Old pal

Old pal

Cocktail
Type	Cocktail
Base spirit	Rye whiskey
Served	Stirred
Standard garnish	Slice orange
Standard drinkware	Cocktail glass
Commonly used ingredients	One part rye whiskey One part dry vermouth One part Campari
Preparation	Fill a cocktail glass with ice cubes. Add all ingredients. Stir then strain into a cocktail glass. Garnish with orange.

The old pal is a cocktail originally made with rye whiskey, French vermouth (dry), and Campari. It is similar to a Negroni, but with rye whiskey instead of gin and dry vermouth instead of sweet.

Harry MacElhone, the proprietor of Harry's New York Bar in Paris, France, is recognized as the first to publish the cocktail's recipe. MacElhone named this cocktail after William "Sparrow" Robinson, a sports editor for The New York Herald in Paris. This three-ingredient cocktail is essentially a drier version of the boulevardier, which was also invented by MacElhone.

It is the emblematic cocktail of the Peponi Hotel in Lamu, Kenya