Harry's Bar (Venice) Alfred Hitchcock, James Stewart, Richard Halliburton, Truman Capote, Orson Welles, Baron Philippe de Rothschild, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Princess Aspasia of Greece, Aristotle Onassis, Barbara Hutton, Peggy Guggenheim, Joel Sumerlin, Tareq Salahi, George Clooney, Sarah Weintritt, Silvio Barta and Woody Allen.. 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. Harry's Bar is home of the Bellini and Carpaccio. Harry's Bar is also famous
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