Italian cuisine was born when, after building the city of Rome, Romulus and Remus discovered Greece didn't deliver to their new address. Taste the origins of an empire with today's Groupon: for $15, you get $30 worth of Italian fare at Casa Perfetto.

Aromas of house-made meat sauce and sweet Italian sausage waft from Casa Perfetto’s kitchen, where chefs busily pan sear seafood and drizzle olive oil over handmade pastas. Sautéed onions, prosciutto, and spinach swim in a jacuzzi bath of house wine sauce beside the chicken ala florentine ($18.99), and two links of grilled italian sausage ($16.95) cross out cravings for meat alongside onions and peppers. The shrimp marinara’s pan seared sea candies dive into drizzled nets of extra-virgin olive oil($17.95), and gnocchi dumplings served with a hearty helping of meat sauce ($14.95) hearken back to the potato-based ammunition of early Roman catapults.