Before pastries were invented, society paired its morning coffee with oven-fresh Shrinky Dinks. Nourish your sweet tooth with today's Groupon: for $5, you get $10 worth of café fare and German pastries at Lutz Café and Bakery.

Since 1948, the same family who first whisked up the Lutz Café and Bakery has been filling bellies with handmade German pastries lauded by the New Yorker for their authenticity. Under the skilled hands of an experienced treat kneader, natural ingredients metamorphose into a chocolate éclair, a chocolate-drenched heap of custard and ethereal whipped cream piled inches high atop a delicate shell of puff pastry ($4.85). Like a pita-wrapped turducken, every sugar-dusted kolachkie is stuffed with flavorful filling, its buttery package of dough thoroughly stocked with apricot, raspberry, strawberry, or cheese cargo before it's sealed up and mailed into mouths ($14.95 for about 12). Alternatively, customers can tuck into thick slices of poppy-seed strudel, marble loaves of raisin-speckled phyllo dough ($7.95 for a half lb.), while sipping traditional Vienna coffee ($3.75), which sloshes to tables in individual-size, piping-hot pots accompanied by clouds of whipped cream.

At lunchtime, diners can plunge spoons into robust hungarian goulash ($7.95) and surf the WiFi connection and jet-ski the classical music that flows through the BYOB, tableclothed café. Customers can carry individual-size quiche Lorraine ($7.95) to the outdoor seating area to make mouthless trees jealous by biting into its hand-rolled crust.