I don't need an excuse to drink my way through the cocktails at Del Campo: The South American menu by bartender J.P. Caceres is easily one of the best in D.C. at the moment, but on a warm, sunny ...

It even earned a theme song in the '90s: "Fernet con cola," about the bona fide national beverage by Argentine rock band Vilma Palma e Vampiros.

Three-quarters of all the Fernet-Branca consumed globally is drunk in Argentina, where Fernet with Coca-Cola (‘fernet con coca’) is hailed as the national drink. Photograph by Getty Images.