Taste buds can easily turn into viciously passive-aggressive taste frenemies without proper attention. Keep your tongue from gossiping behind your back with today's Groupon: for $10, you get $20 worth of casual new American fare at Not Your Average Joe’s in Medford.

The menu at Not Your Average Joe’s combines creative cuisine with consistent culinary favorites to ensure a dining experience that’s both surprising and familiar, like deja vu. Palate-pleasing items like the forno-baked chicken quesadilla drizzled with pineapple-jalapeno salsa ($8.99) or the crab cakes flanked with baby greens ($9.99) offer hearty and aesthetically intriguing sustenance. Sink famished canines into the cider-mustard pork tenderloin, flanked by asparagus and an unstoppable mash of sweet potatoes and roasted apples ($16.99), or activate your sharing gland with a cranberry-teriyaki butternut squash pizza, adorned with jewels of ricotta and spinach ($9.99 for 10-inch, $13.99 for large). Not Your Average Joe’s inventively comforting fare and refreshingly relaxed atmosphere encourage amiable chats and collaborative blueprints for a cheese-powered motorcycle.

Reviews

Yelpers give Not Your Average Joe's an average of three stars. Three Citysearchers give the restaurant an average of 4.5 stars.

• Everything tasted so fresh- the flavors were spot-on and the portions were big enough to get 2 meals out of it. – Rani P., Yelp
• Fantastic apps and wonderful meal. All and all, you can't go wrong picking anything here!! – ireallyamhelpful, Citysearch