The McMullen family is a South Bayview legend as founders and keepers of Summerhill Market. The dizzying success of the super high-quality grocery store and its satellite store on Mt. Pleasant Rd. near Sheldrake Blvd. attracts customers from distant parts of Toronto. North Toronto homemakers of particular taste deprived of Pusateri’s by last summer’s fire make the trip south. Then they wait for the Summerhill grocery cop to wave them into the snug parking lot beside the CP tracks. A footnote to the Summerhill saga is the closing of the nearby ice cream store known as Scoops. It was managed by Brad McMullen, currently manager of the main store. Ice cream in the cone is a seriously seasonal business. This alert comes in Friday’s arrival of the 12.36 e-mailer authored by Marc Weisblott and owned by St. Joseph Media, publishers of Toronto Life. The new year will see all grocery stores in South Bayview sizing up the new Whole Foods store soon to launch at 1860 Bayview (corner of Broadway). Will such effete “foods” as coconut water be able to knock out Summerhill Markets unreconstructed butcher shop favorites like marinated lamb rack? Or the deli with every processed meat including Veal Bolonga known to Italy and Germany combined? We think not.