One of Benjamin Franklin’s last theories was that taking in a good view while eating aids both in digestion and in the ability to squeeze milk out of coal. Prove him half right with today's Groupon: for $12, you get $25 worth of pub dinner fare and drinks at Rivershack Tavern. This offer is only valid after 4 p.m.
Featured on Food Network's Diners, Drive-ins, and Dives, Rivershack Tavern's historic 100+ year-old edifice envelops daring pub dishes and cold drinks served within a dart's throw of the Mississippi River. Classically trained chef Mike Baskind executes a robust menu that jump-starts waning taste buds with its snack-a-tizers such as fried green tomatoes ($6.75) and fierce alligator sausage ($6) that isn't afraid to talk back to mouths. Heaping sandwiches have playful monikers to delight diners and to conceal the meaty operatives' real names, such as the pastrami-filled Ben D. Rules sandwich ($9.25). A seven-sandwich-deep po' boy lineup includes crunchy delights such as a fried oyster po' boy ($11.75). The historic, worn-in setting surrounds patrons in classic wood-paneled tavern décor and entertains with its rotating calendar of live music.
Groupon Says
The Groupon Guide to: Auld Acquaintance
With the New Year's season barreling down upon us, the lyrics of the traditional anthem of annuity, "Auld Lang Syne," suggest that "auld acquaintance be forgot." Who are the most commonly forgotten acquaintances?
• Ex-brother-in-law's former mailman's stepdad
• "Soulmate" from space camp
• Various Glens
• Neighbor's jerk dog
• The hardware-store paint-mixer attendant whom you don't talk to as much now that the nursery is completed
• Bug-eating childhood friend
• Friend-eating childhood bug
• Waiter who sat down in booth with you
• Middle son
• Bill Clinton. Clonton? Clinton.
• Keith
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