There is no clarity on what the exact origin of the classic cocktail Margarita is, but many of the different theories make for interesting anecdotes. One of them goes that in 1936, a bartender in Mexico created the cocktail — made of tequila, triple sec orange liqueur and lime juice — as a wedding gift for his sister-in-law, whose name was Margarita. Another theory says that a different bartender in Mexico made the drink for a showgirl who was allergic to all other liquor apart from tequila. He named it Margarita because her name was Marjorie, and that’s the closest Spanish alternative. But the most plausible one is that the cocktail was an offshoot of The Daisy, a drink that was popular in the US in the 1930s and ’40s, with the variation being called Margarita since that’s the Spanish word for ‘daisy’.

There are many other possible origin stories, but one thing’s a fact — it is one of the world’s most popular cocktails. And although the traditional recipe is as simple as counting “one, two, three”, there are some city restaurants that make hatke versions of the drink. On National Margarita Day that’s celebrated in the US today, we present five of these.