Without Italian restaurants, home cooks who want to craft authentic Italian dinners would have to pay the consulate to have their pasta notarized in marinara sauce. Avoid messy red tape with today's Groupon: for $15, you get $30 worth of authentic Italian fare and drinks at Casa Nostra Pizzeria & Ristorante in Lakeville.

The culinary wizards at Casa Nostra craft flavorful pastas and aromatic pizzas and rush them to the dining room of their welcoming, full-service bistro. The menu—like a Roman chef's leather boot—comes dotted with flavorful antipasti, such as the manchego cheese and prosciutto ($14.99), which features thinly sliced cured ham and italian bread. Meanwhile, the lobster ravioli ($17.99) swims in a succulent alfredo sauce, and the manicotti ($12.50) somersaults into a roll of cheese and spinach and then bakes in savory marinara. Sautéed mushrooms top the cooked-in-wine chicken or veal marsala ($15.99–$16.99), and the pizza menu dons 11 types of savory disks ($10.99+). At the end of the meal, the tiramisu ($5.99) sends off patrons with a rich endowment of mascarpone cheese, notes of coffee and brandy, and a gold-plated copy of their birth certificate. Flavorful pintsize portions populate the kids’ menu, and the wine and beer list nobly spares patrons from stomping their own grapes.