La Mallorquina is a restaurant in

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that specializes in the making of Puerto Rican and

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-particularly

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such as

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and flan. It opened in 1848 and has been run by the Rojos family since 1900 and some historians claim that La Mallorquina is the first eating establishment in Puerto Rico. The restaurant's original owners, Antonio Vidal Llinás and others, came from Palma de Mallorca,

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; that's why they named their restaurant ''La Mallorquina,'' which loosely translated into

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means ''The Woman from Mallorca.'' Puerto Rico's first elected governor,

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, was also one of the famous people to visit the restaurant.San Juan: memoir of a city
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