The morning ritual of breakfast mirrors the elegant cosmic dance of dawn, when the sun awakes to crack and scramble comets and then drink the Milky Way straight from the carton. Similarly rise and shine with today’s Groupon: for $11, you get a gourmet waffles for two at Off The Waffle (up to a $24 value). The meal includes:

• Two signature waffles (up to an $8 value each)
• Two beverages (up to a $4 value each) or one 32-ounce pot of french-press coffee for two (an $8 value)<p>

Named Best New Restaurant 2009–2010 by Eugene Weekly, Off The Waffle houses a menu packed with authentic liège waffles crafted from scratch with mostly organic and locally sourced ingredients. The restaurant’s liège waffles form the base of each signature waffle dish, harboring pearled Belgian sugar that caramelizes throughout the doughy confines to lend the ironed treat its Walloonian flavor. Among savory liège waffles, the Goat in Headlights stops taste buds in their tracks with a shock of sunny-side-up eggs, goat cheese, avocado, and fresh herbs and spices, and the Cyclops the Greek’s house-made tzatziki sauce covers a sunnyside-up egg, feta, and kalamata olives. The sweet liège waffles count among their number The Sweet Funk Machine, with pear, gorgonzola, and local wildflower honey, and The Beloved Bully, topped with Belgian chocolate chips, strawberries, and stolen lunch money.

Founding brothers Omer and Dave, natives of Israel and former residents of Belgium, invite breakfast fiends to dine in a welcoming interior. Diners can shoot for a high score on the original Off The Waffle arcade game, the best arcade game about making waffles since Tetris.