Though meals tend to bring friends together, meals peppered with magnets can push them apart. Enjoy an attractive repast with today’s Groupon to Bistro To Go. Choose between the following options:

• For $10, you get $20 worth of bistro fare to go from the lunch takeout and JB’s Market menu.<p>
• For $50, you get $100 worth of catering for 10 or more people.<p>

Following in the footsteps of his grandmamma and gleaning tips from Shreveport’s acclaimed chef David Bridges, Bistro To Go’s owner J.B. Emery dishes out hearty helpings of from-scratch bistro fare ready to be carted home. Diners can pop by the bistro and nab helpings of J.B.’s chicken-and-sausage gumbo ($3.95) and strawberry salad ($3.50–$7.95). Families of four can arm-wrestle for the biggest pieces of pork loin drizzled in a port reduction ($20) and supplement the dish with a host of sides. Parties of 10 or more can fish out juicy shrimp from saucy piles of étouffée ($75/pan), savor roasted chicken pot pies ($9.75/person), or chomp the bistro box lunch’s smoked-turkey sandwich, complete with one side, a brownie, and iced tea ($9.25/each). Dishes served in large quantities require a 24-hour notice so the chefs have enough time to get in and out of their coats.