Italian cuisine is often stuffed with cheese, peppers, and hearty meats, much like highly ineffective scarecrows. Frighten off hunger pangs with today’s Groupon. For $12, you get $25 worth of authentic Italian cuisine at Pizza Man in Pompton Plains.

Pizza Man, helmed by Culinary Institute of America graduates Carmen and Anthony, boasts a vast menu full of traditional Italian fare served in a warm, sunny-walled setting. Starters such as garlic bread ($2–$3.95) train taste-bud troops for oncoming flavor offensives and the shrimp Norman ($15.95) sings breaded jumbo shrimp to sleep in its bed of white-wine-laced linguine. Sate stomachs with the veal Antonio—a veal cutlet delicately topped with tomato sauce, mozzarella, ricotta cheese, and eggplant ($15.95)—or take tongues to the pasta festival ($15.95), where a medley of vegetables, chicken, shrimp, and Von Trapp children frolic across hills of bowtie pasta.