Category: Food and Drinks

Groupon Toronto Deal of the Day: $25 for $50 Worth of Upscale Indian Fare and Drinks

Buy now for only $25
Value $50
Discount 50%
You Save $25

This is a limited 2-day only sale that will expire at midnight on Tuesday, June 28, 2011. Click here to buy now or for more information about the deal. Quantities are limited so don’t miss out!

Highlights
Authentic family recipes
Rich & hearty flavours
Many vegetarian options
Outdoor seating

The Fine Print
Expires Dec 29, 2011
Limit 1 per person, may buy 2 additional as gifts. Limit 1 per table, 2 per tables of 5 or more. Dine-in only. Must purchase a food item.

259 Host
Toronto
259 Wellington St. W, Toronto, Ontario
http://www.259host.com/index.html

Today’s Groupon: for $25, you get $50 worth of upscale Indian fare and drinks at 259 Host on Wellington Street West.

Showcasing the riches of an extensive spice cabinet, 259 Host enlivens tongue cocoons with a well-balanced potpourri of meat and vegetarian dishes. The Sethi brothers, together a culinary powerhouse and successful business enterprise, enlist their mother’s homemade Indian recipes to entice dinner guests with ambrosial marinades and family-crested afghans. Bib slingers can prime their taste planks with the eclectic flavour profile of tangy chaat ($7), a rice cake cluster garnished with crispy spinach fritters, yogurt, and fresh date chutney, or a produce pearl kabob ($8–$14). 259 Host ingratiates its bold entrees with epicurean palates, plating delicacies such as Australian rack of lamb dressed in a spicy vindaloo sauce ($22), and the spinach and cheese sauté classic, Saag Panir ($13) alongside a vessel of four-year-aged basmati rice that recently shed its training hulls. Table grazers can coat their taste tunnels for sweeter finales with a selection of refined see-through cocktails or a glass of house wine including a California Chardonnay ($9) and an Italian Chianti ($13).

The multilevel eatery indulges midday feasts with its decadent lunch roster including a la carte specialties such as honey mustard coconut shrimp ($13) and jackfruit masala ($11). For an alfresco affair, diners can relish their edibles on 259 Host’s 20-person patio or eat off of placemats woven from freshly cut grass blades.

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Groupon Toronto Deal of the Day: $10 for $20 Worth of Peri-Peri Fare – Multiple Locations

Buy now for only $10
Value $20
Discount 50%
You Save $10

This is a limited 2-day only sale that will expire at midnight on Monday, June 27, 2011. Click here to buy now or for more information about the deal. Quantities are limited so don’t miss out!

Highlights
Grilled-to-order chicken
Pick from four levels of spice featuring the peri-peri chili
Sandwiches, salads & sides

The Fine Print
Expires Sep 28, 2011
Limit 1 per person. Limit 1 per table. Limit 1 per visit. Not valid for the purchase of alcohol. Dine-in only. Valid only for location purchased. Not valid until 6/27.

Nando’s Flame-Grilled Chicken Restaurants
6 Locations to Select From
http://www.nandoscanada.com/

Today’s Groupon: for $10, you get $20 worth of peri-peri cuisine and drink at Nando’s Flame-Grilled Chicken Restaurants. Choose from one of 6 participating locations in South Brampton, North Brampton, Markham, Mississauga, and Richmond Hill, and on Eglinton Avenue East in Toronto.

Founded in South Africa in 1987, Nando’s Flame-Grilled Chicken Restaurants bring Portugal’s peri-peri flame-grilled chicken to the Toronto area with only the bare minimum of laser lights and smoke-shrouded, two-way mirrors. Discovered by Portuguese explorers in Africa in the distant days of maritime exploration, peri-peri is a fiery chili pepper that adds a kick of capsaicin to any cuisine, clucker-related or not. Nando’s fresh chicken luxuriates in its peri-peri marinade for 24 hours, resulting in dishes with a slate of Scoville-scale-scorching spice levels—mild lemon and herb, medium, hot, and the daredevil-only extra hot. Step up to Nando’s counter to order from the menu of sandwiches, pitas, wraps, salads, and peri-peri chicken. Enjoy a grilled-to-order peri-peri half-chicken with a side ($12) such as spiced rice or hearty coleslaw, or bite around basted bones with five Whole flame-grilled peri-peri chicken wings, drummette, wingette, and all, with a side ($10). Nando’s also sports peri-peri chicken breast sandwiches or pitas with a side ($9–$11.50), chicken or veggie whole wheat wraps with a side ($9–$11.50), and veggie burgers or pitas with a side ($9–$11.50), as well as salads and salad meals ($4.50–$12) for lovers of leaves of lettuce.

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Groupon Toronto Deal of the Day: $24 for $50 Worth of Seafood and Steak-House Fare

Buy now for only $24
Value $50
Discount 52%
You Save $26

This is a limited 2-day only sale that will expire at midnight on Friday, June 24, 2011. Click here to buy now or for more information about the deal. Quantities are limited so don’t miss out!

Highlights
Tenderloin fillets & lobster tails
Bountiful pasta dishes
Live music & dancing
Stunning views of Lake Ontario

The Fine Print
Expires Nov 30, 2011
Limit 1 per person, may buy 2 additional as gifts. Limit 1 per table. Limit 2 per table of four or more. Dine-in only. Must purchase 1 food item. Not valid on 7/1, 8/3, 8/4, or 8/5.

Casa Mendoza
Humber Bay
2161 Lake Shore Blvd. W, Etobicoke, Ontario
http://www.casamendoza.com/

Today’s Groupon: for $24, you get $50 worth of seafood and steak-house fare at Casa Mendoza in Etobicoke.

Casa Mendoza’s chefs plate a multiterrestrial menu of succulent steaks, fresh seafood, and packed pasta plates. Warm up palates with an order of the marinated-and-battered calamari, which gracefully swan dives into homemade Cajun mayonnaise ($9.95). A redolent cape of fresh garlic, herbs, and chimichuri sauce swathes the 10-ounce new york strip loin ($27.95), which busies forks and knives and instills jealousy in spoons. A heaping surf ‘n’ turf platter combines a fillet of beef tenderloin with sumptious broiled rock-lobster tail ($44.95), and the homemade gnocchi doubles as plush pillows for fresh lobster meat and rests under a hand-crocheted blanket of Dungeness-crab cream sauce ($21.95).

Live music regales diners in the evening, during which they can dance off dinner disputes that could not be resolved by mere thumb wrestling. Patrons enjoy dazzling views of Lake Ontario as they digest, and a nearby butterfly garden, park, and walking path avail themselves for postdinner strolls.

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Today’s Toronto (GTA) Groupon Deal of the Day: Crown Princess Fine Dining – $10 for $20 or $25 for $50 Worth of Upscale Cantonese Cuisine and Drink

Buy now for only $10 or $25
Value $20 or $50
Discount 50%
You Save $10 or $25

This is a limited 2-day only sale that will expire at midnight on Friday, June 17, 2011. Click here to buy now or for more information about the deal. Quantities are limited so don’t miss out!

Highlights
Gourmet Asian entrees
Exotic ingredients & flavours
Opulent & regal decor

The Fine Print
Expires Dec 8, 2011
Limit 2 per person, may buy 1 additional as gifts. Limit 1 per table, 2 per table of 5 or more. Dine-in only. Only valid for option purchased.

Crown Princess Fine Dining
Downtown Toronto
1033 Bay St., Toronto, Ontario
(416) 923-8784
http://crown-princess.ca/english/index.asp

Today’s Groupon to Crown Princess Fine Dining. Choose between the following options:

• For $25, you get $50 for dinner and drinks between 5:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m.
• For $10, you get $20 for lunch and drinks from restaurant opening to 5:00 p.m.

Crown Princess lavishes diners with a sumptuous Cantonese menu of savoury meat and seafood delicacies made from premium, rare ingredients. Epicureans can enlist the dim sum artisans to top their ornate rotating table centres with a lighted Christmas-tree angel or a spread of underwater delights, including the sautéed crispy prawn with sweet-and-sour sauce ($26) and the sautéed jumbo scallops with palm seed and con poy ($28). The culinary museum also tickles the taste buds of chopstick wielders with an artful arrangement of braised cabbage and chinese prosciutto ham ($20) and summons the exotic nectar of tropical pineapple to sweeten morsels of stir-fried duck ($18). As the ethereal light of crystal chandeliers dances off the Crown Princess’s marble murals, illuminated guests can relish a dish of singapore fried vermicelli ($16) or carve busts of their favourite Nobel laureates from the limestone decor. For lunch, diners choose from small ($3.10) to jumbo ($11) sized plates of various freshly prepared dim sum options from a menu that, like a seasonal carousel, rotates regularly.

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Today’s Toronto (GTA) Groupon Deal of the Day: Embrujo Flamenco Tapas Restaurant – $25 for $50 Worth of Tapas and Spanish Wine OR $29 for a Three-Course Paella Menu

Buy now for only $25 or $29
Value $50 or $49
Discount 50% or 41%
You Save $25 or $20

This is a limited 2-day only sale that will expire at midnight on Wednesday, June 15, 2011. Click here to buy now or for more information about the deal. Quantities are limited so don’t miss out!

Highlights
Authentic Spanish tapas
Abundant vegetarian offerings
Live flamenco shows Wednesday–Sunday

The Fine Print
Expires Jan 31, 2012
Limit 1 per person, may buy 2 additional as gifts. Limit 1 per table, 2 per table of 6 or more. Valid only for option purchased. Dine-in only. Not on New Year’s Eve. Not valid for Summerlicious menu, 7/8-7/24. $30 minimum applies on nights when show is featured. $50 Groupon not valid for Paella Festival menu running through June 2011.

Embrujo Flamenco Tapas Restaurant
97 Danforth Ave., Toronto, ON
(416) 778-0007
http://www.embrujoflamenco.com/

Today’s Groupon to Embrujo Flamenco Tapas Restaurant on Danforth Avenue. Choose between the following options:

• For $25, you get $50 worth of tapas and Spanish wine.
• For $29, you get a three-course paella Festival menu for one, available through June 30 (a $49 value).

Embrujo Flamenco boasts an extensive selection of authentic Spanish tapas crafted with traditional cooking methods in its sophisticated and oft flamenco-boosted environment. For a traditional Madridian experience, sweet-and-salty bacon-wrapped dates ($6.95) detonate juicy flavour bombs that shatter previously held reservations about tap dancing in public. The puntillas en salsa de mostaza, a grilled Black Angus sirloin served over house cut fries ($10.95), proves that shareables can have hearty hearts. Herbivoyeurs watching you dine from over the host’s shoulder will salivate over the abundant selection of vegetarian tapas, including the garlic-and-mushroomy champi-ones al ajillo ($8.95). Through June 30, diners can also opt for the three-course paella Festival menu, which rotates paella variations daily. The arroz negro dyes rice and seafood black with squid ink, and the paella langosta spikes the traditional dish with lumps of lobster.

With exposed brick walls and sophisticated urban decor, this eatery is an ideal place to impress an expatriate Spaniard on a first date or during a live-action-role-playing job interview. Complimentary flamenco shows take place Wednesday–Sunday (a minimum of $30/person is required on show nights).

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