USA Miami/Southeast Florida Meetups

Southeast Florida Meetups

2025
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Last Meetup: November 18th, 2025 at Otaku Comics & Games in Cutler Bay, FL.

Previous Meetup: October 18, 2025 at MiraiCon in Ft. Lauderdale, held at the Ft. Lauderdale Marriott Coral Springs Hotel & Convention Center

Please let us know if you're planning to attend the meetup in the thread, so that I can update the attending list.
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Okay, I've been tooling around and doing some thinking. There's a place in Sunset Place mall called Tea & Poets that might be a good place for a small meet. Just hang out, order some tea, so on and so forth. I'm going to pay them a visit soon and see if this is the sort of thing they allow. From the looks of their Facebook page, this looks to be very much in the green considering that they regularly host game nights, open mic nights, video game tournaments, and suchlike.

Would there be any interest in this? I know Sunset Place is a rapidly dying mall and not as picturesque as it used to be back in its heyday, but it is an option. I'm also open to suggestions of other places in the southeast florida area within Miami-Dade county.

Perhaps if this works out, we can make it a regular monthly meetup?

 

I checked with Tea & Poets yesterday, looks like I'm going to have to go through their event coordinator. I've yet to reach out, but I'm pretty sure they're open to us hosting meetups there. I don't know if we'll have to pay in advance. I'll ask the event coordinator when I shoot them an email. I did get a good look at the space, and it's super cool. They serve drinks there, they have a little market with trinkets and crystals and such. It's very new age good vibes chic in a good way. I didn't get a bad feeling about the place at all. The employees I met yesterday also had really good vibes as well.

There's lots of seating and tables, and they apparently have open mic nights on Wednesdays, and game nights on Thursdays.

So, I'll get an email out to the event coordinator soon, see what needs doing, and then we can go forward with setting days and stuff like that.

@Lady Sai Inu : I know you're in the area close to the place, so I recommend you give the place a look too if you haven't already, if you can. Let me know what you think of it. I honestly really trust your judgement, and having a second opinion would be a good idea.

 

I'll be honest, I haven't emailed the event coordinator yet. I haven't been feeling well lately, but I'm on the mend so that'll be done soon. I didn't see that they had a separate room, so I'm gonna say that it'd be held in that big main room. I'll ask the event coordinator when I get that email out if there's a separate room. Outside of this place, I was also thinking of maybe renting out a room at a library. I know some have meeting rooms specifically for things like this, they're just not very picturesque, I don't think.

 

I'll look into that as well!

 

Welcome back, @Mamo ! I definitely thought about the Cauley Square Tea Room at one point. I was at that meetup, I think! Definitely one to consider for the cooler temperatures.

(This just reminds me that I still need to send out that email. Life has been a handful and a half, y'all. I'm so sorry. I will do better.)

Since there's so few of us responding in this area, maybe we could all plan to get together in a house? It feels a little silly to coordinate an entire event that might ultimately end up being only three people, lol. A small meeting room in a library could potentially seat up to 10 people, for a reasonable fee.

 

Still coordinating, still looking for attendees! Good to see you, @fall-in-hope !

 

Truth be told, I'm leaning a little more toward meeting up at a house before we do something like Tea & Poets, or somewhere where we'd have to pay for a venue. Just to get to know one another first before committing to paying a fee for a location. Especially if it's not going to be too many of us in the first place.

Just a small meetup at a house, get some coffees and teas and snacks together and get to know one another again.

 

Completely understandable! Just brainstorming a few ideas: perhaps a park of some sort? Something with a shelter that we could probably take over for a little bit. We'd be at the mercy of the weather, but seeing as it's been getting nicer out, this could be a possibility. Does anyone else have any other ideas?

 

I spend a good majority of my time in the Falls and West Kendall regions of the city, but I'm willing to go just about anywhere.

 

Pembroke Pines is a wee bit too far away for me to venture out, as I don't drive. I'm willing to go if someone's willing to swing by and pick me up, though.

 

The Otakufest Holiday Special is on Saturday, December 16th.

 

Whenever we decide on where or when, I'll update the first post and the thread title to reflect what's been decided on. I'm excited about the prospect of getting together and growing this community once more!

 

I can also easily get to the West Kendall Regional branch! I am, however, going to be out of town January 17 - January 23. So, any time after that would probably be ideal.

 

Good luck, Mamo! I'm still good for WK Regional, and I'm free with the exception of Sunday next week. I'm going to be attending the Renaissance Festival with my sister. :3

 

The 23rd works for me! I'm sorry to hear about the rejection emails, but fingers crossed for your first choice! As for time, any time works for me.

 

I'm still okay for the 23rd, but the week after there may or may not be some jury duty type shenanigans on my schedule. I can keep y'all posted on that. I'm so excited for this that I bought a doll sofa, lmao. Granted, I've been eyeballing it for some time, but shhhhhh. Special doll meet doll sofa.

 

Are we still meeting up at the library?

 

@Mamo No worries! I hadn't heard anything, and it was raining absolute cats and dogs, so I didn't go. Maybe we should try again soon?

 

I'm pretty much available whenever, I just need to know when and where.

 

I'm also good with 4/5! As soon as we set a time, I'll update the first post. Same library, yeah?

 

Okay, so I've edited the first post with the information we have so far. We just have to settle on a specific-ish time! I've added in a spot for masking options. I've left it as optional, but if we want to make masking mandatory, we can do that too. I've been masking a little more often when I'm out in crowded areas just in case, since there have been surges of the plague lately. I'm fully vaccinated but one can never be too careful. I will also update the attending list as we go. So far, it looks like it's just the three of us, lmao.

 

I know, I meant time of day. I know that the morning works best for you, but should there be a specific time, for example 10 AM, that I should put down as when we're meeting on the 5th.

 

lmao, I can be cute or smart but not both because I don't have enough room in my brain for it and clearly today I chose adorable. Good eye, thank you for correcting me! I fixed the post.