RESTAURANT
"The pleasure of taste begins at Do Forni, to renew the flavour of the most enticing culinary creativity."
In the golden age of the Most Serene Republic, this place was already alive and busy: here stood the oven that every day baked bread and pastries for the nearby convent of San Zaccaria, just steps from the Doge's Palace.
Beside the oven, a small osteria welcomed Venetians with its cicchetti, following that tradition of simple, authentic conviviality that has always belonged to the city.
The spaces tell all of this with the same elegance. The Venetian dining room is intimate and refined, enveloped in a traditional atmosphere evoking centuries of history. The other soul of the restaurant looks outward to the world: the salons faithfully reproducing the Orient Express restaurant car take guests on a journey through time, between the luxury of a bygone era and timeless charm.
With the fall of the Venetian Republic in 1797, the oven premises changed their purpose and merged with the osteria, expanding it. Thus was born, in the 19th century, the restaurant that still bears the name of its origin today: Do Forni, the two ovens.
Since 1973 the restaurant has been entrusted to the care of Eligio Paties, a man of great passion and vision. For him, cooking has never been merely a profession, but a form of culture, and hospitality an art to be practised with daily dedication. It is thanks to this philosophy that Do Forni restaurant has become, over time, a coveted destination for all who come to Venice wishing to be received according to the city's most noble traditions.
The spaces tell all of this with the same elegance. The Venetian dining room is intimate and refined, enveloped in a traditional atmosphere evoking centuries of history. The other soul of the restaurant looks outward to the world: the salons faithfully reproducing the Orient Express restaurant car take guests on a journey through time, between the luxury of a bygone era and timeless charm.
Since 1973
Heads of state, royalty, artists, and international stars. Over the past fifty years, Do Forni restaurant has welcomed some of the most celebrated figures in contemporary history.
Sandro Pertini
Richard Nixon
Oscar Luigi Scalfaro
Bettino Craxi
Silvio Berlusconi
Lamberto Dini
Nilde Jotti
Armando Cossutta
Clemente Mastella
Margherita Boniver
Donald Sutherland
Francesco Badoglio
Michele Pellicani
Mario Bisaglia
Giancarlo Pajetta
Giovanni Berlinguer
Alessandro Natta
Moshe Shahael
Sean Kennedy Smith
Michel e Marie Christine Duchi di Kent
Clint Eastwood
gen. Norman Schwarzkopf
Diana Spencer
Carlo d'Inghilterra
Carolina di Monaco
Maria Pia di Savoia
Maria Gabriella di Savoia
Maria José di Savoia
Principessa Margaret d'Inghilterra Contessa di Snowdon
Massimo Cacciari
Michel de Bourbon Parma
Marie Alfonsin
Michele di Grecia
Franz Josef Smith
Ugo Bergamo
Giovanni Pieraccini
Woody Allen
Bartolomeo I Patriarca Ecumenico di Costantinopoli
Since 1986 Ristorante Do Forni in Venice has revived the historic tradition of "art restaurants", establishing the Do Forni International Graphic Art Prize. The aim of this award is to celebrate and promote excellence in artistic printmaking, conferring each year a prize on two artists - one Italyn and one international - selected from a shortlist of twenty guests.
The award ceremony takes place within the city's cultural context, and the works of the winners of all editions are permanently displayed in the restaurant's premises as a testament to the long history of the prize.
| 1986 | Miguel Rodriguez Acosta | Spain |
| Giuseppe Zigaina | Italy | |
| 1987 | Bertrand Dorny | France |
| Francesco Vaccarone | Italy | |
| 1988 | Vladimir Velickovic | Jugoslavia |
| Aldo Turchiaro | Italy | |
| 1989 | Jean Michel Folon | France |
| Emilio Tadini | Italy | |
| 1990 | Rainer Mordmüller | Germany |
| Luca Crippa | Italy | |
| 1991 | Adolf Frohner | Germany |
| Riccardo Licata | Italy | |
| 1992 | Albin Brunovsky | Czechoslovakia |
| Carmelo Zotti | Italy | |
| 1993 | Joze Ciuha | Slovenia |
| Aligi Sassu | Italy | |
| 1994 | Eduardo Arroyo | Spain |
| Bruno Ceccobelli | Italy | |
| 1995 | Joe Tilson | Great Britain |
| Giuliano Vangi | Italy | |
| 1996 | Beverly Pepper | United State |
| Marco Lodola | Italy | |
| 1997 | Kyoji Nagatani | Japan |
| Sergio Vacchi | Italy | |
| 1998 | Roger Selden | United State |
| Fabrizio Plessi | Italy | |
| 1999 | Miguel Berrocal | Spain |
| Concetto Pozzati | Italy | |
| 2000 | André Verdet | France |
| Ugo Nespolo | Italy | |
| 2001 | Alberto Gianquinto | Italy |
| Kengiro Azuma | Japan | |
| 2002 | Enrico Baj | Italy |
| Hsiao Chin | China | |
| 2003 | Sandro Chia | Italy |
| Igor Mitoraj | Polonia | |
| 2004 | Edo Murtic | Croatia |
| Mimmo Rotella | Italy | |
| 2005 | Safet Zec | Bosnia |
| Salvo | Italy | |
| 2006 | Ludovico De Luigi | Italy |
| 2007 | Peter Blake | Great Britain |
| 2008 | Mimmo Paladino | Italy |
| 2009 | Valerio Adami | Italy |
| 2010 | Giulio Paolini | Italy |
| 2011 | Joe Tilson | Great Britain |
| 2012 | Sandro Chia | Italy |
| 2013 | Walter Valentini | Italy |
| 2014 | Emilio Isgrò | Italy |
| 2015 | Livio Seguso | Italy |