After about nine months in business, the area's first location of Titled Kilt Pub & Eatery appears to be out of business. The telephone has gone unanswered during during regular business hours since the middle of last week, the location's Facebook page lists it as "permanently closed," and readers who tried to visit within the past few says tell me it was closed and dark when they arrived. A call to company headquarters has not been returned.

Tilted Kilt opened in April in the Mansion Square retail center at State Street and Balltown Road. The 14-year-old chain, which has more than 100 locations nationwide, boasts of "beautiful servers in sexy plaid kilts and matching plaid bras."