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Jonathan Downey - Match Bar, Milk & Honey London, Sasha Petraske, Dale DeGroff, Fire, Dinerama, Town

Jonathan, Downey is a bar and restaurant operator of nearly 30 years who has been responsible for some of the best loved and most influential cocktail bars of the early 21st century. In 1997 he founded the Match Bar group which through JD’s uncompromising vision and an illustrious cast of future superstar bartenders, made for groundbreaking venues as Match Bar, The Player, Milk & Honey London, Sosho and more. These bars along with the likes of LAB, Lonsdale and others set the standard for cocktail excellence in London through the first decade of the century, defining a generation of drinking in the capital and inspiring all that came after globally. Milk & Honey in particularly is in my mind one of the all time great cocktail bars in history - a fact that was reflected in it topping the worlds fifty best bars in the first two years of the list. JD then went on to found Street Feast which brought together small food and drink vendors in disused or otherwise useless spaces (like old car parks or former markets) with music and entertainment. Street feast was a casualty of covid however, but JD is now back and involved with a couple of new restaurant projects which we touch on briefly at the end of the conversation. Expect to learn how JD met Dick Bradsell by pure chance and convinced him to help open the first Match Bar. How Dale DeGrodd became the director of cocktails for Match Bars and introduced Jonathan to a certain Sasha Petraske and a new and title known bar in New York called Milk & Honey. How Sosho and the East Rooms burned to the ground in 2010 jeopardising the whole business, what in JD’s eyes makes a great bar, what he thinks of the current state of cocktail bars in London, and much more. 00:00 The London Cocktail Revival of 1997 - (Alphabet, Met Bar), Manchester, Corporate Law to Bar Owner 08:10 A Gin & Tonic in Hong Kong to a bar in Clerkenwell, Dave Steward 15:18 Dick Bradsell, Match Bar, Mojitos, Vodka Espresso 20:45 The Player and Growing Match Bar Group 24:55 Milk & Honey, Dale DeGroff, Sasha Petraske, Finding Talent 35:43 The Match Bar Training Program 39:10 The Importance of Music in Bars, Lighting & Objectivity vs Subjectivity 44:50 Disasters - The East Rooms Fire of 2010, Fighting Insurance Companies 52:10 Match Bar & Grill Melbourne, Bad Business Partners 55:20 Match Ibiza 59:32 The Changing Attitude of Bartenders in the 2010’s 1:01:30 Street Feast - A Weekly Festival in London, 150 Bars, Championing Street Food Vendors 1:06:20 Town - New Restaurant on Drury Lane 1:08:35 The Current State of Cocktail Culture in London - Satan’s Whiskers, Connaught, Below Stone Nest 1:13:30 Reflecting on Legacy - Dinerama, Milk & Honey 1:15:42 Next Steps This episode is sponsored by Fever Tree