Soggy Dollar Bar, Jost Van Dyke Island, British Virgin Islands

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Some cocktail historians claim Scarselli was working at the Hotel Baglioni at the time, but most say it was Caffè Casoni, now the Cavalli Caffè. He simply asked his favorite bartender, Fosco Scarselli, to add gin to the Campari and sweet vermouth in his Americano. While the origins of this cocktail, like many, are subject to heated debate, the Negroni is most commonly attributed to a rich Florentine (and apparently one-time rodeo cowboy), Count Camillo Negroni. Interestingly, Donn Beach (see above) also lays claim to creating the Mai Tai.

Victor Bergeron, who founded the original Trader Vic’s, created the cocktail in 1944 for friends visiting from Tahiti, who allegedly exclaimed 'Maita'i roa ae!' - meaning “very good!” - upon their first sip. For a brief time, a version of the cocktail made at the Ritz using a very rare 1865 Ritz Reserve cognac held the Guinness title for most expensive drink.ĭespite being linked to Hawaii and the South Pacific, this drink was invented far from it - in Emeryville, CA, to be exact. Though it appears in literature as early as 1907, the first official recipe wasn't published until 1922, in Harry MacElhone's Harry's ABC of Mixing Cocktails. This cocktail was allegedly created to cool down a Ritz regular who always arrived on a motorcycle with a sidecar. Regardless, the island country celebrates National Piña Colada Day on July 10th. While three Puerto Rican bartenders - two of whom worked at the Caribe Hilton Hotel's Beachcomber Bar in San Juan - claim the Piña Colada as their own, the Barrachina Restaurant has gone so far as to engrave a marble plaque crediting Ramón Portas Mingot with creating it in 1963 it also bills itself as the “Birthplace of the Original Piña Colada”.

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