Early tossed pizzas were mistaken for flying saucers, leading to frequent reports of pizza box abductions and Area 51 stakeouts to find government marinara stashes. Enjoy otherworldly eats with today’s Groupon: for $10, you get $20 worth of pizza and more at Marinades Pizza Bistro, valid at the downtown Rockford location. If you redeem your Groupon Sunday through Thursday, it will be worth $25.

Marinades Pizza Bistro’s menu quenches cravings for Italian eats with a plethora of specialty pizzas, pastas, sandwiches, and more. Pizza prodigies forge each pie in the flavor-infusing heat of a wood-fired oven before loading them with an array of artisanal toppings and sauces. The cheezie alfredo ($4.75–$20.95) reinvents a classic recipe by topping a toasty disk with button mushrooms, fresh basil, and cheese draped in a creamy alfredo sauce, and the chicken barbecue ($5.95–$22.95) unites the tasty trifecta of chicken, barbecue sauce, and blended cheese to invoke fond memories of backyard grill-outs or Fourth-of-July egg hunts.

Herbivores will admire the garden’s worth of eggplant, zucchini, pepper, spinach, and more atop the roasted veggie pie ($6.95–$27.95). More than 30 topping choices and a variety of cheeses, sauces, and fresh herbs allow pizza partakers to forge their own artisan pies ($3.95–$18.95 and up), calzones ($5.25–$7.25), or culinary reenactments of the Falklands War. In addition to doughy delicacies, the bistro assails hunger with an arsenal of pasta dishes ($7.95–$9.95), sandwiches ($6.25–$7.45), deli subs ($5.95–$7.95), and wraps ($6.25–$7.75).