Like putting on a proper Viking funeral, producing an old-style Italian pizza requires a respect for tradition, plenty of open flames, and one extra, secret ingredient—love. Embrace tasty customs with today's Groupon: for $10, you get $20 worth of brick-oven pizza and pasta at Goodfella's in Staten Island.

Crispy pizzas born in a traditional wood-fired brick oven compose Goodfella's authentic Italian menu. Specialty pies include the classic Goodfella, topped with plum-tomato sauce, mozzarella, roasted peppers, sausage, and sliced garlic, or the contest-winning Pizza alla Vodka, dressed to the nines in tomato-cream vodka sauce, mozzarella, mushrooms, peas, and a prosciutto di parma bowtie ($11.95–$22.50). Circle-shunning diners can opt for circumference-free dishes, including the hearty gnocchi pomodoro lunch special ($8.49) or the tastefully cordial apricot-glazed grilled salmon, best enjoyed when the mind swims with the stream of consciousness ($17.99).