Before perfecting the combination of pizza and wine, fastidious chefs made varied attempts at bottled pizza, disks of wine, and a pepperoni and grape cereal. Celebrate progress with today's Groupon: for $10, you get $20 worth of pizza and drinks at Grapes & Tomatoes in Lake Elsinore.

The talented chefs at Grapes & Tomatoes prepare exquisite and complex pizzas, entrees, and nightly specials, pairing them with a selection of 35 wines. Hungering mouths bite into the succulent poached pear pizza ($15), whose eponymous fruit delivers soft flavors and sassy backtalk alongside gorgonzola, prosciutto, caramelized onions, arugula, and walnuts. A salad topped with seared watermelon backed up by a trio of feta cheese, fresh basil, and balsamic vinegar ($7) satisfies taste buds, and steamed black mussels ($13) swim in garlic white-wine nectar. As a shiny black piano serenades guests in the dining room, glasses of California wines ($5+) placate palates with whispers of grapes and tales of cowboys who conquered their frontiers.