Restaurants in Cottage Lake

Composing a week's worth of haikus out of brothy alphabet soup will leave anyone wanting a stiff drink. Today's Groupon puts libations and sea fare in the same place with $25 worth of food and drink at STIR Martini and Raw Bar for $10. The precise engineering of your meal will fill your gullet and further inspire your economic use of 17 poetic syllables.

Sutra serves up a daily-changing menu of meat-free meals in its brightly colored Wallingford eatery Wednesday through Sunday. The supper-club-style service offers one seating time (7 p.m.) on Wednesday and Thursday, two (6:30 p.m. and 9 p.m.) on Friday and Saturday, and one 6:30 p.m. seating on Sunday. Typically, Sutra features a four-course prix fixe meal with artsy arrangements of the best ingredients per course ($35). The restaurant is closed Monday and Tuesday.

The Taj Mahal is near-universally admired. So are Indian people. And so is their food. For $15, you’ll get $35 worth of Indian fare at Navya Lounge (valid for dinner only), a downtown eatery in the Rainier Square Building where classic Indian dishes united with classic Indian dish names live happily ever after in a charming fantasyland where everyone is best friends with their stomachs. Follow @Groupon_Says on Twitter.

Thomas Street Bistro's menu blends the taste of Provençal sunshine with the salt of the Mediterranean. All entrees are cooked from scratch using local produce and gourmet spices. Chefs dream up new concoctions every day to swirl into soups, shuffle into salads, and feverishly write to patent companies about. Hungry twosomes can sink cutlery into the slow-cooked roasted lamb, which shouts inspirational quotes from a bed of seasonal rice and veggies, or the vegetarian Mediterranean pasta, a medley of French feta cheese, olives, and fresh tomatoes. Chicken breast sings in a shower of lemon butter and capers, and Groupon holders can pair any entree with a glass of weekly house red or white wine. Chew-a-thons conclude with the dessert of the day, a hopeless romance of sugar and decadent ingredients that entangles taste buds like a pulp thriller about jungle vines.

El Puerco Lloron's staff serves a full menu of classic Mexican food either inside or, on nicer days, on its sunlight-rich outdoor patio. Pork, chicken, and beef taquitos can be enjoyed amid a beach-like atmosphere full of cool blue and salmon tones, colorful hanging lights with intricate flower patterns, and mural art that conjures pastoral serenity. The well-worn folding tables further crystallize the vibe, which is more laid back than an SAT-taker who's already a billionaire.

Today’s Groupon gets you $25 worth of drinks and yummy dishes at eco-friendly Julia’s Restaurant for $10. With four locations to choose from (Queen Anne, Issaquah, Wallingford, and Capitol Hill), there are plenty of opportunities to enjoy the culinary wonder of local eats.Julia Child: More than nine-and-a-half feet tall, her kitchen was specially designed to accommodate her towering height and immense strength. The kitchen’s most notable feature was its many chloroform gas nozzles to knock out the star chef when she flew into one of her many uncontrollable rages.