The right blend of Mexican spices turns meals into fiestas and lures droves of grazing piñatas within the reach of a sturdy broomstick. Enjoy south-of-the-border zest with today's Groupon: for $12, you get $25 worth of Mexican fare and cocktails at Que Pasa Cantina.
Voted Best Mexican Food in Portland in 2010 by Citysearch, Que Pasa Cantina has built a panegyric-earning reputation on a foundation of innovative Mexican menu items forged from locally sourced ingredients. Corn tortillas situated inside the chicken-enchilada casserole serve as edible barriers between layers of green-chili sauce and corn, donning a topping of sour-cream dollops, diced tomatoes, and black-olive bits ($10.95). The kitchen team crowns breaded Alaskan cod—the second-most-recent cod to become a U.S. state—with chopped cabbage, spicy yogurt sauce, and pico de gallo, all of which huddle inside a tortilla ($9.95). Feel free to charge into an appetizer of fresh-made guacamole ($6.95) while wetting your whistle with a margarita crafted from fresh lime juice and jalapeño-infused tequilas ($7.50+), one of Que Pasa Cantina’s sweet and savory cocktails ($6+), or one of eight bottled Mexican beers. A heated patio, open year-round, allows guests to dine amid softly lit lanterns and wooden furniture despite cold temperatures and vociferous picketing from unfed snowmen.
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The Groupon Guide to: Writing an Urban Legend
Everyone secretly wants to believe in scary stories that might be true. Indulge your friends' gullibility with these tips to crafting the perfect urban legend:
• Make sure the story takes place somewhere nearby, on a similar night—ideally exactly 100 years ago to the night. Or on the devil’s birthday.
• Always include an animal that turns out to be a different animal or an animal where one does not belong—like a dog that is actually a rat, or an alligator in the bathroom of the Museum of Alligator Safety.
• Tweak the details—it's only a few letters’ difference to change "gardener" to "murderer," and only a small white lie to change "was valued by the community" to "possessed double hook hands and a thirst for marrow."
• Always carry "proof"—this can be a monster's tooth carved from soap, a faded newspaper article created in Photoshop, or a scrap of the victim's clothing that is actually just a scrap of clothing you ripped off a terrified hiker you chased through the woods.
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