Welcome to the famous and acclaimed restaurant and bar "Los 3 Cuernos" also know as "The 3 Horns" located in the Old San Juan City. Los 3 Cuernos is known as the birthplace and the house where the original flavored "Chichaitos" where born.
• OUR HISTORY:
Originally, Los Tres Cuernos was not conceived as a bar. It was actually a local arts & crafts gallery promoting island crafts operated by my
parents Nikaulys Soto and José Félix Cruz back in 1994. Starting out in La Co**ha Hotel for four years, they moved up on Ashford Avenue where they stayed operating with great success for 5 years, but destiny kept pushing us further and we ended up in Old San Juan on San Francisco St., practically the entrance to the old town. The local economy and the state side recession reduced sales considerably. I had graduated high school and was a music major in a local college. At the end of 2009, I proposed to my folks a simple idea. I asked them to sub-rent me the first room of the locale so I could set up a small bar to attract local college students and tourists to patronize the store. I had a friend of mine help with the setup of the bar section of the business and we dubbed it "Los Tres Cuernos" which translates to "The Three Horns". At a very young age being introduced to the world of Puertorican folk art and crafts by my parents, I've always liked the horned paper mache or coconut husk devil masks, which we call "vejigantes", masks that we use during our carnival in Ponce and Loiza Aldea's Feast of St. James the Apostle. So I figured why not name the gallery/bar "Los Tres Cuernos" (The Three Horns) in reference to our traditional masks. Seeing as we were situated in the island's busiest tourist town, I wanted to make the visitors feel as "local" as possible aside from all the fine dining spots in the old city. Homemade creole food at affordable prices including beers and some drinks as well. All this just so tourists would take a gander at the gallery and one thing would promote the other. To top it all off, our house specialty would be the "chichaíto". For the benefit of those who don't know what a "chichaíto" is, simply translated it means a "quickie" if you will. This is one of the most typical drinks that you will find in P.R. It consists of a mixture of local rum and anisette, usually served in a shot glass at room temperature. Funny how life is, you start out with something in your mind and it can go awry in an instant. Tourists were coming into the store but so were the locals. They were surprised to see a place in Old San Juan that had such good prices and "chichaíto" in the old town to top it off. After a few months, one day a traveling couple asked us for a piña colada and my mother quickly told her "we don't have piña colada but we have a "chichacolada". I looked at her and thought to myself “what is this woman offering these people?”. So the couple looked at each other and said “why not?”. Within minutes, my mother went to the kitchen and came back with a cup full of a frozen mango chichacolada. The couple loved it, and, in general, we weren't in high demand for frozen drinks, but it did spark my mother's brain into adding fruit flavors into the "chichaíto" shots. Being a smoothie and fresh fruit fanatic, my mother started making different fruit concoctions, all using fresh fruits. From there on we were a big hit with the new "chichaíto" concept. The drink has had such an impact that other pubs try to imitate us and even rum companies have exploited our concept to promote their own products. After all, everyone was talking and checking out "Los Tres Cuernos" and we’ve gained an island wide reputation with our "chichaítos". Come and enjoy our friendly ambience and have a "chichaíto" for a change.
