Restaurants offer diners both a delicious reprieve from the kitchen and a secure environment that makes it virtually impossible for the dish to run away with the spoon. Keep your eating implements obedient with today’s Groupon for fine dining and drinks at Hennessy's Restaurant & Lounge. Choose between two eating options:

• For $20, you get $40 worth of dinner fare
• For $7, you get $15 worth of lunch fare

For more than 20 years, Hennessy's has turned first dates into second dates and IRS audits into first dates with its sumptuous lunch and dinner menus. Mid-day office escapees can celebrate with a starter of Hennessy's Maryland crabcakes in warm green Tabasco cream sauce ($7.95) before getting discordant taste buds to harmonize together with mango barbecue Atlantic salmon ($9.95). Dinner diners, meanwhile, can munch on baked brie drizzled with honey and almonds ($8.95), then dive-tackle a cinnamon-red chile black Angus beef filet ($26.95). A glass of wine provides a lovely foreground to the restaurant's romantic backdrop of florid scarlet wallpaper, turreted leatherbound seats, and billowing white tablecloths. And if your sweet tooth refuses to turn off its obnoxious alarm, finish your feast at Hennessy's with a dessert of bread pudding drenched in Grand Marnier sauce.

Reviews

Hennessy's Restaurant & Lounge was profiled on travel site Visit South. Yahoo! Travelers give it a 3.5-star average and TripAdvisors give it an average of 3.5 owl-eyes.

• The staff at Hennessy’s is great. I have never had a problem with so much as a beverage mix-up. – William Mancke, Visit South.
• A Columbia tradition on Main Street on the second floor. Nice atmosphere, good service and good food – A Yahoo Contributor, Yahoo! Travel