Pizza became a popular dish after silverware went on a hunger strike in demand of longer lunch breaks. Indulge in savory negotiations with today's Groupon: for $22, you get an Italian meal for two at Scalini's Pizza & Pasta in Richardson (up to a $46 total value). The meal includes:

• One appetizer (up to a $10 value)
• Two entrees or small pizzas (up to a $16 value each)
• One dessert (a $4 value)
  
  

The culinary artisans at Scalini's Pizza & Pasta handcraft classic Italian dishes and New York–style pizza crisped in a stone oven. The extensive dinner menu unveils savory appetizers such as toasted cheese ravioli (an $8 value). For an entree, diners can dizzy cutlery with a heaping platter of spaghetti (an $11 value) decked in meat, mushroom, or marinara sauces and escorted by a meatball, sausage, or grilled chicken. The broiled salmon (a $16 value) recites an abridged Moby Dick on a buttery bed of basil rice. Pies from Scalini's pizza menu heap fresh ingredients onto handmade dough in specialty incarnations, such as Scalini's pesto pizza (a $10+ value), which is slathered with piquant pesto and peppered with chunks of tender grilled chicken. Diners can conclude meals with tiramisu or cappuccino pie as they recline amid an intimate environment with hanging lights and wall sconces shimmering against landscape paintings.