El Floridita Bar
Historic cocktail bar credited with inventing the frozen daiquiri, its red-coated bartenders still pouring the original recipe.
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This guide to El Floridita Bar in Havana centers on Constantino Ribalaigua, the Catalan bartender everyone called Constante, who tended this counter from 1914 and began experimenting with crushed ice, rum and citrus around 1931 to perfect the frozen daiquiri. You'll hear how Ernest Hemingway walked in the following year, kept coming back for two decades, and got a stronger, drier version of the drink named the Papa Doble after him. The guide also introduces the bronze statue of Hemingway that now leans at the end of the bar, cast decades after his last visit. Order a daiquiri at the same counter where Constante once stood.
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