Urban Grind
Urban Grind is all about making you feel right at home, hosting weekly community events such as salsa lessons, comedy nights, open mic poetry. The interior is warm and welcoming with large comfortable couches, a buy/exchange bookcase, red statement walls. Its menu has all you’d want from a coffeeshop— smoothies, teas, specialty coffee, paninies and more, made fresh daily. This is a perfect cafe to study and work.
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While you debate with yourself whether coffee shops belong in a restaurant guide or not, just know that Urban Grind is more than deserving of a mention as one of Atlanta’s essential Black-owned eating establishments. The quaint and cozy coffee shop has plenty of drink options for local coffee addicts, and if you get hungry while working—or “grinding,” as Cassandra Ingram’s shop likes to call it—you have to try one of Urban Grind’s criminally delicious panini sandwiches.
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Established in 2007, this Black-owned coffee shop in West Midtown is the perfect space for the city’s most creative minds. The panini sandwiches and delicious pastries provide food for thought for the people either constructing new ideas, planning future business models, or studying for the next exam. During evening hours, Urban Grind is home to weekly open mic nights for comedy, music, and poetry, and even showcases art exhibitions from time to time. Along with buying their freshly brewed coffees and herbal teas, you can also support local artists by purchasing a sticker or two from the Artist Series.
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