Coffee and baked goods have always gone together, like rock and roll, yin and yang, and bald eagle hatchlings and William Howard Taft's toupee. Introduce your mouth to a dazzling duet with today's deal: for $5, you get $10 worth of café fare at Dancing Dog Café in Holyoke. A local café featuring cold-brewed Dean's Beans coffee, Dancing Dog Café serves nourishing bites to a hungry downtown crowd. Under the watchful portrait of a warm-toned prancing pooch, the Dancing Dog Café’s menu offers warm and chilled drinks alongside salads and sandwiches. Start with coffee ($1.50-$2.00) or chai latte espresso ($3.00-$3.75) before downing a large blueberry smoothie ($5.50) made with yogurt and soymilk. After a steaming mug of coffee warms up the tongue, customers can customize a sandwich ($4.99) with more than 15 tonsil-tantalizing toppings including avocado ($1 extra) and roast beef on a choice of five breads such as rye and wraps. Sip the day away at Dancing Dog Café Monday-Friday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. and avoid pesky midday sales calls and alien abductions.

Reviews

The Republican and the blog Cloudy with a Chance of Sun both featured Dancing Dog Café. Also, three Yelpers give it a perfect five-star rating.

• I spent a very pleasant hour at the Dancing Dog Café and will definitely return, as will the woman who shouted as she left with a sandwich, “Thank you for going into business for me!” – juliebeman, Cloudy with a Chance of Sun
• If you are looking for coffee in downtown Holyoke, this is your place ... Also a good place to pick up a grilled sandwich, piece of fruit or baked good. – Stephanie B., Yelp