Hit film The Artist is set in the Prohibition era. If George Valentin (Dujardin) and Peppy Miller (Bejo) fancied legal cocktails, they’d have high tailed it to Cuba where the liquor still flowed and the toast was Mary Pickford. This classic was invented at Havana’s Hotel Nacional for the queen of the silent screen while filming on the island with husband Douglas Fairbanks in the 1920s.
Make it...
Take 35ml white rum, 35ml fresh pineapple juice, 1 tsp each maraschino liqueur and grenadine syrup. Shake with ice. Strain into a martini glass. Cherry garnish.
Drink it… Bar at The Dorchester, W1 www.thedorchester.com ; Ember Lounge, Manchester (guest list : 0161 278 1000); John Street Speakeasy, Glasgow www.speakeasyglasgow.co.uk; Door 34, Bath 01225 444770
