Gay Hsar - London, - OpenMenu

Contents:

• THE GAY HSAR
• GAY HSAR RTRANT DCH OLD-TIME SPICY GOSSIP FOR MORN SOHO VIBE
• LONDON’S GAY HSAR REOPENS AFTER TWO YEARS UNR A NEW NAME
• THE LEGENDARY GAY HSAR RTRANT GETS A MAKEOVER
• GAY HSAR
• THE GAY HSAR - LONDON
• LONDON’S LEGENDARY HUNGARIAN RTRANT ‘GAY HSAR’ REOPENS UNR NEW NAME ‘NOBLE ROT’

THE GAY HSAR

:-)UUp4foodLondonDed on 4 May 2018overall5food5service5ambience5Had another lovely meal at the Gay Hsar, great fun - the owner is such a character and all the food and we was lovely. I have been gog to Gay Hsar regularly sce at least the 1980s, possibly longer, I'm too old to remember. :)CSCarlySLondonDed on 9 March 2018overall5food5service5ambience5My parents have been wantg to e to The Gay Hsar sce theyoved to London 6 months ago.

RreluctantreviewerOxfordDed on 24 Febary 2018overall4food4service5ambience3Yet another very enjoyable lunch enunter wh the Gay Hsar.

WwellfordNew York AreavipDed on 17 November 2017overall5food5service5ambience5very welg host wh a menu and food that is well prepared and do not disappotLLucyLondonDed on 10 November 2017overall5food5service5ambience5Super iendly service and fun atmosphere, lovely for a group celebratnKKath61LondonvipDed on 4 November 2017overall5food5service5ambience4Another fab meal at The Gay Hsar.

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

The Gay Hsar is a very iendly, small, warm and welg rtrant the heart of Soho wh fantastic food.

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. 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.

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 GAY HSAR RTRANT GETS A MAKEOVER

:-)UUp4foodLondrComieron en 4 mayo 2018overall5food5service5ambience5Had another lovely meal at the Gay Hsar, great fun - the owner is such a character and all the food and we was lovely. :)CSCarlySComieron en 9 marzo 2018overall5food5service5ambience5My parents have been wantg to e to The Gay Hsar sce theyoved to London 6 months ago. RreluctantreviewerOxfordComieron en 24 febrero 2018overall4food4service5ambience3Yet another very enjoyable lunch enunter wh the Gay Hsar.

WwellfordNueva York/Región los Tr EstadosVIPComieron en 17 noviembre 2017overall5food5service5ambience5very welg host wh a menu and food that is well prepared and do not disappotLLucyLondrComieron en 10 noviembre 2017overall5food5service5ambience5Super iendly service and fun atmosphere, lovely for a group celebratnKKath61LondrVIPComieron en 4 noviembre 2017overall5food5service5ambience4Another fab meal at The Gay Hsar. The rtrant rmatn cludg the Gay Hsar menu ems and pric may have been modified sce the last webse update.

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GAY HSAR

I didn't know what to expect om Gay Hsar when we me, but we arrived to discs our book club book about Hungarian immigrants the UK, so seemed. 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.

THE GAY HSAR - LONDON

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. Featured photo: Gay Hsar Facebook page. A menu om former Sarde chef-owner Alex Jackson pays tribute to Greek Street legend The Gay Hsar, which the Bloomsbury we bar-rtrant has taken over.

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

Alex Jackson, most recently head chef of the also quietly excellent Sarde, off Cy Road, will oversee a menu signed to react the history of former occupier the Gay Hsar through the French untry okg for which he is bt known. Jackson lls the rtrant a proper “old dame of Soho, ” and tends to work a uple of dish om former Gay Hsar men — “ltle flourish” which reprent Hungarian parallels wh the untry okg of France. While he is sangue about the parallels, he is watchful wh his plans for a daily goulash: “The Goulash Appreciatn Society [Gay Hsar regulars better known as The Goulash Collective] actually got touch wh Dan and Mark (Keelg and Andrew, founrs of Noble Rot) when they took over the se and jt said: ‘let’s talk.