Buena Vista Cafe
The Buena Vista is a café in San Francisco, California, credited with introducing Irish coffee to the United States in 1952.[3] Stanton Delaplane who was a travel writer for the San Francisco Chronicle drank an Irish coffee at the Shannon Airport while on a trip to Ireland.Some time later, Stanton Delaplane along with owner Jack Koeppler of the Buena Vista Café in San Francisco, California, tried to recreate this drink.Delaplane and Koeppler worked for hours mixing and sampling different versions of the drink until they achieved the results that they were looking for and almost passed out in the process.The Buena Vista Café has served, by its count, more than 30 million drinks of their signature Irish Coffee.
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