With Congress passing a heavy new tax on right angles, circular edibles are becoming the most convenient way to keep food budgets from spiraling out of control. Nibble a delicious disc with today's Groupon: for $12, you get $25 worth of brick-oven pizza and other fresh Italian fare at Tully’s, located in Jefferson.

These purveyors of premium Italian eats buy local ingredients and prepare all dishes from scratch daily, from the sauce to the dough. Baked in a brick oven, the Who-Dat pizza ($12.95 for 14") comes loaded with apple-smoked bacon, meatballs, pepperoni, black olives, and a quizzical expression. Blossoming pie artisans can draw from a rich palette of toppings ($1 each for 14") such as anchovies, sundried tomatoes, and Italian sausage to paint personal masterpieces on plain-pizza canvases ($10.99 for 14"). Meanwhile, the crab-cake linguini ($14.95) is served with your choice of red or white sauce, allowing easy color coordination with wedding dresses and Mountie uniforms. Ensconced in the restaurant’s relaxing, rustic interior, wash down your meal with a cold domestic brew ($2.50), refreshing import or microbrew ($3.50¬–$4), or choice of house wine ($6 per glass, $20 for a bottle).

Reviews

Urbanspooners name Tully’s one of the best Old Jefferson restaurants and 92% say they like it:

• New favorite Italian restaurant! The house salad is truly amazing. The pizza crust is perfection and variety of gourmet pizzas is top notch. – Derek
• The owner is a very friendly guy who is excited to be in the restaurant business. The pizzas are baked in a stone oven. It is a very representative New Orleans style pizza. – Tom Fatso