{"podcast":{"title":"The Curious Bartender Podcast","slug":"the-curious-bartender-podcast-7114149","podcast_index_feed_id":7114149,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/fdc0f064/podcast/rss","website_url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jay--tris","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/staging/podcast_uploaded_nologo/42472801/42472801-1773661419670-3a72c2eae9738.jpg","author":"Tristan Stephenson","episode_count":86,"summary":"Long-form conversations with the leading minds in drinks, spanning history, science, culture, and craft, with bestselling author and bartender Tristan Stephenson.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-13T14:20:44.629697+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-curious-bartender-podcast-7114149"},"episode":{"title":"#77 Liam Davy - Director of Bars for 14 Hawksmoor Restaurants: Martinis, US vs UK Drinking, Gen Z, Natural Wine, Mezcal, Pubs","slug":"77-liam-davy-director-of-bars-for-14-hawksmoor-restaurants-martinis-us-vs-uk-drinking-gen-z-natural-wine-mezcal-pubs","published_at":"2026-05-11T06:30:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-curious-bartender-podcast-7114149/77-liam-davy-director-of-bars-for-14-hawksmoor-restaurants-martinis-us-vs-uk-drinking-gen-z-natural-wine-mezcal-pubs","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-curious-bartender-podcast-7114149","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jay--tris/episodes/77-Liam-Davy---Director-of-Bars-for-14-Hawksmoor-Restaurants-Martinis--US-vs-UK-Drinking--Gen-Z--Natural-Wine--Mezcal--Pubs-e3j1bpv","audio_url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/APO1571028641.mp3","summary":"Liam Davy is Director of Bars at Hawksmoor, the British steakhouse group that's grown from a single Spitalfields opening in 2006 to fourteen sites across the UK, Ireland and the US, with Boston due in September. We sat down after a night at Hawksmoor's new St Pancras Martini Bar, which has sold over twenty thousand martinis since November.On the episode we dig into what it's like running a bar programme across cities and countries: what travels, what doesn't, and why a steakhouse group has bet so hard on the martini. We talk about the gin boom and its bust, why the Hawksmoor cocktail list is deliberately unfussy and built around the steakhouse experience, and what genuine training looks like inside a fast-growing group. We also get into his time outside Hawksmoor — running the Bad Sports taco place on Hackney Road and co-creating the War in Terroir Instagram account, the wine influencer parody that started during a stretch of unemployment and ended up shaping how a lot of the trade now talks about natural wine. Along the way we cover the cost of going out, what Gen Z actually want from bars, hospitality in the age of top-50 lists and content creators, the operators he genuinely rates — Dukes, the Connaught, Attaboy, Three Sheets, Bar Snack — the institutions that never miss, the elegant decline of bars that fall off lists, the state of British pubs, the resurgence of mezcal, and of course Shaky Pete's Ginger Brew. 🍷 War on Terroir - https://www.instagram.com/waronterroir/A shout out to our sponsors:🍋‍🟩 Fever-Tree - For the very best mixers that taste pretty damn good even by themselves☕ Algebra Drinks - The world's best coffee liqueur (partly because it's low in sugar - get 15% off at https://www.algebradrinks.com with the code CURIOUS15🌾 Belvedere Vodka - Organic vodk…","meta_description":"Liam Davy is Director of Bars at Hawksmoor, the British steakhouse group that's grown from a single Spitalfields opening in 2006 to fourteen sites across…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":7316,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-curious-bartender-podcast-7114149/episodes/77-liam-davy-director-of-bars-for-14-hawksmoor-restaurants-martinis-us-vs-uk-drinking-gen-z-natural-wine-mezcal-pubs/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-curious-bartender-podcast-7114149/77-liam-davy-director-of-bars-for-14-hawksmoor-restaurants-martinis-us-vs-uk-drinking-gen-z-natural-wine-mezcal-pubs.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}