Though meals tend to bring friends together, meals peppered with magnets can push them apart. Enjoy an attractive repast with today’s Groupon to Vinsanto Ristorante in Vaughan. Choose between the following options:

• For $25, you get $60 worth of upscale Italian cuisine and drinks Monday–Thursday.
• For $30, you get $60 worth of upscale Italian cuisine and drinks on Friday–Saturday.</p>

Amid Florentine decor, guests at Vinsanto Ristorante quell Italian cravings with a rustic menu of first-generation recipes that earned the eatery a 2011 Top Choice Award for Top Italian Restaurant in Vaughan. As described in City Life magazine, the restaurant uses “only the freshest ingredients from local vendors” to craft eats such as a funghi di bosco antipasti with mushrooms as crisp as the earth’s garlic crust ($15). Guests can nestle into wood deacon’s benches to revel in the culinary artistry of homemade gnocchi ($19), or tear through rigatoni ($22) swimming in a truffled wild-boar ragout. Turn toward the stone facing of an open-concept kitchen to watch chefs oven roast 10 ounces of organic chicken for a savoury pollo entree ($23). Meanwhile, attentive servers swing in from the kitchen on pasta noodles to top glasses with specialty drinks or wines, including an Italian pinot grigio ($8+/glass).