Edgware Grodzinski, now known as Grodz, was due to open a pop-up shop in Golders Green this week to sell doughnuts for Chanukah.  The shop is a few doors down from the independently run, and now closed, M & D Grodzinski bakery, which went into liquidation in October. 

Jonathan Grodzinski, director of Grodz and a great-grandson of the founder of the famous kosher baking business, said he was opening the pop-up shop “for a week” at 227 Golders Green Road. 

But as for the fate of M & D Grodzinski at 223 Golders Green Road, Mr Grodzinski said: “I can’t be sure”. 

The pop-up shop, he pointed out, was on the site of the original Golders Green Grodzinski shop, which opened in 1948. 

For the past four years, M & D Grodzinski’s sole director was Shelley Bauernfreund, who was not a member of the Grodzinski family.

Notices on the front of 223 this week advertised the nearby pop-up shop.

Earlier this month, a planning application to make alterations to the premises at 223 was lodged at Barnet Council in the name of a “Mr Grodzinski”. 

Under the ownership certificates and land declaration section of the form, the applicant’s address was listed as 340 West End Lane. 

The application, however, was withdrawn earlier this week. 

The same address, 340 West End Lane, is also listed as the correspondence address of Benjamin Gabay, the sole director of a company called Psalm127. 

Earlier this year, Barnet Council approved an application to modify the shop at 223 Golders Green Road from Psalm127. 

Psalm127 shares the same registered office address, 88 Crawford Street, as Grodzinski Edgware. 

According to the liquidator’s statement of affairs for M & D Grodzinski, Psalm127 is owed £9,125. M & D Grodzinski’s overall deficit amounted to around £164,000.