A few years ago, a friend gave me a taste of a ghost chili pepper sauce. I was unafraid! It turned out that I should have been afraid. I literally spent the next 30 minutes on the ground, curled up in the fetal position and drenched in sweat. There was talk of calling an ambulance. The next day, I felt like I had been punched in the stomach. Since that time, I have been quite a bit more cautious when it comes to heat. I still like it, but I'm not out to set any records. When the same friend sent me pics from Lucifer's House of Heat, I was intrigued, especially as they have a vegan section on their menu.
LHH is located on Davie Street near Bidwell. Its a nice little shrine to hot sauce including more bottles than I even owned myself during a period I spent as a collector (which got a little ridiculous) and Hot Ones style events.
Unfortunately we arrived at a time when their plant-based menu was being retooled so my carefully curated order (from the website) was blown up and we started from scratch. The Lucifer's Rice Bowl has several protein options of which we chose the plant based one, roasted chick peas. I suggested that they should really offer seitan as an options as they could call it Lucifer's Seitan Bowl which would be perfect. It was a decent bowl but seriously, we've all had rice bowls..
We ordered a couple of sandwiches starting with the Toon's (didn't ask who Toon is) Chipotle Black Bean Burger. This was a delicious albeit messy sandwich that we ended up needing a fork to finish. I questioned the brioche bun and they assured me it was animal product free. Nice chips on the side.
We also had the Holy Duck Chicken but a vegan version. I can't seem to find the option on the website or on the instore menu so I assume it is part of the new menu. Holy Duck refers to the chili oil and the chicken was plant-based. The bun on this one looks a lot more gluten-free which we would never intentionally order but it didn't matter as we loved the overall sandwich. Both of these had some real heft!
So if you're into hot sauce this is a place to try. You can have a plant-based lunch and spend a fortune on hot sauces to take home. Apparently on Hot Ones (the You Tube show) some guests enjoy vegan wings (Ricky Gervais for example) and I was told that Lucifers has vegan wings as an option but I didn't see it on the menu. We had a nice time at Lucifers and found the staff and the surroundings to be pleasant.
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