Skilled chefs can look at a spread of ingredients and see the potential for a composed dish, much like the way an architect can look at an empty lot and see the potential for a tree house with its own parking lot. Taste the fruits of foresight with today's Groupon: for $30, you get $60 worth of upscale continental cuisine at Remington's in the Scottsdale Plaza Resort.

The stalwart chefs captaining the stoves at Remington's craft a menu of perennial classics characterized by its occasional infusion of Southwestern flavor. The kitchen's flavorsmiths sheathe a 10-ounce, center-cut pork chop within a glaze of prickly-pear barbecue sauce ($22), and the New Zealand rack of lamb dons an overcoat of fresh mint sauce ($30). Mesquite-kissed chicken breasts dance atop a grill before nestling into a bed of bowtie pasta with their cadre of oven-dried tomatoes and fresh basil ($21). The bounty of the sea yields itself with platefuls of broiled garlic shrimp ($22) and a Sonoran crab-cake appetizer ($12) that whets appetites with its chipotle rémoulade and stories about hitchhiking through Candyland. A lunch menu also beckons noontime customers with a host of dishes that lay siege to entrenched hunger pangs.

There are many ways to dine at Remington's. An outdoor patio swaddles patrons within a blanket of fresh air, whereas the indoor lounge seating allows diners to indulge their aural senses with live-jazz performances and recorded banjo concertos.