Watching sports in a restaurant is more enjoyable than playing sports in a restaurant, which normally ends in misguided attempts to cook a mesquite-rubbed football. Enjoy the simple pleasures of athletics and eats with today's Groupon: for $10, you get $20 worth of pub fare and drinks at McMae's Tavern & Grill in Bartlett.
McMae's Tavern & Grill assuages vocal stomachs with an eclectic menu of American-style eats in a modest pub environment. Relive Pavlovian experiments with McMae's saliva-inducing skirt steak, a tender, 6-ounce flank of juicy beef served with fresh vegetables ($12.95). Pastas permeate the menu, hiding linguini beneath a canopy of shellfish, bell peppers, and cilantro in the tiger shrimp creole ($12.95) or showcasing them front and center in the homemade manicotti ($9.95). Twelve sandwich offerings, one for every finger, fill out the lunch and dinner selection with crowd-pleasing combinations ranging from the grilled-salmon sandwich topped with caramelized onions ($9.95) to the chicken-parmesan sandwich ($7.95).
Awash in the glow of 9 flat-screen TVs, patrons can bask in McMae's unpretentious atmosphere while watching sports and fighting the urge to check in on daytime soaps. The mahogany-stained wooden bar stands as the handcrafted focal point of the spacious dining room with hardwood floors and ample natural light spilling through the storefront windows.
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The Groupon Guide to: Dog Translation
Unlike most animals, which will bite, quill-sting, or bray with disappointment at every person they see, dogs love humans, but their unsophisticated vocal cords make it hard to communicate with us. Here's a guide to what your canine companion's yelps are really saying:
- Bark!: "I love you! Please sloppily eat a chili dog and let me lick the detritus off your beard!"
- Ruff!: "Who am I? What is our relationship? I'm uncomfortable with you 'owning' me!"
- Woof!: "Do you think we'd be friends if I were a human? I bet we would still hang out. Is anyone working on that technology? On dog brain/human body transfer? If you paid for the human-making surgery up front, I'd totally get a job and pay you back. I want this to be a relationship of equals!"
- Bow-wow!: "OK, not a lot of interest in the humanity surgery. I get it. I won't bring it up again."
- Arf!: "Just think about it a little, though! Me! With a human body and a dog's face! I don't understand why you aren't more into this idea!"
- Yip!: "Everyone would ask, 'Who's this cool dude?' And I'd be like, 'I used to be this guy's dog, believe it or not!' I am definitely getting excited about this."
- Aw-oooh!: "I'd still be the same 'best friend' you've always had, but I'd also be a dog's head transplanted onto a human body. Which part are you not understanding?"
- Meow!: "Would you love me more if I were a cat? Would you?!"
- (Sigh) Bark…: "Whatever, man. I guess it's a dog's head and a dog's body for me. But I'm not happy about it."
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