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
Alberto’s Food Products, Inc.
Apicklelypse
Bindu Bites
Boerne Brand
Cain’s Hot Sauce
FREAKY FERMENTS
Goodburn Sauce Company
Jaime’s Spanish Village
Mad Man Sauces
Mikey V’s Foods
Old Bones Chilli Co LLC
Poor Vida Hot Sauce
Savir Foods
Sizzlin Seeds
Stanky Sauce
t0tsauce
Tasty Amy’s
Undead Pepper Co
Wicked Provisions Hot Sauce
RESTAURANT:
El Patio
ELDORADO CAFE
Fairways Cantina
GUPPYS-Indian Fried Chicken
Industry
Posse East
Tacobaby
Tacodeli
Veracruz All Natural/Veracruz Fonda & Bar
VIVO Modern TexMex
Yellow Ranger
INDIVIDUAL:
Anders Dowd
Angelika Gritzka
Brian Alexander
Brian McCabe
Bud Spaar
Dr. Trevor Hale
Ember Duckworth
Eric Wheeler
Jeff Cox
Julie Oliver
Maria Cochran
Mark Alexin
Mark Kobdish
Marvin Perez
Mary Welch
Sal Solano
Tina McMillin
