Around the world in the bartending of the future with Khris’ natural cocktails
A bartender at RAL Cocktail Bar, Khris plays with plants and easily incorporates them into his cocktails, complicit with his childhood memories.
Background: where did your bartending career come from?
The my career began five years ago. A time that may seem short, but marking a path during which I have learned a great deal and that at still has numerous nuances, flavors and techniques yet to be discovered.
Plants and nature: an anecdote in your life/profession.
I spent my childhood in the Philippines and from an early age I saw my grandmother chewing tobacco leaves. It was a gesture that always intrigued me and stuck in my mind, bringing me back to one of the oldest uses of what all in all began as a plant. In all my life, she is the only person I have ever seen do it.
When do you feel “healthy and wild”?
When I travel, because it is by traveling that I have discovered the most incredible flavors and scents .
If I told you “Share your Nature,” what would you tell me?
Sharing your nature means making it your own. When natural and organic enter the everyday you realize how much change is brought about by small daily actions and how crucial it is to carefully choose the products we eat.
Can you tell us your recipe?
I was inspired by the good weather, the sunshine and the enveloping summer air… I thought of creating a refreshing, thirst-quenching cocktail to drink under the umbrella, listening to the sound of the waves.