Anyone for a tobacco flavoured cocktail?

(Periscope Post) I went to Barts last night to sample their new tobacco-flavoured range of cocktails. Barts is a cool, speakeasy-style bar in Sloane Avenue that is hard to find but wonderful once you’re there, with cartoons and old clocks on the walls and fishing buckets hanging from the bar and lovely wooden tables and comfortable, squashy chairs. They are known for having some of the most delicious (and brilliantly named) cocktails in London – including a wonderful rhubarb one called The Charleston Crumble – which you can get served in sharing portions in teapots or tophats. All in all, retro heaven.
I must admit, I was somewhat apprehensive about tobacco-flavoured drinks. I mean, there are few smells more delicious than a packet of fresh rolling tobacco – but few more revolting than an old ashtray. Where on the scale would these fall? Continued

Photo: Rep. T.S. McMillan of Charleston, S.C. with flappers, Miss Ruth Bennett and Miss Sylvia Clavins, who are doing the Charleston on railing, with U.S. Capitol in background. (Library of Congress).