Pepper Palace

Great shop for every hot sauce pretty much under the sun. I love hot sauces and this business probably has the best selection I’ve ever seen. Reasonable prices too. Oh, they also have salsas and wing sauces too.

This place is awesome! They have more than just hot sauce. They have BBQ sauces, different ketchup a and mustards, salsa and some spices. When you go in there you get to taste a lot of different sauces. The staff members are always really nice and helpful. Great place!

Pepper Palace is AWESOME! But, this 6^th trip there, was disappointing. We showed up at 7:15 and they close at 7:30. The hourly employee was more concerned about closing shop that taking care of customers. He actually asked us to not make a mess when opening the few samples still out. We tried a few items, bought what we needed and left.
The shame is that I’ve been to 4 other Pepper Palace locations and live to buy new stuff. I guess this location has lowered their standards for tourists during peak hours.

Awesome place. So many options and so many samples/​tastings. Bought a spicy mustard and am obsessed with it. Been making extra sandwiches just to eat it.

Outstanding and varied selection of hot sauces and just about anything else you can effectively put chili peppers in. Make no mistake, this is a touristy shop in the heart of the tourist district. Still, it is a worthwhile for locals and visitors alike.
Bonus: An impressively legitimate assortment of decently-​priced Indian spices towards the back of store.

For a hot sauce lover this place is great — they have everything! They sell everything from low key marinades to the worlds hottest sauce. I got a few gifts for myself and others :) you can taste basically everything before you buy it, and many if the sauces are made by them. A little touristy but hey ;)

Bring your taste for all things spicey and a tissue. You will find things from mildly boring to blow your socks off hot, and everything in between. They have some interesting sauces, pepper jelly, bbq rubs, and anything else you can spice up. We tasted our way through the store, and ultimatley left with spicey pineapple pickles, which are really good, hot habenero salsas, other hotter than hell sauces, and couple of bbq rubs. When we left, we headed straight to Wild Wing Café for an ice cold beer! Not a bad way to spend a Saturday afternoon!

The simple fact that they make you sign a waiver to try out a hot sauce called «flashbang» is enough.
For me, I was sold that they allow samples of practically every product. I probably would not have bought anything if it wasn’t for that. Let’s be candid, these kitsch shops for tourists are all over the place, but this one’s not half bad.
If you love sauces, relishes, BBQ to hot sauces then this might just be your place. They rate the sauces levels 1 through 10 to 10+ and have exotic to joke bottles to your classic Tabasco. I’m a fan of mustard, and I tried a citrus Dijon mustard that was divine for as far as mustard goes if you like em sweet.
I only sampled a few… some in my range, some a little daring. Be aware that you might burn yourself. I ended up with a few tiny ulcers. Haha. Nothing bothersome, however. They also have signs up that say 18 plus, but I’m unsure how hard they enforce that.
Anyways, another worthwhile stop for people touring For City Market or diehard hot sauce people but maybe not worth the run to just check it out.

This is a fun little touristy place in downtown Charleston. The sell hundreds of different hot sauces and barbecue sauces. They have a wide variety in order to cater to a wide crowd. The staff is very friendly and knowledgable of the products. The one big downside is everything is overpriced.

Happened to walk past this place during my hunt for some Charleston souvenirs in City Market. I’m thrilled that my curiosity got the best of me. My wife and I must have tasted close to 40 different hot sauces, from sweet to tangy, to downright unbearable (beware of their house brand ghost chili hot sauces!) I found the right balance of sweet, salty and spicy in the «Mountain Q Honey Habanero BBQ Sauce», which has a spiciness rating of 8 on their 1 – 10 scale. I am completely in love with that sauce! Along with that, we took home a bottle of the «Southern Peach & Vidalia Onion Hot Sauce» and the «Slap Ya Mama Cajun Seasoning». I must say, home cooking hasn’t been the same since. Pepper Palace’s website says there’s an Orlando store «coming soon». Must admit… I am hot with anticipation. ;-)

Mmmm! This is the place to go when you are look for any type of sauce, marinade, salsas/​dips, etc. They have quite a collection in all various types of flavors and you can taste every single one! The staff is quite knowledgeable in each thing and can answer your questions with confidence.

I love that you get to sample everything before you decide on purchasing. I bought the house made Bloody Mary mix, Nasal Napalm Horseradish and Chipotle Mustard and I can’t wait to use them at home. They have everything from hot sauce (level 1 – 10), salsa, mustard, mayo, spice rubs and seasoning at reasonable prices. I paid $ 27 for my purchase. Very happy with my visit. Every flavor of hot sauce etc. that you can imagine.

Last time we visited charleston we stopped here just because we were walking around town and doing some touristy shopping. We walked and my bf was in love. Spicy food is heaven for him so to test out dozens of spicy mustards, BBQ sauces, ketchup sand got sauces was a dream come true. I think we spent almost an hour there and left with some serious stuff.
Of course we ran out pretty quickly and were highly anticipating our visit back to Charleston so we can stop here again. And the first day we were back we came straight here.
They offered a buy 5 get a 6^th item free and we took that offer without issue.

Holy hot sauce, Batman!
It’s safe to say that I have never been to a hot sauce emporium before I stepped through the doors of Pepper Palace so I probably don’t have much of a baseline for comparison. However, I do know that the experience I had here could not be beat!
If you are a fan of hot sauce, salsa, or BBQ sauce, then this my friend is the store for you! The walls are bursting with all the heat packing goodies you could imagine. Plus there are free samples of nearly everything!
The first time I visited here I was looking for a gift for a hot sauce and salsa aficionado friend of mine. The gentleman working there (who I believe is one of the owners) was super friendly and helpful as he answered any questions that we had, gave recommendations, and encouraged us to sample freely and liberally. Needless to say, I left with just as many «gifts» for myself as I did for her.
The shop is very conveniently located on Market Street right outside downtown’s City Market. However, this convenience probably also allows the owners to increase the price of their items to a degree given the large influx of tourists they must bring in (I’m assuming). Regardless, the prices are not outrageous while the quality of the goods is indeed excellent.

This truly is a palace for us hot sauce lovers. They have every kind of sample lined up in the store with tortilla chips. There was so many sauces you could have imagined, this was my kid in the candy shop experience for sure! They have a Wall Of Flame they do, which I wont participate EVER again haha but. They give you a Ghost Pepper sauce on a chip and I think a habanero sauce and right after, then they make you hold this Horseradish in your mouth and that is what sets it off! I was crying my eyes out afterwards and then they take a picture of you. I LOVE hot sauce, eat it with everything, but after that it literally took about 30 minutes to get that hot out of our mouth, we had to keep stopping for more water or something to cool the burn. Cool experience defiantly make a stop in to sample and check out the different varieties.
Customer service was very friendly as well :)

This store is the best tourist trap store ever! You get sample your heart out and have an overwhelming amount of options. The store manager Brian was very helpful and offered up some great tips on enjoying Charleston as well as some awesome sauces. In fact the service was amazing and the manager was very knowledgeable and passionate about all of the products. The sauces are great to.

Great place to try out hot sauces, marinades, salsas, and anything else you can dip a chip in. They have ghost peanuts that were hot but not as hot as I thought. they number everything 1 – 10 with 10 being the hottest. The place is organized by categories and easy to walk around without being maliciously molested by staff. An employee introduced himself and gave us the quick rundown and told us to enjoy. This is how I like to shop. My only complaint that if you have hot sauces that maybe a drinking fountain would be beneficial.
This is a nice place for men to stop in while their wives slowly meander through the market that took me only 5 minutes to walk through.

Great place to test out a bunch of sauces. Everything from marinades, bbq sauces to chocolate sauces. They have tons of bottles out for sampling with chips. They are numbered 1 – 10, 10 being the spiciest. A fun, relaxed environment and friendly staff!

Big, Neat, plenty of selections for chilis, BBQ sauce, and all kind if seasoning