Stacked Deck

December 19, 2003 A couple of days ago, the good folks at City Shuffle messengered us The Diner's Deck. (Full disclosure: We love getting free stuff.) It's a cool concept: a deck of 52 cards, each worth a $10 discount at an area restaurant. Tuck a card in your wallet, head to dinner, and—so long as you spend more than $20—redeem your card for the discount. Of course, the concept would be worthless if the represented restaurants were crap. Good news: the Lower East Side Deck (which also features Grammercy, the East Village and Nolita) includes LES spots like Alias, AKA Cafe, Paladar, Petrosino, 1492, Crudo and, in the EV, Il Buco, Tasting Room, Prune, Industry (Food), and Starfoods. There's $120 we'd save right there! (Kidding, kidding—we'd never actually dine at Starfoods.) The Lower West Side Deck (uh, Lower West Side?) looks similarly stacked. Both are priced at $29.95; find a store that's all Decked out.