A spaghetti noodle, much like a swimming-pool noodle, maintains its shape until it's exposed to boiling water or sat on by children. Savor pasta's forced flexibility with today's Groupon: for $10, you get $20 worth of Italian fare at Venice Café.

The chefs at Venice Café whip up a menu overflowing with generously portioned Italian classics. Savor 360 degrees of flavor with the greek pizza, pesto chicken, sun-dried tomatoes, olives, and feta cheese mounded on a 10-inch ($8.99) or 16-inch ($11.99) dough disc, or build your own pie stuffed with a choice of more than 20 toppings including roasted garlic, goat cheese, and molten happiness ($7.99+). Diners luxuriate in the richness of the creamy alfredo ($9.99), while chef specialties such as The Dead Sea spotlights mussels, shrimp, grouper, calamari, and scallops tossed with linguini and basil white-wine sauce ($13.99). Guests can conclude marinara-a-thons with a traditional cannoli, which contains sweet dollops of ricotta cheese wrapped up as tightly as a prolific novelist’s epilogues ($4.25).