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    The Spicemans Kitchen

    4.3 (14 reviews)
    ModerateSpecialty Food
    Closed 10:00 am - 6:00 pm

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    Hot Sauces, rubs, BBQ sauces, gourmet foods, spices, salsas, key lime products & kitchen gadgets
    Steve E.

    Down towards the west end of Dodecanese Boulevard in the Sponge Docks area of Tarpon Springs sits a great little emporium selling over 300 types of hot sauces, 50 different BBQ sauces, marinades, salsas, pickled vegetables, seasonings and rubs, jams and jellies, dips and spreads, coffee, tea, and honeys, gourmet foods, and kitchen gadgets. This fantastic little spot is called The Spicemans Kitchen, and it's run by Chuck and Cindy Wilson, who wisely left the cold weather behind, and moved to Tarpon Springs. Spicemans Kitchen can be found in a little mall called the Lighthouse Shops, near the traffic circle, and it is well worth walking down to his end of Dodecanese to visit this shop. The store is jammed full of products which are all neatly arranged and labeled on the shelves. There is plenty of room to walk up and down the aisles, chuckling at the names of the various hot sauces and rubs, while searching for those perfect gift ideas. Chuck wandered the store with me and pointed out some of the best-selling (and most lethal) spices and sauces. He showed me Bad Byron's Butt Rub (A little butt rub makes everything better), which is the top selling spice rub to use on pork ribs. Next to it was the equally popular Gator Hammock Cooter Rub, followed by every imaginable type of seasoning and spice blends. There is an entire aisle dedicated to hot sauces, and Chuck gave me the lowdown on the top ten best sellers: * Professor Phardtpounder's Colon Cleaner * Catch a Fire Green Lava Pepper Sauce * Doc Holliday's Feel Good Elixir * Ass Reaper * Dave's Gourmet Insanity Sauce * Key West Key Lime Hot Sauce * Black Mamba Venomous Hot Sauce * The Ghost Hot Sauce (made with Ghost peppers) * The Hottest F*ckin Sauce * Moruga Madness Hot Sauce (made with Scorpion chiles from Trinidad) You'll be giggling at the crazy names before you get halfway down the aisle, and this is when Chuck pointed me up towards the front counter where they have free samples of many of these different hot sauces. You splash a drop or two onto a cracker and then try to carry on a normal conversation while the flames of Maleficent are burning away deep in your belly. Spicemans also has a wide variety of sweet and savory types of sauces, and even some tasty flavored honeys, and dessert options. I had a great time exploring this store, and even more fun talking with Chuck and Cindy while trying to re-gain some composure after the hot sauce tasting. I left the store with a couple of bottles of hot sauce, a few different spice rubs, and a No-Bake Cheesecake Mix (Peach Cobbler style).

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    Spiceman's is located on the Sponge Docks of Tarpon Springs so it is a great place to visit and take in the sites.

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