Cars and Coffee in Tampa Bay

How the month runs

The first Saturday is the busiest morning. Dunedin Cars and Coffee meets at VFW Post 2550 from 7:30am to 10:30am. Exotics and Espresso opens Skyway Motorspace in Palmetto from 8am to 10am. Revved Up 4 Cars runs Caffeine and Octane at Ford’s Garage in Brandon from 8am to 11am, and Bonnet Springs Park in Lakeland hosts its cars and coffee from 7am to 10am.

The second Saturday belongs to Waterset Cars and Coffee at The Landing in Apollo Beach, 8am to 10am, and in most months to Sarasota Cars and Coffee in Lot 5 at The Mall at UTC, 8am to 10am. November is the exception for Sarasota: the mall moved it to Saturday 7 November to make way for a parade. On the second Sunday, PopStroke Cars and Coffee runs from 8am to 11am on Sierra Center Boulevard, on the Wesley Chapel and Lutz line. On the third Saturday, Revved Up’s Cars, Coffee and Cannolis meets at Mandola’s Italian Kitchen in Riverview, 8am to 11am.

The bigger mornings

Two events keep their own calendars. The Motor Enclave in east Tampa posts each Cars En Coffee date separately. The 11th edition is Saturday 14 November 2026, 10am to 1pm, and the next two are 23 January and 27 March 2027, both 9am to noon. Innisbrook Resort in Palm Harbor holds its cars and coffee twice a year, and the next is the same Saturday, 14 November, 9am to noon. Both are free to attend, per their hosts.

The season

None of the meets on this list has announced a winter break. Dunedin skips May, per the VFW post. Rain is what stops a morning here: PopStroke’s organizer cancelled the October 2026 meet the day before for a wet forecast, and Waterset posts forecast updates on its Facebook page. Check the host’s page before a rainy drive.

What is not on this list, and why

Several Pinellas County meets could not be checked. 727 Cars and Coffee relaunched at Whiskey Wings Countryside in Clearwater on 26 July 2026 and promised the last Sunday of every month, but its group is private and no later date could be read. Cars, Of Course in St. Petersburg and Racers and Rods’ Breakfast Club Cruise-In appear only on calendar sites. The Tampa Bay Automobile Museum in Pinellas Park held a cars and coffee on 24 October 2026 and has not posted another.

In Hillsborough, Channelside Cars and Coffee says on Instagram that it meets every second Saturday, but the posts that could be read carry no dates or hours. Fishhawk Porsche Cars and Coffee gives first Saturdays, 11am to 2pm, without naming a venue. Gateway Classic Cars’ Caffeine and Chrome in Ruskin has lost its event page, and the company’s site no longer lists a Tampa showroom. Garage One GT, Provisions at Porsche Tampa, EME Monthly and Kava Culture in South Tampa appear only on calendar sites, and the Rock and Brews Wesley Chapel meet’s own page now returns not found.

Before you drive

Almost every meet on this list borrows a business’s lot: a mall, a restaurant, a mini-golf course, a resort, a veterans’ post, a car storage shop. The hosts that publish rules are clear about the exit. Sarasota’s organizers have had sheriff’s deputies stop drivers who revved on the way out, Innisbrook bans burnouts, revving and speeding off, and Waterset asks for no excessive revving and care around pedestrians.