Sebastian Tollius, beverage director at NYC’s Eleven Madison Park and the recently opened Clemente Bar, grew up around the hospitality industry. But being at the helm of one of the most acclaimed bar programs in the country wasn’t initially the dream. “My father was the director of operations for a hotel group, and we moved around Latin America when I was young,” he says. “And then I went to college for hospitality marketing in Switzerland.” Overseas, he moonlighted as a bartender...
