Texas Restaurants

Today’s Groupon gets you $50 worth of eclectic fine food and drink for $25 at Paggi House, the restaurant and historic Austin landmark where—rumor holds—Robert E. Lee once stayed. The Austin Chronicle says Paggi House “has just about everything going for it – good food and drink, good service, and good design.” Follow @Groupon_Says on Twitter.

Today’s Groupon sides sizable sips and savories with views of the rustic La Mansion hotel. For $15, you’ll get $30 worth of contemporary Mexican tastes at the San Antonio outpost of Iron Cactus, an established eatery featuring more than 80 types of tequila and an army of cactus-shaped iron automatons waiting to delight diners with impressions of former President Abraham Lincoln's house slippers.

Meet meatless merrymaking with today’s Groupon. For $10, you’ll get $20 worth of vegetarian Kosher eats at Green Vegetarian Cuisine, San Antonio’s only 100% meat-free eatery. Sate your meatlust by fooling your taste buds with delicious vegetables posing as delicious meats.

All empanadas go for $2.50 each. For now, Empa Mundo tosses out seven delicious combinations, including vegetarian options for those opposed to eating meat, such as the spinach with ricotta and parmesan or the humita, with corn, onions, cheese, and creamy white sauce. Those morally opposed to eating vegetables will have to think more carefully, pondering whether the criolla with beef, olives, eggs, and raisins is worth eating due to the attendant onions. A simple ham-and-cheese chilipanzinga, however, solves the hunger both material and moral. Dessert empanadas such as guava and cheese or sweet potato make a delightful chaser. Give empanadas a friend to accompany them on the journey to your stomach with a plainspoken soda or juice (up to $1.35). Make a meal for $6.50 that combines two empanadas, dessert, and a drink.

Start your tour of Texican's massive menu by slinging your jaw around spinach, mushroom, and onion quesadillas ($7.99) or clearing your taste buds of impurities with spicy cream-cheese-stuffed jalapenos ($5.49). The plentiful options let you supplicate at the altar of a traditional dish such as cabrito—a platter of tender goat roasted with mysterious spices and topped with tomato and bell pepper ($14.99)—or head straight for the grill with a 10 oz. rib-eye steak tampiqueña ($14.99). To enter the mythical realm of "New Mexico," head northwest of south of the border for some Santa Fe enchiladas in smoky red chile ($9.49), or fly straight up into space instead with a deadly delicious chile relleno plump with chicken, beef, shrimp, or cheese and legally drowned in red tomatillo sauce ($8.99).

Seven days a week, the kitchen at Duke's Original Roadhouse stays bustling into the wee hours of the night as cooks whip up hearty comfort food. Patrons can nosh on “Fall Off The Bone” barbecue ribs, which arrive at tables accompanied by garlic mashed potatoes or seasoned fries or enjoy one of six mac ‘n’ cheese varieties, including one that’s topped with a half-pound of grilled hot dog. Hefty sandwiches, such as the open-faced pot-roast sandwich topped with brown gravy, pair well with a shareable 104-ounce cylinder of beer known as Duke’s Tower of Power. The restaurant also features an outdoor patio and deck, where guests gather each Wednesday evening to toss large bouncy balls into trashcans during bouts of Big Balls.