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.
Contents:
- GAY HSAR RTRANT DCH OLD-TIME SPICY GOSSIP FOR MORN SOHO VIBE
- 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’
- GAY HSAR ART: GRAN WHO STCK A POSE FOR A EE LUNCH
- LAST ORRS AT THE GAY HSAR – THE LEFT’S HOTBED OF PLOTS, GOSSIP AND GOULASH
- THE LEGENDARY GAY HSAR RTRANT GETS A MAKEOVER
- NOBLE ROT SOHO NFIRMS SEPTEMBER OPENG DATE FOR RTRANT ON EX-GAY HSAR SE
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.
LONDON’S GAY HSAR REOPENS AFTER TWO YEARS UNR A NEW NAME
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. The legendary Gay Hsar rtrant of SoHo, which featured thentic Hungarian dish, closed 2018, 65 years after s openg.
LONDON’S LEGENDARY HUNGARIAN RTRANT ‘GAY HSAR’ REOPENS UNR NEW NAME ‘NOBLE ROT’
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.
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.
LAST ORRS AT THE GAY HSAR – THE LEFT’S HOTBED OF PLOTS, GOSSIP AND GOULASH
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.
THE LEGENDARY GAY HSAR RTRANT GETS A MAKEOVER
Featured photo: Gay Hsar Facebook page. 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.
NOBLE ROT SOHO NFIRMS SEPTEMBER OPENG DATE FOR RTRANT ON EX-GAY HSAR SE
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. “The Gay Hsar drawgs follow the tradn of satiril riture portras of polics and social life tablished by artists such as Jam Gillray, who has over 800 works the llectn, ” he said.