Cars and Coffee Raleigh, Pleasant Valley Promenade

Cars and Coffee Raleigh meets on the fourth Sunday of the month, and its current home is 6270 Glenwood Avenue in Raleigh, at the Pleasant Valley Promenade shopping center. The organizer’s website describes a monthly gathering of car enthusiasts, vendors “and those who just love to see cool cars, around since 2017.”

Every show has a theme. The organizer’s calendar lists RAD Day on Sunday 22 November 2026 and a rally-inspired day on Sunday 27 December. Recent themes, from its own posts, were Ladies Day in September, now in its third year, and right-hand drive and JDM cars in October, with the kei truck community invited. The organizer’s motto, repeated on almost every post, is “All Cars Welcome.”

When to arrive

The website gives the standing hours as 8am to 11am, and the September and October 2026 shows kept them. The November and December listings on the organizer’s own calendar run an hour later, from 9am to noon, and Triangle on the Cheap’s 24 October 2026 listing gives the same later hours for both dates. On a fourth Sunday in winter, check which hours apply before leaving.

Before themed shows the organizer posts a parking map, with a limited number of VIP spaces held for the theme’s cars. Its September 2026 map, for Ladies Day, promised ample parking for everyone else.

The lot

The venue moves, and the organizer says so. “We currently have our shows around the Triangle,” the website reads. “Check our social media accounts for current locations for our shows.” The fourth-Sunday shows from September through October 2026 were at 6270 Glenwood Avenue, and the organizer checked in at Pleasant Valley Promenade on its Facebook page in September.

For 22 November the organizer’s calendar entry names no venue yet. Triangle on the Cheap lists 6270 Glenwood Avenue for that date, and the organizer’s own calendar puts the 27 December show there too. The Facebook page is where a change would appear first.

The organizer’s posts promise easy entry and exit. The lot belongs to a shopping center, so park in marked spaces and leave the entrances clear for the stores.

The coffee

There is no host café. Coffee comes from the vendors. The organizer’s September and October 2026 posts list Just Love Coffee Roasters among them, alongside a taco and breakfast-burrito vendor, The Fry Pan, and stands from Miller-Motte College’s auto repair program and Window Nation.

The other shows

The same organizer runs extra shows on other weekends, so its calendar is busier than one Sunday a month. In 2026 it held a classic car show at The Exchange, 1000 Social Street, on Saturday 19 September, and a classic, rare and exotic show at Glenwood Place, 3711 Exchange Place, on Saturday 10 October, from 11am to 2pm. Next is a Holiday Classic Car Show and Market with Boxyard RTP, at 900 Park Offices Drive in Durham, on Saturday 28 November 2026 from 11am to 2pm, with holiday vendors that are not all car related.

Before you go

The organizer calls every show family and pet friendly, and asks people to bring the kids and the dogs. It publishes no rules on revving or exits. The ordinary shopping-center manners apply: arrive quietly, leave slowly, and keep the lot the kind of place that invites the meet back.

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