Contrary to popular belief, when the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that's a lawsuit. Enjoy Italian cuisine without fear of physical reprisal with today's Groupon: for $15, you get $30 worth of Italian fare at Mia Carolina, located in Glyndon.

Fresh made-from-scratch ingredients collide in Mia Carolina's culinary carburettor, decorating plates and dazzling diners with a tasty fusion of New World and Old World Italian cuisine. Complement nibbles of its crisp bread with a faithful reading of its lunch or dinner menus, which yield appetite- and mind-stoking antipasti such as the cozze marinara's touching seafood anthology ($9 lunch, $10–$12 dinner) and the involtino di prosciutto di Parma's hearty paean to herbed goat cheese, grilled asparagus, and Italy's twinkling ham rivulets ($10). Pie jockeys can saddle up to the flavorful pizza margherita ($9 lunch, $10 dinner) or the veggie-infused capricciosa ($10 lunch, $12 dinner), and pasta promoters can treat their belly to the fettucine alfredo ($9 lunch, $12 dinner). Each tender cut of the veal marsala comes with fortifications of mushrooms, pearl onions, and roasted-garlic mashed potatoes ($23 dinner).

Mia Carolina's casual, yet sophisticated atmosphere recalls the comfort and flavors of authentic Italian trattorias; dim lighting accents the bar area, and white linens and framed art decorate the dining room, which is patrolled with vigilance by a friendly, blaster-wielding waitstaff.

Dine-in only. Not valid for retail purchases, or other offers or promotions, including half-price wine night.

Reviews

Zagat gives Mia Carolina a 21 for food, a 17 for décor, and a 20 for service. Eighty-four percent of Urbanspooners like it.

• Great pasta and pizza. Nice local restaurant. Dependable. – RachelA9340, Zagat
• Very good, reasonably priced italian [sic] food, their pizzas are very good as well. – SusanW837016, Zagat