Monocle’s Fernando Augusto Pacheco speaks with head bartenders and mixologists Bastien Rémillieux and Julien Lecharpentier from The Maybourne Riviera Hotel’s prestigious Ceto Bar and Le 300. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Hello and welcome to the Monaco Weekly.
For today's show I speak with the head bartenders and mixologists Bastien Remillier and Julien Le Charpentier from the prestigious the Maybourne Riviera hotels, Setobar and Le300.
They tell me about the cocktails you must enjoy this summer.
Let's have a listen.
Bastian and Julien from the Maybourne Riviera Hotel, you're both bartenders and mixologists and responsible for the amazing bars at the hotel.
My first question to you is very simple.
I want to know a little bit more about you before you started at the hotel.
So maybe Bastiane, if I may start with you, where are you from where you started your career as a mixologist?
So like a lot of people, I started without actually wanting to do bartending.
I ended up studying in another career path in marketing and always did that on the sideline from a French father.
I am from Quebec, spent most of my life in Montreal and this is where I actually got the passion for bartending and really pushed forward for that career path.
I was there for a bit over 12 years working in bars and the last places I worked were the Cold Room cocktail bar and the El Pecano Cuban inspired cocktail bar in Montreal Old Port.
And I arrived here in 2022 and I've been here for almost three years now.
Amazing.
Well, is that when the hotel was kind of launched to the public, right?
That is correct.
What about you, Julia?
Tell me more about you.
It's a little bit different way for me.
So I'm originally from south of France in mountain, the little city next to Italy.