Baltimore, MD
Latino Community Events in Baltimore
Real rooms. Real people. Latino entrepreneurs, creatives, and business owners finding each other in Baltimore.
Colado Latino Network hosts in-person gatherings built for the Latino community: an evening at a minority-owned venue where the introductions are real and the follow-ups actually happen.
What a Night Looks Like
The Shape of a Colado Event
Doors
You walk into a minority-owned venue, grab something to eat, and get a name tag. Most people arrive on their own, which is why nobody stays on their own for long.
The Room Opens Up
We run a few guided icebreakers early, enough to get the room moving, then step back. The conversations that matter start once the structure ends.
After
People trade numbers, plan coffees, and keep the venue busy past closing. We show up in spaces that belong to us, for our gente. Es de nosotros.
What's Coming Up
Next Gathering
The Next One Is Coming.
We just wrapped our third main event, and the courtyard is still buzzing in the group chats. We're already working on what's next. Nothing is locked in yet, and the last two filled up fast, so the date goes out below before it goes anywhere else.
Next Gathering
Know Before Everyone Else.
Drop your email and you get the date for the next Colado before the ticket link goes public. We won't spam you, ever.
Where We've Been
Past Events
Colado @ Stem & Vine
Stem & Vine 路 Downtown Baltimore, MD
Our biggest list yet, and most of that room had never been to a Colado before. Guests came in from DC, Silver Spring, Lanham, and across the river in Virginia. The Empanada Lady vended while Stem & Vine poured, Quincy took the mic at the end, and the mic went around the room for business intros.
Rain kept some of the list home and the conversations got longer because of it. People found a corner among the plants and stayed there. The full story lives in our Stem & Vine event recap.
Colado @ The Empanada Lady
The Empanada Lady 路 Downtown Baltimore, MD
The energy in that room didn't need a microphone. People walked in not knowing anyone and left with follow-up plans in their phone. Real introductions. Real laughter. Real gente, in a space that belongs to la comunidad.
Hosted at The Empanada Lady, right in the middle of downtown Baltimore. The food was right. The drinks were right. And by the end of the night, everybody had connected with somebody. That's what we're here for. Get the numbers and the full story in our Empanada Lady event recap.
Coladito @ Cafe Los Suenos
Cafe Los Suenos 路 Remington, Baltimore, MD
Smaller room. Same energy. A handful of Latino entrepreneurs gathered at Cafe Los Suenos in Remington, sat down, and actually talked. The whole agenda was gente sharing what they know with people who needed to hear it.
Then everybody walked over to R House, ate together, and kept the conversation going. That's what Coladito is supposed to feel like. Intimate. Honest. Ours. New to the format? Read what a Coladito is and how the first one went.
The First Colado Gathering
Bodega and Vino 路 Locust Point, Baltimore, MD
The one that started it all. Baltimore's Latino entrepreneurs, creatives, and business owners showed up, and then some. We opened with 50 tickets. Demand pushed us to 60. Every single one sold.
Two hours of real conversation between people who had been looking for a room like this. Hosted in a Latino-owned space, for our community, by our community. That's what Colado is supposed to feel like. Relive it in the full recap of our sold-out night at Bodega and Vino.
Where We Show Up
Hosted at Latino-Owned and Black-Owned Businesses. On Purpose.
Every Colado Latino Network event is hosted inside a business somebody in this community owns. Three Latino-owned spots so far and one Black-owned. That is not a detail. That is the point. We bring the room to the people who built the space.
Bodega and Vino
Baltimore, MD 路 Locust Point
Thursday, March 19. One Colado Latino Network gathering. Numbers from Angela at Bodega & Vino.
The Empanada Lady
Baltimore, MD 路 Downtown
Thursday, May 28. One Colado Latino Network gathering. Numbers from Elisa at The Empanada Lady.
Stem & Vine
Baltimore, MD · Downtown
Thursday, August 27. One Colado Latino Network gathering. Numbers from Quincy at Stem & Vine, measured against the same two hours on every other Thursday that season.
Networking in Baltimore
Baltimore Business Networking Events, the Colado Way
Colado hosts free Baltimore networking events for Latino entrepreneurs, creatives, and professionals: a main gathering every quarter at a minority-owned venue, with smaller Coladito sessions in between. You reserve a spot on Eventbrite, walk in, and spend two hours meeting people who are building in this city.
If you have tried other networking events in Baltimore and left with a pocket of cards and no real conversations, this format was built as the answer. Food and drinks from the host venue, guided icebreakers that get the room moving, and enough time for a conversation to become a plan. Bring your business, your idea, or just yourself.
The room is Latino-first and open to everyone who wants to build with us. Owners meet their next collaborator, freelancers meet their next client, and people two weeks into an idea meet the person who already made it work. Check the Latino business directory to see who is in the community, or meet the five co-founders who host every gathering.
Events FAQ
Coming to a Colado Event
First time? Here is everything you need to know before you show up.
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How We Gather
Two Ways to Connect
Colado
Quarterly
The main event. A full room at a minority-owned venue. Two hours of real introductions between entrepreneurs, creatives, and business owners who are serious about building in Baltimore. Hosted quarterly.
Coladito
Ongoing
Smaller. More intentional. Topic-driven. Coladito gathers a tighter group around a specific theme or conversation: financials, digital presence, business formation, community. These run between the main events and go deeper.
Seen at Colado
Nights That Actually Happened.
Colado Connects
Can't Make the Next One?
Events run on a schedule, and not everybody's is the same. Colado Connects pairs you with one person from the network for a single conversation, on your own time. It is the gathering scaled down to two chairs.
Latino Business Directory
The People You Meet Here Are Listed Here.
Walked out of a gathering with a name you want to work with? Most of them are in the directory, with what they do and how to reach them, so the introduction you made at the venue doesn't stop at the door.
Free to join, reviewed by hand, open to any Latino-owned business in the area.
Browse the DirectoryCategories in the directory
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Sponsor an Event
Every gathering on this page was paid for by somebody. Venue, food, printing, and the hours that go into filling a room with the right people.
Sponsors cover that, and their name sits on the night itself instead of in an ad break.
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Bodega and Vino
Baltimore, MD 路 Locust Point
A neighborhood wine bar, specialty bodega, and community gathering space in Locust Point. Coffee in the morning, tapas and wine at night. Always a seat for la comunidad.
They opened their space so nuestra gente could find each other. That's what this is supposed to feel like.
The Empanada Lady
Baltimore, MD 路 Downtown
Handmade empanadas and Latin flavors right in the middle of downtown Baltimore. The kind of spot you find once and immediately want to tell everyone about.
They opened their kitchen so nuestra gente could gather in May. That's what a real host does.
Stem & Vine
Baltimore, MD 路 Downtown
Plants in the front, wine at the bar, a greenhouse and a brick courtyard out back. Quincy Goldsmith built a place on North Charles that people already come to on an ordinary Thursday, no event required. Black-owned, and the rare room where strangers start talking on their own.
Quincy did not just unlock a door for us. He poured, he worked the room, and he got on the mic at the end to thank our people for filling his space. Go spend your money there.
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