entire career.

If you are looking for some unique, luxurious gifts for mom this year, other than the generic flowers and chocolates, we have got you covered. Here are are 11 of our favorite luxe gifts for mom this Mother’s Day:

If you’re like us, you’ve probably wondered what famous people add to their carts. Not the JAR brooch and Louis XV chair but the hair spray and the electric toothbrush. We asked chef Buddha Lo of Huso, the winner of Top Chef: Houston who’s currently competing on Top Chef: World All-Stars, about the “hospitality-friendly” clogs, easy-to-wash-out pomade, and minivan-esque e-scooter he can’t live without. 

This is “Small Bites,” a South Florida Sun Sentinel feature with tiny tidbits on the food and beverage scene — because we know that sometimes you just don’t have room for a long article. You want a little news brief instead, an amuse bouche of information, if you will. Enjoy!