The new American law — the Securing the Protection of our Enduring and Established Constitutional Heritage Act — bars American courts from recognizing defamation judgments by foreign courts if they are inconsistent with First Amendment protections.
The décor is somewhat Moulin-Rouge-ish and Venetian opera-house-y, with a proscenium above the bar, heritage movie-house curtains and a balcony with the look of a Venetian loggia.
There's a touch of Agatha Christie about the old-school bar (heritage.pt; Rua Rodrigues Sampaio 17; from £180).
Because of his Jewish heritage Frederick was barred from attending school during the occupation and was instead taught in small groups organized by members of the Jewish community.
His father is a Christian Arab and his mother a Jew, but he lived most of his life following the Jewish part of his heritage: He celebrated a bar mitzvah, served in the Israeli army, and speaks flawless Hebrew.
The Junge SVP launched a cantonal referendum in Bern, calling for all foreigners sentenced to two or more years in jail, guilty of welfare fraud, with insufficient German skills, or inadequate heritage knowledge to be barred from receiving citizenship.
It has always been famous for a range of tourism, from world heritage sites to drunken teenage bar crawls.
But for hundreds of heritage languages, a four-inch bar of plastic and battery and motherboard is the future of the past.
Green Party Council leader Jason Kitcat, a man whose name derives from his West Country heritage rather than the chocolate bar, is on the "mango" end of the party, and unsurprisingly takes a rather different view.
This isn't the first baffled response I've had since planning my food tour of "Music City", which, with its country music heritage, baloney-touting honky-tonk bars and landlocked location, has never been known as one of the US's culinary meccas.
