Boeuf sur le Toit
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Le Boeuf sur le Toit (French for "The ox on the roof"; named after a famous restaurant in Paris) was a gay nightclub in Orange Street, Soho, from the 1920s.
"But the best was Le Boeuf sur le Toit, beautifully furnished. Leonard Blackett at the piano, Teddy Jackson owned it... After the war ... Dolly [Mayers] bought the Boeuf and changed its name to the Romilly Club which is where Guy [Burgess] fell down the stairs and had to go to hospital. Someone pushed him actually."[1]
See Timeline of West End Bars and Clubs.
References
- ↑ Jack Hewitt, Sunday Times magazine, 7 April 1991. Quoted in On Queer Street by Hugh David.
http://patrickleighfermor.wordpress.com/2010/04/14/joan-leigh-fermor-obituary-from-the-independent/
