Beef sliced paper-thin, served raw with a mustard-mayonnaise drizzle. Invented at Harry's Bar in 1950 and now a global classic.
Carpaccio was invented at Harry's Bar on Calle Vallaresso in 1950 by Giuseppe Cipriani for the Countess Amalia Nani Mocenigo, who was on a doctor-ordered raw-meat diet. Cipriani sliced the beef paper-thin and topped it with a Worcestershire-and-mustard mayonnaise drizzle in geometric pattern. He named it after the 16th-century Venetian painter Vittore Carpaccio, whose retrospective at the Palazzo Ducale was running that same year, because of the resemblance between the red beef and the painter's signature reds. The dish is now globally codified and still served the same way at Harry's Bar.
5 editor picks for Carpaccio (alla Cipriani) in Venice, ranked by editorial score. All Venice signature dishes · Carpaccio (alla Cipriani) across every city.
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.
Bistrot de Venise ★ 4.2
san-marco · Calle dei Fabbri, San Marco 4685, 30124 Venezia VE
Bistrot de Venise near San Marco is the 1993 room that cooks from manuscripts of the Anonimo Veneziano and Renaissance Venetian cookbooks, the only such kitchen in the lagoon.
Met Restaurant ★ 4.2
Riva degli Schiavoni 4149, Castello, 30122 Venezia VE
Met Restaurant inside Hotel Metropole on the Riva degli Schiavoni is the dark-room formal restaurant near San Marco serving a Venetian tasting carte with modern technique.
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.