The hearty dishes of traditional Southern cuisine have inspired classic literature as diverse as True Grits and Where the Wild Beans Are. Consume food for thought with today's Groupon to Founders Restaurant and Bar in Senoia. Choose from the following options:

• For $29, you get any one appetizer and any two entrees (up to a $61 value).
• For $54, you get any two appetizers and any four entrees (up to a $122 value).
• For $72, you get any three appetizers and any six entrees (up to a $183 value).

An 18% gratuity will be added for parties of five or more.

At Founders Restaurant and Bar, named for Senoia's founding family and operated by their descendants, diners sit amid 1900s décor and peruse a menu that mixes classic Southern cuisine and modern culinary flair. Diners may feel they've come unstuck in time as they taste hot pimiento-cheese dip (an $8 value) under the soft light of antique chandeliers, yet also spot temporal anomalies such as the modern calamari with apricot-chili sauce and chipotle aioli (a $10 value) or their great-grandfather playing basketball in wooden clogs. Dig into sumptuous entrees such as the seared diver scallops with polenta cake and an apple-brandy cream sauce (a $21 value) or a tantalizingly rich roasted chicken stuffed with goat cheese and served with spiced raspberry jam, green beans, and baby carrots (an $18 value). As a stately nonagenarian Brunswick bar looks on with approval, knives and forks can dig into the lump crab cake, a dijon and chive cake served with cauliflower mash, sauteed asparagus, and whole grain Dijon cream (a $24 value).