Bellini Cocktail appears as a signature dish in 1 Italy cities. See each city's local variant and where to eat it.
Bellini · Venice
White peach puree topped with Prosecco. Invented at Harry's Bar in 1948, the canonical Venetian cocktail and the city's most famous drink.
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