Tijuana Adventure

Club Aloha

$25

Aloha Bar, originally The Aloha Cafe, opened in 1928 and it was the first pre-tiki bar in Tijuana. Because the H is silent in Spanish, many locals called it “aloa.”

The bar was first opened as The Aloha Cafe during Prohibition in 1928 by Fernando ‘Frank’ Blanco Cota. He’d previously lost The Anchor Cafe in a 1927 fire. Both catered to the US Navy crowd. Cota was born in Ensenada, Baja California, but attended school and lived above the border in San Diego. His place was connected with amateur boxing, promoting bouts between Tijuanans and Americans held in the Aloha Cafe Arena.

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