February 2019 - Food

Where To Eat This Month - Harry's Bar

Thanks to the “acqua alta”, Venice’s subaquatic suffering continues and St Mark’s Square now experiences flooding over 60 times a year. In other words, if you want to follow in the footsteps of Alfred Hitchcock, Ernest Hemingway and George Clooney and visit the original and legendary Harry’s Bar on the Calle Vallaresso, pick the wrong time and you might just get your feet wet. But in brighter news, thanks to Harry’s Bar James Street – sister to the Harry’s Bar private members club in Mayfair – you can eat and drink in Venetian style just a stone's throw from Oxford Street without the need for waders. Owned by Richard Caring, it is a Fifties inspired take on glamorous Italian drinking and dining with warm wood panelling, mirrors and portraits galore, and brown leather banquettes that can get very comfortable very quickly.

Open for breakfast right through to late night cocktails (with a great weekend brunch menu for Saturday and Sunday shoppers), there are plenty of menus to choose from, but there are a few dishes dotted around that are a must – most of them are easy to spot because they have Harry’s name on them. For instance, Harry’s tagliolini. Arriving as it does in a small copper pan, this creamy and unctuous gratinated pasta dish is cooked in parmesan and cream, with truffle, and once poured onto your plate is impossible to resist. See also Harry’s Margherita (a pizza), Harry’s seafood spaghetti and Harry’s rib-eye. But venture off the Harry track and you won’t be disappointed, with special mention for the beef carpaccio, lobster risotto and of course the pollo Milanese. (Although Harry’s veal parmesan is probably tastier... but it is another “Harry’s”.) And for desert, order the tiramisu.

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