đź“Ť Basic Info
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ZestFest is held at the Will Rogers Memorial Center (3401 W Lancaster Ave, Fort Worth, TX 76107).
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The 2025 edition is scheduled for May 23–25, 2025.
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It brands itself as a spicy food & BBQ festival: sampling hundreds of hot sauces, cooking demonstrations, eating contests, and lots of flavor-focused fun.
🎯 What Happens There
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Exhibitors: dozens of companies showcasing hot sauces, salsas, rubs, spicy condiments. Fort Worth Magazine+1
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Contests: for example the “Fiery Food Challenge”, jalapeño eating contests, other spicy food battles.
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Celebrity Chef demos & live stage presentations.
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Family-friendly options: while heavy on the spice, there are milder items and more general food & vendor booths as well. Fort Worth Magazine+1
| Exhibitor Company Name | Booth # |
| 1992 Honey Company | 221 |
| Adventure Sauces | 108 |
| All of Us | 507,606 |
| Amazing Awaze | 601 |
| Aunt May's LLC | 607 |
| Bando's Brand, LLC | 402 |
| Barbaro Mojo | 303 |
| Big Bully Turf | 305 |
| Boerne Brand | 512/514 |
| Breham Kitchens | 217 |
| Charla Foods LLC | 605 |
| Chef Heatley's Hot Pepper Farm | 302 |
| Chile Fiesta de Diabilitos | 421 |
| Click Heaters | 301 |
| Cowboy Spice Company | 511 |
| Cutco | 416 |
| Danielle's Sauces | 506 |
| Deep Fork Foods | 300 |
| Don Geraldo Foods, LLC | 322/324 |
| Down To Ferment | 422 |
| EGA Construction | 314 |
| Epic Therapeutix | 313 |
| Express Flooring | 403 |
| Freaky Ferments | 405 |
| Fxcking Hot Sauces | 411 |
| Gator Hammock | 525/624 |
| Grill Your Ass Off | 325 |
| Harmacy Hot Sauce Co | 413 |
| Hawaiian Honey Cones | 310 |
| Headstone Hot Sauce | 412 |
| Heritage 1857 | 503/505 |
| Infinity Knife Company | 521 |
| IQ & Itouch Lab By MD LLC | 104 |
| Jimmy's Hatch Pepper Salsa | 500 |
| Karma Sauce | 320 |
| Kitchen Craft Cookware | 620 |
| Klowns on Fire Gourmet Sauces | 311 |
| Leaf Filter Gutter Protection | 323 |
| Leafguard | 523 |
| Los Amaya's Salsa Co. | 516 |
| Mad Man Sauces | 423 |
| Majeza Jewelry Cleaner | 406 |
| Mickey's Mustard | 625 |
| Mike's All Purpose Seasoning | 616 |
| Mikey V's Foods | 315/317 |
| Momo's Michelada | 201/203 |
| Mrs. J's Heav'nly Delights | 100 |
| My Massage Pillow | 207 |
| O-Face Flavors | 603 |
| Old Bones Chilli Co | 510 |
| Old Saratoga Spice Rubs LLC | 316 |
| Pinky's Dist | 305 |
| People's Preference | 626/628/630 |
| Pepper & Thyme Foods, LLC | 312 |
| Point Blank Pepper Company | 407 |
| PuckerButt Pepper Company | 304/306 |
| Rebex Cutlery | 321 |
| Renewal by Andersen | 609 |
| Resort Vacations Inc. | 401 |
| Rippin' Rowleys | 302 |
| Spicy Caballero Seasonings LLC | 410 |
| Spicy Food Productions | 602/604 |
| St. Blane's Hot Sauce | 425 |
| Staggs BBQ | 424 |
| Statewide Remodeling | 225 |
| Sweet Diamond Foods, LLC | 414 |
| t0tsauce | 307 |
| Tahiti Joe Hot Sauces | 517 |
| Taspen's Organics | 211 |
| Texas Department of Agriculture - GO TEXAN | 213/215 |
| TEXtv | 513/515 |
| Texuela Salsa | 415 |
| The Cookie Crave | 118 |
| The Cooling Pillow & Cushion Guy | 610/612 |
| Theracare | 404 |
| Torcatha | 420 |
| Twissted Texas Foods LLC | 600 |
| Ultimate Creations InfiniteAloe Inc. | 417 |
| Vardkes | 520/522 |
| Victoria Chefina | 124 |
| Wicked Provisions/Chef Flaco's Salsa | 501 |
| Window Nation | 102 |
| Woodbridge Home Solutions | 502 |
| YDQ Designs | 614 |
| Zintex Remodeling Group | 524 |
