Malecon (cocktail)

The Malecon is a cocktail named after the El Malecón, the winding beachfront avenue atop the seawall in Havana, Cuba.

Lorincz said he was inspired to make the cocktail after a trip to Havana, and that the cocktail represents the feelings the Malecón evoked in him as he walked along its sea wall: simplicity, joy, and life's sweetness balanced by a touch of bitterness.

[5] I have read that the essence of what it means to be Cuban is to accept the inevitabilities of human existence, that we are born and must die, and to make the very best of the life in between and have as good a time as possible.

With this admirable attitude in mind, I wanted to create a drink that could be enjoyed at any time of day or night, and that would be at home in the most elegant London cocktail bar and equally at the Malecón in Havana with music, laughter and tobacco smoke in the air.

[6] El Malecón was Lorincz's entry in the "Bacardi Legacy 2007" rum cocktail contest and was one of the reasons he was chosen in 2010 to head the revitalized American Bar at the Savoy Hotel.