Restaurants in Sarasota

Celebrate the color of pumpkins, tigers, and odd-colored bruises with today’s Groupon: $10 gets you $20 worth of fresh-squeezed fare at Orange Street Cafe, a downtown café that serves mostly organic food for breakfast and lunch. Follow @Groupon_Says on Twitter.

Prepare 1,000 lunches in less than 20 hours. That was the challenge posed for The Brunchery’s catering staff. The eatery’s experts met the daunting request, quickly assembling the hefty sandwiches that The Brunchery has perfected throughout its more than 25 years in business. When President George W. Bush came to Tampa, the White House called upon The Brunchery's catering. In addition to corned beef, grilled grouper, and shaved steak piled on deli rye bread and kaiser rolls, The Brunchery plies guests with half-pound burgers seasoned by chipotle mayo and dill pickles.

But as its name implies, the restaurant doesn’t just craft food for lunch; it’s possibly best known for its morning treats. Made-from-scratch hollandaise sauce for benedicts and golden pancakes have earned The Brunchery awards including Best Place for Breakfast/Brunch from readers of the South Tampa Community News in 2010. When NBC interviewed owner Greg Elliot, the feature zeroed in on the restaurant’s signature french toast, which mingles cream-cheese sauce, bananas, strawberries, and slivered almonds.

Guests devour this lavish creation and others while dining among the dining room’s decorative dishware, Coke bottles, and shelves. Many of the objects come from Greg’s family, such as a hutch his great-great-grandfather built in the 1800s, making guests feel as at home as a rabbit in a top hat.

Groupon does not recommend wearing your finest white suit and cowboy hat when taking advantage of today's deal: $15 gets you $30 of classic American pub grub and drinks, plus one complimentary cocktail, at Boss Hog's Tampa Bar & Grill. (You might just get an Effen Fishbowl (Effen vodka, strawberry, and raspberry; $7) spilled on it.)Follow @Groupon_Says on Twitter.

Every Thursday, the options for a quick midday meal can start to look grim. This is about the point when many hardworking folks start tentatively peeking into the back corners of the fridge, with disheartening results. Today's Groupon will make sure you're well fed, even into the desolate reaches of the workweek: $10 buys you $20 worth of sandwiches, salads, breakfast, and more at Bernie's Deli.

Today's deal gives you a chance to sample Tampa's Best Coffee Drink, according to Creative Loafing, and a host of other delectable drinks and eats. This ragin’ Cajun Groupon gets you $20 worth of food and drink at NOLA Cafe for $10, allowing you to chow down on authentic N’awlins grub for half the price.Follow @Groupon_Says on Twitter.

Proponents of dry rub can be found across the Midwest—Oklahoma’s barbecue joints are an especially good bet. If you ask any of these die-hards, they’ll say that what dry-rubbed meats lack in sauce, they make up for in the delicately balanced flavors of their spices. Rib Crib BBQ & Grill captures these flavors and brings them to its cozy Lakeland restaurant, where guests can feast on chicken, ribs, and briskets smoked onsite over hickory chips. In addition to pit choices, Rib Crib dishes out Southern¬-style sides such as corn on the cob, mac ‘n’ cheese, and slow-cooked cowboy beans that guests can lasso individually with a tiny rope of floss.:m]]