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Modern Bronx

Of all the cocktails associated with or attributed to the Hotel, not one—not even the venerable Rob Roy—was as popular as the Bronx. Sometimes referred to as the Cosmopolitan of its day, it was one of the most requested cocktails prior to Prohibition.

Recipe information

  • Total Time

    5 minutes

  • Yield

    Makes 1 cocktail

Ingredients

1 1/2 ounces Beefeater London Dry Gin
1/2 ounce Cinzano Rosso sweet vermouth
1/2 ounce Noilly Prat extra dry vermouth
1 ounce fresh orange juice
Regans’ Orange Bitters No. 6 (optional)

Preparation

  1. Add all ingredients to mixing glass. Add ice and shake well. Strain into chilled cocktail glass.

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Text excerpted from THE WALDORF ASTORIA BAR BOOK © 2016 by Frank Caifa. Reproduced by permission of Penguin Books. All rights reserved.
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