Pubs provide neighborhoods with a place to socialize and provide darts with a place to loiter without ever buying a drink. Fraternize with freeloading tavern games with today's Groupon: for $12, you get $25 worth of pub fare and drinks at Bernie's Bar & Grill, valid at locations on Byron Baseline Road and Wonderland Road.

Bernie's Bar & Grill infuses a family-restaurant ambience with sports-bar amenities. Like secret-society-initiation ceremonies, meals are most enjoyable when begun with tantalizing appetizers such as Bernie's kibbi, which heaps beef and pine nuts into a cracked-wheat shell ($8.99), or the chickpea- and sesame-infused hummus ($6.99). Patrons can settle into a wood-trimmed booth and take on specialty burgers like the feta burger, an ambitious stacking of one half-pound patty topped with gently sautéed onions and a creamy dollop of feta ranch sauce ($10.99). Like prodigal sons home from culinary school, all Bernie's burgers arrive accompanied by a choice of fries, soup, or garden salad. While adults tango with drinks like Bernie's Killer Koolaid ($6.95), kids can hop into the kids' menu (ages 12 and under), which features child-sized finger foods like chicken-and-cheese quesadillas and grilled-cheese sandwiches (both $6.99). Fans can keep tabs on a hockey game or competitive shoe-tying match on one of the flat screens perched above the bar, and dig into pizzas like the garden-kissed vegetarian pizza ($10.99) and the tomato- and feta-decked chicken-pesto pizza ($13.99).