Sharing a meal with loved ones is a way to connect, create memories, and discover which family member has been a robot all along. Refuel your clan with today's Groupon: for $20, you get $40 worth of fine American cuisine at Mill Street Bistro Bar in Norwalk.

Mill Street Bistro Bar's owner, Joe Nagy, inks a dinner menu of sophisticated dishes that showcases fresh, local ingredients. His Milan farm, River Ranch, supplies the locally raised elk for the ground-elk quesadillas ($10), a fiesta-worthy appetizer layered with corn and pepper relish, black beans, and chipotle sauce. The pan-fried perch ($19) hails from the waters of Lake Erie, and the chevre pasta ($19) marries tenderloin tips, mushrooms, and mild creamy sauce on a carb-rich altar of fettuccine noodles. Inside this historic building that was a steam mill in 1847, herb butter tops the half-pound aged filet mignon ($31) like a jaunty cap on a grain baron's head.