The revival of the Le D’Auteuil bar on Rue Saint-Joseph Est was short-lived as the business has just declared bankruptcy.
In 2018, almost twenty years after the legendary Old Quebec bar closed, staff restarted the Le D’Auteuil bar shows in the former premises of the Cercle.
However, Le Journal has learned that the company filed for bankruptcy on March 28 with $199,781 in liabilities and $0 in assets.
The relaunch of the bar was led by André Gagné and show producer Robert Hakim, who died of complications from cancer in 2021.
creditor
The file was entrusted to Raymond Chabot.
Mr. Gagné and his partner wanted to revive Le D’Auteuil, a bar show well known in Quebec, twenty years after it had closed.
The Saint-Joseph Street facility had been closed since March 2020. The agency Consult’Art, of which Mr. Gagné is the main shareholder, is on the list of creditors with an amount of almost 150,000 US dollars.
Like in old times
In the early 1990s, the place hosted stars like Éric Lapointe, Jean Leloup, Richard Desjardins, Sarah McLachlan and Blue Rodeo.
In 2018, Mr. Gagné, the former owner of the original D’Auteuil, wanted to relive the good years of these bar shows.
“We’re working to get back to who we were,” he said at the time.