Pepper Palace

Tons of free samples, super friendly service, and amazing selection of hot sauces with affordable prices. ¹⁰⁄₁₀ experience over here. The only downside was having my mouth on fire as I left

The pepper palace garlic buffalo sauce is the best sauce I have ever had on wings. LOVE THIS PLACE

I’m pretty sure that if you love hot sauce, died and went to heaven, you’d end up in Pepper Palace.
This is the second PP location I have been to (Baltimore). Both are pretty similar. They have shelf after shelf of hot sauce in varying degrees of heat as well as flavor profile. Their staff are very eager to help you find a hot sauce that suits your taste, so be prepared to peppered with questions about your heat tolerance. They have sampling bar in the middle of the store with different products that is always a great way to taste new sauces.
Lastly, they have my favorite hot sauce (Marie Sharp’s Belizean heat) and at an affordable price.

Whaaaaat! A store with nothing but hot sauce??? Yessir!
I couldn’t believe it!
I love hot sauce!
Like I read up on scoville units of different hot sauces «love».
Anyway the guy working was really sweet and helpful.
I took their hot sauce challenge and survived.
They have some cute novelty foods too.

Time: 3:17pm/76°F partly sunny
Purpose: Working the Fisherman Wharf area for the day. Got a late start for other part of the city. Went ahead did area so I don’t have to later in the week.
Set-​up: PP located in fisherman wharf main strip. It’s a place that sells hot sauce of any kind and make. Inside is wall to wall fill with sauce bottles. Center area is where samples are located. Both side have acrylic dipping slots built in for sauce to be sample off. Shelves have bottle of many region, state or country represented. Bright lively place with not much foot traffic when I was in. PP will put a smile on people who does BBQ quite often. Anyone who comes in will either sneeze multiple time or have a bit of teary eye. The more you walk towards back, the stronger pepper linger in air. Parents with kids should take note here.
Staff: A guy and girl around mid 20s. Warm and friendly offering samples no matter if you buy something or not. The guy explain to me no double dipping as I never would do that anyway, its bad etiquette. Being overwhelm on where to start. I ask what the hottest sauce you have here? From there the knowledge begins.
Cleanliness: Grade A, all items fully face on shelves no mess on sampling slots. Not a drop of hot sauce or tortilla chip on ground. All bottles with cap sealed never twisted open. Fully stocked place.
Bagging It: Didn’t buy anything just wanted to know info and I got it. Now, I know if I wanted hot pepper for a prank or use it myself, I can certainly find it here. I’m interested in Hatch Chili Co, but they don’t carry them.
Main Features: Flashbang hot sauce 1oz-​$ 24.95
Products/​Services:
Takes plastic, running promotion, samples, recipe, gift basket.
Punch Lines: Friendly, clean, well stock, import/​international item, 18+ yr old to try samples, tourist area, sauce of every level, lots of sneezing, not kid friendly, state by state brand.
Tradeoffs: The deal of buy 5 and get one free is somewhat a waste. Most people won’t even see second bottle use up by the time expiration date turns up on third bottle.
Final Thoughts: These type of places will only make it being in area like fisherman wharf. This place is all about high end hot sauce no Tabasco stuff. Most are made yearly with one time showing. Depending on which state you live in, I’m pretty sure you can find a local hot sauce. Come if you want to try out some samples to get a feel of what they’ve. It’s not just hot sauce here. There are some history and story behind each bottle.

This place is awesome, and I say this as someone who can’t even really handle spicy food! Located right off the pier, the first thing that catches your eye is the longest row of samples I have ever seen. They provide you with unlimited chip bits that you can dip into their probably 60+ different sauce samples. They range from mild to super xx hot. My favorite was the mild mango bbq sauce.
There’s also a «world’s spiciest sauce» challenge that my friend completed. You basically have to successfully eat 3 drops of their spiciest sauce and then you get your picture on their digital wall. Definitely worth a try if you like your hot sauce!

Raddest
Place (for hot-​sauce)
Ever
Knowledgeable, accommodating staff. Burned my guts out with the Flashbang sauce waiver-​only sample. Great stuff! Something for everything. Wow, glad we found this place! Awesome.

This place is awesome if you love the SPICY! The entire middle section of the store is filled with samples of all the sauces and salsas, with tortilla chips to try hen with. I bought the XXSPICY salsa cuz it kicked my butt! I couldn’t swallow for hours! Haha! I love it! I also tried the super scary sauce that’s in a flashbang case. I signed a waiver before I got a taste of it. It was GOOD! I regret not taking the 4drop challenge. I could have gotten my picture on the wall of fame – next time :)
Lastly, the people working there are so friendly and helpful and really nice. Overall a really great experience!

If your a «wimp» like me when it comes to Hot Sauce well let me introduce you to the Pepper Palace! I LOVE this place. What great way to cater to people who can only take so much HEAT :).
Located in the heart of the Pier Fisherman’s Wharf, this place is filled with everything from salsa’s, Hot Sauce, Marinades, seasoning, Ketchup… man the list goes on and on…
Walking in they have the middle part of the table that are all different levels of samples ranging from (mild, medium, hot, extra hot) Say What? People can really do the Extra Hot? WOW!
I’m talking about Shelves and shelves of sauces of all different types. It probably will take you hours to go through the whole shelves of things that they have.
The workers are ALL very nice and actually take time to see what interest you and recommend flavors for you to try.
I truly didn’t know we had great unique places like this in San Francisco!
Amazing place and I would definitely be back to come and buy sauces and taste some more of their flavors!

Love, love, LOVE this spot! Can’t even begin to say enough good things about this hot sauce store! We went in expecting a limited supply and walked out with myriad hot sauces, salsas, barbecue rubs, drink mixes and more! The inventory was unreal and the staff was over-​the-​top in terms of service, helpfulness and knowledge about their products. We loved the unlimited free samples as well — great way to decide that we wanted everything in the store ha, and incredible tasty to boot! An absolute MUST for anyone in the Fisherman’s Wharf or any visitor to SF! We ended up walking out with Christmas gifts for all our family and friends, many of them San Francisco-​themed knick-​knacks. Thank you, Pepper Palace!

If you’re a fan of hot sauce, this place was made for people like you. Me personally? Not really my jam, but there’s a metric tonne of things here relating to sauces, marinades, rubs, and seasonings. Most of it’s hot sauce for all heat preferences (except I doubt they cater to «wimp» levels that I prefer), so check it out if you’re looking for that hard-​to-​find sauce from another country for yourself or as a gift if you want to freak out a friend or loved one.
There’s a lot of taste-​testing stations scattered around so you can try out various dips, appropriately labeled if you’re avoiding blowing your head off with anything. The chip choice for dipping is plain nachos, which I personally felt detracted from the taste of the sauce, but that might be my own picky palate.

This place as an amazing assortment of everything spicy. Jams, relishes, hot sauce, BBQ sauce, spicy ketchup, mustard, and even spicy nut mixes. They organize their little store so well that it works in such a small space. Over 100 (seriously) samples are out and all organized from mild to mega hot. One guy there even signed the waiver to try their hottest and take their 4 drop challenge! The only reason why I am not rating 5 stars is because the one sample I wanted to try (my husband is the one who likes spice), was out and not refilled =[ I did not want to ask the nice lady to refill it because she seemed so busy, so I went without which was a bummer…

Collections of hot sauces fascinate me and I don’t know why. Walking in to Pepper Palace, you don’t just see a few dozen bottles of hot sauce. You’re greeted by shelves of hot sauces to the ceiling! For the most part, most hot sauces are the same. Some come with comical labels and that’s what you buy them for. However, the variety here is substantially wider than a mere series of novelty bottles. You’ll find every flavor nuance, mustards, salsas and more. Around the center is a large tasting area as well, so if you’re stomach can handle the abuse, grab a chip and try something hot!

Decided to stop in here while walking around Fisherman’s Wharf and it was such a cool store! They have every sauce you need and some fantastic dry rubs. Everything is try before you buy.

Hands down the best store in fishermans wharf ! Great selection of sauces, butters, jellies, olive oil and the BEST BBQ sauce (honey chipotle rum) I’ve ever had.
Must stop for both locals and tourist!

Hot Sauce, Salsa, BBQ Sauce, and everything spicy. Location just opened in Fisherman’s Wharf. Really helpful, upbeat staff. Evan and Taylor (I think that is her name) knew their stuff on all the solid products. Yes, this is a chain with many locations but it is a Great addition to Fisherman’s Wharf esp if you are stuck down there against your will.
This is the first location on the West Coast.
They have samples of almost everything on a serve yourself pepper bar. I ended it with 7 different things-​including BBQ sauce, 2 wing sauces and the Bloody Mary Mix.
Try the bloody Mary Mix– it is excellent (the sample was chilled).
They have an online store so if you cannot carry it you can order when you get home.
They also have nuts, pickles, oils and plenty of hot sauces.
Give them a try, you will not be disappointed