Restaurants in Marion

The most famous offering on King Gyros' menu is the Big Fat (and presumably Greek) Gyro ($7.99), an extra-large pita packed with 12 ounces of thin-sliced gyro meat and topped with gyro sauce, diced tomato, onion, banana peppers, black olives, and lettuce. If that isn't Greek enough for you, try the souvlake gyro ($4.19+), which is a gyro wrapped around a skewer of filet-mignon tips. You can order them by the sack (up to $34.95 for five BFGs), like Socrates always did, or with a side of fresh-cut chili cheese fries ($3.69).

The service is somewhere between leisurely sit down and blazingly fast, a perfect compliment to the restaurant’s middle-ground nature, though the menu definitely takes the high road. It’s full of the eats that little Italian schoolchildren dream about at the moderate prices papas and mammas sing about in the shower.

Like an overzealous mama bird, The Brown Bag Deli has been feeding hundreds of hungry mouths over its 30-plus years in existence. Join the nest with today’s deal: for $5, you get $10 worth of sandwiches, soups, salads, and more at this German Village mainstay. This is a popular lunch spot, but it's also open for dinner. Please don't neglect dinner, as he hates when his little brother gets all the attention and will most likely react by putting mashed potatoes in your hair while you sleep.

Originally conceived as a rationale for the recently invented sliced bread, the hot dog revolutionized the way Americans eat and make juvenile double-entendres. You'll learn this and many other hot dog–related facts with today's Groupon: for $5, you get $10 worth of fun-loving comfort cuisine at The Acme Hotdog and Sausage Company for $5. Don your most mustard-stained T-shirt and saddle up your ballpark appetite for six to eight bites of historical dog decadence.

Spinelli's lunch and dinner menu has hot panini, fresh salads, flatbread pizza, soups, pasta, and more. Try penne with meatballs smothered in Spinelli's signature sauce ($6.49) or a magherita pizza made with fresh basil, tomatoes, and fresh mozzarella balls ($4.99). Spinelli's is best known for its creative cold sandwiches, including the Jalapeño Joe (turkey, jalapeño bacon, pepper-jack cheese, lettuce, tomato, and chipotle mayo on a cheddar roll, $6.49) and the Thurber Big Beef (roast beef, lettuce, tomato, Monterey jack cheese, and mild horseradish sauce on an Asiago roll, $6.29). Have half a sandwich with a cup of lobster bisque, vegetarian gumbo, chicken noodle soup, chili, or another fresh soup for $6.49. Or start the day with a specialty sandwich. The breakfast bill of fare includes melty morning grinders such as a tostini (egg, American cheese, roasted red peppers, $3.99) and a lox sandwich (smoked salmon, plain cream cheese, and red onion, $6.49) served on a freshly baked bagel, English muffin, or croissant. Breakfast, like syndicated Simpsons reruns, is available all day.

East of Chicago Pizza placates grumbling hunger mobs with its selection of 11 specialty pizzas. Scale the sour-creamed peaks of the taco pizza, which mingles chicken or beef with lettuce, tomato, black olives, and onions ($14.99), or lounge on the bacon-blanketed shores of the Hawaiian, with ham and pineapple ($14.99). Topping-centric thrillseekers can venture down into the deep-dish depths of the Tower, whose upper crust erupts with pepperoni, mushrooms, sausage, green peppers, onions, ham, bacon, mild banana peppers, and green and black olives ($15.99). East of Chicago also offers the seven-layer veggie ($14.99), which sates the plant-based tastes of vegetarians and irradiated mole rats.