El Coctel

“I helped to open a Spanish cocktail bar in 2008 with chef Willy Trullas Moreno, and it still gets attention today. The bar program was modeled after Japanese-style cocktail bars that have that fanatical obsession with crafting the perfect drink.” —Bartender Tree Mao on the French Concession. Read more about his local's take on Shanghai here.

This appeared in the January/February 2015 issue.