Chefs spend the majority of their careers relaxing tense meat with tenderizing massages and soaking stressed ingredients in broth baths. Let food comfort you instead with today's Groupon for comfort fare and drinks at Cheryl's Global Soul in Prospect Heights. Choose one of the following dining options:

• For $15, you get $35 worth of dinner.
• For $7, you get $15 worth of lunch.

Chef Cheryl Smith builds home-style meals that incorporate global flavors into rustic recipes using techniques she has shared on Food Network features including Melting Pot, Soul Kitchen, and Gordon Elliot's Doorknock Dinners. Market-fresh dishes blend seasonal and regionally sourced ingredients, astounding savor receptors with the latest tastes from farmers' market flavor runways. At lunch, baked goods and crisp salads share satiating duties with personified sandwiches including the Steve, made with cured bacon and vine-ripened tomatoes ($7.95). Dinner selections fuse agrarian fare standards with worldly accents such as Moroccan vegetable stew over rice pilaf ($15.00) or Korean marinated rib-eye steak and watercress salad ($22.00).

Reviews

Time Out New York featured Cheryl's Global Soul and Zagat gives the food and service a very good to excellent rating. More than 100 Yelpers give it a four-star average, and 92% of Urbanspooners recommend it:

• For soul food that “rocks your soul”, plus “delicious baked goods”, try TV personality Cheryl Smith’s “excellent” Prospect Heights standby; “innovative”, modern decor, “welcoming” service and praiseworthy prices make it an ideal “addition to the ’hood.” – Zagat
• Located near the Brooklyn Library, Museum, Botanic Garden, Prospect Park, this is a neighborhood gem for great coffee and good food. –  Clifford D., Yelp