5 to Try: Hot and Spicy Dishes

Heat seekers come for the fried fish, drizzled in a mouth-tingling sauce made from red peppers, raw cilantro and tomatoes.

Besides hot jazz and cool sushi rolls, this posh club also offers Japanese-chili-peppered chicken wings.

Tapas lovers in need of a spicy kick order the lip-smacking cauliflower salad, sprinkled with red chilies and scallions.

This casual burrito joint serves a fiery pollo con mole rojo that will have you seeing red.

Locals have long enjoyed the sizzling beef links sandwich spiked with cayenne pepper at this soul-food spot.