Looking to the world around them, Italian chefs have been inspired to create pasta shaped like bow ties, elbows, and Bart Simpson’s ears. Experience myriad-boiled shapes with today's Groupon: for $15, you get $30 worth of Italian fare and drinks at Evviva Bar & Eatery on Front Street in Lisle, just south of the Lisle Metra station.

Evviva fosters a warm, inviting atmosphere with friendly service and a dining room festooned with natural stone, wood, stained concrete, and tables of varying heights. Dig into the menu—a mix of Italian and American favorites—to find grilled calamari ($9), pizza bread ($5), burgers ($7.50–$8), a grilled chicken pomodoro panini ($7), and popular specialty pizzas such as the hawaiian, which does the hula on hunger ($11–$21.50). A lengthy list of signature martinis for sipping at Evviva's U-shaped granite bar enhances entertainments such as a jukebox and occasional weekend DJ sets or live music ($7+).

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Reviews

The Daily Herald reviewed Evviva Bar & Eatery. Yelpers give them an average of three stars, and 78% of Urbanspooners like them.

• Evviva's is a great neighborhood bar in downtown Lisle. – Greg Walker, Daily Herald
• It has a frienldy [sic], "Cheers" type atmosphere that caters to all age groups. – Richard Denise, Urbanspoon