THE company which ran fashionable Poole restaurant Café Shore is in liquidation, five months after the business was wrecked by fire.

The Sandbanks business never reopened after the blaze which took hold last August.

Lucy Enterprises, which traded as Café Shore, is now in liquidation and a creditors’ meeting was held on Monday.

Café Shore was engulfed by smoke last August when an electrical fault caused the blaze.

In a press release last August, Café Shore manager Emily Davies thanked the fire service and her staff for their response to the fire.

She added: “We are not sure when we will be 100 per cent up and running again.

“Communication at this point is vital. We will be posting official real time updates on our Facebook page.”

Despite management tweeting in September that the café would be open for Christmas parties – and that customers should “watch this space for exciting developments” – the business has still not reopened.

Mark Liddle, of insolvency adviser the Mark Liddle Partnership, which is handling the liquidation, said: “There was a fire last summer which made Café Shore cease trading.

“There was no generation of income. That’s the reason the company is going into liquidation.”

Lucy Enterprises is not the first company running the café to be wound up.

In March 2013, Café Shore Ltd went into liquidation with debts of £404,000. But Café Shore itself remained open, run by Café Shore Holdings Ltd, under directors Ben and Julia Brafman, who also own Lucy Enterprises.

Roger Williams, president of Poole Chamber of Trade and Commerce, said the café’s prominent location needed a “venue of some substance”.

He added: “I would like to see a local operator take that on and try to create something that would be beneficial to the tourist industry and the local community alike.”