His lamb chops were so sought after that Indian cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar flew 200 of them to India to feed his friends.

But chef Govindha “Gogo” Govardhan will not be serving them or anything else at the Mt Lawley restaurant which was once Perth’s mecca of curry and cricket, after it was placed into liquidation this week.

After a Federal Court application to wind up the business was enacted this month by the Deputy Commissioner of Taxation, Gogo’s Food Service Pty Ltd was officially placed in the hands of liquidators Avior Consulting on Tuesday.

Neither Mr Govardhan nor liquidator Dermott McVeigh was available yesterday to answer questions about the closure.

Which means the spicy question remains — what happens to the restaurant’s unprecedented trove of cricketing memorabilia?

Having fed most of the world’s top cricketers in the past 15 years, Gogo’s had gathered some truly unique cricketing pieces.

There is the ball with which Indian spinning legend Anil Kumble took his 600th Test wicket at the WACA.

A bat used by Tendulkar, on which is written “great food, fantastic lamb chops”, along with a pair of the Little Master’s gloves, are also among the treasures.

And then there is a pair of Adam Gilchrist’s wicketkeeping gloves from his final Test series and Pakistan fast bowler Wasim Akram’s cap from his last Test.

A signed jumper from Mohammad Yousuf, VVS Laxman’s bat, a copy of Steve Waugh’s book with a “thanks ... for the best lamb shanks” are there as well.

“How did I get them? I fed them the most awesome Indian food,” Gogo told Indian TV station NDTV three years ago.

The restaurant was also the venue of an extraordinary cricketing event — the coming together of the Indian and Australian teams at the height of the “Monkeygate” scandal in 2008.

With the two sides barely on speaking terms after the verbal incident between Andrew Symonds and Harbhajan Singh in Sydney — and the nuclear fallout which followed — a twist of fate had the two sides visit the Beaufort Street eatery on the same night after a Test match in Perth.

After the dining room was partitioned to accommodate both teams, Gogo called now Australian coach Justin Langer to hop between the two sides to ease the tension.

The shutters were drawn and the gates closed on the restaurant that night, to prevent gathered media from getting a glimpse.

It was a similar scene at the restaurant yesterday, for an entirely different reason.