Michelin-star restaurant in the red

Michelin-starred restaurant Thornton’s, which is owned by celebrity chef Kevin Thornton, dipped further into the red last year.

The abridged accounts just filed to the Companies Office by Conted Ltd — trading as Thornton’s Restaurant — show that the business recorded an after tax loss of €9,504 to the end of August last year after recording a loss of €1,595 in 2011.

This followed two years of profits and the company showed accumulated losses of €83,466 at the end of August last.