Another Toronto bar is closing, and shaming the landlord on the way out

By Geoff Rohoman, Cam Dorrett

The Office Pub near John and Adelaide is the latest in a long line of bars and restaurants to shut down in the city over the past few months.

While most of these establishments tend to offer up a vague explanation for their departure, The Office Pub decided to put the blame squarely on the landlord.

They certainly didn’t hold any punches.

“As a tenant for 9 years, we never ever failed to pay the due diligences on time. But during these difficult times, he has ignored our pleads to reduce rent, renegotiate a new lease, failed to apply rent subsidy from the government. This week he has come and given us a legal notice asking to pay $156K from April to August.”

The landlord in question is apparently the owner of Kit Kat, the bar on King Street famous for making a middle finger ice sculpture during the King Street pilot project.

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