One of Benjamin Franklin’s last theories was that taking in a good view while eating aids both in digestion and in the ability to squeeze milk out of coal. Prove him half right with today's Groupon to Riverwalk Restaurant, located on Yorktown's Riverwalk Landing. Choose from the following options:

• For $20, you get $40 worth of dinner fare and drinks.
• For $10, you get $20 worth of lunch/brunch fare and drinks.

This waterfront dining room houses a broad range of seafood sourced from the Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean. Dinner diners can savor the original blue plate featuring a cup of she-crab soup with baked crab imperial, sautéed crabcake, crispy scallops, and beer-battered shrimp ($25.95). Elegantly combine surf with turf with the sliced beef tenderloin and your choice of crabcake and shrimp or grilled bacon-wrapped sea scallops ($25.95). Riverfront's lunch provides white meat and seafood salads and sandwiches ($8.95–$12.95) alongside downscaled entrees such as grilled shrimp with warm tomato goat cheese tart ($12.95) and Ashley Farms chicken breast ($11.95). View revelers can remain lax while sipping a sampling from Riverwalks extensive spirit and wine lists.

Reviews

TripAdvisors rank Riverwalk Restaurant #3 out of 56 restaurants in Yorktown. OpenTable reviewers give it an average of four stars.

• Gorgeous restaurant and some of the best food I've had in the Williamsburg/Hampton Roads area!" – OpenTable reviewer who dined on 12/11/2010
• My husband and I ate at the Riverwalk Restaurant for lunch. The food was really good and served quickly. The service was outstanding. – KayBrook, TripAdvisor