Tomi-Kro, the restaurant many Leslieville locals regard (regarded) as the best in the neighbourhood has gone bust. The dreaded notice of distress appeared on the front window of 1214 Queen St East on October 19th indicating that the landlord is due $49,814.64. It's a bit surprising given the owner of Tomi-Kro opened The Playpen a new restaurant at the corner of Carlaw and Gerrard East around the same time. Makes you wonder if the two things are related.

Loyal customers of Fahrenheit Coffee might have been surprised to find the cafe MIA this week on the Esplanade. I stopped by yesterday to grab a pick-me-up only to find it no longer existed. The tiny cafe was completely empty - no equipment, no fixtures, no counter, no signage....almost nothing to hint that one of the best new coffee shops to open this year ever existed.

All that remained was a notice on the door from GOAG Grinding and Brewing thanking customers for their support and mentioning that a new full service training facility will be opening within the next four weeks.

West Queen West retail staple Delphic closed its doors this past Sunday after serving the area for 10 years. Owned by Matt Robinson and partner Lena Kim, Delphic was known as a hub for signature pieces from once hard-to-find lines like Acne and J. Lindeberg. Doesn't the saying go, "When one door closes, another shop pops up right in its place"? Let's say it does. Delphic will now become a new — and hopefully more visible and frequented — outpost for Robinson's own line Klaxon Howl, known as rugged menswear for the modern urbanite.

Perhaps it was the endless construction? Or maybe too much competition? Either way, the Communal Mule on Dundas West has gone deadpool. The space has been emptied out, the windows have been papered over and the for rent sign has gone up. Unlike so many closed businesses in this city, this wasn't a case of the landlord locking the doors for nonpayment of rent. Instead, owner Peter Primiani is going to focus on building his recording studio.

And that's a shame.The Communal Mule had good coffee but great style. It was simply one of those cafes - with its large front windows, wooden tables and movie posters - that was easy to spend time in.

Ackee Tree, the Caribbean restaurant near the corner of Queen and Spadina, has closed. The windows were papered over this morning and a note posted that gave little explanation for the closure. Ackee Tree started as a food court staple in the depths of the Eaton Centre before opening a swankier location here. Readers once voted it number one on our Best Jerk Chicken list but it didn't stop there, also serving up a tasty ackee and saltfish and oxtail among other specialties.

Ackee Tree will be missed and creates something of a void of decent Caribbean options downtown with the nearest alternative now being Pat's Homestyle a few blocks west.

Toronto has embraced the frozen yogurt trend like ice cream is going out of style. In the Annex alone, Menchie's, YoYo's Yogurt Cafe and Mon Berri all arrived on the scene in the past year or so to join a fourth option - Cefiore - which as of this month is now deadpool.

Even though Cefiore is a global chain with franchises in the US, Australia and China it perhaps never stood a chance, opening in 2009 on Walmer Road just before the self serve FroYo trend started to take over. I don't think too many people will mourn the loss of Cefiore - it wasn't unique enough to stand out from the pack, but it will certainly raise the question whether the frozen yogurt trend had gotten too far ahead of itself.