Like a little black dress forged from caviar, a steak dinner epitomizes classic elegance. Nosh on fashionable fare with today's Groupon: for $20, you get $40 worth of broiled steaks and seafood fare at Tom's Steak House in Melrose Park.

Chefs at Tom's Steak House sear daily cut, aged USDA Prime steaks atop the open flame of a charcoal broiler, a traditional culinary technique the eatery has used since 1952. Each hearty hunk of sustenance on the menu arrives at tables inside a brazier, an oval-shaped warmer bedecked with burning charcoal to maintain temperatures and even tan lines. Entrees such as a bone-in rib-eye steak ($30.95) and a new york–cut sirloin strip steak ($27.95) travel with a freshly baked Idaho russet potato, slathered in cheese and chive sauce, and a crisp house salad. Like a court jester coated in au jus, wines imported from Germany and France artfully complement queen filet mignon ($25.95), center-cut pork chops with applesauce ($18.95), and a fresh filet of blackened or broiled Atlantic salmon ($21.95). Inside the dining room, mirrored pillars and walls reflect light from dangling chandeliers.