“We fell into each other,” Celia Schoonraad says with a laugh, describing her love affair with bartending. ‘Life is a series of never-ending rabbit holes’ is what I wished she had said instead – such was her life’s journey, leading to her present mantle as proprietor and creative director of Barbary Coast, which she co-founded with Michael Callahan of 28 HongKong Street fame. And that’s not counting her role as creative director for The Compound Collective, a beverage experience consulting firm.
