Old Compton Street

So, you know, at that point, I went knocking back on my dad's door and went, Dad, I've got to stop throwing parties and partying.

What do I do? So for the second time, my dad gave me a little kick up and introduced me to a guy called Douglas Ankra, who owns Lab Bar on Compton Street.

And

Doug was the creator of the Pornstar Martini and godfather of one-step bartending and took me on as a barback and that's where I trained to be a bartender in lab.

That's a Rachel, that's nothing.

You want to take a Saturday night down at Old Compton Street.

The weird, the wonderful, the colourful.

Yeah.

Hello, this is Mike Mundy in Soho.

We're on now the corner of Old Compton Street and I'd like to take you into Lord Kitchener's Valet, which is one of the most in and one of the new move shops in London.

This is the really new fashion.

Lord Kitchener's valet.

Great fun.

We found like a little kind of Airbnb type thing but on Old Compton Street so in the heart of Soho.

Right in the heart of West End.

Oh yeah and quite a few thoughts on it really mate like firstly the smell of course because they were doing road works in the middle of Old Compton Street which is a narrow road anyway if anyone knows it.

So literally, the middle of the road was out of band.

So literally, the sidewalk.

Dean Street is a street in Soho's central London, running from Oxford Street south to Shaftesbury Avenue.

It crosses Old Compton Street and is linked to Frith Street by Bateman Street.

Dean Street was built in 1681 in what was then open countryside.

The designation Soho has been attributed to Soho, a hare-hunting cry mentioned in Shakespeare.

And like, uh, and Lab was owned by Douglas Hankrews, like a, the godfather of one-step bartending, came out the Dick Bradsell School of Bartending, and like, um, created the Porn Star Martini.

And I walked in Lab for the first time in Old Compton Street in SoHo, and the ol- the whole place just stunk of, like lime and mint, and like there's house music going.

There's this cool looking motherfucker behind the bar covered in tattoos called Tolga from South Africa, flaring, and three pretty girls sat in front of the bar.

And I'm like, "I can do this."