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Burke’s Hot Sauce handcrafts and ferments, high-quality ingredients using specialty recipes making small batched hot sauce, locally made in Norwell. We’re family-owned and community focused.

A little about the Burkes:
We like to think the spicy stars aligned when Shannon & Kevin (both hot sauce aficionados) met in Boston in 2010. The early days of our relationship consisted of many competitions of who could tolerate the hottest sauce (Shannon usually won) and sharing our love of making tacos & guac became a weekly ritual. We eventually expanded our family by welcoming our daughter Soleil and why we made the move to Norwell. Now that we had a garden, it only made sense to begin growing hot peppers and concocting our own unique recipes! We started testing different variations of hot sauce with our friends & family, and as the demand grew, we realized we were loving the whole process. It was a sequence of events that added to our innate entrepreneurial spirit and voila, Burke’s Hot Sauce was born. The hot peppers were on the wall!

Welcome to Cheever Tavern, where flavorful, handmade food and drink, prepared with the freshest, locally sourced ingredients, is served in an equally tasteful setting, whether you’re inside, on the deck, or beside the fire pit on the patio. We’re a contemporary American Tavern situated in historic Norwell Center, with a nod to the past, but a passion for today’s tastes.

Cheever Tavern is named for Pulitzer Prize winner John Cheever, one of America’s premier authors of the 20th century. Cheever was born in Quincy, and he attended Thayer Academy. His first published short story, “Expelled,” was based on his experience at Thayer. Cheever passed away on June 18, 1982. His funeral was held across the street at the First Parish Unitarian Church, with his eulogy delivered by John Updike. He is buried next to his parents, a few feet from the front door of Cheever Tavern.