Eating is necessary for human survival, along with breathing, sleeping, and remaining still while a curious velociraptor rummages through your closet. Practice survival tactics with today’s Groupon to Howley's Restaurant in West Palm Beach. Choose from two options:

• For $24, you get a two-course dinner for two (up to a $48.85 value). The dinner includes:

  • One salad or appetizer (up to a $11.95 value)
  • Two entrees (up to a $16.50 value each)
  • Two teas or sodas (a $1.95 value each)

For $45, you get a two-course dinner for four (up to a $97.70 value). The dinner includes:

• Two salads or appetizers (up to a $11.95 value each)
• Four entrees (up to a $16.50 value each)
Four teas or sodas (a $1.95 value each)

A dining destination since 1950, Howley's Restaurant's extensive, eclectic menu of sandwiches, seafood, and American classics has hurdled it to local fame. Teams of diners set off on hunger-quelling quests equipped with salad or appetizers, such as crab cakes scuttling across a shore of field greens and fresh berries, or a spinach-and-goat-cheese salad flush with crisp apples and candied walnuts. Table conversation dwindles as diners train mouths on main-course entrees, including the beef brisket, surrounded by braised vegetables and mashed potatoes for a trifecta more winning than placing a bet on a thoroughbred horse in a drag race. The Baha blackened-ahi-tuna tacos blanket sushi-fresh ahi in corn-tortilla quilts, and a half-pound Black Angus burger dons fashionable toppings and cheese accessories. Diners chase food shots with a soda or tea from the drink menu.

As guests feast and fraternize, the restaurant's nostalgic 1950s diner décor whisks minds back to a simpler time, where television had but a few channels and the most common way to send a heartfelt message was to bake a fresh pie and tape a ransom note to it.