The Baccachina Restaurant, 104 Fortaleza Street, Old San Juan, PR. |
Plaque in front of the restaurant. |
My Pina Colada. |
- #1 - On August 15, 1954 a man named Ramon "Monchito" Marrero made and served the first Pina Colada at the Caribe Hilton's Beachcomber Bar in San Juan. The Hilton was the most famous hotel of the day and Monchito worked for months to come up with a new and different drink. He soon was given credit for the first Pina Colada.
- #3 - Ricardo Garcia, a Spaniard who had come to Puerto Rico to work at the Hilton, was serving a drink known as the Coco Loco to his guests. The drink consisted of coconut juice, rum and cream of coconut served in a coconut. One day in 1954 he was without coconuts because of a union strike at the hotel so he cut off the top of a pineapple and served the drink in it instead of the coconut. The pineapple gave the drink a different taste than the Coco Loco, so thus the Pina Colada, or strained pineapple, was born.
- #4 - This is the oldest of the four theories and dates back to the 1800's. So you would think this has to be the birth of the drink. A Puerto Rican pirate known as Roberto Cofresi or better known as El Pirata Cofresi, allegedly served a form of the cocktail that had white rum, coconut juice and pineapple juice. It is said that when the pirate died in 1825 he took the recipe to his grave with him, thus it wasn't known again until one of the other theories came about. I must say I give this theory my vote, since he made the original drink.
The bar on the right was where the first Pina Colada was made. |
Interior of the Restaurant. |
My check showing my historic purchases. |
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