Mixologist spotlight: Jonathan Patiño

Tulum Spirits Collective interviews Jonathan Patiño Ornelas from Uruapan, Michoacán, México the GM of OGs bar/restaurant in Tulum

What’s the story behind your signature cocktail and how does it reflect your personal journey in Tulum?

My style with cocktails go alot to adaptación to environment. but mainly always try to make it as clean as possible, that it can cover at least the 3 main senses, visual,smell and taste.

How has Yucatán’s landscape and culture transformed your approach to mixology?

It makes my job much easier because we have all these fruits, vegetables, flowers, Herb’s and spices that can help develop any kind of drink

Which local ingredient surprised you most when you first discovered its potential in cocktails?

Rambutan and Caimito

Beyond technique, what personal philosophy guides your creation process?

My philosophy is “the most complicated thing is to create a simple thing”

If your relationship with Tulum could be captured in one drink, what would it contain and why?

It would be a bowl of Cacao with Pozol and Mezcal all these simple but tasteful ingredients that define what you can get in any area in Tulum.