The wait is over – tomorrow (Saturday, August 18) is the first-ever Hot Sauce Fest, happening in Ballard Commons Park. In addition to a sampling of some of the best hot sauces in the country, there will be several food trucks, a beverage garden with local beer and cocktails, and a mainstage with performances all day.
The festival, put on by local nonprofit The World is Fun, kicks off at 11am with the cocktail and beer garden, lawn games and kids’ activities. The mainstage gets going at noon with a cocktail demo, followed by stand-up comedy from Monica Nevi at 1pm, and a hot sauce making demo at 2pm. After the demo, there will be a performance from Jeff Greer, interactive games, and stand-up from comedians Brett Hamil and Emmet Montgomery. The mainstage will end with a screening of Nacho Libre at 8:30pm.
Over a dozen hot sauce companies will be offering samples, including Ballyhoo, Secret Aardvark, Fire Flower and Samfuego. At least a dozen food trucks will be at the festival, including Bread Circuses, Hallava Falafel, Full Tilt, Secret Sausage, Galaxy Donuts, Nacho Mamas and more.
For a full line-up and more details about the festival, click here.
Brett Hamil, the famous comic who hates Ballard as a NIMBY hellscape. Let’s give him a big welcome, shall we? To access these links, delete the space after “https” — https: //southseattleemerald.com/2018/05/12/humor-mike-the-menance/ and https: //twitter.com/BrettHamil/status/941033278659633152 are rather eye-opening!
Thanks for sharing these! That first article is particularly funny and well-written, and I didn’t know about those awful comments he was pointing out on that FB group until now. Seems like an insightful guy, I’m glad he’ll be in our neighborhood.
I didn’t know much about him until your comment, but now I’m looking forward to giving him a big Ballard welcome right alongside you!
I never found him funny. He did tell one good one, though. At the time of Kshama’s massive protests, Hamil tweeted something along the lines that “we should take Amazon under democratic control”. Now _that_ was funny.
(Hamil’s a Sawantist; he credits her with his political ‘awakening’–the rest of his adult life apparently being a long nap).
All the yes’. Cannot wait.