Manchester restaurant Kala has been ordered to remove the decorative K lettering from its window.
The King Street bistro was being stripped of the gold stripes that frame the left-hand side of its glass frontage this morning.
It follows a legal threat from an unnamed company with a similar K in its logo, according to a spokeswoman for the restaurant, which is owned by chef Gary Usher.
Gary, who recently starred in Channel 4 documentary The Rebel Chef , said: "They sent me a really angry letter with a photo of a stripy K saying that they owned stripy Ks like that and that I couldn’t have a stripy K in the window of Kala 'cause it looked too much like their stripy K and if I didn’t take my stripy K down they would take me to court.”
The restaurant won't be rebranded to Ala, as Gary has jokingly tweeted - the K of the main Kala logo will remain on the window.
Kala opened in April after a crowdfunding campaign that raised more than £114,000, and has gone on to earn local and national acclaim.
An M.E.N review praised its 'understated brilliance', while the Observer's Jay Rayner applauded it as a place that 'quietly feeds you well' .
One of its chefs, Danny Wallace, recently won the Observer's Young Chef of the Year Award.
Kala is Gary's sixth bistro in the north west, where he also owns Hispi in Didsbury, Sticky Walnut in Chester; Burnt Truffle, in Heswall, Wirral; Wreckfish, in Liverpool; and Pinion, in Prescot.
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