If the success of restaurants or impromptu dance-offs has proven anything, it’s that people relish in the opportunity to get served. Dance a gustatory jig with today’s Groupon: for $10, you get $20 worth of American dinner cuisine at Chocolate Maven Café in Santa Fe. The café serves dinner from 5 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Tuesday–Thursday, and from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. Friday and Saturday.

Ensconced inside the cozy warmth of a full-service bakery, the award-winning Chocolate Maven Café quiets ornery appetites with fresh and local ingredients. Drown hunger’s worst pangs in a bowl of roasted-butternut-squash soup ($8), or scupper them with a pair of blue crab cakes served with mango chutney and curried aioli ($10). More inventive than a think tank staffed by Thomas Edison clones, Maven’s menu dazzles diners with culinary creations, such as the grilled lamb sirloin stuffed with feta cheese, rosemary-cranberry sauce, and veggies ($24); cranberry-pecan-squash risotto ($17); and a bounty of meal-size salads and artisan pizzas.

Though not included in today's Groupon, Maven’s bakery alchemizes gourmet cakes, cookies, scones, tarts, pies, and more from a mysterious substance known only as “scratch.”