Carla’s Pasta is in post-confirmation wind-down, with the liquidating custodian still keeping the chapter 11 cases open because an adversary judgment remains on appeal and recoveries must be resolved before final distributions and a final decree. The court most recently granted more time to close the cases, extending the final-decree deadline to October 21, 2026, through the Order Granting Motion to Extend TimeDkt. 1671, with a follow-on status hearing set for October 22, 2026, under the hearing notice continuing the matter for six monthsDkt. 1670.
The debtor began the case on February 8, 2021, when Carla’s Pasta filed chapter 11 alongside a first-day record describing a balance sheet dominated by secured bank debt and disputed project-related lien exposure. The Gupta declaration identified roughly $37.7 million of first-lien obligations to People’s United Bank across construction, equipment, and revolving facilities, plus a disputed $13.3 million Dennis Group mechanic’s lien on the South Windsor properties, framing the filing around a leveraged operating and real estate structure rather than a clean operating-company reset Gupta First Day DeclarationDkt. 4.
The restructuring path ultimately moved to liquidation. By June 2021, the debtors filed a first amended joint chapter 11 liquidation plan for Carla’s Pasta and Suri Realty, with a wind-down budget, five plan classes, debtor-sponsored plan treatment, releases, exculpation, and a liquidating-custodian structure to administer remaining assets and claims . The live case issue now is not emergence financing or a going-concern sale process; it is completion of post-confirmation administration, including resolution or collection of the adversary judgment, potential mediation of judgment and appellate issues, final creditor distributions, and then entry of a final decree .
