Restaurants in Imperial Beach

Now that you've canceled your membership to the Sterling Silver Club because they started accepting riffraff like you as a member, you'll need a new place where you can get your club dining experience. Today's Groupon will cover you: for $20, you get $45 worth of elegant dining at the Waterfront Bay Club Bar and Grill in the Bay Club Hotel and Marina. Enjoy a shared sense of community while feasting on elegant dishes with a splendid view of the marina and the dazzling sunset it borrows nightly.

Lil' Piggy's mouthwatering comfort fare takes its cue from Memphis, where slathering style and smoky aromatics crown motivated pork-based cooking. Choose from one of more than 100 beers stored cold in their bottles, and then adjust your wet-nap for a journey through the menu of savory porks and beefs cooked low and slow over Hickory hardwoods. Break in your barbecue fork on a piggy plate of pulled pork ($11.99–$14.99) or baby back ribs served wet or dry ($10.99–$22.99). While the mouth can't avoid a respectably sloppy time at Lil' Piggy's, the fingers can stay clean and cool thanks to the bread-barricaded Bar-B-Q bacon burger with smoked applewood bacon, onion rings, and cheddar jack cheese ($9.99) or the lean pulled-chicken sammich topped with slaw and slapped on a potato bun ($9.99).

The Midwest is known for being the setting for all three Jaws movies and a bevy of delicious culinary creations. Today's Groupon follows cravings to the metropolitan middle of the nation with $25 worth of Chicago grub for $10 at Wolffy's Place on the corner of Ninth and Market. You and a friend can dine on ribs, dogs, and Italian beef like high-society gangsters at a 1930s joint.

The food of one's youth not only nourishes a developing body, it also nutures a nostalgic seed of comfort-food adoration that follows one through life and dimly lit alleys. Today's Groupon serves up $25 worth of Philly-inspired fare and libations at Olde City Grill in Pacific Beach for $10. Lend your cravings the sultry satisfaction of Philly cheesesteaks and fresh East Coast ingredients that will return you to the good ol' days of eating cheesesteaks during a lunch break at the sulfur mine.

The contemporary antiquity eatery overlooks Montgomery Field Airport, whose views complement a handsome interior aesthetic peppered with war memorabilia, aviation artifacts, dark-beamed ceilings, huge stone fireplaces, and tables outfitted with headphones that tap into the FAA control tower. Dine in or feast outdoors on a grassy hill with umbrella-covered tables and a supper menu of sumptuous plates. Macadamia-crusted sea scallops come in a roasted bell-pepper sauce ($8.99), while double-thick pork chops simmer below a port wine and balsamic glaze ($14.99). Filet mignon kabobs are prepared in your choice of béarnaise or teriyaki sauce ($18.99), and the rack of lamb is New Zealand–imported with a demi-glace dijon mustard sauce and mint jelly ($28.99).

The Cask Room's vast wine menu rotates each week like a stately Morris dance or a motley safety dance, and might feature the bold tannins of a 2006 Monte da Cal from Alentejano, Portugal ($9 for a glass); a 2007 Rancho Sisquoc River Red fermented and bottled in Santa Barbara, California ($10 a glass); or a 2007 Clautiere Roussanne from the Paso Robles, California ($11 a glass). Passionate wine professionals will guide you through the latest liquid lineup and suggest pairings from a mealtime menu populated by toasted paninis and petite tapas that hearken back to an age when cuisine strived to woo the stomach’s heart without resorting to cyber-stalking. The Sonoma melts together grilled portobello mushrooms with roasted red peppers, goat cheese, roast garlic, thyme, and caramelized onion ($10), while small plates present dishes such as stuffed dates stuffed with goat cheese and baked in a layer of prosciutto ($9) and gorgonzola crostini topped with agave nectar ($8).