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Tilt burgers' anticipated third location in the RJ Templeton Building at the east end of the Burnside Bridge has hit a hitch: an eviction notice.
The notice (viewable at bottom), posted by lawyers for landlord NFN Investments, states that Tilt had "assured our client on multiple occasions that Tenant would make various past due payments. Despite your assurances, Tenant has not paid such past due amounts when due. Therefore, in accordance with rights afforded the Landlord under the Lease, Landlord hereby terminates the Lease effective February 7, 2015."
Tilt has undergone a rapid expansion since opening in 2012 as an upscale blue-collar burger joint amid the shipping channels of Swan Island, making "handcrafted food built for the American workforce." The menu included towering sandwiches like the Kulakofsky, a pastrami-kraut burger described in our pages as "a leaning tower of New Jersey, the overflowing spirit of a Walt Whitman who forgot he was vegetarian." A Pearl District location followed in at the end of 2013, and they announced their plans for Burnside location as early as February 2014.
The Burnside opening was scheduled first for last October, and then for early 2015.
"We are currently in a legal dispute with the landlord regarding our lease," wrote Tilt co-owner Octavian Jurj in an e-mail. "Per our legal council, I cannot comment on any details related to this matter at this time." Brad Miller, lawyer for NFN investments, also declined comment.
WWeek 2015