Restaurants in El Monte

There's no need to stir your risotto until your arm either goes numb or requires an expensive experimental arm surgery when you can enjoy creamy risotto primavera with white wine and asiago cheese at Maria's Italian Kitchen. With today's Groupon, you get $40 worth of delicious Italian food and drink for only $20 at the Downtown, West Los Angeles, or Brentwood locations.

Start off an indulgent dinner with mastermind owner/chef Tara Thomas’s signature jumbo lump crab cakes with chipotle rémoulade ($17) before crashing a freighter of flavor into your face with entrees such as the hanger steak with pommes frites, watercress, and herbed shallot butter ($23), hearty enough to satisfy both weary travelers and the locals who come for the airy patio and exhibitionist thrill of eating out-of-doors. Lunch at Traxx offers the same elegant New American dining as the dinner menu, as well as entree salads and sandwiches such as the prawn and endive Louis with tomato, avocado, and tarragon Louis dressing ($16), and a classic reuben with corned beef, sauerkraut, and Russian dressing on New York rye ($15).

Today's deal splashes your face with refreshing waves of deliciousness from both sides of the ocean: $20 gets you $50 worth of Latin-inspired, Asian-fusion fine cuisine at Pacific Grille, the peaceful oasis of gastronomical joy in the heart of downtown LA.

For those weak-willed few who turn to eating when hungry instead of intense hunger-reducing concentration, today’s Groupon gets you $40 worth of Latin-inspired cuisine and thirst quenchers at Ciudad for $20. Follow @Groupon_Says on Twitter.

After Congress instituted the Five-Second Rule in 1956, Americans had to develop a surefire way to keep their dinners off the ground. And thus, the kabob was born. Today's Groupon celebrates the wooden skewer that has saved millions of meals with $16 worth of impaled grub at California Skewers in Duarte for $8. California Skewers offers a cool and casual dining experience where you build your own meal from the stick on up. If skewering lingo hasn't entered your lexicon yet, consult the handy how to order guide.

Imagine you are hungry, specifically for fish. Do you really have time to wait around for fish to be cooked when you could simply encase it in a luxurious cylinder of rice and call it dinnertime? Today's Groupon serves the sea's friskiest foodstuffs raw in a rolling rice roll rolled right into your pearlynets: for $20, you get $40 worth of sushi, sake, and Japanese cuisine at Japon Bistro, the Pasadena eatery that Citysearch named one of the Best LA Sushi Restaurants in 2007 and Zagat rated "very good to excellent."