[2] In the 1934 movie "The Thin Man", the lead actor (William Powell) compared the methods for shaking the Manhattan, the Bronx and the Martini.

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.

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.

[4]According to Albert Stevens Crockett, historian of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, the inventor of the Bronx cocktail was Johnnie Solan (or Solon).

[5][6] Solon, a pre-Prohibition bartender at the Manhattan hotel, was "popular as one of the best mixers behind its bar counter for most of the latter's history.

"[7] This is Crockett's account of Solon's own story of the Creation of the Bronx:[7] We had a cocktail in those days called the Duplex, which had a pretty fair demand.

One day, I was making one for a customer when in came Traverson, head waiter of the Empire Room—the main dining room in the original Waldorf.

I didn't taste it myself, but I poured it into a cocktail glass and handed it to Traverson and said: 'You are a pretty good judge.'

)[8] However, a prior reference to a "Bronx Cocktail" on a New York hotel menu[9] indicates that either the name was already in use or Solon was not the original inventor.

Harry Craddock in The Savoy cocktail book mentions three recipes from the Bronx.

[12] The Bronx Cocktail is mentioned in the 1934 film "The Thin Man" by Nick Charles (played by William Powell).

The Bronx is flavorful and mildly sweet "fruity" drink, without being uninteresting or sticky.