Restaurants in Marietta

You've had grits, but you haven't had grits the way Dogwood does them. Today's Groupon gets you $35 worth of food and drink for only $15 at the sophisticated southern food Midtown restaurant at 565 Peachtree St. Redefine grits with toppings like butter-poached lobster, fried oysters, pimento cheese, and ham. Grits are just one way Dogwood turns traditional southern specialties into modern marvels: its menu boasts twists like a baby arugula salad with pickled watermelon, fresh mozzarella, extra virgin olive oil, and balsamic reduction.

Every week you come home from karate class looking for a place to hangout with karate classmates. Look no further because today's Groupon gets you a great time and great food at the great Midtown Tavern.

Drinking wine out of a lousy wine glass inhibits graceful wine-swirling, blocks aroma diffusion, and is grounds for divorce in 48 states. That's why the fermented-grape experts at Vinocity serve their more than 70 reds, rosés, whites, and sparkling wines in Riedel stemware. The lavish Kirkwood restaurant and wine bar boasts more than great wine: its got 12 beers on draft, 50 by the bottle, and eight types of hypnosis. Follow @Groupon_Says on Twitter.

For more than two decades, American Roadhouse has crafted classic diner meals from fresh ingredients and carefully guarded special recipes. Burgers decorate patties with toppings such as sautéed mushrooms and blue cheese, and the B.L.A.T. sandwich adds ripe avocado to the usual BLT lineup of bacon, lettuce, and ketchup packets with a handwritten apology note. Today, a second location in the Pencil Factory Lofts spreads the Roadhouse’s edible gospel to new mouths, tacking on a private dining room and outdoor seating for diners who want a sunny spot to undergo photosynthesis during dinner.

Authentic Chinese, Thai, and Malaysian dishes dusted in spices and doused in curries make noses curious and mouths water as diners peruse a menu of more than 100 Asian fusion items. Inside the restaurant, walls the color of green tea adorned with bamboo-shoot silhouettes surround customers devouring dishes such as Malaysian curry chicken served in a clay pot with potatoes, onions, and string beans alongside general tso’s chicken glazed with spicy sauce. Bright-red box letters spelling Malaya light up nightly to draw in diners, and speedy staff members zoom delivery orders to offices, kitchen tables, and opera balconies.

Shortcake usually comes with strawberries, but at Erbert and Gerbert's Sandwich Shop it comes with a double serving of ham. That's because the shop's Shortcake is 1 of 21 signature, specialty, and classic sandwiches made at 50 locations throughout the United States. Other flavorful subs include the Geeter, which boasts a medley of chopped seafood and bacon, as well as the avocado-and-provolone-topped Jacob Bluefinger.

Like the Comet Morehouse and Boney Billy, a version of the Bluefinger is also available on an exclusive menu of certified-gluten-free sandwiches made with specially designed rolls from Udi's. Gluten-free rolls can replace regular rolls on any other sandwich, too, whether it’s purchased individually or in a boxed lunch, which comes with chips, a cookie, and half a giant pickle that, if left whole, wouldn't fit in your car.