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.
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Bar Longhi ★ 4.4
Campo Santa Maria del Giglio 2467, San Marco, 30124 Venezia VE
Bar Longhi inside The Gritti Palace on Campo Santa Maria del Giglio is the Murano-lamp bar with the Pietro Longhi 18th-century paintings, the canonical Grand Canal cocktail terrace.
Locanda Cipriani ★ 4.4
lagoon-islands · Piazza Santa Fosca 29, 30142 Torcello, Venezia VE
Locanda Cipriani on Torcello is the 1934-founded Cipriani-family lagoon outpost that Hemingway used for lunch, the canonical garden-restaurant on the silent island.
Caffe Florian ★ 4.3
Piazza San Marco 57, 30124 Venezia VE
Caffe Florian on Piazza San Marco is the 1720-founded coffeehouse, the oldest in continuous operation in Italy, with frescoed rooms hosted by string quartets at night.
Grancaffe Quadri ★ 4.2
Piazza San Marco 121, 30124 Venezia VE
Grancaffe Quadri in Piazza San Marco has run as a coffee house since 1775 under the Procuratie Vecchie, the historic cafe across the square from Florian, now Alajmo-owned.
Harry's Bar ★ 4.0
san-marco · Calle Vallaresso 1323, San Marco, 30124 Venezia VE
Harry's Bar on Calle Vallaresso is the 1931 Cipriani family room that invented the carpaccio and the Bellini, the canonical historic-bar lunchroom in San Marco.