Pepper Palooza

05/20/2026

🌶️THE DATE IS SET🌶️

Pepper lovers, foodies, and Buffalo flavor fanatics… Pepper Palooza is BACK for Year 2👑🌶️

Join us for the 2nd Annual Pepper Palooza on:
📅 Sunday, October 11th
📍 Wings Meeting Place

After an unbelievable first year with over 1,000 attendees, incredible local restaurants, live music, cold drinks, and thousands raised for charity… we’re turning the heat up even more in 2026🔥

Expect:
🌶️ Stuffed pepper creations from some of WNY’s best
🍻 Drinks & tailgate vibes
🎶 Live music
🏆 People’s Choice voting
🔥 Freestyle pepper competition
❤️ Community, charity, and Buffalove

More details, tickets, sponsors, vendors, and restaurant announcements coming soon…

Save the date now.
This one’s going to be HOT. 🌶️🔥

10/22/2025

🔥 Pepper Palooza 2025 — 𝗪𝗛𝗔𝗧. 𝗔. 𝗗𝗔𝗬. 🔥

Over 1,000 people came together for the first-ever stuffed pepper festival in Western New York — and because of that, we’re proud to announce that $8,000 was donated to our amazing charities this year! 🙌

For an event built from scratch in just a few months, this is massive. It shows exactly what makes this community special — when WNY comes together around food, we make incredible things happen.

A huge thank-you to every committee member, every participant who competed, every vendor who set up, every volunteer, and the entire Wings Meeting Place team for making this all possible. 🎪

Big love to Gypsy Queen for rocking the stage, and to everyone who attended — you didn’t just show up… you showed out. 💪

Pepper Palooza proved that food really does bring people together, and this is only the beginning. We’re forming a new nonprofit to host even more food-driven community events that give back — not just Pepper Palooza.

❤️ Thank you, Buffalo.

See you in 2026 for an even bigger, hotter, and more impactful event. 🌶🔥

10/20/2025

ᗯOᗯ…

We were absolutely blown away with the response to the first Pepper Palooza! We will have a lot more information and a full recap coming this week, but we wanted to thank everybody who attended and all of the restaurants who participated. Everything went off as smooth as we could’ve ever hoped for.

Close to 1,000 people attended🩷💯💪

✨ᗩᑎᗪ ᑎOᗯ, 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗪𝗜𝗡𝗡𝗘𝗥𝗦:✨

𝙹𝚞𝚍𝚐𝚎'𝚜 𝙿𝚒𝚌𝚔𝚜
Traditional: Fatman's Pizza
Freestyle: Osteria 166

People’s Choice
Traditional: Fatman’s Pizza
Freestyle: Steelbound Brewery & Distillery

Congrats to the winners! Congratulations to all of the participants for giving this event a chance and creating something with us that will continue every year!

10/18/2025

Tomorrow is the day!!!!🌶️🔥💯😎

Tickets will still be available at the door, kids under 12 free!

10/17/2025

🔥Steelbound Brewery & Distillery is bringing the heat to Pepper Palooza! 🌶️

Chef Amy Smith is competing in both Traditional & Freestyle categories — including a mouthwatering soup entry you won’t want to miss! 😋

The dishes look gorgeous… but trust us, they taste even better. 🤤
Come out this Sunday and see (and taste) for yourself! 🍻🌶️

https://igfn.us/e/g0yrfQ

10/17/2025

🌶️ PEPPER PALOOZA – THIS SUNDAY! 🎉
Get ready to GET STUFFED for a cause! 💪

📍 Wings Meeting Place
🕒 VIP Entry: 12:30 PM
🕐 General Admission: 1:00 PM
🎉 Event Ends: 4:00 PM
☔ Rain or Shine – All Indoors!

🔥 THE COMPETITION:
🍴 Restaurants battle it out in Traditional & Freestyle categories!
🗳️ You’ll get 2 voting tickets to pick your favorites – one per category!

🎟️ TASTING TICKETS:
✨ GA: 7 samples (each = ⅓ pepper)
✨ VIP: 10 samples + 1 drink + early entry + reserved seating
➕ Extra sample tickets = $2 each

🍔 FOOD & VENDORS:
Fries 🍟 | Cotton Candy 🍭 | Ice Cream 🍦 | Pulled Pork 🐖 | Mac ’n’ Cheese 🧀
Plus artisan goodies – jams, jellies, cannolis, pepper products & more!

🎶 LIVE MUSIC: Gypsy Queen – the sounds of Heart & Fleetwood Mac
📸 Photo Booth Fun!
💵 50/50 Raffle
🍹 4 Bars pouring local brews & spirits + samples & to-go sales

👧 Kids 12 & Under – FREE! 🙌
❤️ Thank you for the overwhelming support — we can’t wait to see everyone Sunday for Peppers for a Cause! 🌶️💚

10/16/2025

💥VIP TICKETS ARE OFFICIALLY SOLD OUT!🙌

General Admission tickets are still available online and will be available at the door! Children 12 & under are FREE.

The event will be covered...plus Sunday's forecast just changed yet again...70 degrees with a 💯% chance of a blast.

Tickets:

I’m a proud supporter of Wings Flights of Hope Inc. It is doing amazing things and I encourage you to support them as well. Find out more about their event Pepper Palooza Event : https://fundraise.givesmart.com/e/g0yrfQ

10/15/2025

Braymiller Market is ready for Sunday, are you?!

https://igfn.us/e/g0yrfQ

Some Pepper Palooza foreshadowing, for sure. Hope to see you there!

10/14/2025

🌶Step Out Buffalo🌶

Ready to STUFF YOURSELF?!🙃

Get your tickets now! Tickets will also be available at the door. Kids 12 and under are FREE!

https://igfn.us/e/g0yrfQ