With your kitchen's pots and pans inhabited by the evil spirits of dead pots and pans, cooking at home has become both time-consuming and spooky. Get quality cuisine without interference from crazed kitchenware with today's Groupon: for $20, you get $40 worth of Italian fare and drinks at Andiamo Bistro in Scottsdale. This Groupon is not valid on Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve, or Christmas Day.

Andiamo Bistro offers patrons a menu of various regional, homemade edibles from the country that invented pasta tots. Slurp a soup of stracciatella ($6) to prepare for escargot de bourgogne ($14), flavored with garlic, thyme, butter, brandy, and moxie. A dish of chicken marsala ($18) supported by mushrooms and shallots stretches stomachs without leaving marks, and various choices of pasta—such as the penne puttanesca, which divvies out a healthy heap of tomatoes, anchovies, olives, and capers ($15)—enliven culinary fantasies with sparks of real-life spice and satisfaction.

Andiamo Bistro seats its guests in a cozy interior bathed with rays of casual elegance. The bistro’s family-operated appeal is supercharged by Chef Joe’s tasty recipes, which are taken from his mother’s life as an Italian and his father’s life as a pizza. Call ahead to schedule an eating appointment.

Reservation required.

Reviews

Andiamo Bistro gets four stars from four Yelpers and the same from Yahoo! Locals; 87% of Urbanspooners like it.

• It has become one of my favorite places to dine when the "Italian urge" hits me -- which is at least once a week! – Maurine, Urbanspoon
• Every dish at this restaurant is top notch. You can go in and really feel a connection to the staff. It's great place to go on a date. Great wine too. – M, Urbanspoon