Besides nourishing the body, eating keeps devious mouths too busy to test their billiard-ball capacity. Occupy your senses with today's Groupon: for $15, you get $30 worth of eclectic American and international fare at Columbia Social Café and Bistro in Washington Heights. This deal is valid Monday through Friday for dinner only (4 p.m.–11 p.m.), and for any meal on Saturday or Sunday. Columbia Social Café and Bistro serves an edible all-skate of a menu overflowing with seafood, pasta, and healthy global cuisine. Stop in for a salad, or partake of a light evening bite from a selection of lusciously Lilliputian small plates. Pass around shareable snacks such as the seafood ravioli in squid-ink dough, wing-manned by grilled shrimp in a saffron lobster sauce ($12), before skipping from surf to turf with a Kobe beef burger, a tender little number sporting double-smoked bacon, gruyere, and truffled aioli in a brioche overcoat ($15). A tipple from the bar will keep the conversation sparkling and will make your ventriloquist dummy seem cuter and wittier with each passing sip.

Reviews

Four Yelpers give Columbia Social Café and Bistro an average of four stars. Six MenuPages reviewers give it an average of 3.5 stars.

• Delicious food! Their burgers are excellent. – Katy D., Yelp
• Columbia Social is the perfect sit down place for the area…I love a lot of the new appetizer dishes, especially a lot of the Asian items. – Roman, MenuPages