A tortilla makes a handy mousepad, an acceptable patch for stiff denim jeans, and, if you draw a face on it, an ideal companion on fishing trips. But there are many other uses for it, as today's Groupon proves: for $10, you get $20 worth of Mexican fare at Carlito’s Mexican Bar & Grill.

Servers bear platters of sizzling fajitas, crispy flautas, and decadent desserts to patrons relaxing in large red booths beneath the colorful artwork that adorns the warm-colored walls of Carlito's. The fajitas Texas's chicken-, steak-, and shrimp-topped flour tortillas ($13.95) curl up next to a sizzling campfire of veggies to swap ghost stories. The Monster burrito flaunts a showy red-sauce cloak and hides a choice of chicken or beef that snuggles between fluffy pillows of guacamole and sour cream like a sleepy bullfighter ($7.95).

In the flautas doradas, a quartet of flour tortillas swaddle beef tips and juicy chicken and somersault in a pool of golden oil until they are warm, crispy, and slightly dizzy ($7.95). For the decadent chimi cheesecake, creamy cheesecake dons a sweet cinnamon and sugar coat ($5.95) to dazzle palates with the dulcet power of a roundhouse from Julia Child. Carlito's bartenders sprinkle diners with liquid joviality from the full bar, fueling after-dinner discussions about the burrito that got away.