The Mediterranean Sea shaped some of the world's most ancient civilizations, which gathered by its shores to dive for the delicious dips and gyros growing beneath its crystal waves. Transport to this legendary culinary coast with today's Groupon to Shandeez Grill Restaurant in Northwest Austin. Choose between the following options:
- For $19, you get a dinner for two (up to a $42.95 total value) that includes the following:
- One appetizer (up to a $4.99 value)
- Two entrees (up to a $14.99 value each)
- Two nonalcoholic beverages (up to a $3.99 value each)
- For $7, you get $15 worth of any Persian and Greek fare on the menu. Entrees range from $6.99 to $14.99.
The culinary craftsmen at Shandeez Grill Restaurant compile an extensive collection of authentic Persian and Greek dishes. Duos’ stomachs growl like muscle cars with distemper upon the arrival of Persian kashk-o-bademjan, a dip that meshes baked eggplant with dry yogurt, mint, sautéed onion, walnuts, garlic, and saffron, or its aubergine-based Greek competitor, baba gannouj. Entrees include the joojeh-kebab, a bone-in cornish game hen skewered alongside grilled tomatoes and basmati rice, and a gyro platter with greek salad. Although couples that choose the first option receive two whistle-wetters, Shandeez Grill also welcomes diners to bring their own spirited beverages ($2.49 corkage fee/glass, not included or valid with this Groupon) and lucky sporks.
Groupon Says
The Groupon Guide to: Kitchen Basics
Whether you're a master chef or you thought that kitchens were just an old wives' tale and are only learning that they're real right now by reading this, you need a few basic cooking utensils to help you turn worthless, disparate ingredients into useable food. Every kitchen must have:
- One saucepan. This is a pan that you can melt down into a sauce.
- Ten mixing bowls. This allows you to mix 10 different ingredients separately so that they don't have to touch and get all over each other.
- Between six and seven stoves. If a "recipe" (that's just a snobby word for "food instructions") calls for a dish to be cooked at 300 degrees for 30 minutes, it's actually much faster to cook it for 10 minutes at a time in three different ovens set to 100 degrees.
- One refrigerator full of sharp knives.
- One whisk so that guests will see it and think you must really be good at cooking.
- One cutting board, which is a wooden block filed down to a serrated edge. You use it to chop vegetables, but you'll also want to have some sort of mat or hard, flat surface to cut them on.
- A family of chickens. They make food—eggs!—and turn into food! They're awesome.
- Nine 1-gallon jugs of olive oil. This delicious flavoring is used in practically every food instruction to make the food taste like olives.
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