Italian cuisine was born when, after building the city of Rome, Romulus and Remus discovered Greece didn’t deliver to their new address. Taste the origins of an empire with today’s Groupon: for $35, you get an Italian dinner for two at 3 Tomatoes and A Mozzarella (an $85.17 value). Dinner includes the following:

• One large field green or caesar salad (up to a $9 value)
• Two pastas with two toppings (up to a $47 value)
• One bottle of Redwood Creek chardonnay or cabernet (a $29.17 value)<p>

The chefs at 3 Tomatoes and A Mozzarella expertly assemble Tuscan cuisine, slathering freshly roasted ingredients in house-made dressings and sauces. A communal bowl of salad drizzled in balsamic vinaigrette or caesar dressing kicks off romantic dinners or romantic food fights before custom pasta creations, constructed with the building blocks of spaghetti, fettuccini, angel-hair, or penne pasta, take center stage speckled with edible adornments such as meatballs and artichoke hearts. For an oceanic pasta mix, opt for the shrimp scampi, in which the noodles of your choosing reside beneath a canopy of tender sea nuggets, garlic-butter sauce, parmesan cheese, and fresh basil. Throughout the meal, guests palates or extra-long neckties are awash in the grape-derived nectars of Redwood Creek’s chardonnay or cabernet wines.

Guests may dine surrounded by textured gold painted walls, exposed brick columns, and emerald towers, or sup outdoors on the open-air patio where they can bird or UFO watch as they eat and enjoy the wafting sounds of Karate Karaoke on Friday and Saturday.