Restaurants in Lawrence

Welcome to Groupon Kansas City! For our inaugural deal, $7 gets you $15 worth of grub and guzzle at Woodyard Bar-B-Que, an unassuming brick shack that serves melt-in-your-mouth meaty meals.

Break from the rapid beating of seasonal gingerbread batters and take refuge in a European-style café that has a variety of Thanksgiving meal-ending stomach-pleasers. For $8, today's Groupon gets you $16 worth of freshly baked bakery bites at Jay WaLe’s Bakery-Bistro, named 2009’s Best Bakery by The Pitch, and, unlike most bakeries, it's not also the headquarters of a cookie-gang.Follow @Groupon_Says on Twitter.

Doctors have long recommended that over-partied, undernourished Americans consume a fourth meal after midnight to receive their daily recommended dosage of fried nutrients, Edward Hopper tableaux, and hard-boiled dialogue. Today's Groupon helps you follow doctor's orders with $10 worth of late-night bites at Chubby's on Broadway for $5. This 24-hour home of hot sandwiches, omelettes, and more has been called Kansas City's Best Place to Eat After Midnight. Chubby's is open 24 hours a day, except on Monday, when it closes at 2 p.m. and reopens at 6 a.m. on Tuesday.

As Abraham Lincoln famously intoned during the Gettysburg Address, "A margarita made from scratch is a margarita down the hatch." That indomitable spirit lives on in today's deal: for $5, you get $10 worth of Mexican fare and drinks at Margarita's, a Kansas City favorite and a CityVoter top five for Mexican food for 2008 and 2009. This Groupon is valid at all three Margarita's locations.

To the Japanese, the words “sama zama” mean “variety.” But to a food critic from the Pitch, the unfamiliar phrase has become synonymous with “serious snacks.” That’s how she described the fare at Sama Zama, an eatery run by One Bite Japanese Grill's owner, Erika Koike. Perhaps the most intriguing of Erika's family recipes and culinary experiments is the okonomi yaki, a savory pancake often dubbed Japanese-style pizza. It consists of grilled dough crowned with the meat or veggies of your choice, a fried egg, sweet sauces, and crunchy noodles.

Exposed brick juts out from an orange accent wall in Sama Zama's Tokyo-inspired interior, which is splashed with circles and triangles that appear to move of their own volition under the light cast by bare bulbs and the baby suns tethered to the ceiling.

The Roman mythological canon is so expansive that many scholars gloss over more specialized deities such as Minervatune, god of TV shows you know are good but never get around to watching, and Pepperarcus, the god of pizza. Today's Groupon goes where historians won't with $15 worth of Italian cuisine at Johnny Brusco's New York Style Pizza in Overland Park or Olathe for $7. This Groupon is not valid toward alcohol.