Hands are nature's silverware—evidenced by early man's serrated pointer finger and forked thumb. Get back to your ancestral roots in sophisticated, hand-fed fashion with today's Groupon: for $20, you get a meal for two at Addis Ethiopian Restaurant (up to a $42 total value). The meal includes the following:

• One appetizer (up to a $6 value)
Two entrees (up to an $18 value each)

Located in historical Shockoe Bottom, Addis enlightens eaters on Ethiopia's culinary culture through a wide variety of traditional dishes. Commence the feed with a plate of sambussas, lightly fried pastry shells filled with spiced lentils. Like a Thanksgiving dinner for two, traditional Ethiopian meals are eaten without silverware. Instead, diners use homemade injera, a sourdough flatbread, to consume succulent and saucy concoctions such as rosemary-seasoned chunks of lamb, called ye-beg lega tibs. Guests can inscribe their diaries with sonnets about the meat combo plate’s array of flavors that drip off of a trio of proteins such as chicken tibs, beef tibs, and awaze tibs. The menu offers a plentiful number of seafood dishes including yasa kitfo—tilapia sliced and seasoned with Ethiopian mitmita, jalapeño, and onion—as well as vegetarian options, and Addis often features traditional live music.