Austin’s hottest tradition, the Austin Chronicle Hot Sauce Festival, returns on Sunday, Aug. 30, 3-9pm. The venue is new – this year, we’re moving the action to Radio/East – but everything else is what you’ve come to expect from this late summer rite of passage: excellent tunes, tasty food truck bites, cold drinks, and, of course, blistering hot sauces. Attendees can sample and take home commercial bottler hot sauces at the festival and vote for their favorites in the People’s Choice Awards from 3-7pm before awards are doled out (5pm: Individual & Restaurants; 7:45pm: Commercial & People’s Choice).
Check out this year’s competitors below, and get all your burning questions answered, including how to buy tickets ($20 pre-sale / $25 at the door), at our Hot Sauce Festival online hub.
COMMERCIAL:
Aji Pepper Sauce Brand
Albert’s Famous Mexican Hot Sauce
Apicklelypse
Barbaro Mojo
Bindu Bites
Boerne Brand
Cain’s Hot Sauce
Cowboy Spice Company
Fantastic Fuego
FREAKY FERMENTS
Goodburn Sauce Company
Grill Your Ass Off
Herbert’s
High Seas Provisions
Hill Country Hot Peppers DBA Still Fire Provisons
Jaime’s Spanish Village
Mad Man Sauces
Mikey V’s Foods
Old Bones Chilli Co LLC
Poor Vida Hot Sauce
Savir Foods
Sizzlin Seeds
Spicy Dadda
Stanky Sauce
t0tsauce
Tasty Amy’s
Undead Pepper Co
Ville’s Jamaican Hot Pepper Sauce
Wicked Provisions Hot Sauce
RESTAURANT:
El Patio
ELDORADO CAFE
Fairways Cantina
GUPPYS-Indian Fried Chicken
Industry
Las Lomas Tex-Mex
LeRoy and Lewis BBQ
Posse East
Sazon
Spread & Co
St. Elmo
Tacobaby
Tacodeli
The ABGB
Veracruz All Natural/Veracruz Fonda & Bar
VIVO Modern TexMex
Yellow Ranger
INDIVIDUAL:
Anders Dowd
Angelika Gritzka
Brian Alexander
Brian McCabe, Left Hand Jelly
Bud Spaar
David Cook, Cooks & Kings
Dawit Haile, Awayo Eritrean Hot Sauce (Daowheat Foods LLC)
Dr. Trevor Hale
Ember Duckworth
Eric Wheeler, Spicy Situation
Jeff Cox
Jessica Wynn, Velvet Knife Foods
Jesus Yanez, La Salsa
Jimmy Anderson
Julie Oliver
Lee Nudelman
Maggie Livingston, Dos Margaritas Salsa
Maria Cochran
Mark Alexin
Mark Kobdish
Marvin Perez
Mary Welch
Natalia Ramirez
Sal Solano
Tina McMillin
