Queens (cocktail)

The Queens Cocktail is a variant on the Perfect Martini, with the addition of pineapple juice and sometimes lemon juice.[1] Its closest relative is the more popular Bronx, which contains orange juice rather than pineapple.

Queens

Cocktail
Type	Cocktail
Primary alcohol by volume	Gin
Served	Straight up; without ice
Standard drinkware	Cocktail glass
Commonly used ingredients	6 parts Gin 3 parts Sweet Red Vermouth 3 parts Dry Vermouth 4 parts Pineapple juice
Preparation	Shake all ingredients in an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Strain into chilled martini or cocktail glass.

It can be found as early as 1930, in Harry Craddock's Savoy Cocktail Book; Craddock's text, however, lists it as a "Queen's Cocktail."[2]

See also

• List of cocktails
• List of cocktails named after New York City boroughs
• Staten Island Ferry (cocktail)

References

1. Midtown Restaurant Mixes Cocktails for all 5 Boroughs Archived 2014-08-12 at the Wayback Machine
2. Vince Keenan: Cocktail of the Week: The Queens