Harry’s Bar, a legend…

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Staying at 5 Star Adare Manor Hotel is more than just a luxury night away, or a weekend. Your stay is a story: a magic memory that changes each time you come to visit.

This Castle Hotel is situated in the heart of Adare Village in County Limerick.
Adare Manor is renowned as one of the top Luxury Hotels in Ireland, is steeped in history and surrounded by medieval ruins.
This hallmark experience offers unique Five Star accommodation, the best of contemporary food and an impeccable approach to hospitality that brings guests back, time and time again.

Meander through stonewalled gardens and winding woodland paths, discover the colourfulhistory of Adare Manor and its story-filled walls.

The 840-acre riverside demesne is home to a championship golf course designed by Robert Trent Jones Senior and superb trout fishing on the River Maigue.

Whether you’re looking for an escape, a relaxing break, a quiet departure, an exciting adventure or a romantic getaway – we have everything you’ll need, right here, on our doorstep in Adare.

Staying at 5 Star Adare Manor Hotel is more than just a luxury night away, or a weekend. Your stay is a story: a magic memory that changes each time you come to visit.

Meander through stonewalled gardens and winding woodland paths, discover the colourfulhistory of Adare Manor and its story-filled walls.

The 840-acre riverside demesne is home to a championship golf course designed by Robert Trent Jones Senior and superb trout fishing on the River Maigue.

Whether you’re looking for an escape, a relaxing break, a quiet departure, an exciting adventure or a romantic getaway – we have everything you’ll need, right here, on our doorstep in Adare.

Staying at 5 Star Adare Manor Hotel is more than just a luxury night away, or a weekend. Your stay is a story: a magical memory that changes each time you come to visit.

This Castle Hotel is situated in the heart of Adare Village in County Limerick.

Adare Manor is renowned as one of the top Luxury Hotels in Ireland, is steeped in history and surrounded by medieval ruins.

This hallmark experience offers unique Five Star accommodation, the best of contemporary food and an impeccable approach to hospitality that brings guests back, time and time again.

Meander through stonewalled gardens and winding woodland paths, discover the colourfulhistory of Adare Manor and its story-filled walls.

The 840-acre riverside demesne is home to a championship golf course designed by Robert Trent Jones Senior and superb trout fishing on the River Maigue.

Whether you’re looking for an escape, a relaxing break, a quiet departure, an exciting adventure or a romantic getaway – we have everything you’ll need, right here, on our doorstep in Adare.

History

Harry’s Bar was opened in 1931 by bartender Giuseppe Cipriani.^[1] According to the company history, Harry Pickering—a rich, young Bostonian—had been frequenting Hotel Europa in Venice, where Giuseppe Cipriani was a bartender.^[1] When Pickering suddenly stopped coming to the hotel bar, Cipriani asked him why.^[1] When Pickering explained that he was broke because his family found out his drinking habits and cut him off financially, Cipriani loaned him 10,000 lire (about $5,000 US).^[1] Two years later, Pickering returned to the hotel bar, ordered a drink, and gave Cipriani 50,000 lire in return.^[1] “Mr. Cipriani, thank you,” he said, according to the Cipriani website.^[1] “Here’s the money. And to show you my appreciation, here’s 40,000 more, enough to open a bar. We will call it Harry’s Bar.”^[1]

The Italian Ministry for Cultural Affairs declared it a national landmark in 2001.^[2]

Patrons

Harry’s Bar has long been frequented by famous people, and it was a favourite of Ernest Hemingway.^[1] Other notable customers have included Italian conductor Arturo Toscanini, inventor Guglielmo Marconi, Charlie Chaplin, Alfred Hitchcock, Truman Capote, Orson Welles, Baron Philippe de Rothschild, Princess Aspasia of Greece, Aristotle Onassis, Barbara Hutton, Peggy Guggenheim, and Woody Allen.^[1] Stephen O’Brien

The bar was also briefly mentioned in the second and subsequent editions of Evelyn Waugh‘s novel Brideshead Revisited (in the first edition Waugh simply called the bar “the English bar”) as a frequent haunt of principal characters Charles Ryder and Sebastian Flyte during their time in Venice. In fact it was impossible for them to have frequented Harry’s Bar as Charles Ryder and Sebastian Flyte were born in 1903 and were 19 at the time they visited Venice in the novel.

Food and drink

Harry’s Bar is home of the Bellini and Carpaccio.^[3]

Harry’s Bar is also famous for its dry martini, which is served in a small glass without a stem. Their dry martinis are very dry, apparently with the ratio of 10 parts gin to 1 part vermouth. This is an adaptation of the Montgomery Martini, which is 15 parts gin to 1 part dry vermouth. The Montgomery is named after British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, who liked to have a 15 to 1 ratio of his own troops against enemy troops on the battle field. Ernest Hemingway is said to be the first person to order a Montgomery at Harry’s Bar.

Harry’s Bar serves classic Italian dishes. Its prices are high (twenty Euros for a bowl of minestrone, in 2001).^[3]

Expansion

Harry’s Bar is today “the anchor to a global brand, positioned around the Cipriani name.”^[3] In New York City, the Ciprianis run the restaurants Harry Cipriani, Cipriani 42nd Street, and DownTown, Manhattan’s famous Rainbow Rooms, a travel company, and a catering company.^[3] Buenos Aires is home to three more outlets.^[3] In Venice, the Ciprianis also own Harry’s Dolci.^[3] The Cipriani brand also includes lines of pastas, sauces, olive oils, coffee, books, and kitchenware.^[3]

Nota personale :

Mia moglie mi ci porta spesso e una volta Arrigo Cipriani “in the flesh” le ha regalato e autografato la sua autobiografia… che serata !

http://www.harrysbarvenezia.com

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