Gin · Shake · Coupe · 5 min
Bronx
A Perfect Martini with orange juice, usually credited to the Waldorf-Astoria in New York in the early 1900s. It was one of the most ordered drinks of the Prohibition years.
What's in it
- 30ml (1 oz) Gin
- 15ml (½ oz) Sweet vermouth
- 10ml (⅓ oz) Dry vermouth
- 15ml (½ oz) Orange juice
How to make it
- Chill a coupe.
- Shake the gin, sweet vermouth, dry vermouth and orange juice hard with ice.
- Strain into the chilled coupe.
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What cocktail can I make?Where it came from
The Waldorf credit goes to Johnnie Solon, a bartender there from about 1899. He said he made it for a customer who wanted something new, and named it after animals he had seen at the Bronx Zoo. Albert Stevens Crockett repeated the story in his 1934 Old Waldorf-Astoria Bar Book. There are rival claims: a 1901 newspaper named another Waldorf man, J.E. O'Connor, as the inventor, and the Bronx restaurateur Joseph Sormani was later said to have found it in Philadelphia in 1905. By 1934 one drinks book ranked it third among famous cocktails, behind the Martini and the Manhattan.
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