Two With or Without Drinks at Café 217

Though meals tend to bring friends together, meals peppered with magnets can push them apart. Enjoy an attractive repast with this Groupon.

Choose Between Two Options

$21 for an American fusion dinner for two (up to a $43.85 total value), redeemable Thursday or Friday

One appetizer (up to a $9.95 value)
Two entrees (up to a $16.95 value each)

$27 for an American fusion dinner for two with drinks (up to a $57.85 total value), redeemable Tuesday, Wednesday, or Saturday

One appetizer (up to a $9.95 value)
Two entrees (up to a $16.95 value each)
Two drinks (up to a $7 value each)

Starters of homemade risotto rife with broccoli, spinach, and mushrooms prelude entrees such as chipotle-chicken pasta and a turkey meatloaf drizzled in jalapeño gravy. See the dinner menu.

Café 217

As locks click and fluorescents dim at most conventional restaurants, the night owls at Café 217 hurl howls at the moon: their night's just getting started. Open nonstop from Friday at 5 p.m. to Sunday at 3 p.m. and with late hours throughout the rest of the week, Café 217 centers itself as Albany's nocturnal hideout for party prowlers, third-shifters, and Nosferatu's roommates. Prepared fresh to order, the breakfast menu draws inspiration from the French, though Italian influences pervade the lunch menu, which includes a grilled portobello-mushroom sandwich with roasted red peppers, caramelized onions, mozzarella, and a balsamic reduction. Available at all hours, the dinner menu aims for upscale, as does the interior, where metal trellises with floral designs stud the walls and bright-yellow tablecloths swathe tables. Patrons can dab their faces with bright-purple napkins, which ably conceal blots of wine or Rorschach tests of grape jelly.