Fine cuisine is challenging to prepare, primarily because of the diverse cooking techniques and tricky riddles posed by spatula-guarding sphinxes. Enjoy gourmet solutions with today's Groupon to The Nimrod Restaurant & Jazz Lounge in Falmouth. Choose from the following options:

For $30, you get dinner for two (up to an $80.75 total value) that includes:

• Two soups or salads (up to an $11.90 value)
• Two entrees (up to a $59.90 value)
One dessert (up to an $8.95 value)

For $52, you get dinner for four (up to an $161.50 total value) that includes:

• Four soups or salads (up to a $23.80 value)
• Four entrees (up to a $119.80 value)
Two desserts (up to a $17.90 value)

For $66, you get dinner for six (up to a $242.25 total value) that includes:

• Six soups or salads (up to a $35.70 value)
• Six entrees (up to a $179.70 value)
Three desserts (up to a $26.85 value)

The latest chapter in the colorful history of The Nimrod Restaurant & Jazz Lounge, whose centuries-old houses still feature a cannonball hole from the War of 1812, is written by friendly chef-musicians Jim and Gwyn Murray, who operate the eatery and cook up a gourmet menu of fresh seafood and fine cuisine. Ears soak up a satisfying buffet of live, free-range jazz notes as spoons practice their cannonballs in elegantly simple dishes such as lobster bisque and The Nimrod's signature scallop chowder. A roasted, boneless fillet of salmon, coated in the ocean's own blue-cheese crust, tops plates of the North Atlantic salmon royale. Tasty, tomato-rich harmonies arise from a quartet of shrimp, scallops, littleneck clams, and mussels, which are braised in saffron-, fennel-, and garlic-fortified white wine before they're spooned atop the bouillabaisse's nest of pasta. Disguised on the menu as bittersweet chocolate cake, dense, velvety chocolate custard ends dining excursions by diving into mouths under the double-dog-dare of its cohort, ganache-drizzled vanilla ice cream.