Generally speaking, come for a salad, pasta, a glass of wine and, perhaps, dessert.
"Last month I went to a birthday party of someone I hardly knew, and my glass of wine and pasta cost $60.
The Cocktail Gamberi ravioli (Italian for shrimp cocktail), propped in a Martini glass, were unconvincing as pasta, dry and unwieldy, the dough barely containing the crustaceans.
Wine is €1 a glass, a plate of pasta €5, mains from €6. +39 0481 60579, cormons.com, closed Tuesday You'll probably need a satnav to find this osteria just 100m from the border.
It's a perfect place to escape for a few days and enjoy some homemade pasta, a glass of Tuscan red, and the unbeatable sunsets over the farmland.
For the bulk of the scene Holm knelt under the table with his head coming up through a hole and milk, caviar, pasta, and glass marbles were used to show the android's inner workings and fluids.
Then Mr. Amis and Ms. Fonseca headed to Mr. Monda's Central Park West apartment, where bowls of piping-hot pasta and glasses of Chianti were passed among a shoulder-to-shoulder crowd that included Robert De Niro and Isabella Rossellini.
THE BAR About 50 American and Italian wines by the bottle, $22 to $160, and 20 by the glass, $6.25 to $11. THE BILL Pastas, $15 to199; main dishes, $18 to $25. (All major cards accepted).
"I wanted a place where I could have a glass of wine and a pasta," Mr. Bajaj recently said.
SIMPLE TASTES We'll usually go out for an early dinner, something simple, maybe pasta and a glass of white wine.
