Unlike low-brow establishments, cafés carry an air of wistful romanticism fostered by an association with Danielle Steel novels and being swept off your feet and onto the back of a dashing centaur. Treat your heart and your stomach with today's Groupon to Happy Trails Catering in Pasadena. Choose between the following options:

• For $100, you get $200 worth of catering.
• For $10, you get $20 worth of café lunch fare.

Happy Trails Catering keeps eaters on their phalanges with a weekly rotating menu of fresh, eclectic entrees, sandwiches, and salads. Previous patrons have stopped in during lunch (Monday–Friday from 11:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.) to enjoy hearty lasagnas (basil pesto or beef and marinara, $9.50) or a delectable meatloaf sandwich on ciabatta ($9.50). Mindful masticators wishing to achieve a zen-like meat-and-bread balance can indulge in gourmet sandwiches ($8.50) such as the sage-roasted turkey breast with lingonberry cream cheese. Additionally, customers looking to provide catering for a group of voracious stilt marathoners (10-person minimum required) can peruse a menu that features scotch chicken, artichoke parmesan-puff hors d’oeuvres, New York cheesecake, and more.

While feasting during lunch, lavish languidly under the canopy of the café's camphor tree or on its serene brick patio. Partnered with plates of elegant edibles, Happy Trails Catering's peaceful outdoor seating sets a serene backdrop for a blushing debutante's formal garden hoedown.

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