Café Gandolfi will remain open for business, ensuring its future and safeguarding the much-loved local institution.

Following the recent announcement that the original company had entered liquidation, Café Gandolfi’s owner Seumas MacInnes has reassured customers the café itself has not closed and continues to welcome customers as normal.

Colin Murdoch, Insolvency Practitioner at Murray Stewart Fraser Limited, was appointed as interim liquidator of Café Gandolfi Limited on 7 May 2026. With the support of the business’ management, staff, suppliers and landlord, a going concern sale of the business and assets was successfully concluded shortly after appointment. The new owners, CG2026 Ltd, have traded successfully since taking over in early May 2026.

It means the business can now move forward on a secure footing while preserving the café’s operations, its 31 staff – some of whom have worked for Café Gandolfi for more than 40 years – and commitment to serving its many customers throughout Glasgow and beyond.

Seumas said: “This has been an incredibly challenging period, but our priority has always been to keep Café Gandolfi open and protect everything we’ve worked so hard to build over the decades. I offer my sincere thanks to everyone involved in finding a practical solution. As a result, we have been able to secure a fresh start through CG2026 Ltd.

“Most importantly, we have managed to keep this much-loved and historic café – one that has been an institution for so long in Glasgow’s Albion Street – open uninterrupted.

“Lastly, I really have appreciated the overwhelming gesture of love and goodwill that came from the public who mistakenly believed that Café Gandolfi was shutting for good. Now that the situation has been made clear, and we have put this chapter behind us to focus on a new future, we hope to see them in their droves coming to eat in the café which they know and love.”

Café Gandolfi remains open during its usual trading hours – Monday 8am-5pm, Tuesday to Saturday 8am-10:30pm, and Sunday 9am-5pm – with customers continuing to receive the same service, menu and warm welcome.