With the cosmopolitan magic that had launched his father’s fabled Harry’s Bar in Venice a half-century earlier, restaurateur Arrigo Cipriani swooped in to conquer New York café society in 1985, then left his dashing son, Giuseppe, to build a citywide nightlife empire.
The Trouble with Harry’s
Mark Seal | Vanity Fair | December 1, 2009 | 4,485 words
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