Lounge dining is delightful, casual, and comfortable until Colonel Mustard arrives with a lead pipe. Solve the mysteries of hunger with today's Groupon: for $15, you get $30 worth of dinner fare and drinks at Absolve Wine Lounge on Studemont.

With its fantasy-furnishing fusion of bohemian and baroque decor, Absolve Wine Lounge cossets diners within an elegant dining environment. Sink into a plush velvet armchair and rest your feet on a thick oriental rug while the rustic glow of ornate candelabras to survey the extensive menu with magic-carpet levels of ease. Diners can immerse tongues in the Absolve cheese experience with three cheese choices from a lineup including cambozola, manchego, raspberry bellavitano, roquefort, and more ($16). Prove the old adage that misery loves company almost as much as hunger loves meatballs with the Italian Stallion panini, stuffed with spiced meat spheres and mushrooms ($8), or simplify eats with a bacon pita burger, with beef, bacon, and cheddar jack sandwiched between two slices of crisp pita spread with homemade honey dijon ($8). End an evening on a syrupy note with a sumptuous slice of New York–style cheesecake ($6).

Reviews

Absolve Wine Lounge was reviewed on the Houston Press blog and in 002houston magazine. Thirteen Yelpers give it a four-star average.

• Absolve has enough of a wine selection to appease professional palettes [sic] and those just beginning their wine journey. From richly tannined, Old World reds and powerful ports, to boutique whites and the bubbly, Absolve can take patrons all over the world or right around the corner to Texas vineyards in Houston’s own backyard. – Travis Jones, 002houston