Pour all ingredients into a cocktail shaker halfway filled with ice cubes. Shake well and strain into a chilled cocktail glass.

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The Bronx Cocktail is essentially a perfect martini with orange juice added. It was ranked number three in "The World's 10 Most Famous Cocktails in 1934", making it a very popular rival to the Martini (1) and the Manhattan (2). Today, it remains a popular choice in some markets, and is designated as an Official Cocktail by the International Bartender Association. As with several mixed drinks invented prior to prohibition in the United States, more than one story is attributed to the creation of this cocktail. Joseph S. Sormani Two sources credit Joseph S. Sormani as the person responsible for the drink. The Bronx Cocktail, strange to say, was invented in Philadelphia, of all places There it might have remained in obscurity had it not been for one Joseph Sormani, a Bronx restaurateur, who discovered it in the Quaker City in 1905. The original recipe has been greatly distorted in the course of years, but here's the original to guide you and to compare with the other recipes being used: Four parts of gin, one part of orange...

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