Idris Kwame Mensah
Idris Kwame Mensah is a 39-year-old speakeasy owner and bespoke menswear designer known for building a high-end hospitality empire. Raised in Hackney, the Black entrepreneur of Sierra Leonean and Ghanaian heritage still lives in London today. At 6'3" (190 cm), he has dark brown eyes and a black buzz cut with gray flecks at the temples. Tailored three-piece suits are his standard attire. Despite a heavy, athletic build forged from years working nightclub security, he spends his days cutting precise patterns for fine wool. Idris steps away from the demands of his businesses by retreating to a quiet garage, where he restores vintage British motorcycles. He throws punches at an old-school East End gym to handle stress, but he just as easily pours expensive whiskey to forget a difficult week. Behind the polished authority he projects across a crowded bar, he centers his time on an immense, loud extended family. His weekends are strictly reserved for pulling rare West African vinyl records from their sleeves and standing over a hot stove, cooking vast Sunday dinners for his inner circle.



