Welcome to the Vancouver Foodster Mac & Cheese Challenge. Restaurants from all over the city were invited to enter their mac and cheese into this challenge, most of the restaurants have created a special mac and cheese just for this challenge. Each restaurant will be featuring their mac and cheese on their menu from March 20-April 10, 2014.
The Vancouver Foodster Mac and Cheese Challenge running March 20-April 10, 2014 at restaurants all over Vancouver! You taste & vote!
Voting criteria – some things to help you judge your favourite mac and cheese creations – keep these things in mind: originality, creativity, uniqueness, traditional, non-traditional, price, value and most importantly taste.
After you have tried each of the mac and cheese creations at the participating restaurants, you can then VOTE for your favourites (you can vote once per day through out the promotion, voting ends on April 10, 2014.
Watch for all the Mac & Cheese creations and voting details on March 20th.
Here are all of the participating restaurants listed below.
Vancouver
Burgundy Restaurant
47 W. Hastings Street
Stewie’s Cheesey Adventure
Price: $14
Created by: Chef Stewart Ehrecke
Description: Fresh Macaroni, goat gouda, parmesan, garlic cream reduction, panko crust, tomato chutney
Offered: Lunch & Dinner
Burgundy Restaurant
47 West Hastings Street
Tel: (604) 428-4100
Web: http://www.burgundyvancouver.com/
Twitter: @BurgundyVan
Dunn’s Famous
827 Seymour Street
Jalapeno Mac & Cheese Poutine
Description- An ooey gooey Dunn’s Famous inspired dish. The Jalapeño Mac & Cheese Poutine is a signature jalapeño cheese sauce covered over macaroni noodles, cheese curds, fresh cut French fries and topped with our famous smoked meat. Melt in your mouth goodness!
Price- $12.99
Offered: All day, everyday
Dunns Famous
827 Seymour Street,Vancouver
Tel: 604-682-8938
Twitter: @DunnsFamousBC
Web: http://www.dunnsfamousbc.com
Fable Kitchen
1944 West Fourth Ave
Mushroom Truffle Mac & Cheese
Price: $15
Created by: Chef Trevor Bird
Description: With cremini & porcini mushrooms, aged white cheddar.
Offered: Lunches Mon to Friday 11:30 am to 2pm.
Fable Kitchen
1944 West 4th Avenue, Vancouver
Tel: 604-732-1322
Twitter: @FableKitchen
Web: http://fablekitchen.ca/
Gramercy Grill
2685 Arbutus Street
Hoisin Duck Confit Mac & Cheese
White cheddar Macaroni & Cheese with a topping of five spice, star anise, hoisin duck confit with green onion
Price: $14
Created by: Chef Dennis Huang
Available: Nightly after 5pm
Gramercy Grill
2685 Arbutus Street, Vancouver
Tel: 604-730-5666
Web: http://www.gramercygrill.ca/
Twitter: @gramercygrill
Graze Restaurant
3980 Fraser Street
Smoked Mushroom and Truffle Macaroni
Smoked Mushroom and Truffle Macaroni in cauliflower ricotta sauce
Price: $15.00
Created by: Chef Karen McAthy
Offered: Dinner nightly
Graze Vegetarian Restaurant
3980 Fraser St., Vancouver
Tel: (604) 620-8822
Web: http://grazerestaurant.ca/
Twitter: @grazevegetarian
Kessel & March
Unit NO. 109-1701 Powell Street
Tony’s Northern Italian Macaroni & Cheese
Saffron & Truffle Macaroni & Parmesan Cheese
Price: $16.00
Created by: Chef: Tony Marzo
Offered: Lunch 12-2 Tue-Fri / Dinner 5-10 Wed-Sat.
109-1701 Powell Street Vancouver
Tel: (604) 874-1196
Web: http://www.kesselandmarch.com/
Twitter: @KesselandMarch
Lift Bar & Grill
333 Menchions Mews
Ocean Wise Crab Mac & Cheese
Fresh West Coast Ocean Wise Dungeness Crab Meat with Macaroni and Fresh Mascarpone and Podano Cheeses. Topped with Panko bread crumbs.
Price: $12.00
Created by: Chef George Koay
Offered: All day, every day.
Lift Bar and Grill
333 Menchions Mews, Vancouver
Tel: 604-689-5438
Web: http://liftbarandgrill.com/
Twitter: @Liftbarandgrill
Meinhardt
3002 Granville Street
I HARDT Mac & Cheese
Price: $3.99
Created by: Chef Lim Teng Tong
Description: Cheesy perfection – a medley of three artisan cheeses & pennette pasta baked to precision.
Offered: Lunch & Dinner
Meinhardt
3002 Granville Street
Tel: 604-732-4405
Web: http://www.meinhardt.com/
Twitter: n/a
Milestones Robson
1145 Robson Street
Milestones Yaletown
1109 Hamilton Street
Howe Sound my Orecchiette?
Description: Chorizo and double smoked bacon in a creamy cheddar cheese and beer sauce. Featuring Vancouver’s own Howe Sound IPA.
Price: $8
Created by: Chef Jason Rosso
Offered day and night (all day).
Milestones Yaletown
1109 Hamilton Street, Vancouver
Web: http://www.milestonesrestaurants.com/
Twitter: @MilestonesYale
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Milestone’s Robson
1145 Robson Street, Vancouver
Web: http://www.milestonesrestaurants.com/
Twitter: @MilestonesRBSN
Seventeen89 Restaurant
1789 Comox Street
S-Mac Cheese
Price: $11
Description:Classic Carbonara Meets Spicy Chorizo Mac Cheese
Created by:Chef Daryle Nagata
Offered: Evenings 4 pm to Close
Seventeen 89 Restaurant
1789 Comox Street, Vancouver
Tel:604.428.0705
Web: http://www.1789.ca/
Twitter: @1789Restaurant
Make sure you pick up one of the Mac and Cheese Challenge postcards available at each of the participating restaurants and keep a record of your favourite Mac and Cheese. Remember to Vote for your favourites daily, all the voting details are at http://vancouverfoodster.com/mac-and-cheese-challenge/
Media judges for this challenge are:
