The owners of a family-run Scottish city centre restaurant have released a defiant message amid the appointment of a liquidator to the business after 47 years.
The move follows an HMRC court action against the Glasgow restaurant we reported on Tuesday afternoon.
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A petition against Café Gandolfi Limited, of Albion Street, was presented to Glasgow Sheriff Court for His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs in April.
The restaurant, which Sir Billy Connolly and Paolo Nutini are among its famous patrons, has released a statement to reassure customers that it is "working through it."
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The restaurant's defiant message on social media reads: "Thanks everyone for your lovely messages of concern and support for Café Gandolfi. Please be reassured that the reporting of our closure is incorrect and we are working our way through this. We are open as normal and look forward to seeing you soon. Seumas and team."
Cafe Gandolfi began life in 1979 in Glasgow’s then run‑down Merchant City, and became one of the city’s defining café‑restaurants, combining Hebridean‑rooted Scottish cooking with a distinctive artistic interior.
Colin Murdoch, an insolvency practitioner at Murray Stewart Fraser, was appointed liquidator, according to a notice on July 28.
The restaurant said in its website story: “The devastation of the coronavirus pandemic hit the hospitality industry particularly hard and in the effort to rebuild the business, creativity, sustainability and evolution have never been more critical and are at the heart of Gandolfi’s next phase.
“With determination and an undiminished passion for fabulous food and drink, the aspiration firmly remains to continue to be a major destination in Glasgow’s Merchant City.”
A spokesperson for HMRC said it does not comment on individual businesses because of taxpayer confidentiality, but did say: "We take a supportive approach to dealing with customers who have tax debts and only file winding-up petitions once we’ve exhausted all other options, in order to protect taxpayers’ money."
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