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The Left’s Cafeteria

By: Mark Seddon

For decades, The Gay Hussar was the Labour Left’s integral Soho spot for organising, gossip, and goulash, remembers Mark Seddon.

Victor Sassie and two waiters outside his restaurant, The Gay Hussar, in Soho, London, UK, 18th May 1970. (Photo by Evening Standard / Hulton Archive / Getty Images)

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Nothing in the Gay Hussar’s long life was quite like the leaving of it. There we were, the bedraggled survivors of many a long lunch/dinner/afternoon under the table, some of us from the departing rear guard unit, the ‘Goulash Co-operative’, set up to save the famous restaurant from closure or, worse, being turned into some […]

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Nothing in the Gay Hussar’s long life was quite like the leaving of it. There we were, the bedraggled survivors of many a long lunch/dinner/afternoon under the table, some of us from the departing rear guard unit, the ‘Goulash Co-operative’, set up to save the famous restaurant from closure or, worse, being turned into some […]

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Nothing in the Gay Hussar’s long life was quite like the leaving of it. There we were, the bedraggled survivors of many a long lunch/dinner/afternoon under the table, some of us from the departing rear guard unit, the ‘Goulash Co-operative’, set up to save the famous restaurant from closure or, worse, being turned into some […]

Nothing in the Gay Hussar’s long life was quite like the leaving of it. There we were, the bedraggled survivors of many a long lunch/dinner/afternoon under the table, some of us from the departing rear guard unit, the ‘Goulash Co-operative’, set up to save the famous restaurant from closure or, worse, being turned into some […]

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