Last weekend I wanted to do something nice for my wife. I know that she really likes Italian food so I thought it might be fun to take her out to a new place that we hadn’t been before. We don’t normally go out to eat all that often, so this seemed like a nice treat for the both of us.

So I went to Restaurant.com to try and find a place that I could take her to. After browsing for a few minutes, I found La Gra Italian Tapas. A $25 gift certificate usually sells for $10, but they were running a 70% off promotion so I only paid $3 for it. The only stipulation is that we had to spend a minimum of $35 to use the gift certificate.

The restaurant was a nice small place in an older area of town. Tapas style apparently means that the dishes are meant to be shared which was nice since we both got to try out a couple of different things. We started with an arugula salad followed by a sausage and shrimp pasta as well as a beef speidini dish. Overall it was a great time.

If we hadn’t used the gift certificate from Restaurant.com, the bill would have come to $42.21 which is nothing extraordinary for such a place. However, with the gift certificate the bill came to just $17.41. So I have to ask the question. Why wouldn’t you want to use these gift certificates if you’re going to go out to eat anyway?

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