With Congress passing a heavy new tax on right angles, circular edibles are becoming the most convenient way to keep food budgets from spiraling out of control. Nibble a delicious disk with today's Groupon: for $11, you get $25 worth of pizza at Pantera's Pizza in Edwardsville, Illinois. Harkening back to the inviting pizzerias of the 1950s, Pantera's Pizza serves mouth-watering pies constructed from fresh ingredients and homemade dough in a family-friendly atmosphere. Split a savory New York–style pizza, its surface polka-dotted with pepperoni ($13.99 for large), or furnish unoccupied stomach space with a five-pound large combo Hunk pizza, its thick crust adorned with pepperoni, sausage, beef, black olives, mushrooms, and onions ($21.25). Feel free to cap off your gastronomic safari with a pizzert, a dessert pizza stuffed with apples or cherries. An Edwardsville institution since 1982, Pantera's Pizza boasts a large dining room perfect for blowing out birthday candles or candlelit vigils for Elvis Presley.

Reviews

Eight Yelpers give Pantera’s Pizza an average of 3.5 stars:

• The pizza was pretty good and they kept the buffet stocked even with so many people. – Stephen S.
• Even if you aren't there for their buffet, their full-sized pizza pies, which are of the hand-tossed variety, are exceptional and moderately priced. – Brandon P.