The Disputed Origin of the Beach Chiringuito

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In a chiringuito on the Paseo de la Ribera de Sitges called precisely that way, El Chiringuito, there is an old sign that shows that it has popularized this name throughout Spain (with the meaning of beach kiosk, of course, not with the derogatory one that came later). César González-Ruano discovered it in 1943, when he decided to retire for a few years to this Catalan coastal town. It was «a strange coffee on the same sand, like a glass pavilio…