The spaghetti-Western film genre is noted for its good use of extreme close-ups, its bad use of tomato sauce during gunfights, and its ugly use of Clint Eastwood’s puppetry skills. Get a fistful of Western-less spaghetti with today’s Groupon: For $15, you get $35 worth of Italian fare and drink at Procaccini's Italian Family Restaurant in East Hartford.

Michael "Dobber" Dobson, executive chef and foreman to Procaccini's culinary crew, builds a menu that towers with homestyle Italian entrees, pizzas, and grinders. Peckish diners can practice taste-bud calisthenics with calamari ($8.95), before wrapping their mitts around the 8-inch cooked salami grinder for bites of lettuce, tomatoes, peppers, and provolone ($6.25). The spinach specialty pizza delivers sausage, potatoes, and seasoned cheese to mouths atop a disk of dough ($11.25–$24.25). Instead of inserting a pacifier in your belly button, mute tummy grumbles with the chicken and penne primavera entree with broccoli, roasted red peppers, and pasta beneath a blanket of alfredo sauce ($17.95). Whippersnappers 12 years old and younger can nosh on kid-sized portions of Italian classics such as the Rugrats cheese ravioli ($5.25).

As guests recede into cushy brown booths and enjoy their meals, they can occupy their eyes with Procaccini's exposed-brick walls wearing murals of boats floating down calm waters and soccer players parachuting in blue skies.