https://youtu.be/BLKMUaWfLSw If you need some sauce, forget the grocery store..forget amazon.. Light my fire got you! ;-) Www.tonybossinc.com read more

I'm not a hot sauce girl but the picture and conversation value alone is worth stopping by this joint to browse...I was in the area for the market but had a blast looking the ridiculously funny bottles of different sauces.. Maybe not kid friendly... I'm sure you can get some "saucy" and perhaps questionably tasteful gifts for ladies or gents in your life... read more

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They have an AMAZING selection of hot sauces from all over the world. I come here specifically for my favorite (Tabanero) and the staff (and the owner) are truly knowledgeable, friendly and accommodating for bigger orders. LOVE this place!!! read more

Light My Fire had a really awkward vibe, thanks to the lady working. She kept side-eyeing customers and yelling at people for taking photos. I'm not sure what the reasoning behind their no-photo policy is, especially in this era of social media. Don't you want free advertising for your small business? There were a few things I considered purchasing but the rude clerk (owner?) made it too uncomfortable. The prices were a bit inflated anyway. read more

While browsing the extensive selection of hot sauces, I was taking pictures, sending to my family back in Arizona so they could pick several for me to purchase. The ruse lady behind the counter came out and said "No Pictures!". I politely explain that I was simply sending pictures of their products back to determine what to purchase to which she simply replied again no pictures. It's unfortunate that a specialty shop is so insecure and today's day and age. I would love to have purchased several selections unfortunately I'll be taking my business to Amazon instead. read more

The best hot sauce store I have ever been to. They have hundreds and hundreds of every type of hot sauce imaginable from mild to insanely hot. If you are into hot sauce this is your spot read more

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Have you ever thought to yourself, wow, how cool would it be to line the walls with hot sauce? How about, bottles of hot sauce make mean stocking stuffers? Or, man, I'd really like to take a bath in a giant pool of hot sauce right now. If you can answer yes to any of the above, this is the spot. They've got it all. And then some. And a few more for good measure. Look no further, if it's hot and saucy, it's here! read more

IMAGINE for a moment... wall-to-wall hot sauce and marinade. IMAGINE now... all of your prayers answered as the offspring of a father who already has everything and who will try to barbeque anything that will hold still long enough to slam the lid down. And now IMAGINE.... the WORST customer service ever. I was introduced to this seemingly awesome little store in the Farmer's Market during my Melting Pot tour a couple of months ago. I nearly wept just thinking about how the next Father's Day, birthday, and Christmas would no longer be spent wracking my brain for an innovative gift for my dad, who already has EVERYTHING and is impressed by nothing. I visited again in person, where they instructed me that I should place my order online instead and have it shipped to the other side of the continent. Compliant, I went home and purchased $100 worth of merchandise, and felt relatively certain that I had just accomplished a mission impossible. The heavens parted and tiny cherubs pressed their rosy rear ends together to form little hearts in the ethereal rainbows above. Unfortunately, what they neglected to tell me in the store was that there is only one person who actually checks email and processes their online orders, and that person was OUT OF TOWN for awhile. Naturally no one thought to put a disclaimer on the website alerting sons and daughters of high maintenance fathers that their orders not only would not arrive in time for Father's Day, but they wouldn't even be processed until many days afterward. So IMAGINE my shock when my dad did not receive the gift I had presumably ordered/shipped the week prior. After various emails back and forth, it was established that they had not even processed the order yet. With the holiday ruined, and having placed my order 10 business days prior, I thought it would be appropriate for them to ship my items for free using expedited shipping. The owner declined, saying she would throw in some free product. I'm sorry, but when you charge me $25 alone for shipping in the first place, and totally screw up my order and Father's Day, I think you owe me a little more in the way of customer service than a random bottle of BBQ sauce. IMAGINE yourself not encouraging poor customer service by boycotting this establishment altogether. read more

I always want to buy something when I walk in here, but come out empty handed. This time around, I bought a garlic-flavored hot sauce that carried only a rating of 6 on the "hot" scale. When I got home, I immediately tried it out, and while it carried a nice kick, I wanted more. Next time, I'm going for a 9 or 10 rated hot sauce. Yes, I need to up the ante on the Scoville scale. All the varieties of hot sauces and their profanity laced labels are entertaining to look at, but it's a shame that they are all priced so high. I know it's tough to do, but it would be awesome if they could put out some hot sauce samples, just to give potential customers something to try out. I would definitely be more inclined to buy more. Customer service here seems to be non-existent every time I walk in. Sure, it can get boring just sitting there manning the cash register. But not even a hello or "how can I help" thrown out, just a statue-like daze and silence. I overheard someone asking the guy if he had tried every hot sauce in the store. The employee replied, yes. So when I bought my hot sauce, I asked him to recommend a good hot sauce that compares to the omnipresent Tapatio. He simply shrugged. Light my fire? More like a tiny sizzle. read more

Hot sauce, BBQ sauce, jams, ketchup and more hot sauce rocking everywhere. We found you Light My Fire, let's get it together and bring some spicy ness home. Cough up the cash and these will last us about a week or two. Squirt some in your mouth then see what might happen. Get a grip. Get a grip. Get a grip. Tapatio or Siracha I don't need you, but you need me. Take it off, squirt it off, shake it all off. And don't tell anyone I'm gonna mix you up with other sauces. I'll let them be the judge how you taste. So located at the Grove Farmer's Market. Perfect place for all you hot sauce fiend (the babe). As mentioned above there is also other things besides hot sauce, even coffee is sold here. Kick Ass products are even offered here, not much but they have the popcorn I love. The cool part about coming here is the packaging of these hot sauces. The names they come up with is hilarious. Quite a few absurd ones. Pictures are not allowed to be taken inside but outside most of what you see inside is facing them outside too. The hot sauces are numbered (I believe) from what is hot through super duper extreme hot. Anyway cool place. If you're tired of your ordinary sauce come here and check out the place. If you gotta use the card there is a minimum so be prepared to bring in cash if your only buying one item. read more

Dogs bark. Cats meow. And I put hot sauce on everything. That's just how the world works. Nothing out of the ordinary. This is where I go to satisfy my hot sauce cravings. They have everything under the sun and they rate the heat from 1 - 10... then there's the off the scale stuff. You can buy hot sauce that would ruin your innards here. I'm talking about the kind of stuff that requires you to sign a liability waiver or that comes in a child-proof bottle with an eye dropper inside. The kind of stuff you can't even put directly on your food; you have to use the eye dropper to put two drops in a caldron of soup. Pure heat. Some hot sauces are really tasty and good. Some just have a ridiculous name or picture. Whether you're buying hot sauce as a gag or for a true connoisseur, You're going to find what you're looking for. This shop is tiny enough for you to peruse the shelves and figure out what you want, but don't expect a lot of help from the staff. It's not that kind of place. My friend always asks me to bring him some hot sauce from this shop when I go overseas to visit him. They validate for Farmer's Market parking, not the Grove. You know the difference, right? Dogs are probably not allowed, but I bring Maddy anyway. Suck it. read more

Superb selection of hot sauces. Do some research and figure out what you are interested in before you come in. I've been twice and the staff (only 1 lady who seems to be the owner) wasn't helpful. But 5 stars for selection as I haven't found any other hot sauces places with such a wide selection locally. Sadly they do not have samples of much of anything. read more

Great place. Has rows and rows of hot sauces. Containing different flavors ,from different places and having so many with hilarious names and packaging just being in this place makes you want to try something that you can use hot sauce on. There is a chart by the door that indicates the spiciness level of the sauces from 1 to 12. Between the number system and the cashier everyone should be able to find a hot sauce they would like. Even I only able to handle probably a 6 want to try them all. read more

If you need hot sauce (and who doesn't!), this is the only place you need to go. It's tiny, but hot sauce bottles aren't exactly huge, so the walls are lined with all sorts of sauces. They have their own rating scale so you don't have to guess; for reference, they rate Cholula (the only fairly "common" sauce I noticed) at a 6 on their scale. Bottles are a bit pricey (the cheaper stuff seems to be at the bottom of the shelves), but keep in mind this is a specialty store. Customer service is OK...the few times I've stopped here the employee is usually content to sit behind the register reading a book, but has been reasonably helpful and knowledgeable when asked for help. Definitely a plus in my book, since I'm one of those people who likes to browse for sometimes a long time, without being watched like a hawk or asked if I "need any help" every three minutes. read more

This store is at the Farmer's Market. I've been to a few other stores similar to this that sell all kinds of hot sauces, spices, & salsas, and this one is the best. They've ranked the bottles of sauces from 1 - 10+ and even after that, there are sauces in a container that are $40-80 that are even hotter up to 5 million scoville units. They have other items too such as fish fry batters, BBQ sauces, and more. Their prices are good too. read more

Everything is way too overpriced, if you came here for the bomb you are better off getting it from amazon for less than half the price of this place. read more

I usually don't leave reviews but I had to for this store it was soo amazing and the young girl she offered the best customer service & I am definitely going to come back for more sauces in the future! read more

This place has every type of hot sauce known to man! I love it! They have some pretty intense stuff - one hot sauce that my boyfriend bought that I believe was ranked at a "10" on the scale, the worker warned him to only use a drop at a time...it was HILARIOUS when we got home that night and he put a drop of the sauce on his finger and then LICKED IT. He thought he was going to die...I have a weird sense of humor... Anyways, their ass kickin chicken wing sauce is my favorite. read more

This place fucking rocks. Situated amongst the labyrinthine Farmers Market/Grove complex, Light My Fire is a cramped booth, with walls lined in everything for which a chile-head could ask. The selection is a dizzying relief from the beigeist blandscape of what passes for "hot" in angloid America. (I spent $25 at VONS looking for a decent hot sauce recently, and I could drink each one and not feel the pain -- pathetic! Don't get me started on fast food taco joints.) The preponderance of brands featuring some reference to "ass" on the label, and an illustration thereof, invites looky-loos and stupid tourists to gawk, point, and giggle -- that's annoying, but hardly the store's fault. Because I hate crowds and prison-like parking lots, I don't come to this outdoor mall often, but when I do it's for this little stall, and I've never dropped less than $40 on these catalysts of rapture. read more

Hot sauces, mustards and barbeque sauces... Store rates all based on spiciness (heat). Great selection and friendly staff read more

Hot sauce heaven - they have anything and everything, and located right in the middle of the Farmer's Market that's next to The Grove. The walls are separated into spice level and type (rubs, sauces, jerk, etc.). There are also pre-made gift sets in the middle of the store, and some extra expensive concentrates that they keep behind a glass container, including one called "The Source" that was tagged at $139. I don't even know which ones to try but I always at least look around and it's funny to see what they're called (last time we got 'Ass Reaper'). If you're into hot sauce this place is a great resource. read more

Another small shop in Farmers Market, Probably the worlds (or at least LA's) best selection of Hot Sauces, you could spend hours in here just reading the names of some of the more clever brands, some are the names are not G rated so if you are a prude and have no sense of humor than stay away, however if you like hot Sauce, have a sense of Humor, like to shock your friends and be the center of attention at your next dinner party then by all means stop by, pick up a couple dozen bottles of the hot sauce and treat your friends to everything from Mild to Wild (both in Heat and on the Labels) they will love you for it. Prices are very reasonable, the staff is very helpful and can direct you to where you favorite hot sauce resides on the shelves among the thousands of different flavors and spice levels. They also have BBQ sauces and condiments as well. Highly Recommended stop when you are at Farmer's Market, or even worth a special trip, if you are just visiting Los Angeles. read more

You like heat!?!? Well this is your place. Doesn't matter if you want Jamacian, Cajun, etc. they got it. Hot sauces are separated by heat scale. If 10 is not hot enough, well, they got the pure pepper extract which weighs in at just over 1,000,000 on the scoville scale. Be prepared to pay for it though. Prices were pretty normal from what I've seen in the retail world. Once you've discovered your poison, you could probably find it cheaper online. read more

Horrible customer service. I walk in with my family looking around and this rude guy who did nothing but sit behind the counter and not acknowledge anyone. Almost 10 minutes into looking in the store, he looks at us from head to toe and said no drinks or cell phones allowed in my store?!?!?! Excuse me? Your telling me I cannot me on my phone in a cheap run down hot sauce store? This is the kind of customer service that not only doesn't keep cliental, but will be shut down!! I wouldn't even recommend this dump to my worst enemies! read more

This place is great. Walked around with my girlfriend trying to look for ghost chili then came across this place. WOW. Hilarious stuff happening here. I managed to take some sneak peaks while I was browsing. Met a dude and recommended what was the hottest and greatest hot sauce. Oh man it was pretty hot. He also recommended 'Wake the fuck up coffee'. The coffee was good but I wouldn't entirely say it would wake me up but it will relieve my future headaches. Will gladly come back again no doubt. read more

Love hitting this place up. the nice Asian lady working in here always hooks me up with new things to try. I love love love spicy items so this is my go to if I make it to SOCAL. I love that they carry my Night of the living dead BBQ sauce from Kansas City.. If you haven't tried it DO! read more

This is the most extensive collection of hot sauces I've seen. I particularly like the section of mini bottles that lets label collectors stock up on novelty labels without spending a lot or taking up a lot of shelf space. I found a few rarities here. read more

Jay C and I love our food spicy so we always pop in to check out their selection. We have a good mix of non-asian hot sauces from this store from the super hot to the mild. It's fun to look around and read all the different (quirky) hot sauces they have. If you have young children or just a clumsy person, view with your eyes ONLY as they will charge you for anything that you break! Prices may be slightly inflated as it is a "novelty" store, but they really do carry unique brands. We always come back for Eaton's jerk rubs...we haven't been able to find another store that carries these. They are FABULOUS for ribs. YUM! No pictures allowed inside-- not sure why but rules are rules. No AC so if you're temperature sensitive you may want to browse quickly. --- Parking: Free parking validation with purchase but make sure you're parked in the Farmer's Market parking (outdoor) and not the Grove (structure). read more

This place is great! I love the variety. I'm a huge hot sauce kinda person, so this is exactly what I need in my life. I love the variety bottles they have as well that you can pick 3 for 10. IT really allows you to try virtually any kind of hot sauce, and marinades, as well as peanuts and popcorn. Adding spice and sweetness, these bottles are priced on point of what they should be. Props to this owner, what a great specialty shop. read more

I've been a fan of Light My Fire since they used to be located on Santa Monica Bl in West LA. Great selection of many heat levels, from less hot than Tabasco, to some extremely concentrated, super hot sauces, and everything in between. And also many different flavors, from mustard based, fruit based, vinegar based sauces, and others. Prices are also very reasonable. I haven't been here for some time. May need to make a trip this weekend. read more

This is a nice novelty place. They have an array of hot sauces and are nice enough to arrange it according to the hotness/spice of the sauce. This place is pricey compared to the grocery store but least they have everything in once store read more

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this is the best store in the Grove/Farmers Market complex.... nothing else comes close... i've had 25-30 of the sauces, and keep going back for more (even though i live in SF Bay, i stop in everytime i go back home to visit) Pick a corner of the store, pick a direction and start sweating to the taste of agonizing bliss... read more

This place has all sorts of hot sauces and extracts. It's fun to look at all the different hot sauces, especially when they have funny names as "A New Ass Hole." I've been purchasing my extracts and my hot sauces here. Tip: Extracts last a LOOOOOOOONG time and can only be used in drops. Doesn't taste very good but will definitely burn a whole new butt hole. Hot sauces like "Melinda's Ghost Pepper Sauce" is a real kicker but so good you'll want to keep going at it. Definitely a must see and buy kind of place! :) read more

Great selection, the only place I can find Melinda's jolokia sauce. Tasty and hot - it'll burn your balloon knot. Wow, great tagline. I should get paid for this. Knot! read more

Hidden hot sauce gem...well a gem in a hidden shack in a food court. But I'm not a hot sauce user, I just support hot sauce users. I bought two bottles and he's done in two months so I have gone back to buy 5 more. Abt 5 bucks a bottle for Melindas. Even if the cashier told me no pictures and I was offended cause I'm not a hot sauce user so I wanted to show my friend which one he wanted. Plus why wouldn't they want pictures? Free promotion! read more

Coolest shop in the farmers market. Pure hot sauces. From all sorts of brands too. It's amazing. This old Asian lady runs the shop and I bet she gets a ton of tourists just visiting and Tryna take pics. I love that there's a rating scale on all sauces also. If you're looking for spicy this is the place to be. read more

Light My Fire - Specialty Food Near Me - Los Angeles, California

I have been a hot sauce and chilli pepper connoisseur my entire life. For the past 11 years, I have been customer of 'Light My Fire'. I enjoy most of the hot sauces and bbq sauces there. They are full of flavor and SPICY. The staff changes a lot. I have never had a bad experience there and enjoy the friendliness and politeness of the staff. It is TWO THUMBS NORTH! read more

I love the names here. I haven't had a chance to try any though. I give 3* because this place would be perfect if it had a tasting station. Food for thought :) read more

I love this shop! It's a shop that has all sorts of hot sauces in every imaginable color. And of course the names of these sauces are hilarious too! "Colon Cleanser"? Too much! It's a great place to get some fun gifts for people whether they love hot sauce or not! Check it out, you won't regret it! read more

TL;DR version: great selection, owner was incredibly rude. I was so excited to find this place. I'm a hot sauce fanatic and was looking for a certain brand I hadn't been able to find anywhere else. I found it and was ecstatic. It wasn't until I got up to the counter and handed the cashier my card, though, that I noticed the "no credit card purchases under $10" sign. He practically threw my card back at me and angrily said, "NO! Ten dollars! You need to buy more!" If he had been polite I would have shrugged and gotten another bottle or two of hot sauce. An excuse to try something new, right? But his tone was so aggressive it didn't make me want to spend any more money there, although I didn't want to leave without my precious find. I apologized, said that one bottle was all I wanted to get, and didn't have any cash on me. I even offered to let him charge me an extra .50 to cover the transaction fee. He practically shouted, "NO! Buy more or use cash!" I reminded him that under his contract with his processor, if he was going to accept Visa he couldn't restrict the use of it, and this store policy was against his contract. He actually yelled this time, "NO! THEY LET US DO IT! THEY SAY IT OK FOR US!" I'd had enough at this point so I wound up walking out empty handed. Shame, too, as I could have seen this being one of my favorite stops at the Farmer's Market. read more