Before pizza, tomatoes and dairy collided only when misanthropic teens threw fruit at the billboards of celebrity cows. Savor the evolution of dairy diplomacy with today's Groupon: for $10, you get $20 worth of cuisine and drinks at The Pizza Place & Garden Café in Long Beach.

Earning a Best Pizza designation from Beachcomber in 2010, the family-owned Pizza Place & Garden Café dishes out a variety of pie stylings alongside a stable of salads, calzones, sandwiches, and hot drinks. Bet your hunger on the spaghetti marinara ($6.95) or throw your fortunes to a pizza wheel, each of which uses 11 basic toppings and bribed security guards to deliver jackpots of deliciousness ($11.25 for a medium pizza with two toppings). Meanwhile, fare fashionistas can mix and match 21 gourmet toppings ($2.95 each on a medium pizza) including crab meat and eggplant, or delight in a pre-adorned pie such as the Deep South, topped with smoked andouille sausage, asparagus, roasted red peppers, and a pairing of gouda and mozzarella cheese ($18.95). Customers have the option to relax in the warm glow of the restaurant or carry out to dine by their home hearth.

Reviews

Reviewers are mixed on the quality of the pizza, but praise the patio dining. Yelpers give The Pizza Place & Garden Café a three-star average. TripAdvisors give it 3.5 owl eyes:

• The Pizza Place is one of those long-time Long Beach places that remains consistently good. It's family-friendly, gay-friendly, all-ages-friendly, whatever-friendly. They deliver, too! Their menu goes beyond the run of the mill pizza and pasta dishes to include some really unique and interesting things… – NativeCalGal, TripAdvisor
• I'm a huge fan of patio dining, and this restaurant has a nice patio with large fire pit. I LOVE their food, I order take out and delivery from The Pizza Place more than any other restaurant, and frankly more than I care to admit. They have great spaghetti marinara and their house Italian dressing it good enough to buy in bulk! – M K., Yelp