Comfort food can calm growling stomachs more effectively than eating a blanket or tattooing Goodnight Moon around your belly button. Chomp on nurturing fare with today’s Groupon to Hazel’s Northeast. Choose between the following options:
• For $15, you get $30 worth American fare during dinner.
• For $6, you get $12 worth of American fare during breakfast and lunch.
In honor of their grandmother Helen “Hazel" Sieve, third-generation restaurateurs Adam and Andrew Sieve load their breakfast, lunch, and dinner menus with simple Midwestern comfort food at Hazel's Northeast. A plate of spicy black bean cakes and eggs ($9) warms the morning with zesty chipotle sour cream and house potatoes. The midday sun shines on burgers and sandwiches packing juicy slabs of beef, pork, and salmon, such as the firehouse burger buried under caramelized onions, pepper jack, and spicy giardiniera relish ($9). Exploratory incisors can rescue the Swedish meatballs from atop a precipice of garlic mashed potatoes overlooking a sea of lingonberries ($11). The rustic windom pork builds flavor around a bone-in pork chop with sweet-potato fries, green beans, and a sweet apple glaze ($16). Partake in the daily market fish special, featuring a constantly revolving selection, which can prevent mouth boredom and the ensuing tongue tantrum.
While watching friends and retired scuba instructors dive into hearty meals, diners can admire Hazel’s warm interior and high ceilings. Colorful paintings and photographs line walls above wooden booths and tables to create a modern look, and lofty arches allude to classic architecture.
Groupon Says
The Groupon Guide to: Barbecue Secrets
Every barbecue joint boasts a secret ingredient or technique that makes its sauce unlike any other. Since most barbecue chefs have taken these secrets to the grave, here's a new list of public-domain barbecue secrets for the aspiring grillsman:
- Throw recipe thieves off your trail by filling your sauce with decoy ingredients such as talc, water, and heaping spoonfuls of rival sauces.
- Age your sauce in an oak cask for 15 years—it doesn't do anything, but you'll sure be hungry by then.
- Go bananas—add bananas to your sauce!
- BBQ is short for B.B. Queen—the wife of legendary bluesman B.B. King—and real barbecue sauce must contain exactly one of her soulful tears.
- As with success in any field, the real secret ingredient is confidence —except in barbecue sauces, in which it is horseradish.
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