Pokemon in Rochester, NY
65 card shows on the calendar, 6 shops with a door and an address, and 11 kitchens that will put a garbage plate in front of you. This is a card town and most of the internet has no idea.
Around here
What is actually here
Shows you can drive to, shops you can walk into, and the plate the channel is named after. Where a number is thin, it says so.
- 65card shows
On 49 different days in 14 towns, from September 5, 2026 to December 12, 2027. Listed on the card show calendar.
- 30of 67 weeks
have a show somewhere in reach. That is the number worth knowing: not how many there are, but whether there is one on the weekend you are free.
- 7card shops
6 of them with a door, an address and opening hours, and 4 publishing organized play you can show up to. All on the shop list.
- 11places serve a plate
Under 11 different names, because Nick Tahou Hots holds the trademark on the two words everybody else has to work around. 11 sources and 11 photographs on the plate page.
- 4vendors and creators
And this is the thin one. 2 on the vendor list, 2 on the creator list. Not a survey of the area: a count of who has been in touch, and both pages now say exactly how to change it.
Where to go
The next 4 shows
Pulled from the same list as the calendar page, which holds 65 in total across 3 areas and checked on September 1, 2026.
- Sep 5, 2026 Batavia Sports Card, Toys & Collectible ShowQuality Inn, Batavia
- Sep 6, 2026 Buffalo Prime Time Sports Card ShowM Hotel, Buffalo
- Sep 6, 2026 Prime Time Trading Card ShowVenue at Lakeside, Syracuse
- Sep 12, 2026 Buffalo Sports Card ConventionPolish Falcons Club, Depew
Open all week
The shops with a door
A show is a Saturday. These are open the rest of the week, and 4 of the 7 publish organized play you can show up to. Addresses, phone numbers, hours and league nights are on the shop page, because one shop's opening hours should live in one place.
- LingSter Games West Ridge Road, Rochester, NY
- Millennium Games Jefferson Road, Henrietta
- Just Games Panorama Plaza, Penfield
- Legacy Games Ridge Road, Webster
- Great Lakes Gaming South Clinton Avenue, downtown
- WeTheHobby Arlington Street, Neighborhood of the Arts
- GI Cards and Collectibles Geneva, in the Finger Lakes
Why the name
The channel is named after this
A Garbage Plate is two mains on a bed of home fries and macaroni salad with hot sauce poured over the lot, and outside Monroe County almost nobody has heard of it. A rip with nothing in it is a garbage rip. That is the whole joke and it is also the reason a Pokemon channel from here is called what it is.
11 places around Rochester, NY serve one, under 11 different names: Nick Tahou Hots holds the trademark on the words Garbage Plate, so everybody else calls theirs something else. That page carries 11 sources and 11 photographs, and it also names the 5 things nobody could source rather than guessing at them.
The part that is missing
The people, and where this page is short
The shows and the shops above are a real answer to what is here. The two pages about PEOPLE are not one yet: 2 vendors and 2 creators, in a region that fills 65 shows between Sep 5, 2026 and Dec 12, 2027. Those two numbers do not belong on the same page and the fix is not to write more names down, it is to be told them.
Nobody is going on either list who has not been checked, which is the whole reason a local list is worth more than a directory, and it is also why it grows slowly. If you sell at the shows, or you film around here, or you just watch somebody local who deserves the traffic, that is the fastest way this page stops being short.
A shop, a show, a vendor, a creator, or anything else local this page has missed: email it straight to garbagerips585@gmail.com. No form, no sign up, and every listing gets checked before it goes up.
Get on the vendor list Get on the creator list Email the channel
All of it
Everything local, in one place
- Card shows65 coming up around Rochester, NY, Buffalo and Syracuse, with the dates and the venues.
- Card shops7 shops, 6 with a door and an address, what each one is good for, and where you can sit down and play.
- Local vendorsPeople who sell, usually at the shows. 2 so far, and the page says how to be the next one.
- Local creatorsOther people around here making Pokemon content. 2 so far, in no particular order and never ranked.
- Garbage PlateThe dish, its history, and the 11 places that serve one. Every claim on it carries a source.
- The ripsThe channel itself: packs opened in Rochester, NY, mostly ending in garbage. That is the name.