Before coffee, drowsiness plagued the world, resulting in winding roads built by sleepy construction workers that consistently dead-ended at mattress stores. Restock energy reserves with today's Groupon: for $10, you get $20 worth of café fare at Mad City Coffee in Columbia.

Mad City Coffee's menu greets coffee-breakers and diners with a plethora of soups, salads, and sandwiches to complement coffees batch-roasted in-house. The Powerhouse sandwich ($7.50) karate-kicks hunger in the face with garlic hummus, sprouts, cucumbers, and swiss cheese, and the shrimp-salad sandwich ($8.50) delicately refreshes palates with tender shrimp, mayonnaise, and a hint of Old Bay. Graze through the greenery of one of Mad City Coffee's salads or platters ($4.45–$8.50), or pair up a soup of the day with a lonely sandwich half for a matchmaking special ($8.20–$10). Meanwhile, five daily coffee roasts boost energy ($1.90–$2.45 each), and Happy frappes ($4.75 each) create smiles with house-special espresso and a yogurt base mixed with coffee syrup and knock-knock jokes.