Creditors' meeting: future of Unicorn on the menu

A CREDITORS’ meeting has been called for the company behind the Unicorn Restaurant in Dublin.

The meeting of creditors of Springmanor Ltd is to be held in the Harcourt Hotel in Dublin on March 3rd next, according to a notice placed in a national newspaper.

Attempts to contact the directors of the company yesterday were unsuccessful. The restaurant remains open for business.

Notice of a petition for the winding up of the company by the Revenue Commissioners was posted late last year but it was later reported that the company had agreed a plan for the payment of a €120,000 debt.

In January of this year Kaneco Ltd, which supplies kitchen equipment, published a notice of intention to wind up Springmanor.

The directors of Springmanor, which is currently listed to be struck off by the Companies Registration office, are Georgio Cosari and Jeffrey Stokes. There are a number of mortgages registered against the company in relation to property on Merrion Row, Dublin.

The last filed accounts are for the period to the end of February 2008 and showed shareholders’ funds of €1 million at that date.

In 2009 ownership of the company was transferred by Mr Cosari and Mr Stokes to Citywest Hire Ltd which is in turn owned by the two men.

Filings by Citywest indicate €935,382 was paid for the shares in Springmanor and another company, Il Segreto, believed to be associated with a restaurant of the same name also on Merrion Row. Mr Stokes is the father of Christian and Simon Stokes, former operators of the Residence Club on St Stephen’s Green.