HOT SAUCE EVENTS
Join us to #stayspicy in person at hot sauce events, special tastings, spicy food challenges and more!
CURRENT HOT SAUCE EVENTS
Maker Heat & Greets!
121 Wythe Ave, Brooklyn
Meet your favorite sauce maker, sample new flavors and spicy snacks with us at our flagship Williamsburg, Brooklyn store.
- Little Dick's - Saturday 4/18
- Butterfly Bakery - Friday 4/24
Stop by to sample and tell us which flavor is your favorite!
NYC Hot Sauce Expo
APRIL 25 & 26, 2026 | INDUSTRY CITY
It’s Hot Sauce Expo time! We’ll be slinging sauce samples, selling Hot Ones sauces + HEATONIST merch. Plus, do a dab of The Last Dab to spin the prize wheel!
Use our code for 50% off tickets: HEAT
https://www.nychotsauceexpo.com/tickets
Where: Buildings 7&8, Industry City, 36th Street Brooklyn, NY
When: Saturday, 4/25 & Sunday, 4/26 10 AM - 6 PM
PREVIOUS HOT SAUCE EVENTS
HEATONIST HOLIDAY POP-UP @ FAD MARKET
Dec 13+14 11AM - 6PM
Join us for FAD Holiday Pop-Up in Cobble Hill! Browse the best, most flavorful gifts for everyone on your list.
We'll have hot sauce gift packs from Hot Ones, our HEATONIST anniversary sauce & more!
HEATONIST HOLIDAY POP-UP @ FAD MARKET
Dec 6 + 7 11AM - 6PM
Join us for FAD Holiday Pop-Up in Boerum Hill! Browse the best, most flavorful gifts for everyone on your list.
We'll have hot sauce gift packs from Hot Ones, our HEATONIST anniversary sauce & more!
Maker Heat & Greet: Djablo Hot Sauce
Meet Laura Dadap, the renaissance woman behind the first locally produced, family-owned Filipino hot sauce in the U.S.
Laura will be at our Brooklyn Shop on Saturday, 9/28 from 1-4pm, sampling her hot sauces with spicy Filipino snacks!
Stop by to sample and tell us which flavor is your favorite!
NYC HOT SAUCE EXPO
Join us at NYC Hot Sauce Expo on Saturday, September 20th! Taste the new Hot Ones lineup featuring flavor-packed sauces from small-batch makers plus our new summit of Mt. Scoville, The Last Dab Thermageddon! See how you stack up against the gauntlet, then take a photo in the hot seat.
Taste Hot Ones at Taste of Buffalo! July 12-13
Calling all Western New York spicy food lovers! For the first time ever, five Taste of Buffalo restaurants will team up with Hot Ones and First We Feast to create exclusive, heat-packed dishes utilizing the show’s legendary sauces. Attendees can put their taste buds to the test by experiencing delicious creations from:
- D.A. Taste
- Avenue29 Foods
- Carruba’s Chicken Pit
- Babcia’s Pierogi
- Lime House Sushi and Ramen
Festival-goers can visit Hot Ones and First We Feast’s Heat & Greet Pop-Up tent, where Buffalo’s own and internet fan favorite, Camera Guy Bill (Bill Drexler), will be serving up spicy selfies and daring tastings of the show’s iconic Last Dab hot sauce from 2–3 p.m. on both Saturday and Sunday. Camera Guy Bill will also serve as a celebrity food judge, with the special honor of determining which of the Hot Ones-exclusive dishes will come out on top for the inaugural Taste of Buffalo x Hot Ones Award
Maker Heat & Greet: Hook & Arrow Hot Sauce
Meet one of the makers on Hot Ones Season 27! Hook & Arrow was born out of brothers Sam and Henry Dziekan’s shared passion for food and the outdoors.
Henry will be at our Brooklyn Shop on Saturday, 7/12 from 1-4pm, sampling his Spicier Sauerkraut Hot Sauce as seen on the current season of Hot Ones, plus other small-batch flavors on pigs in a blanket.
Stop by to vote on which flavor is your favorite and sample spicy snacks!