![]() ![]() If possible please take public transportation, carpool, arrange a ride, rideshare, or ride your bike! Rideshare pickups and drop-offs should be directed to the northeast corner parking lot of the venue, located at Ralph Ablanedo Drive and South Congress. Please respect all parking signs to avoid being towed. Attendees are discouraged from parking in the neighborhoods adjacent to the festival. Designated public parking for $10 is located a short walk from the venue at 220 Ralph Ablanedo. Limited on-site parking will be available at the Far Out Lounge & Stage for $20. Prior to the event the cost is $10, with $5 of each ticket going to the Central Texas Food Bank. ![]() Feel free to post about your win and use #HotSauceFest. One vote per person for each hot sauce bottler category (red, green, special variety, and pepper). People's Choice voting will take place from 3 to 7pm inside the Far Out's main building. Winners will be announced during the festival.Ĭommercial hot sauces are available to the public for tasting and voting in the People's Choice on the day of the festival. Voting is by a panel of judges chosen by our Food editor, Melanie Haupt, and takes place in advance. While we have reduced the size of the festival, our mission to support the Central Texas Food Bank and local Texans in need remains our biggest goal and is the heart of our cause for hosting this event every year. Restaurants and individuals who have competed in previous years have been invited to return to a modified version of our Hot Sauce Festival and competition. In the past, sauces have included fruit salsas, dried-pepper salsas, and even a purple sauce! Categories of hot sauce include red, green, special variety, and pepper (the hottest category) and are designed to leave enough room for a wide variety of styles. This gives us the opportunity to recognize salsas made fresh daily in restaurants, those made for store shelves, and the ones made by independent sauciers. The contest is separated into three classes of competition: commercial bottlers, restaurants, and individuals. The blind-tasting competition for commercial bottlers, restaurants, and individually submitted hot sauces is conducted by a panel of notable personalities see more about them here. Scenes from last year's Hot Sauce Festival at the Far Out Lounge and Stage (Photo by Jana Birchum)Īt the heart of The Austin Chronicle Hot Sauce Festival is the contest itself. ![]()
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