Restaurants in Mount Vernon

Composing a week's worth of haikus out of brothy alphabet soup will leave anyone wanting a stiff drink. Today's Groupon puts libations and sea fare in the same place with $25 worth of food and drink at STIR Martini and Raw Bar for $10. The precise engineering of your meal will fill your gullet and further inspire your economic use of 17 poetic syllables.

Del Rey's chef, Derek Knudsen, infuses classic bar dishes with a gourmand's flair, offering a menu of wash-downable delights, fried yum, and Southwestern staples. After tasting the blackened ahi tuna ($13.95), truffle mac 'n’ cheese ($7.95), and churros with chocolate-Kahlua sauce ($5.95), tone-deaf taste buds find themselves serenading incisors with John Fogerty lyrics. Early feasters can enjoy Saturday- and Sunday-brunch favorites such as the vegetarian breakfast burrito ($7.95) or Kahlua French toast ($6.95), washed down with one of Del Rey's specialty Bloody Marys ($7.50–$8). Bathed in glowing red light, diners settle into intimate booths with selections from Del Rey's stocked bar. More than 100 tequilas spicy up margaritas, including the jalapeño-cucumber ($8) and the triple berry ($7.50), while the Dark N Stormy quenches the thirsts of sadistic weathermen with house-made ginger beer and dark rum ($7.50).

Sutra serves up a daily-changing menu of meat-free meals in its brightly colored Wallingford eatery Wednesday through Sunday. The supper-club-style service offers one seating time (7 p.m.) on Wednesday and Thursday, two (6:30 p.m. and 9 p.m.) on Friday and Saturday, and one 6:30 p.m. seating on Sunday. Typically, Sutra features a four-course prix fixe meal with artsy arrangements of the best ingredients per course ($35). The restaurant is closed Monday and Tuesday.

Longtime Ballard residents Andy and Tammy James opened the doors of Market Street Traders just two years ago with a mission of promoting the Fair Trade movement. The Jameses strive for their establishment to act as a good neighbor in the community and a good citizen in the world by finding and selling fairly traded products, supporting sustainable environmental practices, and providing a venue for cultural community events.

Dine on authentic, fresh Italian cuisine without leaving the country with today’s Groupon. For $30, you’ll get $60 worth of delicious Italian fare at La Dolce Vita Ristorante Italiano, located at 234 1st Ave. W in lower Queen Anne.

The Taj Mahal is near-universally admired. So are Indian people. And so is their food. For $15, you’ll get $35 worth of Indian fare at Navya Lounge (valid for dinner only), a downtown eatery in the Rainier Square Building where classic Indian dishes united with classic Indian dish names live happily ever after in a charming fantasyland where everyone is best friends with their stomachs. Follow @Groupon_Says on Twitter.