Barbaro Sauce is what people call Barbaro Mojo, the Cuban hot sauce company in Miami. Five small-batch sauces built on mojo criollo (sour orange and garlic), rated from a mild 3 to a 10, hand-bottled in Miami since 2020, with seventeen competition honors so far.
Shop Barbaro MojoFrom Mario Cruz’s kitchen to your table: every bottle is hand-bottled in small batches in Miami on the family mojo. Try Piñazo™ (pineapple and Carolina Reaper, heat 6 of 10) for sweet heat or El Havanero™ (habanero and tomato, 9 of 10) for the classic garlicky Cuban burn.
Seventeen honors across seven competitions, all judged blind: Grand Prize for packaging at the Scovie Awards (Piñazo), 1st Place Best Latin Hot Sauce at the International Flavor Awards (El Havanero), 2nd Place at the 2025 Austin Chronicle Hot Sauce Festival (Matanza), and People’s Choice at Jungle Jim’s Weekend of Fire 2026 (Piñazo). See every award.
Jalabáo™ (3 of 10) on eggs, black beans, and tacos; Best Day Ever™ (mango and habanero, 8 of 10) on grilled meats and wings; Matanza™ (10 of 10, the only extreme sauce we make) for the people who ask for it by name. Pair any of them with the Chifles Tostones Tasting Kit.
Heat numbers are the Barbaro Mojo Cuban heat scale, 1 to 10. Lab-tested Scoville results for all five are on the lab results page.
Jalapeño and green bell pepper on the mojo base. The mildest and most awarded sauce. Say it jah-lah-BAH-oh.
Shop Jalabáo →Pineapple and Carolina Reaper on a pineapple-juice mojo base. Sweet first, then the punch.
Shop Piñazo →Mango and habanero with a little Carolina Reaper underneath. Fruity, then hot.
Shop Best Day Ever →Habanero, tomato, red bell pepper, and sweet onion. The hottest of the everyday line.
Shop El Havanero →Habanero and Carolina Reaper, limited runs. The only extreme sauce in the line.
Shop Matanza →Why a Cuban hot sauce starts from mojo criollo instead of vinegar, where mojo came from, and how the five Barbaro Mojo sauces use it.
Read More →The five sauces sorted by heat, 3 to 10, and the Cuban dishes each one belongs on.
Read More →Three quick recipes made with the sauces, plus the full Cuban recipe library on barbaromojo.com.
Read More →Yes. Barbaro Sauce is a nickname people use for Barbaro Mojo, the Cuban hot sauce company in Miami. The sauces are sold at barbaromojo.com and in a handful of Miami stores.
Every sauce starts with mojo criollo, the Cuban marinade of sour orange, garlic, and spices, then adds real peppers: jalapeño in Jalabáo, habanero in El Havanero, Carolina Reaper with pineapple in Piñazo, mango and habanero in Best Day Ever, and habanero plus Carolina Reaper in Matanza. Gluten-free and vegan, with no high-fructose corn syrup, no MSG, and no pepper extracts.
On the Barbaro Mojo Cuban heat scale (1 to 10, not Scoville): Jalabáo 3, Piñazo 6, Best Day Ever 8, El Havanero 9, Matanza 10. Independent lab Scoville results are published on the lab results page.
In Miami, Florida, in small hand-bottled batches. The company was founded in November 2020 by Mario Cruz with his son Kevin and his wife Ali; the recipe goes back to a family Noche Buena pig roast in 2015.