A raw steak can reduce the swelling of a black eye just as easily as the charcoal markings of a well-cooked steak can draw it back on. Make artful use of cuisine with today's Groupon: for $20, you get $40 worth of steakhouse fare during dinner or lunch at Mikey's Grill in Hoover.

Chef Michael Lee and his sister Melissa live out a family dream at Mikey's Grill, where they hand-cut prime steaks, grill fresh seafood, and complete meals with their mother's house-made desserts. The dinner menu leans in Creole and Italian directions, opening with appetizers such as the fried polenta with Cajun shrimp sauce ($7.75), a nod to the family's Louisiana roots. Surf 'n' turf commingles with the elegance of a merman slow dancing with a cowgirl on plates of char-grilled filet mignon and Maryland-style crab cake ($29.95). Sweet marsala sauce and savory slices of prosciutto gild the chicken saltimbocca ($16.95), a flavorful combination that the Birmingham Weekly's food columnist Dee Marcus called "the finest chicken dish I have ever been served." After analyzing the lunch menu, diners can wrap hands around a sandwich lined with cured pork tenderloin ($9.50) or a crawfish po boy ($9.50), both served with hand-sliced kettle chips or sweet-potato chips. The materfamilias crafts all of the restaurant's desserts, including the bread pudding, a dish so popular she’s had to steal massive pans from Paul Bunyan's kitchen to bake enough portions.