A spaghetti noodle, much like a swimming-pool noodle, maintains its shape until it's exposed to boiling water or sat on by children. Savor pasta's forced flexibility with today's Groupon: for $25, you get $50 worth of Italian fare at Rocco's Grill in Lakeway.
Rocco's Grill's menu of handmade pastas, seasonal seafood, hand-cut steaks, and rich desserts snapped up four awards from Citysearch in 2009, including Best Austin Restaurant. The pollo piazza packs mesquite-grilled chicken with prosciutto and fontina cheese ($19), and the trout traina rolls in hazelnuts before donning water wings to splash through a pool of basil-lemon butter ($21). The owner's favorite, lamb trots through a fresh mint-orange sauce ($27). The pepper-steak marsala, a tenderloin coated with coarse black pepper under a glaze of mushroom marsala sauce ($29) stars in a cast of choice cuts that won the Citysearch Best Austin Steak award in 2009, and will give autographs if asked politely.
Rocco's walls pop with lavish murals starring the court jesters, ballerinas, and strongmen that star in Italian-fare folklore. Red and black linens mingle on the dining tables, and crimson drapery stretched across the ceiling softens the sounds of conversation and rocket-powered pepper grinders while a piano sculpture lined with neon lights hovers above the bar.
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The Groupon Guide to: Washing Dishes
Thanks to outbreaks of contagious diseases such as lantern lung and ennui, washing your dishes properly is more important than ever. Here are some tips:
- In the Roaring Twenties, it was common to use a dish just once before donating it to an orphanage for wayward boys or grinding it up to use as pelican bait. Not anymore.
- When cleaning a dish, remember to always use soap or water.
- Soaking your dishes in a warm bath of vinegar will break the dishes' molecular bonds and cause them to reform into tiny sculptures of your own hands.
- Instead of hauling water from your local well to wash your dishes, simply drop your dishes into the well. This won't clean them, but it will anger any vagabonds living down there.
- Save time by throwing your dishes into the washing machine along with your clothes.
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