Like piñatas, bodies must be filled with quality ingredients to effectively satisfy the demands of screaming children. Summon the strength to endure a baseball batting from a blindfolded child with today’s Groupon: for $15, you get $30 worth of Asian fare, sushi, and drinks at Basil Asian Bistro in Franklin.

Basil Asian Bistro, winner of best restaurant and best sushi/Japanese awards from Nashville Lifestyles magazine, prepares a wide range of authentic family recipes adjusted for American pallets that harness the tantalizing essence of Asian cuisine. Drop in to enjoy a drink at the strikingly lit sapphire bar before introducing palates to the delicate flavors of the varied menu items, including curry duck ($16), sweet and sour tilapia ($11), spicy tuna sushi roll ($7), and rice noodles ($8).

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In addition to being a source of crucial information, magazines can also be fanned across a coffee table to conceal almond-butter stains or rolled into a handy bopping device to stun tarantulas. Get a steady supply of spider-boppers with today’s glossy-paged deal: for $8, you get a one-year subscription to Nashville Lifestyles magazine (an $18 value). Current subscribers may use this Groupon to renew their current subscription.

With illuminating articles showcasing the city’s hottest happenings, businesses, and people, Nashville Lifestyles is a knowledge-soaked resource for a savvy citizenry. Eleven annual issues will keep subscribers up-to-date on the local lowdown without the hassle of constantly toting around a police scanner, thanks to a plethora of sophisticated features and informative tidbits. Gripping recent articles have included “Nashville’s Best Bars,” “Nashville Lifestyles’ Celebrity Playlists,” and “Nashville’s Best Restaurants.” Prolonged exposure to Nashville Lifestyles’ pages of well-researched coverage and insider tips will transform readers from befuddled street urchins into in-the-know trendsetters and urban navigators.

Whether a longtime Nashville resident or a cone-headed visitor from outer space posing as a French immigrant, Nashville Lifestyles reacquaints readers with the best the city has to offer.

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An ice-cream parlor is like a choose-your-own-adventure novel, only instead of the inevitable nuclear whitewater dinosaur catastrophe, you get delicious ice cream topped according to your whim. Today’s Groupon takes you on journey into the heart of flavor. For $5, you get $10 worth of custom-crafted and generously topped Cold Stone Creamery ice cream. This deal is good at the Brentwood and Franklin locations.

Cold Stone’s ice cream inhabits a quantum flux between soft-serve and traditional ice cream, with a rich, creamy texture that whispers tales of its super-premium quality as it glides over taste buds. The ice cream generously welcomes dozens of toppings, as traditional as crumbled cookies and chopped nuts or as quirky as granola and black licorice. Choose your favorite ice cream from among dozens of silky flavors, such as Irish cream and butter pecan. Then make certain no one will try and steal a taste by topping it protectively with brownies, gumballs, and peach pie filling. Whatever Frankencream you create, it’ll be scooped cold off the frozen granite stone into a freshly made waffle cone or bowl. Cold Stone’s ice cream and toppings vary between seasons and location, and they also offer non-dairy sorbet and an array of lighter toppings such as fruit and honey. Ice-cream creations run between $4 and $6, depending on size.

Cold Stone guarantees there are more than 11 million combinations of their ice cream, and they’ve employed one lucky man for the past 20 years to confirm that count lick by lick. If you’re suffering from premature brain freeze and can’t invent your own creamy concoction, try a Cold Stone Signature Creation such as the almond-studded and caramel-slathered Coffee Lovers Only, or the Peanut Butter Cup Perfection with Reese’s peanut butter cups and fudge.

Cold Stone Creamery Nashville
782 Old Hickory Blvd.
Suite 119
Brentwood, Tennessee 37027
OR
600 Frazier Dr.
Suite 100
Franklin, Tennessee 37067

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