Hello CamiCakes, Goodbye Tomo Sushi

As Vinings welcomes its newest food business, it also says goodbye to an old favorite.

Tomohiro Naito, owner of at 3256 Cobb Parkway in the River View Shopping Center, has announced that he is closing his Vinings restaurant. Tomo was voted best Japanese restaurant in the city by Atlanta Magazine five years in a row. Fans of Tomo will soon be able to visit its new location in Buckhead in the skyscraper that contains the Ritz-Carlton residences.

Bill Addison of Atlanta Magazine posted about the closing on the magazine’s blog.

“Naito said that he’d been searching for enough kitchen talent to man both restaurants, and when he couldn’t find it, he made the difficult decision to leave Vinings,” he said. “He’s hoping the new Buckhead space, which has been in the works for over a year, will finally be ready by the end of next month.”

According to the RestMart.com listing, the 1,200-square-foot Vinings restaurant is being listed at $90,000 for a “faster sell.” The listing states that the restaurant’s name is not included with the purchase, but all equipment, furniture and “most of fixtures” are included.

Tomo’s fans might be comforted with a cupcake from Vinings newest business CamiCakes located in the old Sweet Pockets location at 4438 Paces Ferry Road. 

CamiCakes hasn’t even had its grand opening yet, and there’s already a line of customers out the door waiting to try owner Andra Hall's gourmet creations. CamiCakes offers almost 20 different varieties of cupcakes ranging from classics like chocolate and red velvet to new offerings such as pineapple toasted coconut, sweet potato and the Elvis.

CamiCakes will hold its grand opening event Monday, Aug. 1. The celebration will feature discounts on cupcakes, as well as free mini cupcakes and mini drinks.

Hall told Smyrna-Vinings Patch that she made the decision to open a store in Vinings based on input from customers.

“One thing is on our website we get feedback from our customers and that location came up time and time again,” she said. “We get a lot of people who travel from the area or work in the area who come to our store. So we started researching and looking into Vinings. And we thought it would be an excellent location partially because of all of the corporate clients and customers we would have and the residential.”

Single cupcakes cost $2.50 and drinks cost $1.50. A dozen cupcakes sells for $28. CamiCakes is open Monday through Saturday from 10:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m.