London’s best new escapist night out? Take a trip back to 1950s Cuba

There are iconic nightclubs – The Cotton Club, Studio 54, and of course Spiders in Hull – and then there is the Tropicana in Havana. This legendary club was the pinnacle of the Golden Era in the 1950s, the happening joint in post-war, pre-missile crisis Cuba where the likes of Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole, Duke Ellington and Celia Cruz would drink, dance and dazzle.