Pasta became a staple of Italian fare after Emperor Caligula famously elevated a plate of lasagna to the Roman Senate. Feast on political recipes with today’s Groupon to Ciao Lavanderia. Choose between the following options:

• For $27, you get an Italian dinner for two (up to a $60 value) that includes:
• Choice of one appetizer (up to a $6 value)
• Any two entrees from the Pasta or Ciao Favorites sections of the menu (up to a $23 value each)

• Choice of one dessert (up to an $8 value)

• For $54, you get an Italian dinner for four (up to a $114 value) that includes:
• Choice of one appetizer (up to a $6 value)
• Any four entrees from the Pasta or Ciao Favorites sections of the menu (up to a $23 value each)
• Choice of two desserts (up to an $8 value each)<p>

At Ciao Lavanderia, the revolving seasons dictate an eclectic menu of classic Italian spreads served amid a framework of dark red walls and crisp white tablecloths. To start, warm focaccia bread escapes the confinement of a wood-burning oven or overheated bounce house to rest alongside ambrosial rosemary, Italian herbs, and roasted red peppers. Capellini basilico leads a quartet of pastas, melodically uniting fresh tomatoes and olive oil among the drifts of angel-hair pasta. Diners can demolish the sausage-and-ricotta stratums of lasagna, or grapple with a tag team of prosciutto-wrapped pork and creamy herb polenta. Italian desserts cap off meals in a sweetened flurry as panna cotta arrives drenched in a fruity sauce and mouthfuls of chocolate gelato temporarily pause conversations or conceal diamond-studded bicuspids.