Harry's Bar (Venice)

Harry 's Bar is a bar in Venice. It is located west from Piazza San Marco Calle Valaresso 1323.

Harry 's Bar was opened on 31 May 1931 by the Italian Giuseppe Arrigo Cipriani and his American friend and financial backer Harry Pickering, who was also named.

Soon the bar for many small dishes became famous, for example, their chicken sandwiches. Should be especially aware of the " Bellini ", a cocktail of dry Prosecco and peach pulp. The name goes back to the painter Giovanni Bellini. The " Carpaccio " has Cipriani named after the famous Renaissance painter Vittore Carpaccio. According to legend, he invented it for his regular customer Contessa Amalia Nani Mocenigo, who had to comply with strict diet and allowed to eat any cooked food.

In the 1950s, the bar was discovered by the international jet set and made ​​by famous literary and cinematic sizes. Not only Orson Welles or Truman Capote drank their drinks here and were regular customers, Ernest Hemingway immortalized the bar even in his novel Across the River and Into the Trees.

Today the bar is run by the founder's son Arrigo Cipriani.