The bartender · The founder · The accidental idea
MEET
J.
Five-plus years behind the bar. One random charity event. A business idea I couldn’t leave alone.
Before House Pour
I’ve spent more than five years in cocktail service—everything from the kind of neighborhood dive where you learn to move fast to polished, high-end service.
I got my start at Barnato, surrounded by people who knew the craft and were generous enough to teach me: how to build a drink, how to pour it right, and how to make the person across the bar feel taken care of.
That range shaped the way I work now. The service is warm, capable, and personal. It can feel elevated without ever feeling stiff—because a great bar should fit the room, not take it over.
The accidental market research
“Wait—is this your business?”
House Pour started on a random day bartending a charity event for my day-job boss. A guest asked if the bar service was my business. It wasn’t—but the hustler in me immediately thought: it could be.
That one question became accidental market research. I saw a need for something simpler than a giant mobile-bar production: polished service, a straightforward booking fee, a thoughtful shopping list, and a bartender who knows how to read the room. So I built it.
The bigger picture
Built under JSV Studios
More than a bar.
Part of the funnel.
I recently stepped away from restaurant service to build JSV Studios—a creative world for people who were always a little too much for the corporate box, and who want to turn what they know into something that makes money online.
House Pour is both its own hospitality business and a real-life extension of that vision: create opportunity from what you already know, get yourself into rooms full of interesting people, and build the next thing from there.
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