Read Shop by The Merchant

some mornings you want a coffee stop that doesn't require a parking odyssey or a ten-minute walk from a garage. paces ferry road se isn't a destination neighborhood in the way that ponce city market is, but read shop by the merchant has pulled a real following anyway, the kind that comes back on weekdays and weekends alike. that regulars are this consistent about the place says something without you having to take anyone's word for it. it sits inside a shopping center at 4300 paces ferry rd se, which sounds unremarkable until you're actually there and realize it's become a genuine habit for a lot of people in the cobb county corridor. worth going early, before the lunch crowd from the surrounding offices figures out what's good.