Tract · Cocktails

Spirit-forward · Shaken · Historical · complexity 2/5

Plaza Cocktail

Harry of Ciro's Plaza Cocktail mixes gin, both vermouths, and fresh pineapple.

sweet · herbal · tropical · aperitif · formal

Served in Cocktail glass.

Variants (2)

Harry of Ciro's ABC of Mixing Cocktails by Harry of Ciro's (1923, p.67) — Harry of Ciro's 1923

0.5 glassgin base
1 chunkpineapple — Fresh Pineapplegarnish
0.5 glassFrench vermouth — French Vermouthmodifier
0.5 glassItalian vermouth — Italian Vermouthmodifier
  1. Shake well and strain into cocktail glass with a small chunk pineapple.

Garnish: Small chunk pineapple

This matters because it preserves another fruit-bearing dual-vermouth gin branch in the London 1923 field.

The fresh pineapple is integrated into the drink rather than used as a mere side garnish.

Barflies and Cocktails by Harry McElhone and Wynn (1927, p.65) — Barflies 1927

0.33 partgin base
0.33 partFrench vermouth — French Vermouthmodifier
0.33 partItalian vermouth — Italian Vermouthmodifier
1 chunkFresh pineapple — Fresh Pineappleother
  1. Shake well and strain into a cocktail glass with a small chunk of pineapple.

Garnish: Small pineapple chunk

This matters because it preserves a fresh-pineapple Martini-field offshoot in the interwar hotel-bar layer.

See also: Queen's Cocktail, Perfect Cocktail