HARRY’S BAR

San Marco, Venice, Italy

Restaurant | €€€€ | Italian

Another Venice institution. It is expensive but if you've never been, go at least once for a drink standing at the bar. We had the extraordinary luck of coming here some years ago for an intimate lunch with Arrigo Cipriani himself, who ordered everything and told us the whole story: the friendship between Harry Pickering and his father Giuseppe Cipriani, how they invented both the Bellini and the carpaccio for their best customers. There is so much history in one room, it’s impossible not to come.