BIRMINGHAM, Alabama -- Yolo Dessert Bar has closed after about 11 months in business at Colonial Brookwood Village.
The sweets shop -- which served everything from peanut butter yogurt and white chocolate gelato to pancakes-and-bacon cupcakes and key lime pie tarts -- closed the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, owner Ralph Yarbrough said this morning.
"There may be other opportunities for Yolo Dessert Bar in the future, but for right now, we just did not feel like that space was a good fit for what we were trying to do," Yarbrough said.
"It's a tough decision, but I think it's going to be the right one for us," he added.
A second Yolo Dessert Bar location in the Mobile's Spring Hill area, which opened in February, remains open, Yarbrough said.
Many of the desserts they served at Yolo -- including pies, cakes and tarts -- will appear occasionally on the menu at Crestline Bagel, he said.
"Anything we were doing at Yolo, we will still be doing periodically at Crestline Bagel," he said.
The Yarbroughs opened their first Yolo -- which stands for "You Only Live Once -- last December.
Yarbrough said they have not ruled out opening another Yolo Dessert Bar elsewhere.
"We're open to that," he said.
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