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Saturday is National Piña Colada Day, and that got us a bit emotional considering we don’t drink these timeless frozen cocktails as often as we should. But instead of just making a list of the best piña coladas, we wanted to find some great places to enjoy the drink. Truth be told, it’s hard to find a bad piña colada anyway.
So we’re looking for the best places to have a piña colada this Saturday or any other day of the year.
Swizzle
1802 Greenville Avenue (lowest Greenville)
When it comes to local tiki lounges, Suzie Oszusowicz, who wrote a lot of words about drinks in this city, prefers Swizzle on Greenville Avenue. They only opened last year, but the old Polynesian soul of the room feels like it’s been here longer than any of us. Their cocktail The Missionary’s Downfall (with only one spear, so not too strong) is a mixture of white rum from Puerto Rico, lime, fresh pineapple, mint and a little peach brandy. Or try the traditional piña colada as shown above. You will be on island time in no time.
4 Kahunas Tiki Lounge
506 E. Division St., # 160 (Arlington)
Writer E. Mayne has a penchant for this tropical cave in Central Arlington (not far from the new Cane Rosso). Soothing hula music is always playing in this dimly lit tiki lounge with swimming mermaids. Fruity drinks are served in unique tiki cups that are for sale. Fair warning: going outside after an hour or so inside in daylight is a brutal assault on all of your senses. Best to stay until the sun goes down. They don’t serve a pure piña colada, but the malekula has tuaca, coconut, and gold rum with brandy and freshly squeezed juice. Or take the Dole Whip, a pineapple soft ice cream, then add a dash of coconut rum.
Do you see the light blue box? This is the joule pool. You know piña coladas taste better up there.
Lauren Drewes Daniels
Lorenzo Hotel by the pool
1011 S. Akard St., (The Cedars)
The Lorenzo Hotel actually hosts a National Pina Colada Day sip-n-swim party, but if you can’t manage that, you can always buy a day pass for just $ 30. Your outdoor bar behind its huge Einstein mural is sure to provide you with a piña colada. Then you can trot down Botham Jean Boulevard to check out local art and great food.
Pool at The Joule
1530 Main Str. (City center)
Similar to the Lorenzo, you can get a pass to the Joule Hotel’s pool for $ 50 and float on the sky-high edge of the glass pool. Their coconut margaritas are drinkable all day. Capture the scene from a bird’s eye view of downtown.
The lazy river in Gaylord Texas
1501 Gaylord Trail, grapevine
Sure, it’ll cost you a few hundred dollars, but … imagine the sun has been running across the sky all day, exhausting the young children, and the traffic in the lazy river getting thinner. Then your therapist, who happens to be the waiter by the pool, will bring you a slushie piña colada made especially for you. After plopping gracefully into your tube, grab your drink (which you put down before stepping into the tube) and just float. Maybe Will Smith’s “Summertime” is running over his head. And for a hot minute everything fits together.
houses of Parliament
2418 Allen St. (Uptown)
Parliament is a supplier of nifty craft cocktails made by a mad scientist. A piña colada isn’t technically on the menu, but they’re sure to conjure one up. We’d love to call them to verify, but they ripped the phone out of the wall years ago after it rang too much; They say they have never been happier. It’s THAT kind of piña colada.
Beto and Son
3011 Gulden Lane (Trinity Groves)
Our food writer Kristina Rowe suggests Beto and Sons. Known for their liquid nitrogen cocktails, they have a smoky, bubbly piña colada. It consists of dark Cruzan rum, Soley coconut milk liqueur, pineapple juice, cream and encapsulated fruit pearls. Is your patio always bouncy and a fun place to hang out?
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Lauren Drewes Daniels is the Dallas Observer’s Food Editor. She started writing about local restaurants, chefs, beer and Kouign-Amanns in 2011. She drove through two filthy devils and is sure that both were some kind of cosmic force.
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