Magnolia Sugar & Spice

If you love hot sauce then you’ll love this place. You can sample over 20 hot sauces! Now that’s cool. Don’t worry if hot sauces aren’t your thing, they have seasoning, marinated olives, and kitchen accessories NOLA style. It is touristy, but that’s what I am here

This place is a Tourist Trap with two capital «t’s»! As long as you know that going in, there’s still plenty to like about this shop. The highlight is the large hot sauce tasting bar in the middle of the store — it’s self serve so pop in and try a few gimmicky sauces. During the daytime you can watch fresh pralines (a sugary sweet New Orleans candy) being made in the open observation kitchen. FREE SAMPLES of those too! Lots of NOLA themed souvenirs for sale and row upon row of hot sauces with funny labels. Note that this place is overpriced; we bought a bottle of hot sauce here for $ 10 that we later saw in other stores around town for $ 6.