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• Definitely try the piña colada, and the paella is delishous! If you’ll be here on a Friday or Saturday, be sure to call for a dinner reservation. They have a free flamenco show. It was wonderful!

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• t’s said that the piña colada was invented at this bar and restaurant. The drink is emblematic of Puerto Rico—pineapple, coconut and rum basically make up our landscape. Read more

• Waiters are super nice and helpfull. Chicken nachos are great,not greasy like others I’ve tasted. Got a free piña colada by using a coupon from a travel magazine from the hotels 🙂

• Best place for a drink. The bar tenders are the friendliest and most knowledgeable in old San Juan. Great place for day drinking. Ask for Juan. The man is an artist with his bar tending skills

• Amazing piña colada! The mahi mahi fritters are delicious. The mofongo de yuca with seafood is really good. The wait staff is always friendly.

• Make reservations! It is a tourist trap – for good reason – so it is not a place to just go on a whim. Staff is great. Try the mofongo. Have a pina colada or two.

• Little late to check in and put a tip but definitely a must when visiting Old San Juan. Aside from being the place where Pina Colada was first made, I went for the Paella Criolla!

• Everything is amazing! The garlic shrimp, the stuffed canoes with steak, chicken and shrimp and their salsa! So tasty, you’ll add it to everything!!!

• Claims, along with the Hilton Caribe, to be the birthplace of the Piña Colada. Not sure there’s is better than the Hilton’s, but it’s definitely easier to get to.

• Best piña colada I’ve ever had. Also, ordered the pork chop can can and the churrasco, both very tasty!

• We were a table of 8. Everyone was very happy with the food & yes PC is a must.. Good service & very chilled. . Give it a try..

• One of the two potential birthplaces of the Piña Colada, and they sure know how to make them!

• Pina Colada’s are great. Try the 151 Pina Colada! That will get you going! The Originator of the Pina Colada does not disappoint!

• Delicious the Fortaleza steak full of onions, peppers and ham with mushroom sauce

• Don’t know what David C. Was thinking…. I eat here every single trip to PR and the Piña Coladas and food is great. Go for the Mofongo! But so you know it’s heavy and very filling. A+

• Paella for 2 can def be for 3 or even 4! Its sooo yummy. Plus the pina coladas are amazing!

• Not a huge selection for vegetarians, but one of the two choices — the vegetables mofongo — is excellent (and huge). Come hungry.

• So delicious! I got the Shrimp in Garlic Sauce. You have to get the rum cake for dessert!!!!

• Seafood mofongo was great! Must enjoy a medalla or pina colada here while you eat.

• Gotta get the pina colada! Best in San Juan. Very creamy… worth going out of your way if you’re in PR.

• The pina coladas are made from a locally made rum! Ron del Barrilito… never been exported & best kept secret… aged 3 years undisturbed in charred oak barrels! Wow.

• Awesome Piña Colada and snapper filet with rice and beans

• Good drinks, nice courtyard setting. Don’t try to play with the birds if you like your eardrums as is!

• Pina colada is amazing. Mojito is amazing. And find the Hector in bar. He is so kind and lovely person.

• Founder of the Pina Colada! Be sure to try one!

• Mofongo and piña coladas were awesome. PR Delights not so delightful but fair for a lil taste of each fried snack. GREAT service.

• Best, and first, pina coladas! Convinced they make them stronger with each consecutive order.

• Piña coladas at the outdoor bar were a perfect start to our day! Get a rum floater for an extra kick!

• A little bit pricey but the food and service are great! Loved the fried plantain and the mofongo…

• Grouper Isleño is to die for. Great service, great for groups. No pun intended.

• It’s no joke when I tell you that the Mofongo is top notch!! Compliment it with a Piña Colada and a slice of rum cake.

• Nice pinacolada!! Yummy! I went for another drink next day!

• Piña coladas were delicious. Make reservations for the awesome shows they have here! Mofongo made the meal.

• They serve delicious vegetarian fajita & the Pinacolada is a must here!

• Mofongo was good. Also they are good sized portions

• Try the whole grilled Red Snapper! Amazing food and finish with the Pina Coladas! Read more

• It truly is the best pina colada (trust a bartender). Speaking of bartenders, Jorge is great.

• Ramòn is an amazing waiter. He recommended a perfect Puerto Rican meal! Thanks!

• Birthplace of the piña colada!!! Double of everything. Bartenders are awesome, tip em lots.

• Whole snapper, perfectly cooked. Jorge at the bar is a legend

• The Pina Colada was great!! and the Mofongo was amazing too!!! Great staff also!! We were lucky and got seats to see a flemenco show!!

• Try the turnovers. Yum filled with beef and or chicken

• Famous for their pina coladas, try with dark rum!

• If it’s your first time to the island talk to Jorge the bartender. He will show you all around your map!

• Indeed the best Pina Colada, better than the one at Caribe’s Oasis!

• Home of the original Piña Colada! Strong, smooth, and delicious!!

• Delicious food, try grilled red snapper and piña colada!

• Piña coladas to stay, or to-go. Or both.

• Love the buffet on the back cheap and great food! Don’t try that pi~a colada coming a local I have had better.

• A Beautiful Place in a Beautiful City

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I Learned How to Make Barrachina Piña Coladas

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by Susan Shain

updated May 24, 2019

Outside Barrachina in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico, a bronze plaque reads: “The house where in 1963 the piña colada was created by Don Ramon Portas Mingot. ” In the decades since Don Ramon’s discovery, the drink has exploded in popularity: The restaurant now serves approximately 2,200 piña coladas a day.

I stopped into Barrachina on a recent visit to Puerto Rico. And, while undeniably touristy, the restaurant is the type of place where everyone’s having a good time. Even though a nearby hotel, the Caribe Hilton, also claims it invented the piña colada, none of the patrons surrounding me seemed to care. Probably because Barrachina’s piña coladas are delicious — and, you know, filled with rum.

Matt Scarano from Orlando, Florida, has never been a piña colada drinker, but made the pilgrimage to Barrachina after hearing recommendations from so many people. He was glad he did. “I’m definitely more of a piña colada fan than I was five minutes ago,” he told me.

Ruben Reyes, a Barrachina bartender from the Dominican Republic, said 95 percent of customers order the signature drink. Many sing the song, too. “In three years, I’ve never heard of anyone who doesn’t like piña coladas,” said Reyes. “They’re refreshing, you can drink them in the morning or the night, for meetings, anywhere.”

To Justin Ries, a Bostonian on vacation with his girlfriend, Nuria Cuadradas Jimenez, piña coladas don’t necessarily scream “meetings,” but they do say “vacation, warm weather, beach, and relaxing.” And that’s the beauty of piña coladas: They instantly transport you somewhere tropical. So, with winter fast approaching, I asked Reyes how I could bring Barrachina’s piña coladas back with me.

Barrachina mixes its base in giant slushy machines, resulting in the smooth, thick, frosty texture it’s famous for. If you don’t have a slushy machine (you pauper!), the next best option is an ice-cream maker. Failing those two, however, you can still make a darn good piña colada in a blender.

That is, if you follow Barrachina’s recipe.

1. Mix four parts pineapple juice with one part Coco Lopez or Goya coconut cream.
2. Blend for 30 to 40 seconds with 3/4-part water, then put the mixture in the freezer, stirring occasionally until it achieves your desired thickness. (If you want to blend it with a scoop of ice instead, then skip the water.)
3. Pour your desired amount of rum — Reyes suggested a shot; I suggest a couple — into the bottom of your glass. To make it authentic, use Ron del Barrilito, Puerto Rico’s oldest and most cherished rum.
4. Pour the slushy mix on top, then decorate with a cocktail-umbrella-stabbed maraschino cherry and pineapple chunk.

A Small Secret for the Best Piña Coladas

Reyes said the third step is their “little secret,” revealing: “If you put the rum first, it’s going to mix really good.” Since the rum is lighter than the slushy, he said, some will rise to the top, mixing perfectly as you drink it.

Who knows if that’s scientifically accurate; all I can say is my piña colada was well-blended and didn’t taste strong at all (and it’s good I limited myself to one).

Jimenez couldn’t taste the rum either, saying: “You can drink it like it’s juice … by the way, are you publishing the recipe?” (Ask, and Kitchn shall provide!) “I gotta say, it’s pretty freaking good,” added Allison Acosta of Westchester, New York, who was celebrating her one-year anniversary with her husband ,Marcos.