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Roxy's Cafe – Mission

Four-Course Italian Tasting Menu for Two or Four (Up to 51% Off)

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No Longer Available
Fri Jan 11 07:59:59 UTC 2013
Value
$40
Discount
50%
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$20
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  • Foodie
  • Date Night
  • Girls Night Out

In a Nutshell

Guest chef Manny Torres Gimenez hosts a four-course tasting menu that showcases seasonal vegetables and handmade pasta

The Fine Print

  • Expires 90 days after purchase.
  • Limit 1 per person, may buy 3 additional as gifts. Limit 1 per table. Valid only for option purchased. Reservation recommended. Dine-in only. Valid only for prix fixe menu.
  • See the rules that apply to all deals.

Fine-dining establishments give you options, such as soup or salad, and silver platter or wax-paper-lined top hat. Celebrate good taste with this Groupon.

Choose Between Two Options

$20 for a four-course chef's tasting menu for two (a $40 value)
$39 for a four-course chef's tasting menu for four (an $80 value)

Both of the above options include the following per person:

  • Organic soup de jour
  • Farmers’ market seasonal salad
  • Fettuccine alla bolognese with handmade pasta and beef sauce
  • Cinderella pumpkin-stuffed žlikrofi, a ravioli with pancetta brown butter

Roxy’s Cafe

As the foodie culture has exploded in popularity in recent years, it’s become quite fashionable to shell out big bucks to experience tasting menus from talented chefs. However, at the husband and wife restaurant Roxy’s Cafe, chef Manny Torres Gimenez lets people enjoy a 10-course meal for as low as $75, which is practically unheard of in the world of upscale cuisine. “My concept is to do fine dining for ordinary people,” he told Serious Eats.

The seasons and the farmers’ markets influence his tasting menu, which weaves Asian, Mediterranean, and Latin American flavors together. Its 10 courses, which start off light and refreshing before moving to slightly heavier fare, seem to tell a culinary narrative about the type of food Gimenez is passionate about cooking.

The San Francisco Chronicle actually described Gimenez as “one of the new breed of chefs who cook from the heart and aren't deterred by inadequate kitchens and inferior dining amenities.” So though the interior of Roxy’s might have rickety dining tables and what the Chronicle calls “garish” red paint, it’s not the decor that keeps people coming back. It’s an avocado that holds seasoned ahi sashimi within its green walls, pork belly braised for 48 hours, and cheese arepas with housemade guanabana ice cream. And it’s the chef who wants the ordinary diner to feel like they can afford to eat 10 courses without selling their prized collection of waygu-beef cows.

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The Groupon Guide to: Diner Speak

The main attraction to eating at a “greasy spoon” diner is to hear the delightful lingo the servers use to relay your order to the cooks. Many people will often order second and third meals just to hear the servers yell and then discreetly throw away the food. Here is a guide to their secret language:

Order: Double cheeseburger, medium rare, with pickles
Diner Speak: Double hockey puck made of meat with a pink soul and zombie nickels

Order: Turkey sandwich on rye, no mayo
Diner Speak: Professor Gobblington with a PhD in the economics of foreign grain markets, send the white stranger packing

Order: Two eggs, scrambled, with bacon and coffee, cream and sugar
Diner Speak: Twin albino footballs meet with a tragic accident, send the mother a crispy flag and fill the dark night with the first tragically beautiful snowfall of winter

Order: Pancakes
Diner Speak: Lil’ Sweetie Flat Breads starring Shirley Temple (1934)

Order: Pot roast
Diner Speak: Roast, pot-style

Zombie nickels: cause they’re soft, green, and dead feelin’

Roxy's Cafe

4.5 out of 5
Yelp (61 Reviews)
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    Mission

    2847 Mission St.
    San Francisco, California 94110
    (415) 375-1185
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