Modern Bronx

Name: Modern Bronx Cocktail
Cook time: 5 minutes
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)

By Frank Caiafa

May 18, 2016

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.

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