We're Getting Fired Up About This Hot Sauce Festival In Peckham

Over 40 purveyors of fiery elixirs will be in attendance. Image: Alistair Veryard

If you enjoy the spicier things in life, an annual festival in Peckham is sure to you fired up.

On Saturday 9-Sunday 10 May 2026, the Hot Sauce Society Festival makes a sizzling comeback at Copeland Park. Over 40 independent hot sauce makers dish up their scorching elixirs, including the award-winning Big Ginger Sauce Co, Maame T’s (we’re told they do a great spicy shrimp sauce), Makan Malaysian and the Grenadian Scotch Rocket.

A woman with her face painted with flames

The festival’s for serious fans of the flaming hot. Image: Alistair Veryard

How many types of hot sauce can you try in one day? Image: Alistair Veryard

Though sauces can be tasted neat, you can also dig into spicy (and less piquant) eats from the likes of Oh My Dog and Chick N Sours. And you can quench that fire raging in your mouth with chilled beers from Gipsy Hill Brewery, frozen Cazcabel margs, and tubs of Nonna’s Gelato. Phew.

A man dabbing his eyes among a crowd of chilli eaters

You’ll see plenty of people with tears rolling down their faces. Hopefully it’s just the sauce doing that. Image: Alistair Veryard

Fortunately there is gelato too… Image: Alistair Veryard

Napalming your taste buds aside, the festival sees chilli face painting (going to assume that’s not painting your face with actual hot sauce…), while Hop Burns and Black — local peddlers of beer, chilli sauce and vinyl — present Chilli Karaoke, where you’re invited to sing your heart out while battling the heat of a scotch bonnet. Songs, we would hope, would include Hot in Herre, Heatwave… and absolutely anything by Red Hot Chili Peppers.

Hot Sauce Society Festival, Peckham, 9-10 May 2026.

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