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While freezer technology has helped prevent disease and saved humanity hours of burying food underground, it has also made it difficult to find an Italian restaurant that serves food born in an honest kitchen. Today's Groupon uncovers one of the few remaining with $25 worth of fresh Italian fine dining and drinks at Cucina Tagliani for $12—good at any of its three locations in Glendale, Avondale, and Peoria.
This family-owned-and-operated famiglia of restaurants prides itself on making everything on its menu, from the most delicious substance of all—scratch. That includes starters such as the Mediterranean-style calamari ($8.49), the hefty tagliani combo appetizer platter ($13.99), pizzas ($6.99–$10.99), and the Romano chicken salad ($9.99). For entrees, the rigatoni diavolo (shrimp and chicken in spicy alfredo, $12.79) will give you a kick, and Nana's Combo (lasagna and spinach manicotti, $11.79) will give you a taste-punch. If you think you know better than Nana, build your own pasta bowl out of your choice of 10 different pastas, 10 sauces, and a plethora of veggies, meats, and cheeses. Save room for a little cannoli and cookies ($3.99) or chocolate mascarpone cake ($5.99). For the truly daring, there is the leaning tower of Pisa (chocolate cake and spumoni, $7.99) and for the indecisive, there's the "I Cant Decide" platter (three of the best-selling desserts and coffee, $9.99).
Cucina Tagliani also boasts a list of red and white wines that would satisfy your boisterous uncle, as well as straight-outta-Tuscany specialty cocktails such as the Limoncello-tini (limoncello and vodka, $4.99) and the Italian Dream (coconut rum, amaretto, orange juice, and grenadine, $5.99). Each Groupon is good for one table, so you can laugh it up with your whole vivacious Italian family, or pretend that your dour brood of Scandinavian filmmakers is a vivacious Italian family.
Reviews
Cucina Tagliani's Glendale location gets 89% approval on Urbanspoon and 4.5 stars from Citysearchers:
- This place has THE BEST Italian food, unless you happen to have an Italian grandma who still cooks "old-style." – redbash23, Citysearch
- The Rigatoni Diavalo is amazing! My husband always creates his own bowl using spaghetti squash instead of noodles. Then he mixes marinara and pepperocini sauces and it's spicy!! – HJ, Urbanspoon
- This is a great place to take a date or relax on a friday after a long week.The food is excellent and the service is great. – sphodges, Citysearch
Groupon Says
Why Does The Tower Lean?
Cucina Tagliani serves a dessert named after famous slanted high-rise: the Leaning Tower of Pisa. Scientists today know that the building’s signature lean is the result of a poorly laid foundation, but over the years, numerous theories have been floated to explain the building’s slide:
Witchcraft: Since the building’s completion, the most popular explanation for the building’s lean was interference from witches, who possess a devilish in the number 7—eerily similar to the degree of the building’s incline: 5.5. Witches remained a popular scapegoat until 1997, when a group of American witches traveled to Pisa to attempt to summon the devil, but succeeded only in summoning a very confused David Lee Roth.
The French: Many Italians were convinced that the French had sabotaged the Tower by using their powerful telekinetic mind rays to knock the tower over. The Italians were so convinced of French involvement that they went to war in 1994, but the war went unrecorded in history because powerful mind rays clouded the minds of all witnesses into believing they were watching the 1994 World Cup.
TV, Movies, Rock ‘N’ Roll Music: Many crotchety old coots across the world blame the Tower’s lean on the declining quality of popular entertainments. It is widely agreed that movie stars were more beautiful, TV was better written, and rock ‘n’ roll music was more polite back in the old days. Surely there is a correlation between women wearing shorter skirts and this messed-up tower.
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