Bellini is a signature dish of Italy; we have verified places to eat it in Venice. White peach puree topped with chilled Prosecco. Start with where to eat Bellini in Venice.
Bellini · Venice
White peach puree topped with chilled Prosecco. Invented at Harry's Bar by Giuseppe Cipriani in 1948, named for the pink-tinted robe in a Giovanni Bellini painting. The canonical Venetian cocktail.
The Bellini was invented at Harry's Bar by Giuseppe Cipriani in 1948 for the painter Giovanni Bellini retrospective at the Doge's Palace. Cipriani noticed the soft pink colour of the Bellini paintings' robes and developed the cocktail to match: white peach puree (canonically only white, not yellow) with Prosecco, in a 1 to 3 ratio. The drink is still served the same way at Harry's Bar today, with the white peach puree prepared in-house from peaches harvested at the Cipriani family's Veneto orchards. Globally copied with frozen pulp or even pureed yellow peach, the canonical version is only available at the original.
Where to eat in Venice:
- Harry's Bar
- Bar Longhi
- Caffe Florian
- Locanda Cipriani
- Grancaffe Quadri
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