Category: Food and Drinks

Today’s Groupon Toronto Deal of the Day: Brownstone Bistro – $20 for $40 Worth of Mediterranean Fare and Drinks

Buy now for only $20
Value $40
Discount 50%
You Save $20

This is a limited 2-day only sale that will expire at midnight (Friday, July 15, 2011). Click here to buy now or for more information about the deal. Quantities are limited so don’t miss out!

Highlights
Pasta, seafood & pizza
Weekend brunch
Sangria Wednesdays
Yonge Street patio

The Fine Print
Expires Feb 16, 2012
Limit 1 per person, may buy 2 additional as gifts. Limit 1 per table, 2 per table of 4 or more. Must purchase 1 food item. Dine-in only.

The Company
Brownstone Bistro
http://www.brownstonebistro.ca/
Downtown Toronto
603 Yonge St. Toronto, Ontario

With today’s Groupon: for $20, you get $40 worth of Mediterranean fare, brunch, and drinks at Brownstone Bistro.

The chefs at Brownstone Bistro collect the flavours of Italy, Greece, and North Africa and reassemble them into culinary creations for lunch, dinner, all-day breakfast, and weekend brunch. The crispy canvas of the Calabrese pizza hosts the savoury brushstrokes of spicy italian sausage, veggies, and mozzarella ($15), and the cannelloni seafood wraps salmon, calamari, and shrimp in pasta quilt ($18). Brunch-goers relish sweet selections such as stuffed french toast ($11) and savoury options including smoked-salmon benedict ($13). A glass of wine any night or sangria on Wednesdays adds a refined touch to people-watching and Icarus-tracking on the Yonge Street patio, and indoor candlelight keeps patrons from mistaking their dates for their attorneys.

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Groupon Toronto Deal of the Day: $25 for $50 Worth of Italian Fare and Drinks

Buy now for only $25
Value $50
Discount 50%
You Save $25

This is a limited 2-day only sale that will expire at midnight on Tuesday, July 5, 2011. Click here to buy now or for more information about the deal. Quantities are limited so don’t miss out!

Highlights
Brunch & dinner menus
Homemade cured meats
Pastas, sauces & desserts made from scratch

The Fine Print
Expires Jan 6, 2012
Limit 3 per person. Limit 1 per table. Limit 1 per visit. Must purchase 1 food item. Dine-in only. Reservation required.

Paganelli’s
Toronto
106 Front St. E, Toronto, Ontario

Vaughan
24 Woodstream Blvd. Vaughan, Ontario
http://www.paganellis.com/

Today’s Groupon: for $25, you get $50 worth of authentic Italian fare and drinks at Paganelli’s. This Groupon is valid at the locations in Toronto and Vaughan.

Formerly known as Romagna Mia, Paganelli’s and its eponymous chef and master salumiere, Gabriele Paganelli, whips up a multifarious menu of authentic Northern Italian cuisine, featuring homemade cured meats alongside pastas, sauces, and desserts made from scratch. Partake in midmorning munching with the weekend brunch menu, populated by sweet and savoury nibbles including piadina alla nutella, Romagnolo-style flat bread coated in an ambrosial patina of chocolate-and-hazelnut spread ($7.95). Chefs artfully stuff pasta pillowcases, like candy hoarders on Halloween, with ricotta and swiss chard before bathing them in a butter-sage sauce with asparagus, completing the ravioli alla piacentina con asparagi dish ($16). The bufala pizza is a crispy halo festooned with freshwater buffalo mozzarella and sliced tomato ($19) that spins into mouths with the vigour of a friendly disco DJ. The risotto alla forma con tartufo e asparagi features truffle and asparagus risotto flambéed tableside in a parmigiano-reggiano wheel ($25).

Snap rugged-looking photos of friends, family, or rugged family-friends against the dining room’s exposed brick walls while imbibing in a delight from Paganellis’ extensive wine list. A post-feeding-frenzy dessert menu deftly silences the incessant chattering of sweet teeth with sumptuous sugar-laced treats.

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Groupon Toronto Deal of the Day: $15 for $30 Worth of Eclectic Fare at Caroline’s

Buy now for only $15
Value $30
Discount 50%
You Save $15

This is a limited 3-day only sale that will expire at midnight on Sunday, July 3, 2011. Click here to buy now or for more information about the deal. Quantities are limited so don’t miss out!

Highlights
Fresh, naturally raised ingredients
Comforting & healthy fare
Weekend brunch menu

The Fine Print
Expires Jan 4, 2012
Limit 1 per person, may buy 2 additional as gifts. Limit 1 per table, 2 per table of 4 or more. Must purchase 1 food item. Dine-in only.

Caroline’s
Downtown Toronto
554 Parliament St. Toronto, Ontario
http://gr.pn/kkvIRC

Today’s Groupon: for $15, you get $30 worth of eclectic fare and drink at Caroline’s.

Caroline’s nourishes guests with a hearty menu of comfort dishes and healthy fare prepared with fresh, naturally raised ingredients. Gourmet technicians fill the shepherd’s pie with ambrosial ingredients including ground beef, peas, and carrots, topped, just like early NHL players, with a helmet made of mashed potatoes ($18). For 360 degrees of gastronomic delight, guests can summon one of the kitchen’s 11 pizzas, which include the Cabbagetown pie crowned with sun-dried tomatoes, grilled chicken, goat cheese, and pesto ($16.95–$22.95). As diners take in the intimate accents of the eatery’s Victorian atmosphere, including a fireplace lounge and a sofa shaped in Benjamin Disraeli’s likeness, they can sink incisors into the bouillabaisse teeming with crab, shrimp, and mussels ($17.50) or smoked salmon on dill potato cakes ($14) off the brunch menu. Caroline’s also offers an array of low-carb, diabetic-friendly, high-protein, and gluten-free options, as well as offerings approved by livelite, an organization committed to promoting wellness.

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Groupon Toronto Deal of the Day: $25 for $50 Worth of Upscale Indian Fare and Drinks

Buy now for only $25
Value $50
Discount 50%
You Save $25

This is a limited 2-day only sale that will expire at midnight on Tuesday, June 28, 2011. Click here to buy now or for more information about the deal. Quantities are limited so don’t miss out!

Highlights
Authentic family recipes
Rich & hearty flavours
Many vegetarian options
Outdoor seating

The Fine Print
Expires Dec 29, 2011
Limit 1 per person, may buy 2 additional as gifts. Limit 1 per table, 2 per tables of 5 or more. Dine-in only. Must purchase a food item.

259 Host
Toronto
259 Wellington St. W, Toronto, Ontario
http://www.259host.com/index.html

Today’s Groupon: for $25, you get $50 worth of upscale Indian fare and drinks at 259 Host on Wellington Street West.

Showcasing the riches of an extensive spice cabinet, 259 Host enlivens tongue cocoons with a well-balanced potpourri of meat and vegetarian dishes. The Sethi brothers, together a culinary powerhouse and successful business enterprise, enlist their mother’s homemade Indian recipes to entice dinner guests with ambrosial marinades and family-crested afghans. Bib slingers can prime their taste planks with the eclectic flavour profile of tangy chaat ($7), a rice cake cluster garnished with crispy spinach fritters, yogurt, and fresh date chutney, or a produce pearl kabob ($8–$14). 259 Host ingratiates its bold entrees with epicurean palates, plating delicacies such as Australian rack of lamb dressed in a spicy vindaloo sauce ($22), and the spinach and cheese sauté classic, Saag Panir ($13) alongside a vessel of four-year-aged basmati rice that recently shed its training hulls. Table grazers can coat their taste tunnels for sweeter finales with a selection of refined see-through cocktails or a glass of house wine including a California Chardonnay ($9) and an Italian Chianti ($13).

The multilevel eatery indulges midday feasts with its decadent lunch roster including a la carte specialties such as honey mustard coconut shrimp ($13) and jackfruit masala ($11). For an alfresco affair, diners can relish their edibles on 259 Host’s 20-person patio or eat off of placemats woven from freshly cut grass blades.

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Groupon Toronto Deal of the Day: $10 for $20 Worth of Peri-Peri Fare – Multiple Locations

Buy now for only $10
Value $20
Discount 50%
You Save $10

This is a limited 2-day only sale that will expire at midnight on Monday, June 27, 2011. Click here to buy now or for more information about the deal. Quantities are limited so don’t miss out!

Highlights
Grilled-to-order chicken
Pick from four levels of spice featuring the peri-peri chili
Sandwiches, salads & sides

The Fine Print
Expires Sep 28, 2011
Limit 1 per person. Limit 1 per table. Limit 1 per visit. Not valid for the purchase of alcohol. Dine-in only. Valid only for location purchased. Not valid until 6/27.

Nando’s Flame-Grilled Chicken Restaurants
6 Locations to Select From
http://www.nandoscanada.com/

Today’s Groupon: for $10, you get $20 worth of peri-peri cuisine and drink at Nando’s Flame-Grilled Chicken Restaurants. Choose from one of 6 participating locations in South Brampton, North Brampton, Markham, Mississauga, and Richmond Hill, and on Eglinton Avenue East in Toronto.

Founded in South Africa in 1987, Nando’s Flame-Grilled Chicken Restaurants bring Portugal’s peri-peri flame-grilled chicken to the Toronto area with only the bare minimum of laser lights and smoke-shrouded, two-way mirrors. Discovered by Portuguese explorers in Africa in the distant days of maritime exploration, peri-peri is a fiery chili pepper that adds a kick of capsaicin to any cuisine, clucker-related or not. Nando’s fresh chicken luxuriates in its peri-peri marinade for 24 hours, resulting in dishes with a slate of Scoville-scale-scorching spice levels—mild lemon and herb, medium, hot, and the daredevil-only extra hot. Step up to Nando’s counter to order from the menu of sandwiches, pitas, wraps, salads, and peri-peri chicken. Enjoy a grilled-to-order peri-peri half-chicken with a side ($12) such as spiced rice or hearty coleslaw, or bite around basted bones with five Whole flame-grilled peri-peri chicken wings, drummette, wingette, and all, with a side ($10). Nando’s also sports peri-peri chicken breast sandwiches or pitas with a side ($9–$11.50), chicken or veggie whole wheat wraps with a side ($9–$11.50), and veggie burgers or pitas with a side ($9–$11.50), as well as salads and salad meals ($4.50–$12) for lovers of leaves of lettuce.

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Groupon Toronto Deal of the Day: $24 for $50 Worth of Seafood and Steak-House Fare

Buy now for only $24
Value $50
Discount 52%
You Save $26

This is a limited 2-day only sale that will expire at midnight on Friday, June 24, 2011. Click here to buy now or for more information about the deal. Quantities are limited so don’t miss out!

Highlights
Tenderloin fillets & lobster tails
Bountiful pasta dishes
Live music & dancing
Stunning views of Lake Ontario

The Fine Print
Expires Nov 30, 2011
Limit 1 per person, may buy 2 additional as gifts. Limit 1 per table. Limit 2 per table of four or more. Dine-in only. Must purchase 1 food item. Not valid on 7/1, 8/3, 8/4, or 8/5.

Casa Mendoza
Humber Bay
2161 Lake Shore Blvd. W, Etobicoke, Ontario
http://www.casamendoza.com/

Today’s Groupon: for $24, you get $50 worth of seafood and steak-house fare at Casa Mendoza in Etobicoke.

Casa Mendoza’s chefs plate a multiterrestrial menu of succulent steaks, fresh seafood, and packed pasta plates. Warm up palates with an order of the marinated-and-battered calamari, which gracefully swan dives into homemade Cajun mayonnaise ($9.95). A redolent cape of fresh garlic, herbs, and chimichuri sauce swathes the 10-ounce new york strip loin ($27.95), which busies forks and knives and instills jealousy in spoons. A heaping surf ‘n’ turf platter combines a fillet of beef tenderloin with sumptious broiled rock-lobster tail ($44.95), and the homemade gnocchi doubles as plush pillows for fresh lobster meat and rests under a hand-crocheted blanket of Dungeness-crab cream sauce ($21.95).

Live music regales diners in the evening, during which they can dance off dinner disputes that could not be resolved by mere thumb wrestling. Patrons enjoy dazzling views of Lake Ontario as they digest, and a nearby butterfly garden, park, and walking path avail themselves for postdinner strolls.

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