California Restaurants

Today $15 gets you $35 worth of food and drink at Palio d’Asti, a gourmet Italian restaurant located at 640 Sacramento St. in the Financial District.

French food is more than escargot and brie-stuffed brie; it's other delicacies such as rabbit and duck too. Take your mouth on a trip to the City of Lights: for $10, you get a $25 Groupon for traditional French fare at Côté Sud, located at 4238 18th St. (between Diamond and Collingwood in the Castro).

A team of scientists spent the past decade comparing the eco-friendliness of "Things that are named Roots"; three of those years were dedicated to creating this chart illustrating their findings:

Tucked in the heart of the Financial District, Globe Restaurant strikes a gastronomical jackpot by fashioning its New American menu of homemade pizzas, piping-hot, handmade pastas, and fresh seafood from an array of sustainable, farm-fresh products. Diners plumbing the dinner menu can dive mouth first into an arugula salad ($8) before spearing a wild king salmon, which pairs salsa verde with boccacino pasta ($24) for an amalgamation even more memorable than the Continental Congress's alliance with the 1992 Dream Team. A dulcet quartet of pizzas shepherd fresh panoplies of gourmet ingredients—including sopressata, truffle oil, and roasted spring onions—onto their doughy pastures ($16 each).