Coffee & Treats in Brighton

Perkins began as a single humble Ohio pancake house in 1958. More than 50 years––and 440 national locations––later, each Perkins restaurant stays true to its roots by keeping those signature buttermilk pancakes the focal point of a 90-plus-item menu. Cooks layer the popular flapjacks in stacks of two, three, or even five and make the fluffy towers all the more tempting with toppings such as glazed strawberries, whipped cream, or flavored syrups. Breakfast favorites—including hearty omelets and country benedicts—are served all day, meaning kids and adults can order short stacks to accompany their jumbo-shrimp or steak dinner, instead of smuggling them in under a stovepipe hat. Unlike most other chain restaurants, Perkins also features in-store bakeries that churn out the shop's real fruit and cream pies, muffins, and chocolate-chip cookies.

Moonlight Creamery, an ice cream shop founded by an engineer and her entrepreneurial neighbor, stresses two things: confections and community. The former is abundant, as scoops of homemade ice cream highlight a menu of sweets that includes cakes and pies, hot fudge sundaes with roasted walnuts, and handmade truffles. As for its mission to give back, the shop looks far and near, focusing on everything from using Fair Trade coffee and chocolate to hosting an annual Scholarship Day that raises money for its employees and local high school seniors who are enrolling in college.

Step 1. Purchase your Groupon using the buy button at the top of the page.Step 2. Locate your redemption code, which differs from the Groupon number and can be found in the center of the voucher. The voucher is viewable in the mobile app or by going to My Groupons and clicking the print link.Step 3. Visit redemption site, select "redeem my Groupon," and enter the redemption code located in the center of your Groupon into the "Coupon Code" field at checkout.Step 4. Enjoy!

Bruegger's bagels are culled from fresh, wholesome ingredients and then kettle-boiled in the New York tradition, resulting in chewy centers with crisp outer crusts. Awaken your taste buds with a savory combination such as the asiago-parmesan bagel smothered with olive-pimiento cream cheese ($0.99 for bagel only, $2.29 with cream cheese). Or prove yourself to be a sweetie by adopting a family of six carb circles and washing them up and behind the ears in a tub of garden-veggie cream cheese ($7.89). Bruegger's deli menu is flanked by an array of breakfast sandwiches ($2.99–$6.79) and lunch fare; bury thoughts of the snarky snooze button with the spinach-and-cheddar-omelette sandwich, or defuse your lunchtime hunger siren with a signature sandwich ($5.69–$6.99) such as the herby turkey or roma roast beef.

Along with its prefabricated pastries, Dollop Gourmet Cupcake Creations lets you be the master of your own dessert destiny with a custom cupcake bar. Start by choosing your cake base, then watch while it is bedecked with your choice of frosting, filling, and candies such as gummy bears, sprinkles, and glazed hawk talons. Cupcakes cost $2.50 for cake and frosting plus $0.25 for fillings and $0.10-$0.50 per topping. Dollop's handmade customization gives you the freedom to decorate your own cupped cakes with a holiday scheme, movie theme, or even the face of your boss so that you can rehearse your request for a raise.

Dolce Cupcakery subdues sweet teeth with an ever-evolving selection of cup-sized confections crafted from scratch. The petite-sweet shop offers a rotating cast of standard- and jumbo-sized cupcakes ($2.50–$3.50 per cupcake), with each sweetmeat donning a dapper frock of smooth frosting and stylish toppings such as white-chocolate curls, caramelized pecans, and peanut-butter cups. Relive childhood memories of tender lunchroom food fights with the peanut-butter-and-jelly cupcake, or traverse the graham-cracker crust of the s'mores cupcake, crowned with a toasty cap of marshmallow frosting. Dolce also offers gluten-free options for those who suffer from uncontrollable bouts of barley-induced hucklebucking.