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The most widely held story is that the Negroni cocktail was invented at Caffe Casoni in Florence, Italy in 1919.

Legend tells that Count Camillo Negroni asked his friend, bartender Forsco Scarselli, to strengthen his favourite cocktail (the Americano) by replacing the soda water with gin. Scarselli added an orange garnish, rather than the lemon you’d usually get with an Americano, and the drink took off.

Before long, everyone was coming into Caffe Casoni for a ‘Negroni’, and the classic cocktail was born.