Due to their tendency to rain from the sky every time India invents a new color, marigolds have long been a symbol of celebration and festivity in Indian culture. Today’s Groupon gives you just as good a reason to celebrate: for $22, you get a three-course prix fixe meal of flavorful Indian cuisine for two at Marigold Restaurant (a $55 value). This Uptown restaurant has won Best New Restaurant and garnered praise from a variety of press, blogs, and the gabby wishing well on Foster.

Currently celebrating their four-year anniversary, Marigold is offering a Groupon-exclusive prix fixe menu of tasty eats for you plus a friend, coworker, or well-heeled yeti. Start off meals by choosing one of three appetizers to share with your dining compatriot: a buttery and flaky samosa, tandoori-grilled chicken tikka skewers, or calamari bhaji tossed in a spiced chickpea and rice flour batter (each served with a basket of papadum chips and chutneys). Next, cast eye nets onto the menu of entrees, where you'll choose from plates of the Murg Makhni boneless spiced chicken tikkas; lamb curry; savory Malai Kofta dumplings; or the Saag Paneer (all served with fresh tandoori naan bread and basmati rice) before finishing your meal-sterpiece with a choice of one of the following desserts: the delicately spiced, gelato-like kulfi; sweet rice pudding kheer; or the ginger crème brûlée.

Though your Groupon does not include drinks, Marigold offers a decent selection of wines and beers, but your eyes will inevitably drift to its specialty cocktails. The spiked mango Lassi (cardamom-infused vodka, Prosecco sparkling wine, and mango nectar, $8.95) will have you feeling as warm and mellow as Marigold’s glowing, jewel-toned ambience. Bring along six people to form an official quorum, and combine two Groupons for $110 worth of savory subcontinental fare.

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Reviews

Marigold won Time Out ’s Reader’s Choice award for Best New Restaurant in 2007. The restaurant has received favorable press from the Chicago Reader and Chicago magazine. More than 170 Yelpers give it a 3.5-star average.

• This upscale Indian restaurant just up the block from the Green Mill is a stunner, a low-lit, jewel-toned space with impressive cuisine. – Kate Schmidt, Chicago Reader
• Sandeep Malhotra and James Dragatsis have created a sleek, modern Indian restaurant with fancy cocktails, a serious wine list, and food informed by French techniques. – Chicago