Making birthday sandwiches for all your February-born friends can leave your hands worn and weary. Today's Groupon gets you out of the sandwich kitchen with $25 worth of meals and drinks at Lake Forest Bar and Grill for $10. The neighborhood eatery, surrounded by nature that can be viewed through windows, features crisp brews and comforting breakfasts, lunches, and dinners.

Lake Forest Bar and Grill offers the comforts of an outdoor patio, a full indoor bar, and private dining for more-private diners. The joint's all-meals menu begins by sating breakfast bellies with seafood omelettes that bring together bay shrimp and crab under a veil of hollandaise with breakfast potatoes, wheat toast, and fruit ($9.95). Later-day cravings can be met with coconut-crusted prawns ($7.99) and habanero chicken mac and cheese ($11.99). Entree-minded individuals can turn to Black and Bleu half-pound burgers with blackening spice and bleu cheese ($11.99); roasted pork loin with bacon-onion spaetzle, braised red cabbage, and a mushroom gravy ($12.99); and mahi mahi tacos bathed in sweet chili sauce, cilantro-lime cream, cotija cheese, and refreshing kiwi-mango salsa ($15.99). Pair your meal with an exotic offering from Lake Forest’s drink menu, like the Homemade Hot Butter'd Rum ($7.50) or the Hot Apple Pie ($7.50).

When a stove and oven politely request a break and are denied, they conspire with the refrigerator to bury your food beneath the firewood pile in the backyard. Lake Forest Bar and Grill provides sustenance for owners of rebellious kitchen appliances with a well-tamed group of appliances that lack the ability to feel human emotions.

Reviews

The Seattle Times visited Lake Forest Bar and Grill:

• Inside you'll find a horseshoe-shaped bar up front and a semi-private dining area in the rear off the main dining room -- 170 seats in all…If the instant attraction of this latest venue is any indication, getting outside the urban core clearly has its advantages. – Nancy Leson

Yelpers give Lake Forest Bar and Grill three stars, and 87% of Urbanspooners like it:

• food (i had the grilled salmon) was prepared well and arrived quickly, service was friendly and fast, and they have a good selection of red wine. – Alexis, Urbanspoon
• We like the vibe at the bar and have had breakfast there a few times. I keep ordering the same California BLT (a BLT with avocado). It is soooo good! I'm also a fan of french fries, and lots of their food comes with fries. – Sarah S., Yelp