At which Detroit club was the Last Word cocktail first recorded?

The Last Word cocktail was first recorded at the Detroit Athletic Club.

The drink combines equal parts gin, green Chartreuse, maraschino liqueur and lime juice. It is shaken with ice and strained, producing a pale green cocktail with herbal, cherry-like and tart citrus notes.

The Last Word appeared in Detroit Athletic Club records and menus around the early 1920s. Vaudeville performer Frank Fogarty is often connected with its introduction to the club, although the precise creation story is not completely documented. The cocktail later disappeared from broad popularity before being rediscovered by modern bartenders.

Seattle bartender Murray Stenson helped revive the drink in the early twenty-first century after encountering it in a cocktail book. Its equal-parts formula made it easy to remember, while green Chartreuse supplied a distinctive flavor. The Detroit Athletic Club is the specific historical setting associated with the earliest known record, not the Detroit Yacht Club.