Published on Sunday December 23, 2012
Donovan Vincent
Staff Reporter
The fight between the Real Jerk restaurant and its landlord was a nasty public tussle that ended with the eviction of the popular east-end Toronto eatery earlier this year.
Owner Ed Pottinger and his wife, Lily, promised to sell their jerk chicken and rotis at a new spot, but that’s now stalled over a liquor licence dispute.
The Pottingers want to sign a lease to move into the ground floor of a stylish six-storey condo a few blocks west of their former stand-alone building at Queen St. E. and Broadview Ave.
Their plans to sell alcohol, as they did at their former location, are on hold because 40 residents in the condo are challenging the licence application. The condo has nearly 70 units.
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“I also believe that our property values will decrease with a bar on our main floor,’’ resident Dawn Howat wrote.
“My priority is to live in a peaceful place where I can go to bed at 10 p.m. without disturbance, so that I can get to work the next day. If I can’t sleep here, I can’t live here,’’ Howat said, adding “a liquor licence does not make sense at this location.’’