One of Benjamin Franklin’s last theories was that being surrounded by luxury while eating aids both in digestion and the ability to squeeze milk out of coal. Prove him half right with today's Groupon: for $12, you get $25 worth of upscale dishes and drinks at The Green Onion, located on 51st Street. Under the new, wise ownership of successful restaurateur Max Doyle (of The Chalkboard and Garlic Rose), Green Onion has focused its energies and ingredients toward creating masterful dishes of the highest quality. TulsaPeople magazine readers voted Green Onion among the area’s best for Sunday Brunch, Celebration Restaurant, and Business Lunch.

The Green Onion's dinner menu is decorated like a black-tie piñata ready to burst with robust and inventive flavor combinations. Hush chatterboxes with a face full of caprese salad ($9) and the Long Island roast duck served over wild rice and drizzled with orange sauce ($26.95). Or sate hunger with the smoked salmon filled with crab stuffing and swathed in a decadent almond, shrimp, and white wine cream sauce ($25.95). A variety of steaks, salads, pastas, homemade soups, and more round out the menu to silence stomach growlers one plate at a time.

Reviews

TulsaPeople magazine readers named The Green Onion among the area’s best for Sunday Brunch, Celebration Restaurant, and Business Lunch. Seventy-three percent of Urbanspooners like it, seven Yelpers give the restaurant an average rating of 4.5 stars, and eight TripAdvisors give it an average of 3.5 owl eyes:

• The "stuffed" mushrooms were just like having escargot- except they were mushrooms in a totally delicious sauce. – Becky, Urbanspoon
• We requested to be seated right in front of the piano player and bass player for some nice jazz standards. They even played a few requests and interacted with dinner guests. It definitely added to the ambiance and made dinner more enjoyable. – Rod M., Yelp