Boulevardier
Origin
Harry MacElhone · Harry's New York Bar, Paris · 1927
First published in MacElhone's Barflies and Cocktails (1927) and credited to expatriate American writer Erskine Gwynne, founder of the Paris magazine Boulevardier — the drink is essentially Gwynne's signature, served at Harry's.
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