Gay Hsar art: gran who stck a pose for a ee lunch | Art and sign | The Guardian

Contents:

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

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

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 w.More 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 past.In 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 gossip.Sce 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 w.The 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 scen.His 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 2018.Rowson, 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”.The 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.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.

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

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. 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.

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

Noble Rot Soho will take over the se vated by the poli’s favoure Hungarian rtrant Gay Hsar, on Greek Street, Sprg 2020.

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

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 Noble Rot team has nfirmed that s highly anticipated send rtrant Soho will open this new rtrant will open on September 18, si the former home of the Gay Hsar on Greek Street.

Prr to s 2018 closure, Hungarian rtrant the Gay Hsar was well known as a meetg place for mid-century left-wg policians.

Back bs: The terr of the new rtrant, si the former home of the Gay HsarThe first floor of Noble Rot Soho is set to be rated wh a mural by polil rtoonist Mart Rowson, while the food offerg will clu tribut to the Gay Hsar’s Hungarian-spired spreads. The legendary Gay Hsar rtrant of SoHo, which featured thentic Hungarian dish, closed 2018, 65 years after s openg. 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.

NOBLE ROT TO OPEN SOHO – THE OLD GAY HSAR

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.

The legendary Hungarian rtrant London, Gay Hsar, named after Imre Kálmán’s world-famo operetta, The Gay Hsars (Tatárjárás), closed 2018.

’ Later, he opened Gay Hsar 1953. We’re lighted to announce that we have signed the papers allowg to bee the new ctodians of the historic Gay…. Gay Hsar was eventually acquired not by the Goulash Cooperative of regulars, but by two young London rtratrs, Dan Keelg and Mark Andrew, and reopened this tumn wh a new name, Noble Rot.

GAY HSAR IS BACK OM THE GENI BEHD NOBLE ROT!

Featured photo: Gay Hsar Facebook page. 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. 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. 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 SE THE NOBLE ROT TEAM TAKE OVER THE GAY HSAR FOR THEIR SEND RTRANT

Noble Rot is one of London’s absolute gems and if Dan Keelg and Mark Andrew n sprkle their magic on the new Gay Hsar we are for a treat. Gay Hsar is returng to s Hungarian roots wh nods to fe French and English food paired wh a sublime we llectn that Noble Rot is famo for. Updated 11/9/20 wh openg date and chef What: Noble Rot SohoIn a nutshell: Noble Rot tak over the Gay HsarSummg all up: A tly inic Soho rtrant is revived by the team behd Noble Rot who are promisg to be ctodians of s history but brg the menu fully to the 21st low-downIt was the end of last year when we first heard that Noble Rot's -founrs Dan Keelg & Mark Andrew were takg over the inic rtrant se of Soho's The Gay Hsar for their send rtrant openg.

Personally, for at Hot Dners the food was never the draw at Gay Hsar - sometim rtrants jt reach the end of their natural said, sounds as though the rtrant's new owners are mdful of s posn London rtrant history. So when one goulash-staed story ends, this se that of the Gay Hsar—the legendary left-wg hangout where Hungarian food was served whout gto, and polics was discsed wh plenty of plonk on the si—’s only natural that another big name should take s place.

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

But wh the help of Alex Jackson, prevly of Sarde, there’s also some honourg of the Gay Hsar’s Hungarian herage gog on. Those who were worried about ers g the Gay Hsar, the inic Greek Street rtrant whose se the new Noble Rot Soho now occupi, needn’t et.

For nearly two s a seri of irreverent polil rtoons graced an entire wall of the celebrated Gay Hsar rtrant London’s Soho – a snapshot of Wtmster life that lighted tourists and regulars Michael Foot’s distctive whe trs to a glowerg Alastair Campbell, the 63 ritur of leadg polil figur drawn over lunch are now to be shared wh a wir dience, thanks to a jot gift to the Natnal Portra Gallery by their creator Mart Rowson and Cos Hotels, which ran the Soho tablishment until s closure June 2018. A new rtrant opened on the se September at the Gay Hsar 2007. ”For 65 years - sce openg 1953 until s closure 2018 – the Gay Hsar played host to generatns of policians, wrers and artists wh a Hungarian-style meaty menu that barely Gay Hsar Soho, London.