Archestratus, the first food critic, praised Italian cuisine's "top-quality and seasonal" ingredients and "fair-to-middling" ability to tranquilize out-of-control mayors. Come to your own conclusions with today's Groupon: for $15, you get $30 worth of Italian cuisine and drinks at Cappetto's Italian Restaurant.

With more than half a century of experience crafting Italian comestibles, Cappetto's dishes up an extensive menu showcasing finely honed culinary capabilities. Rigatoni Isabella ($12.30) infuses the traditional pasta plate with layers of green onions, tomatoes, jalapenos and old-fashioned gumption. The chicken angelo ($17.45) combines chicken with mushrooms and garlic in a baking oven, and a 12-inch pizza primavera ($13.95) apologizes for its meatlessness by presenting broccoli, carrots, snow peas, zucchini, and artichoke hearts with sprinklings of mozzarella and provolone. Etruscan appetizers quiet immediate hankerings with shrimp tre formaggi ($8.25), a quarter-pound of shrimp with butter and garlic, tossed in a cream sauce with parmesan, swiss, and gorgonzola.

Cappetto's perpetually fine-tunes its menu, harmonizing new recipes on a quarterly basis. Outdoor seating is available to accommodate eaters who prefer to dine under the glow of the stars or soft musical hum of clouds merging with one another.