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Suwanee Chili Cook Off & Music Festival
Suwanee Chili Cook Off & Music Festival
  • Welcome to the 5th Annual
    Chili Cook-Off Festival

    Saturday, November 14, 2026
    Festival: 12pm - 5pm
      -  Chili Tasting 12:30pm - 4pm


    Downtown Sugar Hill - 5039 W Broad St NE, Sugar Hill, GA 30518

    We Have Moved to Sugar Hill - Same Great Chili Cook Off!



    Chili Tasting Armbands will be available onsite at the event and in advance online 
    for $15 each per adult and $5 per child 12 and under.  
    Each Armband comes with one People's Choice Chili Voting Chip and ALL THE CHILI YOU CAN SAMPLE!!!

    The Chili Cook Off Festival is a fundraiser even for Project Green, a local 501c3 children's charity that helps sponsor kids to annual summer camps.  Your participation in this event helps raise much needed funds and Helps Us Help Kids!

Calling All Chili Cooks and Chili Lovers


Come to have Fun, Come to Eat or Come to Compete!  We welcome ALL.
Your don't have to be a professional Chef or Chili Cook to compete!  We are looking for Amateur Cooks, Police and Fire Stations, Teams and Junior Cooks to compete in the event. 

The Chili Cook Off is a Certified Chili Cook Off event of the International Chili Society (ICS).  Are you a Chili Cook?  Are you ready to compete?  We look forward to seeing you there!  

Our Past Winners...


4th Annual Suwanee Chili Cook Off -- CERTIFIED COOK OFF WINNERS!  

Qualifiers for the World Open Amateur Division at the ICS Cook Off in 2026

Best Homestyle: Taste of Love BBQ        

Best Traditional: Taste of Love BBQ

Best Chili Verde:  Bad Apple Chili


People's Choice Winner:  T Bax & Grill

2nd Place Homestyle:  Bad Apple Chili     3rd Place Homestyle:  Jeff's Chili

2nd Place Traditional:  Steel City Chili     3rd Place Traditional: Bang Bang Chili

2nd Place Chili Verde:  Pleasant Hill Presbyterian Church     3rd Place Chili Verde: Chili Me Crazy


4th Annual Suwanee Chili Cook Off  -- 2025 SACNTIONED COOK OFF WINNERS!

Chili Verde:  1st: George Xenakis / 2nd: Dicky Thorpe / 3rd: Lisa Rooks

Homestyle: 1st: Larry Weltikol / 2nd: Jim Sulsona /  3rd: George Xenakis

Red: 1st: Jan Sprouse / 2nd: Larry Weltikol / 3rd: Jim Sulsona



3rd Annual Suwanee Chili Cook Off and Music Festival - November 9, 2024

Qualifiers for the World Open Amateur Division at the ICS Cook Off in 2025

Best Homestyle: Bad Apple Chili      Best Traditional: Mad Mike's Killer Chili


People's Choice Winner:  T Bax & Grill

2nd Place Homestyle:  Todd Lemoine Real Estate    

2nd Place Traditional: Bob's Spicy World

3rd Place Homestyle: Damn Good Chili        

3td Place Traditional: Taste of Love BBQ



2nd Annual Suwanee Chili Cook Off and Music Festival - November 11, 2023

Qualifiers for the World Open Amateur Division at the ICS Cook Off in Murtle Beach 2024

Best Homestyle: Bad Apple Chili         Best Traditional: The Scoville Units


2nd Place Winners:

Homestyle:  Taste of Love BBQ        Traditional: Rodney Smith

3rd Place Winners:

Homestyle: Jeffery Racine                Traditional: Bad Apple Chili

People's Choice Winner:  T Bax & Grill



1st Annual Suwanee Chili Cook Off and Music Festival - November 2022

Best of Show Winner and Qualifier for the World Open Amateur Division at the ICS Cook Off in Murtle Beach 2023

Kaleidoscope Bistro & Pub


Runner Up Winner - Bad Apple Chili

People's Choice Winner - Todd Baxter


THANK YOU TO ALL OUR PARTICIPANTS in the 1st ever Suwanee Chili Cook Off & Music Festival.  We look forward to hosting you again next year!



Email Us to Sign Up for our Chili Cook Off Competition TODAY