On December 31, 2025, Piastra served its final dinner under the name it had carried on the Square since 2015. Four weeks later the same room reopened as Asher & Rose Modern Grocers, with produce cases, a butcher counter, and a shelf of pimento cheese where the pasta menu used to sit.

That swap is the shortest way to describe the summer of 2026 in Marietta and East Cobb. The neighborhood is not gaining restaurants so much as reorganizing what its restaurants are for.

The Square spent the last decade as a destination-dining district. It is spending 2026 turning back into a place you drop into on a Wednesday.

The old anchors are being rewritten, not replaced

Asher & Rose sits at 45 W Park Square, the exact address where Piastra ran for a decade.