The celebrity chef Antony Worrall Thompson, whose restaurant chain sank into administration earlier this year, is at the centre of a legal wrangle over £36,000 of fine wine.
A report filed by the administrator of AWT Restaurants, which failed in February with debts of £800,000, states that it is in dispute with ADP Wines, a business set up by Worrall Thompson to supply his restaurants.
ADP is continuing to trade and supplies three of the restaurants the chef has reopened in the aftermath of AWT's collapse.
Administrators at BHG Insolvency Practitioners say in their latest report that ADP claims ownership of the wines but add: "I am confident that claim is without foundation."
BHG said it is taking legal advice to resolve the dispute. The consignment amounts to a few hundred bottles, with the most expensive worth about £100.
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When approached by The Sunday Times, Worrall Thompson said: "I am not directly involved in the situation and am trying to put the administration behind me."