Now Drinking | The Grilled Cheese and Tomato Soup Martini

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Ingredients for the Cold Night In cocktail include Mt. Gay rum and a grilled cheese sandwich.
At Clive’s, a popular craft cocktails joint in Victoria, British Columbia, the scene is pure hotel lounge kitsch: swirling dark carpets, white leather panels on the walls, fantasia lamps, high-backed banquettes and an unavoidable marble bar. The décor may be stuck in the 1970s, but Shawn Soole, a crack bartender from Brisbane, Australia, transcends these trappings with a dedication to innovation and craft, most notably with his Cold Night In, an original creation that fuses childhood comfort food and molecular mixology. The result is what he calls a grown-up cocktail equivalent of a “toastie” (an Australianism for a grilled sandwich) and tomato soup. More