Electric on the South Mall, an art deco building, built in the 1930s by the O’Shea brothers who came back from Chicago after the 1929 crash. I bought it in 2009, and O’Shea Brothers renovated it for me. It had a lot of history – for me, an emotive place.
I opened it as a bar and restaurant in 2010, I was 27, my biggest undertaking before or since. Quite quickly, it became a big business. We were open all hours – at its busiest, we had 60 employees.
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