Without eating, rebellious taste buds would leave the mouth in search of such stimulating flavors as sweet, spicy, and skydiving. Tickle taste buds into submission with today's Groupon: for $17, you get $35 worth of new American fare at XIX: Nineteen. Fittingly housed on Hyatt at The Bellevue's 19th floor, XIX: Nineteen serves stylish American brasserie cuisine in an equally sophisticated atmosphere.

The meat-and-seafood-centric dinner menu's combines local ingredients with fresh seasonal selections. Start with a seafood tasting appetizer ($24), which offers up sauces and condiments for a marine menagerie of oysters, clams, blue prawns, scallops, crab claw, and mussel salad for the landlocked sailor or supping siren. Entrees feature elegantly updated classics such as Pennsylvania rabbit bolognese with tagliatelle pasta, pancetta, and pecorino Romano ($24), or Black Angus beef tenderloin that's blissfully bathed in red wine beef sauce ($25). Finish with a whimsical sweet treat such as the lemon olive oil cake with honey marscapone cream and blackberry lime sorbet ($9). Pull up an upholstered chair beneath the pearl-bedecked chandelier and sip on a selection from the extensive wine and cocktail list while drinking in sweeping city views.

Reviews

XIX: Nineteen has a 4.2-star average from more than 200 OpenTable users and Yelpers give it a 3.5-star average:

• This was amazing!! Beautiful place! The atmosphere was very romantic. Terrific service. Definitely a new favorite place. – OpenTable user who dined on 10/23/2010
• This is our fourth time at XIX, and the food and ambiance are just as wonderful as the first time. – OpenTable user who dined on 10/16/2010