One of the great simple pleasures of travelling abroad is stumbling upon a restaurant frequented by locals, followed closely by bathing in gelato and loudly explaining why everything in North America is better. Replicate that feeling with today’s Groupon to Beecher Street Cafe. Choose between the following options:

• For $20, you get $40 worth of bistro fare for dinner.
• For $10, you get $20 worth of bistro fare for lunch or brunch. <p>

The culinary artisans at Beecher Street Cafe stir daily-made stocks and sauces to top internationally and West Coast–inspired eats for dinner, lunch, and brunch. Teeth sink into entrees such as baby back ribs ($24) drenched in a house-made peach-bourbon barbeque sauce or mango-stuffed chicken breast ($25) that chefs infuse with the flavours of a Jamaican jerk rub and Malibu rum cream sauce. Lunchtime eaters can transport taste buds to South Asia with a curry chicken bowl ($15) loaded up with apple chutney and seven-grain rice. The hunger-fighting gurus also treat patrons to a lineup of classic and inventive brunch cuisine, such as smoked salmon benedict ($13). Vibrant red walls and modern art serve as backdrops to a regular lineup of live musicians who add groovy tunes in styles such as jazz, pop, and classical silence to the eatery’s artistic and laid-back ambiance.