Welcome to the Vancouver Foodster Grilled Cheese Challenge. Restaurants from all over the city were invited to enter their Grilled Cheese creations into this challenge. Each restaurant and food truck will be featuring their Grilled Cheese creations on their menu from January 8-31, 2016.
A few of the unique creations in this challenge:
Hopcott Meats
Price: $6.50
Created by: Lisa Mercier
Description: Applewood Smoked Gouda with Hopcott’s Steak Seasoned Rotisserie Beef on Sourdough
Offered: Offered anytime during business hours, 7 days a week, 9am to 6pm
Hopcott Meats
18385 Old Dewdney Trunk Road, Pitt Meadows
Tel: 604.465.7799
Web: http://www.hopcottmeats.ca/
Twitter @HopcottFarms
S’wich Café
Price: $11.00
Description: this Spanish style ranchhand grilled cheese is cut lengthwise, pairing mozzarella with an indulgence of aged manchego, layered with the smoky spicy warmth of bacon, paprika and roasted garlic shallot confit. This combo speaks to gratifying a hard days hunger, transforming a hearty mainstay into the luxurious epitome of comfort chow. Paired with Chef Erik’s Fire Roasted Tomato Bisque (with a hint of Espalette pepper so that you never forget!).
Created by: Chef Erik Smith
Offered: Lunch time
S’Wich Cafe
644 Queensbury Ave, North Vancouver
Tel: (604) 973-0133
Web: http://www.swich.ca/
Twitter: @swichcafe
Melt City
Price: $12
Description: Slow roasted lamb and juicy pomegranate join forces in Melt City’s newest creation: Tradition. Conventional Middle Eastern ingredients are paired with double crème cheese and fresh baked sourdough, making this sandwich The Cheese. Khiar Shoor, a Persian pickled cucumber, completes this food truck’s homage to family, culture, and out-of-this-world flavour.
Created by: Chefs : Yasmin Ghaffari and Elizabeth Carr
Offered: January 20 to 24 only – at “Dine Out” Vancouver’s Street Food City- Vancouver Art Gallery
Melt City Food Truck
Twitter: @MeltCity
Voting: The public is invited to order these Grilled Cheese creations at the participating restaurants keeping in mind this criteria – originality, creativity, uniqueness, traditional, non-traditional, price, value and most importantly taste. People can vote the same day after trying the creation and they can vote once a day throughout the promotion. People will be encouraged to Vote for their favourites from January 8-31, 2016.
http://vancouverfoodster.com/grilled-cheese-sandwich-challenge/
With a smartphone, customers will be able to vote from their table in the restaurant right after they have eaten the Grilled Cheese creation.
We will announce the winning restaurants and their Grilled Cheese creations on February 1, 2016.
About Vancouver Foodster
Vancouver Foodster is is Vancouver’s premier online “Essential Food & Drink Intelligence” guide. Launched in 2009 by Richard Wolak, the blog explores the local food scene through reviews, tastings, interviews, and more. VancouverFoodster.com features new stories daily, as well as restaurant reviews, and articles. Vancouver Foodster also runs a series of food and drink challenges with restaurants, chefs and bartenders throughout the year! As well. we present a series of tasting tours in neighbourhoods throughout the city of which include Tasting Plates, Noodle Mania, Food Talks, Brunch Crawls and others. All are a division of CMI Chat Media Inc.
