Last fall, Cipriani's on Fifth inspired Frank Bruni's infamous hissy fit over a $34.95 calamari appetizer, so you shouldn't expect bargains at any outpost of the family's bar and restaurant empire. And yet, at its Harry's of Venice, you'll get exactly that: Touched by the plight of the floundering dollar—and by a 5- to 10-percent drop in American tourist business—owner Arrigo Cipriani is offering Americans a 20-percent discount on all menu items "during the short term of their recovery." (Don't hold your breath.) Still, we prefer our drinks the way all the great, impoverished American expats once took theirs: on credit.

[GQ UK]