Victor Sassie - Gay Hsar

Contents:

• GAY HSAR RTRANT DCH OLD-TIME SPICY GOSSIP FOR MORN SOHO VIBE
• THE LEGENDARY GAY HSAR RTRANT GETS A MAKEOVER
• GAY HSAR REGULARS SEEK TALKS WH OWNER OVER SOHO RTRANT'S FUTURE
• THE GAY HSAR
• GAY HSAR
• VICTOR SASSIE - GAY HSAR

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. 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 Gay Hsars is an operetta three acts by Emmerich Kálmán.

THE LEGENDARY GAY HSAR RTRANT GETS A MAKEOVER

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GAY HSAR REGULARS SEEK TALKS WH OWNER OVER SOHO RTRANT'S FUTURE

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A -operative om the worlds of polics, the media and the arts that formed to save the Gay Hsar rtrant London's Soho district is seekg urgent talks wh the current owner after submtg a losg bid to buy Hungarian rtrant, a hnt of journalists, policians and other celebri for s, is now faced wh the possibily of closure after beg put up for Goulash Co-operative Ltd, prisg more than 150 vtors cludg many of the most regular and loyal ctomers of the rtrant, was formed to try to buy .

THE GAY HSAR

"The Labour MP Tom Watson, honorary print of the -operative, said: "We are seekg urgent talks wh the owners of the rtrant, based Malaysia, who may well be unaware of the huge natnal and ternatnal tert there has been the sale of the Gay Hsar and the sire to see the rtrant ntue. ImagCreativeVioCreativeEdorialVictor Sassie and two waers outsi his rtrant, The Gay Hsar, Soho, London, UK, 18th May 1970. (Photo by Eveng Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Imag)Victor Sassie and two waers outsi his rtrant, The Gay Hsar, Soho, London, UK, 18th May 1970.

VICTOR SASSIE, Rtratr 1915-1999 <strong>Victor</strong> <strong>Sassie</strong> was the proprietor of the <strong>Gay</strong> <strong>Hsar</strong> rtrant for 34 years; He is a one-off character and not surprisgly nsirg his origs. <strong>Victor</strong> managed to open a send Budapt Frh Street, Soho and then 1953, the <strong>Gay</strong> <strong>Hsar</strong>. The rtrant was named (at a time when the word ”gay” had no sexual nnotatns) honour of the ele of the Hungarian army.

GAY HSAR

After his army service, he started up his own tablishment, namg the <strong>Gay</strong> <strong>Hsar</strong> acknowledgement of his old amy. <strong>Victor</strong> was known to talk about everythg, particularly the cle of the Labour party 1980’s, which he attributed to the extremism and the emergence of policians who did not eat The <strong>Gay</strong> <strong>Hsar</strong>.

VICTOR SASSIE - GAY HSAR