Now that spinach has been deemed a performance-enhancing vegetable, Popeye's future shortstop career hinges on his transition to aioli. Get a sailor's worth of energizing creative cuisine with today's Groupon. For $17, you get $35 worth of eclectic dishes and drinks at The Lodge Restaurant & Bar. Brought to you by the Ciccio Restaurant Group, this popular SoHo lounge fuels nightly crowds with the plethora of uncommon pizzas, sushis, Tv dinners, burgers, and more on its lunch, dinner, and late night menus. Start with a few two-bite sliders topped with Asian pulled pork ($3.50) or blackened grouper with jalapeno aioli ($4.00) before soothing homesick stomachs with a comforting plate of BBQ chicken or broccoli and bacon mac and cheese ($5 each). Adventurous appetites can test their taste buds on American-style sushi like the unstoppable flavor stampede of rollin' buffalo ($7.00)—fried chicken and celery topped with spicy Buffalo aioli and bleu cheese fondue—or the blazing serenity of the fiery Buddha ($8.00), which wraps grilled steak with jicama, cucumbers, fried onions, and a nirvana-melting splash of Buddha sauce. Daily specials on eats and drinks free up dollar bills for high-stakes games of Monopoly with $5 select sushi rolls on Mondays and the $2 Weekend Funday from 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays, where post-morning parties roll to the tune of live music fueled by $2 sliders, pizzas, sides, beers, and flavored mimosas.

Reviews

The Lodge Restaurant & Bar has been featured by Creative Loafing, MetroMix's Best Bets, the Tampa Tribune, and the St. Petersburg Times. Seven Yelpers give it a four-star average.

• Great vibe, crowd and music. The décor is very cool and totally different then any place in Tampa. Then we looked at the menu and wereblown [sic] away. – Chuck W., Yelp
• Sirloin burger spring rolls? Mac 'n' cheese pizza? Sushi stuffed with pulled pork or, yikes, hamburger and fries? Sounds kind of icky, tastes pretty awesome. – Sherri Ackerman, Tampa Tribune