Restaurants in Mount Vernon

Boondocker’s Restaurant was a Snohomish County favorite for decades, thanks to its classic burgers, fries, and milk shakes. So after buying the restaurant, the Bala family made sure to continue serving juicy burgers and old-fashioned ice-cream shakes while also giving the menu a new twist—a sidebar of carefully curated Indian and Pakistani fare.

Originally from India, the Bala family flavors favorite recipes with vibrant spices, yielding savory curries, kebabs, and samosas cooked in a clay oven. Sweet and savory breakfast fare can be enjoyed with mimosas until 2 p.m., when the champagne flutes turn back into plastic sippy cups till the next morning.

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.

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.

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.

Thomas Street Bistro's menu blends the taste of Provençal sunshine with the salt of the Mediterranean. All entrees are cooked from scratch using local produce and gourmet spices. Chefs dream up new concoctions every day to swirl into soups, shuffle into salads, and feverishly write to patent companies about. Hungry twosomes can sink cutlery into the slow-cooked roasted lamb, which shouts inspirational quotes from a bed of seasonal rice and veggies, or the vegetarian Mediterranean pasta, a medley of French feta cheese, olives, and fresh tomatoes. Chicken breast sings in a shower of lemon butter and capers, and Groupon holders can pair any entree with a glass of weekly house red or white wine. Chew-a-thons conclude with the dessert of the day, a hopeless romance of sugar and decadent ingredients that entangles taste buds like a pulp thriller about jungle vines.

Enjoy Greenlake Bar & Grill's casual, eclectic midday menu while taking in the refreshingly natural eye candy of Green Lake across the street. Starters such as the crispy coconut-crusted prawns ($7.99) or the blue-cheese-drizzled wedge salad ($6.99) offer an excellent warm-up for marathon lunches, and hand-held favorites, such as the prime-dip sandwich ($13.99) and the western half-pound burger ($12.99) with melted cheese, bacon, barbecue sauce, and frizzled onions, fill remaining stomach space. The inviting eatery also spoons up plated pastas, allowing you to spicy up a boring day of book watching with an order of the habanero mac ‘n’ cheese with chicken ($11.99). Or, opt for an omega-3 boost by lunching on the sweet-chile-marinated mahi-mahi tacos ($13.99), washed down with a beer or cocktail from Greenlake's full bar.