July 10th is Piña Colada day! The piña colada has been around since 1954 when, as the story goes, a bartender at the Caribe Hilton’s Beachcomber Bar in San Juan, Puerto Rico was asked by the hotel manager to come up with a new signature drink that would appeal to their celebrity guests. After three months of experimenting, the piña colada was born.

Other stories include a “lost recipe” created by a Puerto Rican pirate to boost the morale of his men while at sea in the 1800’s, to a bar in Carcao in the 1960’s that created and sold a …read more