{"id":1537,"date":"2022-02-17T21:35:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-18T03:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/messysuitcase.com\/?p=1537"},"modified":"2022-02-17T18:24:46","modified_gmt":"2022-02-18T00:24:46","slug":"dueling-pina-coladas-in-san-juan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/messysuitcase.com\/index.php\/2022\/02\/17\/dueling-pina-coladas-in-san-juan\/","title":{"rendered":"Dueling Pi\u00f1a Coladas in San Juan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.caribarsanjuan.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Caribar<\/a>, the beautiful bar inside the Caribe Hilton in San Juan, boasts that bartender Ramon \u2018Monchito\u2019 Perez invented the pi\u00f1a colada there in 1954.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"645\" src=\"https:\/\/messysuitcase.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/2-pinas-1024x645.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/messysuitcase.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/2-pinas-1024x645.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/messysuitcase.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/2-pinas-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/messysuitcase.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/2-pinas-768x483.jpg 768w, https:\/\/messysuitcase.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/2-pinas-1536x967.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/messysuitcase.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/2-pinas.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption> Pi\u00f1a colada at Caribar<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>No, wait, that\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.barrachina.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Barrachina<\/a> a Spanish restaurant in Old San Juan, where traditional Spanish bartender Don Ramon Portas Mingot created the original recipe in 1963.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"907\" src=\"https:\/\/messysuitcase.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/3_Barrachina-Pina-Coladas-1024x907.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1545\" srcset=\"https:\/\/messysuitcase.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/3_Barrachina-Pina-Coladas-1024x907.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/messysuitcase.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/3_Barrachina-Pina-Coladas-300x266.jpg 300w, https:\/\/messysuitcase.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/3_Barrachina-Pina-Coladas-768x680.jpg 768w, https:\/\/messysuitcase.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/3_Barrachina-Pina-Coladas-1536x1361.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/messysuitcase.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/3_Barrachina-Pina-Coladas.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption>Pi\u00f1a coladas in Barrachina<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Neither side is backing down. Which bar is the birthplace of Puerto Rico\u2019s iconic drink? That may never be settled. So in our opinion, the real question is, which bar makes the best pi\u00f1a colada?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And can either version approach the deliciousness of Lisa\u2019s pi\u00f1a colada recipe? Bob gives them the taste test! Enjoy the video:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Dueling Pi\u00f1a Coladas in San Juan\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iDE0koLO-j4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Caribar<\/strong>&#8216;s address is Calle Los Rosales, San Juan, on the lowest level of the Caribe Hilton Hotel.<br><strong>Barrachina<\/strong> is located at 104 C. de la Fortaleza, Old San Juan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Caribar, the beautiful bar inside the Caribe Hilton in San Juan, boasts that bartender Ramon \u2018Monchito\u2019 Perez invented the pi\u00f1a colada there in 1954. No, wait, that\u2019s Barrachina a Spanish restaurant in Old San Juan, where traditional Spanish bartender Don Ramon Portas Mingot created the original recipe in 1963. Neither side is backing down. Which &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/messysuitcase.com\/index.php\/2022\/02\/17\/dueling-pina-coladas-in-san-juan\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dueling Pi\u00f1a Coladas in San Juan&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[225,16,268,211],"tags":[348,346,347,7,27,329,266,9,299,12,5,6],"class_list":["post-1537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bob","category-booze","category-puerto-rico","category-videos","tag-barrachina","tag-caribar","tag-caribehilton","tag-messy-suitcase","tag-messysuitcase","tag-pinacolada","tag-puertorico","tag-retirement","tag-rum","tag-travel","tag-travel-blog","tag-travel-blogger"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/messysuitcase.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/messysuitcase.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/messysuitcase.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messysuitcase.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messysuitcase.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1537"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/messysuitcase.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1556,"href":"https:\/\/messysuitcase.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1537\/revisions\/1556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/messysuitcase.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messysuitcase.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messysuitcase.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}