Most modern cuisine is a continuation of classic dishes, just as a computer is a slightly modified typewriter and a washing machine is a river in a box. Revel in palatable progress with today's Groupon: for $20, you get $40 worth of dinner and drinks at The Yellowhouse Restaurant on Lawrence Avenue.

The Yellowhouse Restaurant is, not surprisingly, located in a charming, yellow heritage house in which locals and visitors dine finely yet casually on a menu of West Coast cuisine. Sink teeth into chilled thai-curry jumbo prawns ($12) or a slathering of roast-garlic-artichoke pate served with herb crostini ($11). Hunger quakes are quelled by the stomach-rattling rack of lamb, which waltzes out of kitchens wearing a crumbly coat of mustard-panko-herb and barley ragout, wading in a fragrant mint-infused merlot reduction ($42). The wild B.C. salmon celebrates in a champagne beurre blanc ($26), and the baked duck breast, paired with sun-dried tomato gnocchi and gooseberry-rhubarb compote, competes for table space with fencing forks and rogue kitchen utensils ($26). A carefully selected wine list is eager to complement any dish with complex notes of flavour and convincing compliments about new haircuts.