L'escargot
L’Escargot may refer to: *L'Escargot (restaurant), a London restaurant * L'Escargot (horse), a race horse *L'Escargot (TV series) ''L'Escargot'' is a 2012 Hong Kong television drama inspired by the 2009 Chinese television drama '' Dwelling Narrowness'', starring Michael Miu, Michael Tse, Sonija Kwok, Linda Chung and Ron Ng as the main leads. It is produced by Television B ...

L'Escargot (restaurant)
L'Escargot is London's oldest French restaurant, and is also one of the city's oldest restaurants. It is housed in a Georgian townhouse on Greek Street, in the heart of the Soho district. The building, which dates from 1741, was previously the private residence of the Duke of Portland. History Soho began to be developed after the Great Fire of London in 1666, when over 13,000 houses were destroyed and 100,000 citizens left homeless. The area, then called Soho Fields, was an obvious location for the wealthy to build their property, being within easy reach of the royal palaces of Palace of Westminster, Westminster, Palace of Whitehall, Whitehall and St James's Palace, St James's. The name ''Soho'' is said to derive from "so-ho", a popular hunting cry of the time. Georges Gaudin established a restaurant in 1896 at the bottom end of Greek Street, called Le Bienvenue. He became famous for his Escargot, snails, his being the first restaurant in England to serve the delicacy. When in 1 ...
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L'Escargot (horse)
L’Escargot (1963–1984) was an Irish national hunt racehorse notable as being a Cheltenham Gold Cup and Grand National winner. L'Escargot, whose name is French for the Snail, was a large chestnut gelding with a small white star. He was bought for 3,500 guineas as a three-year-old at the Ballsbridge Sales by the United States ambassador to Ireland Raymond R. Guest and went into trainig with Dan Moore. L'Escargot made his first appearance at the Cheltenham Festival in 1968 when he was a five-year-old, winning the second division of the Gloucestershire Hurdle with his regular jockey Tommy Carberry. The following year L'Escargot won the Irish Champion Hurdle at Leopardstown and then started second favourite in the Champion Hurdle at Cheltenham and finished sixth behind the favourite Persian War. At the end of the season he went to the United States and ran three times, winning the Meadow Brook Chase at Belmont Park, New York, and being named US Champion Steeplechaser. In ...
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