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Contents:

• GAY HSAR RTRANT DCH OLD-TIME SPICY GOSSIP FOR MORN SOHO VIBE
• INSI NOBLE ROT SOHO, THE NEW "CTODIAN" OF THE GAY HSAR SE AND S HUNGARIAN HERAGE
• LONDON’S GAY HSAR REOPENS AFTER TWO YEARS UNR A NEW NAME
• NOBLE ROT TO OPEN SOHO – THE OLD GAY HSAR
• NOBLE ROT SOHO NFIRMS SEPTEMBER OPENG DATE FOR RTRANT ON EX-GAY HSAR SE
• GAY HSAR ART: GRAN WHO STCK A POSE FOR A EE LUNCH
• LONDON’S LEGENDARY HUNGARIAN RTRANT ‘GAY HSAR’ REOPENS UNR NEW NAME ‘NOBLE ROT’
• GAY HSAR IS BACK OM THE GENI BEHD NOBLE ROT!

GAY HSAR RTRANT DCH OLD-TIME SPICY GOSSIP FOR MORN SOHO VIBE

Goulash is once aga on the menu, but this time bbg shoulrs wh fe French and English-style okg rather than meat-heavy Hungarian classics – and paired wh some of the world’s ft than two years sce the legendary Gay Hsar London closed s doors, a new rtrant is openg on the se on 18 Septembenr new owners and wh a bold, ntemporary style that is more than jt a nod to s precsor’s illtr s heyday the Hungarian rtrant the centre of Soho was a hotbed of polil plottg, backstabbg, al-makg and gossip, when s fame rted not so much on the qualy of s menu – barely changed years – but on s reputatn as the beatg heart of polil openg 1953, the jewel-loured rooms adorned wh thick draped velvet curtas have played host to generatns of policians, many om the left, cludg Anr Bevan, Michael Foot, Tom Driberg, Ian Mikardo and Barbara Castle.

The shelv which groaned wh polil tom are now lan wh okery books cludg Esffier’s Le Gui Culaire and guis to the world’s ft first-floor dg room is beg renamed The Rowson Sue to honour the role of polil rtoonist Mart Rowson as an enthiastic supporter of the Gay Hsar and an acerbic and irreverent chronicler of the changg face of Soho and polil famo gallery of 60-pl rtoons of the polil ele’s great and not-so-good – officially “on loan” – were hung wall-to-wall the downstairs dg room for many years, but have been languishg storage sce the rtrant’s closure June, who retas pyright, and prev owner Cos Hotels are unrstood to have recently agreed to donate the llectn to the Natnal Portra Gallery as an “absolute gift” new rtrant will stead display two dramatic new “triptych” patgs by Rowson. On one si Gay Hsar stalwarts Labour lear Michael Foot and Barbara Castle are pictured leavg the rtrant, while the morn-day versn chefs cludg Angela Hartt and Nigella Lawson are shown on Greek Street alongsi Amy Wehoe and, bizarrely, journalist Rod Liddle drag.

INSI NOBLE ROT SOHO, THE NEW "CTODIAN" OF THE GAY HSAR SE AND S HUNGARIAN HERAGE

Wrg about the rtrant’s new rnatn a recent issue of Noble Rot magaze, Guardian lumnist Suzanne Moore said: “I hope the sndals and plottg and affairs and appropriate behavur that characterised the old Gay Hsar will ntue.

LONDON’S GAY HSAR REOPENS AFTER TWO YEARS UNR A NEW NAME

Noble Rot Soho is set the former se of the Gay Hsar on Greek St, once notor as the lair of many left-wg policians.

NOBLE ROT TO OPEN SOHO – THE OLD GAY HSAR

It clus subtle referenc to The Gay Hsar’s past and the most life-enhancg roast chicken wh morels and v jne sce to be found this si of France’s Jura. “It don’t feel like prsure, ” adms Dan Keelg, -founr of Noble Rot Bloomsbury, which tomorrow opens s send se  the buildg that hoed the famo – some might say famo – Gay Hsar. The Gay Hsar opened 1953 on Greek Street, the heart of Soho.

But anyone was wele, and the Gay Hsar was supposedly where Tory ‘Wets’ plotted to overthrow Margaret Thatcher the early 1980s.

The Gay Hsar se has been mornised, the ground-floor dg room’s old rpet removed favour of dark floorboards. The legendary Gay Hsar rtrant of SoHo, which featured thentic Hungarian dish, closed 2018, 65 years after s openg.

NOBLE ROT SOHO NFIRMS SEPTEMBER OPENG DATE FOR RTRANT ON EX-GAY HSAR SE

Gay Hsar was opened 1953, wh a dark yet charmg terr, and two private rooms, which were the perfect spots for plottg, and the place quickly beme favoured by the lears of the Labour Party, as well as left-wg journalists and tellectuals.

GAY HSAR ART: GRAN WHO STCK A POSE FOR A EE LUNCH

The rtrant was not named after a gay valry soldier, but after Imre Kálmán’s world-famo operetta, tled The Gay Hsars English (Tatárjárás), which premiered Budapt 1908.

At the time, gay meant happy and cheerful.

Gay Hsar was closed 2018. Noble Rot ss Greek Street, Soho, on the se of the old Gay Hsar, which squatted here om 1953 like a rebe. An attempt to save by a ‘Goulash Collective’ failed, bee the Gay Hsar was a themed rtrant whose theme — a sort of policised London Dungeon — ran out.

LONDON’S LEGENDARY HUNGARIAN RTRANT ‘GAY HSAR’ REOPENS UNR NEW NAME ‘NOBLE ROT’

That is not somethg you uld say about the Gay Hsar, which ed to serve hntg roast duck and fat red chilli what looked like ash trays: nibbl for masochists. The view the picture is north to Soho Square; the Gay Hsar is there still, twklg more merrily than did life. There are even people outsi , clamourg to enter this small Gay Hsar, bee that is the remptive power of art.

Still, ’s one of the most sctive emotns, which is why, when rtratrs Noble Rot took on the former se of The Gay Hsar – found 1953 – on Greek Street Soho, they promised to prerve some of this famo Hungarian rtrant and former polil lunchg hnt’s former glory.

GAY HSAR IS BACK OM THE GENI BEHD NOBLE ROT!

The Gay Hsar, on the other hand, when I last vised 2013, was barbaric on many levels, om the chilled cherry soup that tasted like Nquik mixed wh Lidl Bull’s Blood and the sludgy bean cholent stew served a potato-lattice fortrs to the sticky rpets, dty bookshelv, lamated men, whiff of the yer and the staff who ed to stand the kchen peerg at you through the chef’s pass like the st of Meerkat Manor.

Noble Rot Soho will take over the se vated by the poli’s favoure Hungarian rtrant Gay Hsar, on Greek Street, Sprg 2020. The menu, om chef Pl Weaver wh, as before, The Sportsman’s Stephen Harris, will clu subtle referenc to The Gay Hsar’s glory days. The Gay Hsar, a rtrant created by the late Swiss-Welsh rtratr, Victor Sassie, closed, after 65 years, the summer of 2018.

The we bar and rtrant, beloved by reporters and crics alike, is takg on the se formerly occupied by the legendary poli hangout Gay Hsar. In an announcement sent to prs this morng, -founrs Dan Keelg and Mark Andrew said: “We’re lighted to announce that yterday we signed the papers allowg to bee the new ctodians of the historic Gay Hsar W1, which will re-open as Noble Rot Soho sprg 2020. The menu will aga e om Noble Rot head chef Pl Weaver – who arrived via The Sportsman – and will “clu subtle referenc to The Gay Hsar’s glory days.