Home-style cooking tends to use fresher ingredients, evoke warmer memories, and contain less of a briefcase aftertaste than office-style cooking. Unpack a plate of handcrafted morsels with today's Groupon: for $12, you get $25 worth of home-style Persian, Mediterranean, and American cuisine at Ruby Cafe.

Named after the owner's daughter, Ruby Cafe serves made-from-scratch breakfast and lunch in a comfy, brightly lit café space. Amble in for signature breakfast items, such as the Mediterranean omelet ($8.95) teeming with feta cheese, spinach, tomatoes, mushrooms, onions, and roasted peppers, or the egg, bacon, and cheese breakfast sandwich ($3.95). Lunch ushers in a sea of global flavors, from the herbed hummus with toasted pita bread ($5.95) to the peach salsa cuddling with grilled chicken inside a tortilla wrap ($7.95) like two honeymooners through the Tunnel of Love. Spear hunger with a succulent kabob of ground beef ($9.95), chicken ($10.95), or steak ($12.95) while taking in the strains of Beethoven from the indoor sound system. Outdoor diners can lounge on the cozy patio away from hungry news anchors eyeing their meal from inside the flat-screen TVs.