Harry's New York Bar
Harry's New York Bar - also known as "Harry's Bar" for short - is a bar in Paris , it is located near the Paris Opera at 5 rue Daonou in the 2nd arrondissement . There is no connection to Harry's Bar in Venice .
The restaurant was founded on Thanksgiving Day 1911 by the American jockey Tod Sloane under the name "New York Bar", who wanted to create a small corner of Manhattan in the heart of Paris , where original American cocktails were served like in an American bar. Harry MacElhone , a Scot from Dundee , was hired as the first bartender, took over the bar from Sloane in 1923 and gave it its current name. It is still owned by the family.
Harry's New York Bar was in the 1920s a starting place for expats , expatriate Americans and writers of the Lost Generation , one of Gertrude Stein coined term for writers such as F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway , and is the birthplace of famous cocktails like Bloody Mary , French 75 , White Lady , Sidecar, and Blue Lagoon .
Celebrities like Humphrey Bogart , Clint Eastwood , Coco Chanel , Rita Hayworth and the Duke of Windsor were often seen guests here. In "Ivories", the piano bar at Harry's, George Gershwin is said to have composed the tone poem An American in Paris .
Since 1924, as a gag and for the amusement of Americans living in Paris, a trial vote for the presidency in America has been held in the bar. The slogan “Just tell the taxi driver: Sank Roo Doe Noo” (as a pronunciation aid for the address of the bar, French cinq, rue Daonou ) became the calling card and slogan of the bar for generations of Americans.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 52 ′ 9.1 ″ N , 2 ° 19 ′ 55.6 ″ E