The Vancouver Foodster Smoothie Challenge was a success featuring 6 smoothie creations from restaurants around Vancouver. Each restaurant featured their smoothie creation from June 7-29, 2016. Our media judging panel determined the ultimate winners of the challenge, and this was quite the task as each judge who tasted each creation with a rigorous process based on taste, originality/uniqueness and presentation/appearance.
Our Media judges for this challenge were: Nora Hamade, Jacqueline Wong and Nicolle Hodges.
The Winners are:
1st Place:
Che-Licious Desserts & Snacks
Crouching Coco Hidden Dragon
Price: $7.95
Description: Coconut blended with mango & dragon fruit topped with Pom pearls, basil seed, coconut pudding, fresh mango, dragon fruit, and blueberries
Ingredients: young coconut, coconut water, mango, dragon fruit, milk, sweet syrup, basil seed, pom pearls (water chestnut coated with tapioca, blueberry, agar powder with coconut flavors & shred.
Created by: Linh Vo
Available all day, everyday
Che-Licious Desserts & Snacks
1120 Denman Street, Vancouver
Tel: (778) 379-1888
Web: http://www.che-licious.com/
Twitter: @eat_chelicious
Instagram: @che.licious
Linh Vo
2nd Place:
Zend Conscious Lounge
Chocolate-Chaga-Kava smoothie
Price: $9
Description: An antioxidant-packed super food smoothie with noticeable benefits of a calm and focussed mind.
Ingredients: Cacao, Chaga, housemade coconut cream, Zend (our signature kava kava based elixir).
Created by:Chef Karen McAthy
Offered: All the time
Zend Conscious Lounge
1130 Mainland Street, Vancouver
Tel: (778) 588-6688
Web:http://www.zendlounge.ca/#home
Twitter: @zendlounge
Instagram: zendlounge
Chef Karen McAthy
3rd Place:
Eternal Abundance
Raspberry White Chocolate Swirl
Price: $8.50
Description: Local organic raspberries swirl about a sweet white chocolate-maca filling. ZIMT chocolate chunks and more raspberries top off this decadent creation.
Ingredients: A fruity swirl base of raspberry, chia, and coconut oil, topped with white chocolate filling of banana, cacao butter, cashews, maca, date, vanilla, and a little lemon, topped with raspberries and chunks of Zimt 70% chocolate shavings
*100% organic ingredients
Created by: Alex
Offered: Everyday from 9am
Eternal Abundance
1025 Commercial Drive, Vancouver
Tel: (604) 707 0088
Web: https://eternalabundance.ca/
Twitter: @EternalAbundanc
Instagram: @eternalabundance
Alex
In the People’s Choice Awards category, the public who tried the Smoothie creations were the ones who had the opportunity to cast their vote throughout the challenge.
The Winners are:
1st Place People’s Choice:
Che-Licious Desserts & Snacks
Crouching Coco Hidden Dragon
Price: $7.95
Description: Coconut blended with mango & dragon fruit topped with Pom pearls, basil seed, coconut pudding, fresh mango, dragon fruit, and blueberries
Ingredients: young coconut, coconut water, mango, dragon fruit, milk, sweet syrup, basil seed, pom pearls (water chestnut coated with tapioca, blueberry, agar powder with coconut flavors & shred.
Created by: Linh Vo
Available all day, everyday
Che-Licious Desserts & Snacks
1120 Denman Street, Vancouver
Tel: (778) 379-1888
Web: http://www.che-licious.com/
Twitter: @eat_chelicious
Instagram: @che.licious
2nd Place People’s Choice:
Eternal Abundance
Raspberry White Chocolate Swirl
Price: $8.50
Description: Local organic raspberries swirl about a sweet white chocolate-maca filling. ZIMT chocolate chunks and more raspberries top off this decadent creation.
Ingredients: A fruity swirl base of raspberry, chia, and coconut oil, topped with white chocolate filling of banana, cacao butter, cashews, maca, date, vanilla, and a little lemon, topped with raspberries and chunks of Zimt 70% chocolate shavings
*100% organic ingredients
Created by: Alex
Offered: Everyday from 9am
Eternal Abundance
1025 Commercial Drive, Vancouver
Tel: (604) 707 0088
Web: https://eternalabundance.ca/
Twitter: @EternalAbundanc
Instagram: @eternalabundance
3rd Place People’s Choice:
Commodity Juicery
Healthy Gee
Price: $9
Description: Known as: “A salad in a togo cup”
Ingredients Kale, Banana, Romaine, Avocado, Cucumber, Parsley, Cilantro, Lemon, Ginger, Dates, Algafresh Spirulina + Cold Pressed Apple Juice
Commodity Juicery
3975 Fraser Street, Vancouver
Tel: 604 876 5463
Web: http://commodityjuicery.com/
Twitter: @CommodityJuice
Instagram: commodityjuicery
Thank you to all the chefs, restaurants and juice bars that accepted my invitation and featured their smoothies on the menu for the past few weeks during this challenge.
I encourage you to visit the winning restaurants to try their Smoothie creations! See all the 6 Smoothie entries here.
By: Richard Wolak