As served at Hotel Breslin, New York, N.Y., the Famous Breslin Cocktail

• One-third French Vermouth
• One-third Orange Gin
• One-third Dubonnet

(Frappe thoroughly, strain and serve in old fashioned whisky cocktail glass).

from Beverages de Luxe, Edited by Geo. R. Washburn and Stanley Bronner, 1914

Some history on the Hotel Breslin: James H. Breslin commissioned the architects Clinton & Russell to build the Hotel Breslin, a French Renaissance structure that was started in 1903 and completed a year later at a cost of $1 million at 1186 Broadway in New York City.