The popular city centre Lemon Tree Café on Queen Street has gone into liquidation.

The café, originally managed by former Fairmont Southampton chief concierge Brendan Huttick, has been shuttered for some time.

Mr Huttick left the owners’ company, Gourmand Ltd, on October last year.

A notice in the window now confirms that Gourmand Ltd, trading as the Lemon Tree Café, is in liquidation and the receiver is the Registrar of Companies’ Stephen Lowe.

Mr Huttick took over the café seven years ago from founding owners Lee Uddin and Jean-Claude Garzia, who in 2002 turned what was once a Scottish wool shop into a café and created the patio area at the rear of the building. The café and patio became a popular Friday night happy-hour spot.

But the pair decided to sell the business after they took over the lease for the Beau Rivage restaurant at the Newstead-Belmont Hills resort.

Under Mr Huttick, the Lemon Tree garnered several Best of Bermuda awards, including best deli takeout for 2010 and 2011 and happiest happy hour in 2008 and 2010.

Mr Huttick could not be contacted for comment yesterday.